Melody of Iron
Osamu Teuka hit rock bottom in 1973. Mushi Production, the animation studio he’d launched to great fanfare in 1961, had…
Tag: Horror/Supernatural
Dissolving Classroom
The title of Junji Ito’s latest work is a nod to one of his seminal influences: Kazuo Umezu, author of such…
Happiness, Vols. 1-2
The first chapter of Happiness reads like a teenage boy’s answer to Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Makoto,…
I Am a Hero, Vol. 1
At first glance, I Am a Hero looks like a Walking Dead clone, complete with gun-toting vigilantes and hungry zombie hordes. Peel…
Short Takes: Deadman Wonderland and Livingstone
The November release of Jinsei Kataoka and Tomohiro Maekawa’s Livingstone provided me a nifty excuse to try Deadman Wonderland, an earlier series written…