That’s quite a carte blanche, coming from the creator of so many complex and sometimes enigmatic manga. Asano’s first works to appear in English were the one-volume solanin and the two-volume What a Wonderful World!, both of which earned critical praise for their portrayal of disaffected urban youths wavering between their dreams and the demands […]
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 […]
March delivers a grab bag of new manga: a shoujo ninja story from Matsuri Hino, an action-packed prequel to Akame ga Kill!, and the much-anticipated first volume of Princess Jellyfish. For those with more literary tastes, the first volume of Inio Asano’s Goodnight PunPun also debuts this month, and if you’re simply looking for a good swords-and-fantasy adventure, Sword […]