Harmony
VIZ launched its Haikasoru imprint in 2009, with the goal of bringing Japan’s best speculative fiction to the US. Haikasoru’s…
Author: Katherine Dacey
Kate Dacey has been writing about comics since 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she was the Senior Manga Editor at PopCultureShock, a site covering all aspects of the entertainment industry from comics to video games. In 2009, she launched The Manga Critic, where she reviewed Japanese comics and novels until 2012. Kate’s resume also includes serving as a panelist at ALA, New York Comic-Con, and Wondercon; penning reviews for the School Library Journal’s Good Comics for Kids blog; and writing the introductory chapter of CBDLF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices, which Dark Horse published in 2013. Kate is a musicologist based in the Greater Boston area.
Apollo’s Song, Vols. 1-2
Apollo’s Song may be one of the strangest sex ed manuals ever written. It begins with a textbook Tezuka scene,…
Gente and House of Five Leaves
I find Natsume Ono’s work rewarding and maddening in equal measure. On the plus side, I love her idiosyncratic style;…
Manga Artifacts: Lycanthrope Leo
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before publishers realized that they could sell manga to teenagers through Borders and Books-A-Million,…
The Manga Hall of Shame: Color of Rage
When reading historical manga, I grant the artist creative license to tell a story that evokes the spirit of an…