Manga

Just in time for Halloween, Junji Ito follows up his latest collection of short stories — Alley — with a fascinating look into his creative process in Uncanny: The Origins of Fear. Uncanny gives us a window into the macabre master’s mind like never before. Mixing memoir with an overview of horror in manga, Ito […]

Water. Earth. Fire. Air… and the legendary Gaang. 19 years ago, the world was introduced to a mythic world, teeming with elemental powers and a heroic trio of teenagers at the center of it. Soon after, we met Korra and the crew, who graced our screens for a whirlwind 52 episode run. The world of […]

It’s been an excellent year for Manga and Manhwa, and with so many people coming in for series after series. I mean, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that once you read one of these, you must be in want of another. From the final book in epic series to the first books in series of […]

Summer’s here, the kids are home, and suddenly, time seems to s t r e t c h out. If we know anything about kids, it’s that summer is equal parts excitement and equal parts boredom. However, we have the perfect way to quell their boredom in the form of must-read manga series that are […]

Manga, the popular and addictive style of comic book/graphic novel produced and published in Japan, has been sweeping onto bookshelves of readers across the country over the last few years. Many know the joy of discovering or falling in love with a new series (and heatedly debating favorite characters and arcs with friends), but if […]

If you just can’t get enough of this diverse and addictive medium — you’re not alone. Manga has been wildly popular for years and its fan base is exploding! Adventure, historical, horror, mystery and suspense, romance, science fiction and fantasy — there’s something for everyone. And with so many amazing series to choose from you might be […]

If you just can’t get enough of this diverse and addictive medium — you’re not alone. Manga has been wildly popular for years and its fan base is exploding! Adventure, historical, horror, mystery and suspense, romance, science fiction and fantasy — there’s something for everyone. And with so many amazing series to choose from you might be […]

Halloween is nearly here, and the manga publishers have responded in kind, breaking out with some scary stories, including a new edition of the horror classic The Drifting Classroom, a manga version of Dracula, and a brand-new story about a girl living in a house full of spirits. For those who prefer a calmer read, […]

Kodansha is the largest manga publisher in Japan, which means its American arm, Kodansha Comics, has a huge library to choose from when it comes time to import them Stateside. Since its launch in 2008 (old-timers may remember that it was a sort of successor to Del Rey’s efforts in the manga sphere), Kodansha Comics […]

Summer is over, and the manga publishers are kicking off autumn with both seriously high quality manga and unashamedly lowbrow escapist reading. Whether your tastes lean toward a winsome tale of cats in the Louvre, a violence-packed story about a guy with a gun for a head, or a foodie manga devoted entirely to ramen, […]

August is the laziest month, as summer heats up and then starts to wind down. Labor Day is just around the corner, but first, we’ve got a month’s worth of new manga releases for every taste from thought-provoking to action-packed to just plain easy on the eyes. Find a place in the shade and chill […]

After all, a host club is all about pleasing the ladies. Let’s start with the premise: Ouran High School is an expensive school for the children of the elites—destined to be elites themselves and therefore seldom required to do any work. Haruhi Fujioka is the one scholarship student at the school; her mother is dead, […]

July brings a bumper crop of new manga, from classics to comfortingly familiar genre stories. With helpful skeletons, angsty vampires, vengeful yakuza, badass librarians, and a high school full of animals, the new releases of midsummer offer plenty of escape reading for every taste. What new manga are you excited about this month? Back To […]

Neon Genesis Evangelion is back—and for a lot of people, it’s here for the first time. The show begins streaming on Netflix on June 21, making it widely available to North American viewers for the first time in years. For those who’ve already seen it—or if you’re reading this on June 22 and you’ve already […]

The ongoing series that grew out of that story, Tomie, ran in the magazine for 13 years, launching Ito’s career as a manga-ka. Since then, he has provided bone-deep chills and viscersal thrills to a generation of readers in the U.S. and Japan with short stories (collected in the books Fragments of Horror, Shiver, and Smashed) […]