One of 2017’s best series — for my money, anyway — was The Promised Neverland, a Shonen Jump title about a group of orphans who discover their home is, in fact, a human farm. The manga has attracted a strong following on both sides of the Pacific, selling a respectable 2.1 million copies since its 2016 debut in […]
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The Manga Revue, 5/21/18
Remember the good ol’ days when a new Star Wars movie took three years to make, and no one was certain that George Lucas was going to get around to Episodes I, II, and III? I miss those days; new installments felt like a cause for celebration and not a dutiful obligation, and the films […]
Happiness, Vols. 4-7
This review contains a few spoilers for later volumes of Happiness, and discusses one character’s efforts to cope with PTSD after a violent attack. Proceed with caution. The first three volumes of Shuzo Oshimi’s Happiness explore familiar terrain, using vampirism as a metaphor for the ravages of puberty, that moment when hormonal urges overwhelm the rational mind […]
