Drifters, Vol. 1
Back in the 1980s — the heyday of Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone — Hollywood cranked out a stream of mediocre but massively…
Manga Critic
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Vol. 1
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan is loud and silly, the kind of manga in which the slightest misunderstanding between characters escalates into shouting matches, bone-crunching…
Yakuza Cafe
Yakuza Cafe is a pleasant surprise, a cheerful, smutty send-up of gangster manga that playfully mocks maid cafes, foodie manga, and yakuza culture. The titular…
The Art of The Secret World of Arrietty
Among the many books I read as a child, few left as indelible an impression as Mary Norton’s The Borrowers (1952). The book featured the…
Hyakusho Kizoku, Vol. 1
Drawn in a loose, improvisational style, Hiromu Arakawa’s Hyakusho Kizuko may remind readers of the gag strips that round out every volume of her wildly…