From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
Even the most dedicated manga fan can feel weak at the knees at the prospect of plunging into a 70-volume series (or even a relatively trim 20-volume one), and forget trying to convince someone unfamiliar with the medium to dive right into the deep end. Not all manga is interminable, however: many manga-ka can tell a […]