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…
Ayako
Ayako is an odd beast. Structurally, it resembles a Russian realist novel, using a once-powerful family of landowners to embody the political and economic upheaval…
Black Jack, Vols. 1-2
Black Jack practices a different kind of medicine than the earnest physicians on Grey’s Anatomy or ER, taking cases that push the boundary between science…