Princess Jellyfish, Volume 1

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 […]

Whatever you say about the balance of 2016, it was a good year for manga. Publishers expanded their lines in all different directions, bringing us new titles from popular creators as well as interesting debuts from newcomers. The category has grown richer than ever before, with more manga for more tastes. Here’s a look at […]

While it is not unusual for Japanese manga magazine editors to come to the U.S. for conventions, the ones who do are almost always men who edit shonen magazines like Shonen Jump (which carries Naruto and One Piece) or Monthly Shonen Magazine, home of Noragami. So it was a big deal that Yuki Sukemune, the editor of the […]

Last week we shared some of our favorite “one-shot” single-volume manga from the past year—but manga that tell an entire story in a single book certainly aren’t the usual way of doing things. And that’s just fine: we love a compact story, well told, but there’s just something about following the same characters and storylines […]