Pick of the Week: Seinen Extravaganza
The picks the Manga Bookshelf team have on their mind this week make us feel like salarymen on a packed train.
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My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Vol. 1
By Wataru Watari and Ponkan 8. Released in Japan by Shogakukan. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Jennifer Ward. This is a highly anticipated light novel title, for many reasons. … [Read More...]
Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 28
By Kenjiro Hata. Released in Japan as “Hayate no Gotoku!” by Shogakukan, serialization ongoing in the magazine Shonen Sunday. Released in North America by Viz. Translated by John Werry. It is not … [Read More...]
Manga the Week of 9/28
SEAN: Duck and cover, folks. Kodansha gives us a 3rd Colossal Edition of Attack on Titan, which no doubt still remains a potent blunt instrument as well as a good way of catching up. ASH: … [Read More...]
Human Acts
Author: Han Kang Translator: Deborah Smith U.S. Publisher: Hogarth Press ISBN: 9781101906729 Released: January 2017 Original release: 2014 Awards: Manhae Literary Prize Over the last few … [Read More...]
Lord Marksman and Vanadis, Vol. 1
By Tsukasa Kawaguchi and Nobuhiko Yanai. Released in Japan by Media Factory, serialization ongoing in the magazine Comic Flapper. Released in North America by Seven Seas. Translated by Elina Ishikawa. … [Read More...]
Yona of the Dawn, Vols. 1-2
By Mizuho Kusanagi | Published by VIZ Media In the kingdom of Kohka, kindly King Il adores his only child, Princess Yona, and throws a celebration for her sixteenth birthday. Red-haired Yona is … [Read More...]
Emma, Vol. 5
By Kaoru Mori. Released in Japan in two separate volumes by Enterbrain, serialized in the magazine Comic Beam. Released in North America by Yen Press. Translated by Sheldon Drzka. The final omnibus … [Read More...]
Bookshelf Briefs 9/19/16
Blue Morning, Vol. 6 | By Shoko Hidaka | SuBLime - Volume six is somewhat of a fresh start for this complicated BL series. Akihito Kuze is the reluctant viscount who has been scheming to retire from … [Read More...]
My Week in Manga: September 12-September 18, 2016
My News and Reviews Last week at Experiments in Manga I posted the Bookshelf Overload for August. I picked up some great out-of-print (or soon to be out-of-print) manga and comics last month in … [Read More...]
Skip Beat!, Vol 37
Skip Beat! Volume 37, by Yoshiki Nakamura I always do a mental happy dance whenever a new volume of Skip Beat! comes out, because it is just so consistently good. This volume brings the pain, as … [Read More...]
