The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Blue Spring
As depicted in most shojo and shonen manga, the Japanese high school is the epitome of order, with students in neat, military-style uniforms diligently studying…
Manga Critic
Highschool of the Dead, Vol. 1
A poor man’s Dawn of the Dead — that’s how I’d describe Highschool of the Dead, a slick, violent zombie story that borrows shamelessly from…
The 2010 Manga Hall of Shame Inductees
While there’s no shortage of boring or cliche manga available in English — even with fewer titles being released this year — grade-A turkeys are…
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 and work. Frederik L. Schodt,…
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 adventure stories that employed the…