Manga Artifacts: Love Song
Back in the 1990s, Rachel Thorn labored hard to make Keiko Nishi a household name among American manga readers, translating six of her stories for…
Manga Critic
The Earl & The Fairy, Vol. 1
Meet Lydia Carlton: she’s a so-called “fairy doctor,” a healer who acts as an intermediary between the spirit and human worlds. The rapid advance of…
The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Benkei in New York
I’ve always thought that I had something in common with Warren Ellis — besides a sailor’s fondness for colorful language, that is — and reading…
A Bride’s Story, Vols. 2-3
Around the age of ten, I had a brief but intense love affair with historical fiction. It began with Little House in the Big Woods…
Is This A Zombie?, Vol. 1
Here’s a tip for aspiring manga artists: if you’re going to spoof a genre, your jokes should be poking fun at said genre’s conventions, not…