The Best Manga of 2011: The Manga Critic’s Picks
The usual gambit for introducing a year-end list is to remark on the abundance of good titles, acknowledge the difficulty…
Tag: Osamu Tezuka
7 Short Series Worth Adding to Your Manga Bookshelf
I like getting lost in a long, twisty story as much as the next person, but I often lose interest…
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 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…