Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 3
In his review of TRON: Legacy, critic Andrew O’Hehir made a distinction between movies that are boring because they make the viewer keenly aware of…
Manga Critic
A Certain Scientific Railgun, Vol. 1
Question: what do you get when you cross Sunshine Sketch with X-Men? Answer: A Certain Scientific Railgun, a story about a quartet of schoolgirl psychics…
Tenjo Tenge: Full Contact Edition, Vol. 1
When I tell people that I review manga, they often ask me, “Isn’t it all porn and ninjas?” No, I assure them, there are manga…
The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Rica ‘tte Kanji!?
The most basic yuri plotline — what publisher Erica Friedman calls “Story A” — traces its roots back to the pioneering Class S fiction of…
A Zoo in Winter
One of the best-selling manga in the US right now is Bakuman, a drama about two teens trying to break into the Japanese comics industry….