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….
A Bride’s Story, Vol. 1
For nearly 3,000 years, the Silk Road connected Asia with Africa and the Middle East, providing a conduit for the ancient world’s most precious commodities:…
Moon and Blood, Vol. 1
If Rumiko Takahashi and Kaoru Tada collaborated on a manga, the results might look a lot like Nao Yazawa’s Moon and Blood, a cheerful mish-mash…