This month’s new manga offer plenty of intrigue and adventure, whether it’s plotting the overthrow of a ruling clan in the samurai era or chasing a mystery up the slopes of Mount Everest. What’s more, three of the new volumes are from masters of the medium: Jiro Taniguchi, Naoki Urasawa, and Kazuo Koike. With a beautifully […]
Summer is winding down, but it’s still miserable out here on the East Coast—nasty, sticky, humid heat that makes stepping outdoors feel like wading through a bowl of warm miso soup. It’s too hot to move, too hot to think, too hot to do anything except seek out someplace air conditioned and stay there as […]
Jiro Taniguchi, whose manga celebrated the beauty of everyday life and the majesty of the highest mountains, has died at the age of 69. Taniguchi is best known in Japan as the artist for the series Kodoku no Gourmet, a celebration of street food as seen through the eyes of a traveling salesman; it was […]