Books have been a significant inspiration at the movies since the earliest days of the cinema. We’re never less than thrilled (if, perhaps, trepidatious) when we learn our favorite novel is being adapted into a film, because when it all comes together in just the right way, it’s glorious, breathing a second life into a beloved […]
With the live-action film adaptation of The Ghost in the Shell debuting this weekend, it’s a perfect time to pick up the new, Deluxe Edition of the manga that started it all. It’s an interesting property to revisit, nearly three decades after it was initially serialized in Japan. It starts out as an action-packed cyber-spy story—almost a […]
As global warming and 4Chan have shown us, technology often comes with profound and unwelcome consequences for society. Cyberpunk manga, like their prose and film counterparts, take us into a future where the lines between human and robot, corporation and government, and the common good and social control are blurred or altogether absent. The heroes […]
The new year brings some new series—a Sherlock Holmes manga based on the BBC show and a new series from the creator of Future Diary—as well as new editions of two classic manga, Ghost in the Shell and Blade of the Immortal, and some fresh volumes in ongoing series.
