Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
On the surface, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is a gag manga. J-Kun–a lightly fictionalized version of the author–reluctantly agrees to let his fiancee bring two…
Short Takes: Deadman Wonderland and Livingstone
The November release of Jinsei Kataoka and Tomohiro Maekawa’s Livingstone provided me a nifty excuse to try Deadman Wonderland, an earlier series written and illustrated by Katoaka. Fans…
Say I Love You, Vols. 1-3
Back in the 1980s, filmmaker John Hughes peddled an intoxicating fantasy to thirteen-year-old girls: you might be the class misfit–the kid who wore the “wrong”…
Komomo Confiserie, Vol. 1
Flip through The Big Book of Shojo Plotlines, and there – between “I’m Having an Affair with My Homeroom Teacher” and “I’m a Nutjob Who’s…
Ultraman, Vol. 1
Dusting off a beloved franchise and making it appeal to a new generation is a hazardous undertaking: stray too far from the source material and…