It wouldn’t be too overdramatic if I said that when Kodansha announced that they had picked up the license for the Sailor Moon manga and would be re-releasing it in English revised with a new translation…
When Naoko Takeuchi first created Sailor Moon back in 1992, I highly doubt that she could have predicted the series’ success across the world. Often credited as popularizing and revitalizing…
“Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.” – Anatole France
When reading Library Wars I cannot help but make…
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
I myself am not a wine connoisseur. I, like most British people, look at them with a slight sense of annoyance and confusion.…
This review covers all volumes of Princess Knight.
Tezuka was not afraid to try anything. Alongside shounen, seinen, gekiga, political works, psychological, medical dramas, fantasy, and …
@ Full Moon Volumes 1 & 2
David is a vampire; Marlo is half vampire, half werewolf. The young men have been close friends since childhood and in the two volumes of Sanami Matoh’s light-hearted…
When I think way back into the early days of my anime and manga fandom, I can remember a time when I couldn’t walk into a WHSmiths and easily find a manga section to pick from. I had to take trips to …
I’m in despair! I’m in despair over reading this entire volume!
Last year, someone at a convention talked to me about “Sayonora, Zetsubou-Sensei” after discussing popular worldwide political…
This review covers all eight volumes of Pluto.
I imagine Naoki Urasawa suffered butterflies the first time it truly dawned on him that he was about to adapt Osamu Tezuka’s flagship work,…
Once upon a time, there was a princess named Courtney Love. Made famous by her marriage to a front man of a grunge band and her own controversial antics, she was known by many across the land. One day…
The dimension witch Yūko has vanished, leaving her protégé Kimihiro Watanuki in charge of her magical shop – a shop he can now never leave. As the years pass, Watanuki carries on Yūko’s work of wish-granting,…
When Dark Horse announced their releases of classic Clamp titles as omnibus editions in 2009, manga fans around the world rejoiced. The Clover and Chobits omnibus editions were released not …
My first thought upon turning the last pages of Domu was that the manga has magnificent action. The second was that it doesn’t have much else. I point especially to the first act, which, comprising…
“The world…is rejecting me.”
Ryoichi’s life has gone badly wrong. Betrayed by a lover who has run out on him, leaving him saddled with his enormous debt of thirteen million yen, he finds himself…
Instead of gore or monsters, The Drifting Classroom derives horror from the fall of humanity; it intends not so much to induce vomit as to shake us to our souls. The first four volumes describe the…
Saki, a gifted classical pianist and teacher, takes his younger cousin Riya, an aspiring violinist, to perform at a summer retreat in the Berkshires. But when they get there, Saki is taken aback…
A child’s world is one of reliable laws that define what is meaningful and worthless, success and failure, black and white. In comparison, the adult world, often viewed in youth as the ultimate…
In seven short stories spanning just two volumes, Hiroki Endo’s Tanpenshu manages to weave a sprawling tapestry of human experience. After one story leaves us stewing in an emotional …
Who is Astro Boy for? Osamu Tezuka, in his day, would have straightforwardly replied ‘for children’. But Dark Horse Comics’ edition, running to a monumental twenty-three…
If you know anything about the history of manga and anime, then you should know who Osamu Tezuka was. He may not have been the first Japanese person to draw comics, but no other individual has had …
