Oishinbo A la Carte: Vegetables
I mean no disrespect to Tetsu Kariya or Akira Hanasaki when I say that the Vegetables volume of Oishinbo A…
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Itazura Na Kiss, Vol. 1
Seventeen-year-old Kotoko Aihara is a ditz, the kind of girl who gets easily flustered by math problems, blurts whatever she’s…
Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu, Vol. 1
Poignant — now there’s a word I never imagined I’d be using to describe one of Junko Mizuno’s works, given…
Manga Artifacts: Domu: A Child’s Dream
Revisiting AKIRA prompted me to re-read Domu: A Child’s Dream, an earlier work that helped cement Katsuhiro Otomo’s reputation as…
AKIRA, Vol. 1
My first exposure to Katsuhiro Otomo came in 1990, when a college boyfriend insisted that we attend a screening of…