Teens and adults fueled the original U.S. manga boom as well as its recent second wave, but kids like comics too—in fact, we’ve seen a huge uptick in graphic novels for readers 12 and under in the past decade. But what about manga? Everyone knows about Pokémon (and we do love it so), but what […]
From the manga of Shigeru Mizuki to the anime-manga-game franchise Yo-Kai Watch, yokai have become increasingly familiar to English-speaking audiences. But what exactly are they, and where do they come from? We talked to yokai expert Zack Davisson, translator of Mizuki’s The Birth of Kitaro, author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, and an expert on yokai […]
