There’s quite a bit to choose from this week in new manga, but the Battle Robot lines up for a combination of new seinen and older shounen—especially favoring omnibus re-releases. What looks good to you this week?
My Week in Manga: March 3-March 9, 2014
My News and Reviews Last week the Smuggler Giveaway Winner was announced. As usual, I took the opportunity to compile a list. In this case, I pulled together some of the manga licensed in English that feature assassins. And speaking of assassins, last week I reviewed Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal, Volume 28: Raining […]
Bookshelf Briefs 3/10/14
This week, Sean and Michelle check out recent releases from Viz Media and Kodansha Comics. Midnight Secretary, Vol. 4 | By Tomu Ohmi | Viz Media – This is a volume of two halves. In the first part, with Kaya and Kyohei separated from each other, they’re both at their best, and she even gets […]
Viz to publish Naoki Urasawa’s Master Keaton
Here’s a big announcement from Viz: They have licensed Naoki Urasawa’s Master Keaton. Zainab Akhtar explains why that’s awesome. And there’s more: They also announced Assassination Classroom (“A humorous and action-packed story about a class of misfits who are trying to kill their new teacher – an alien octopus with bizarre powers and super strength!”) […]
Real, Vol. 2
Creator: Takehiko Inoue U.S. publisher: Viz Media ISBN: 9781421519906 Released: October 2008 Original release: 2002 Awards: Japan Media Arts Award Although I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself to be a sports fan, I have come to the realization that I really enjoy sports manga. Out of all of the sports manga that I’ve so far read, […]
Insufficient Direction
By Moyoco Anno. Released in Japan as “Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki” by Shodensha, serialized in the magazine Feel Young. Released in North America by Vertical. The North American market has been enjoying Moyoco Anno’s manga for years now, be it Happy Mania, Sugar Sugar Rune, or Sakuran. Hideaki Anno has also been a favorite over here, […]
Toradora, Vol. 6
By Yuyuko Takemiya and Zekkyo. Released in Japan by ASCII Media Works, serialization ongoing in the magazine Dengeki Daioh. Released in North America by Seven Seas. Given how impossible it is for most mass media to avoid cliches and tropes, the question often becomes “how well does this work manage the cliche”? This volume of […]
Blade of the Immortal, Vol. 28: Raining Chaos
Creator: Hiroaki Samura U.S. publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616553210 Released: January 2014 Original release: 2011 Awards: Eisner Award, Japan Media Arts Award Raining Chaos is the twenty-eighth volume in the English-language edition of Hiroaki Samura’s manga series Blade of the Immortal. Because of slight differences between the Japanese and English publications of the series, Raining […]
Manga the Week of 3/12
SEAN: There’s a lot of new titles here next week, so it’s a great one if you want to start off a series. Even if two of those are spinoffs of an already existing series. And one is a re-release omnibus. Details, details! I honestly keep forgetting Drifters exists. It’s one of those manga titles […]
Manga Giveaway: Smuggler Giveaway Winner
And the winner of the Smuggler Giveaway is…Dawn! As the winner, Dawn will be receiving a copy of the new edition of Shohei Manabe’s Smuggler as published by One Peace Books. Because a rather violent assassin plays a very important role in Smuggler, for this giveaway I asked that entrants tell me a little about […]
