All Treats, No Tricks: 6 Creepy New Horror Manga
Horror manga sounds like a straightforward concept, but the stories vary widely: in Junji Ito’s Gyo, Uzumaki, and Shiver, bits of…
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The Best New Manga of October 2018
Halloween is coming, and this month’s manga releases include a couple of horror stories to get you in the mood—along…
The Best New Manga of September 2018
September is a time of new beginnings, with students heading back to school or off to college, and that’s true…
5 Cool Manga Series for Steamy Hot Days
Summer is winding down, but it’s still miserable out here on the East Coast—nasty, sticky, humid heat that makes stepping…
Best New Manga of August 2018
This month’s new manga releases include a new collection of RWBY stories, a new shonen action series, a volume of…
The Best New Manga of July 2018
It’s the summer of spinoffs! July brings a sequel to Fruits Basket, a companion volume to Attack on Titan, and…
The Strange Everyday Worlds of Manga Creator Inio Asano
That’s quite a carte blanche, coming from the creator of so many complex and sometimes enigmatic manga. Asano’s first works…
The Best New Manga of June 2018
Summer is almost here, and this month’s new manga releases offer plenty of escapist reading, from the antics of single…
Andrew Hussie on Bringing Wild Webcomic (?) Homestuck to Print
With its combination of labyrinthine structure in-jokes, reader participation, and meme fodder, Andrew Hussie’s nigh-indescribable webcomic Homestuck was a phenomenon…
The Best New Manga of May 2018
This month’s new manga are all about love and war—and in the case of Star Wars: Lost Stars, a bit…
8 Essential Manga for Cat Lovers
It seems like I woke up one day and all my Facebook friends were playing Neko Atsume, a cat-collecting game…
The Best New Manga of April 2018
Spring is here, the anime convention season has begun, and April brings a bouquet of new manga, ranging from the…
11 Kid-Friendly Manga That Aren’t About Pokémon
Teens and adults fueled the original U.S. manga boom as well as its recent second wave, but kids like comics…
The Best New Manga of March 2018
The manga stalwarts continue this month: new volumes of Boruto, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and One-Punch Man, and…
11 Incredibly Exciting Manga Arriving in 2018
Remember when manga was supposed to be dead? Me neither. Last year saw an outstanding crop of new releases, and…
The Best New Manga of February 2018
There’s plenty to like about this month’s new manga lineup, including new series by the creators of Yuri on Ice…
13 Addictive Ongoing Manga Series
Last week we shared some of our favorite “one-shot” single-volume manga from the past year—but manga that tell an entire…
7 Fantastic One-Shot Manga
Seemingly endless manga series are great—have we mentioned we love One Piece?—but sometimes you just want a good story that…
The Best New Manga of January 2018
A new year brings new volumes of old series, first volumes of new series, and a new edition of a…
The Best New Manga Series of 2017
U.S. manga publishers took on challenging and unusual series in 2017, even as they also played it safe with sequels…