From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
We closed out March with a piece of great news: Dark Horse has licensed Makoto Yukimura’s hard sci-fi manga Planetes, the story of celestial junkmen who travel through space picking up debris. They will begin releasing it in omnibus format in December. While we wait, here’s a look at the pick of the April releases, […]
From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
More than a few promising new manga series launched in the past year, but there were also plenty of returning favorites keeping us entertained. Here’s a look at 10 continuing series that kept us reading in 2016.
One of the manga we’re most looking forward to reading in 2017 is Anonymous Noise, a story about a talented musician and her two long-lost friends. Youth, music, and romance are a heady mix, and there are plenty of manga that revolve around the lives of musicians. Here’s a handful of our favorites to read while […]
