One of the differences – I won’t say “advantages,” since opinion differs on that subject – of manga from Western-style superhero comics is that manga stories all have endings, eventually. Oh, “eventually” can be a long, long time coming – two decades, in some cases – but manga are created by one person or set…
Manga Friday returns after a brief hiatus — I was on a secret mission in Darkest Florida, and unable to read manga and coherently think about them for several days — with a look at two very, very different books. We’ll start with the easier one to explain. Toto!: The Wonderful Adventure, Vol. 1 By…
This week, I’m giving over all of Manga Friday to the manga I was most looking forward to this year – a collection of dark, psychological stories from the creator who invented gekiga but who has been almost forgotten at home. Good-Bye By Yoshihiro Tatsumi; Translated by Yuji Oniki; Edited by Adrian Tomine Drawn &…
This week, Manga Friday applies its lazer-like eye to one and only one book – luckily, this one is weird and confusing enough for any five regular volumes… Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro, Vol. 1 By Satoko Kiyuduki Yen Press, May 2008, $10.99 Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro is one of the few manga series I’ve seen with extensive color: about…
Here’s the manga I read this week (no, seriously, that’s the only thing they have in common) – Kaze no Hana, Vol. 1 By Ushio Mizta and Akitoski Ohta Yen Press, 2008, $10.99 Momoka Futami is just your normal teenaged manga heroine – an amnesiac orphan who’s coming to live with her unknown family four…
Born in 1964 in Pin-Tung, Taiwan, Ben Dunn emigrated to the U.S. a year later. Growing up, he enjoyed reading comics and tried his hand at drawing, but it wasn’t until he returned to Taiwan for six months in 1976 that Dunn was first exposed to—and fell in love with—manga. Eight years later, tired of…
This week’s manga delivery brought two more books from mighty Yen Press, and they are… Kieli, Vol. 1 Story by Yukako Kabei; Art by Shiori Teshirogi Yen Press, 2008, $10.99 Some books, like this one, just have too much backstory for their own good, but let me roll up my sleeves and see if I…
Put down your Wiimotes, folks. A variety of online retailers, including Amazon and RightStuf, have started accepting orders for The Legend of Zelda manga. This is great news for fans of the popular Nintendo character. For several years, the series has only been in Japan and acclaimed for keeping faithful to the games while explaining…
Dororo, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka Vertical, 2008, $13.95 Vertical continues to reprint some of Tezuka’s most interesting and idiosyncratic manga with this first volume of his 1967-68 serial Dororo – the other two volumes will follow a little later this year. Dororo is, I guess, Tezuka’s take on a samurai manga – it’s set…
This week finds me in near Old-Mother-Hubbard mode, with just a few random old things. But let’s run through them, just because they’re here, and maybe the Manga Gods will smile on us for next week… Priest, Vol. 1 Min-Woo Hyung Tokyopop, 2003, $9.99 From the evidence – the creator’s name, and the fact that…
I suppose I should start off by saying that Rave Master is the name of Mashima’s previous manga series, not his nickname. (Though it does make a great nickname, actually.) Rave Master ran thirty-five volumes – of which twenty-seven has been published in the US to date – and was a fairly typical young-guy-with-great-power-battling-the-forces-of-evil story….
This time, we’re focusing entirely on one series, and specifically the two volumes of it published in English so far. "Is Wheeler slacking off?" ask the punters. No, he is not – each of these books is well over 500 pages, so I’m actually reviewing more manga, by weight, than usual this week. With the…
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