Seven Seas has come a long way from purveyor of cheesecake -- remember Aoi House and Vampire Cheerleaders? -- to purveyor of classic manga, cool shojo, and off-beat fantasy titles such as The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún and Juana and the Seven Dragonewts' Kingdoms. … [Read more...]
Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1
Food manga comes in two flavors: the tournament series, in which a brash young baker or chef enters cook-offs that stretch his culinary skills to the limit, and the food-is-life series, in which family, friends, or colleagues prepare food together, resolving their differences … [Read more...]
Komomo Confiserie, Vol. 1
Flip through The Big Book of Shojo Plotlines, and there – between “I’m Having an Affair with My Homeroom Teacher” and “I’m a Spazz Who’s Inexplicably Irresistible” – you’ll find another time-honored trope: “I Was Mean to My Childhood Friend, and Now He’s Hot!” Komomo Confiserie … [Read more...]
Short Takes: Food Wars, Manga Dogs, and Yukarism
Did you receive an Amazon or RightStuf gift certificate this holiday? If so, this post is for you! Below, I've reviewed the first volumes of three series that debuted in 2014, offering a quick-and-dirty assessment of each. Already read Food Wars? Fear not—I've also tackled Manga … [Read more...]
7 Mouth-Watering Food Manga
When Khursten Santos announced that this month's Manga Movable Feast would be... well, a feast, that provided me with a swell excuse to highlight my favorite food manga. I attribute my interest in the genre to my brief but intense infatuation with Iron Chef in the mid-2000s. I … [Read more...]
