A First Look at Starving Anonymous
Have you been checking out Kodansha Comics’ digital-only and digital-first releases? I have, and I love this initiative: it lets me sample dozens of series…
Manga Critic
Silver Spoon, Vol. 1
The title of Hiromu Arakwa’s latest series is a pointed reference to Kansuke Naka’s The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Japanese Boyhood. First serialized in the…
Voices of a Distant Star
What would it be like to embark on a deep space voyage, knowing that when you returned, nothing on Earth would be as you remembered…
Toppu GP, Vol. 2
For two decades, Kosuke Fujishima’s Oh! My Goddess was a veritable institution in the US. It arrived in comic book stores in 1994 and finished its run…
Again!!, Vol. 1
There are no second chances in life, but there are in manga — think A Distant Neighborhood, Erased, and orange. The latest entry in the second-chance sweepstakes is Again!!,…