December brings shorter days, endless Christmas songs, and a strong urge to compile best-of-the-year lists. This was a good year for manga, with strong showings by blockbuster ongoing series and the launch of some intriguing new ones. Here’s a look at some of the manga we thought were the cream of the 2018 crop. Best […]
Horror manga sounds like a straightforward concept, but the stories vary widely: in Junji Ito’s Gyo, Uzumaki, and Shiver, bits of everyday life suddenly go haywire in horrific ways; things with teeth haunt the vampire saga Happiness; tension sustains the zombie-survival epic I Am a Hero; and a streak of humor runs through the assistants-to-the-dead series […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What books did you buy in October?
Halloween is coming, and this month’s manga releases include a couple of horror stories to get you in the mood—along with two manga twists on the works of Shakespeare, one faithful, one not, and some new volumes of old favorites. Grab a pumpkin spice latte and relax—there’s plenty of good reading this month! What manga […]
