Osamu Tezuka: A Bibliography for English Speakers
For the English-language reader interested in learning more about Osamu Tezuka, there’s a growing body of scholarship exploring his life…
Manga
Manga Artifacts: Princess Knight
What Osamu Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (1946) was to shonen, his Princess Knight (1953-56) was to shojo. Both were long-form…
Ayako
Ayako is an odd beast. Structurally, it resembles a Russian realist novel, using a once-powerful family of landowners to embody…
Black Jack, Vols. 1-2
Black Jack practices a different kind of medicine than the earnest physicians on Grey’s Anatomy or ER, taking cases that…
Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy!
My Dinner With Fumi: that’s what I would have called the English-language edition of Not Love But Delicious Foods Make…