From the box office to the bookstore, 2015 has been an especially good time to be a fan of sci-fi and fantasy. Our plates are filled to overflowing with tasty treats, from Star Wars and superhero films, to killer TV shows, to more badass SF/F books than we could ever hope to read. Here’s what […]
Three mismatched astronauts clear up space debris, a bumbling otaku shocks everyone with his cycling prowess, and worlds go to war in December’s new manga series; this month also brings a bumper crop of new volumes in popular series, headlined by vol. 17 of Attack on Titan and vol. 4 of Tokyo Ghoul.
From hot-blooded teen boys fighting demons and winning sports tournaments to the first bloom of starry-eyed love, manga notoriously favors stories of middle and high schoolers. There’s nothing wrong with reliving the passions of youth, but as an adult manga reader, sometimes it’s nice to read stories about, well, adults. For those of you craving […]
If you don’t read manga, there’s one thing you need to know: it’s not a genre, but a medium. There is a manga for every type of reader—and that includes sci-fi fans. Ready for a night at the space opera? Here’s a roundup of manga that reach for the stars—and a few that fall outside […]
Back when manga was still a novelty, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, publishers brought over a lot of different series but tended to treat them all the same. By the turn of the century, the now-familiar “manga-sized” paperback, with a black-and-white interior, had become standard, and almost everything, from the cheesiest shonen battle […]
