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…
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Kick Back in the Countryside with These 6 Manga
Is life in the concrete jungle wearing you down? Escape the hustle and bustle of the city with manga celebrating…
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…
Why Fullmetal Alchemist Is Essential Reading for Every Fantasy Fan
Since it began serialization 17 years ago, Hiromu Arakawa’s blockbuster shonen fantasy has inspired not only readers, but also fantasy…
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…
8 Reasons to Go on a Manga Treasure Hunt with Golden Kamuy
We declared Golden Kamuy one of the best new manga of 2017, and we’re not the only ones feeling it:…
6 Skin-Crawling Japanese Body Horror Books
No one does body horror quite like the Japanese. The genre is, by definition, deeply disturbing already, offering up mutations,…
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…
7 Manga Built on the Suffering of Fictional Children
Manga often features youthful protagonists in perilous situations, but we don’t always think about just how young the characters bearing…
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…
In This Corner of the World Is a Powerful Wartime Chronicle Told in Manga
Fumiyo Kouno’s In This Corner of the World is a beautiful manga about a terrible time, a story of ordinary…
The Best New Manga of December 2017
We’ve almost out of the nosedive of 2017; might as well end things with a stack of good reading. Who…