Blood Alone, Vols. 1-3
In his essay Moe: The Cult of the Child, Jason Thompson argues that one of the most pernicious aspects of moe is the way in…
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 4
At some point in your childhood, a well-meaning adult — a parent, a teacher, Mr. Rodgers — exhorted you “not to judge a book by…
5 Reasons to Read InuYasha
InuYasha was the first comic that I actively collected, the manga that introduced me to the Wednesday comic-buying ritual and the very notion of self-identifying…
Manga Artifacts: Rumiko Takahashi’s Rumic Theater
Most American readers know Rumiko Takahashi through her work in Shonen Sunday, but Takahashi has a foot in the seinen world as well. Maison Ikkoku…
Blue Exorcist, Vol. 1
Have you ever seen the pilot episode of Law & Order? Most of the regular characters are present, and the script follows the three-act structure…