My 10 Favorite Spooky Manga
Whether by accident or design, the very first manga I read and liked were horror titles: “The Laughing Target,” Mermaid Saga, Uzumaki. I’m not sure…
Manga Critic
Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
At some point in your travels through high school English, a teacher probably made you read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” a short story about a…
The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
Reading The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, I was irresistibly reminded of a quip attributed to Thomas Carlyle: “A well-written life is almost…
Cat-Eyed Boy, Vols. 1-2
Kazuo Umezu’s writing defies easy categorization. His horror stories unfold in an almost haphazard fashion, seldom offering Western readers the kind of inevitable showdown between…
Demon Sacred, Vols. 1-2
Demon Sacred is shojo manga’s answer to the everything bagel, substituting hot scientists, dragons, pop idols, twins, secret government research facilities, and time-traveling aliens for…