Over the last couple of years, Square Enix‘s mobile manga platform Manga UP! has been making its mark in Japan, giving convenient and speedy access to a wide range of popular titles to some 19 million years. Now, the rest of the world can get in on the fun, too, …
Peach and the Isle of Monsters doesn’t waste any time getting started. Within a couple of pages, we have a good sense of Peach: a strong and lively young woman, though one bullied by her peers for her unusual name and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her birth (she was found …
Magical academy stories sure have become popular lately, especially in the last five years or so. The Dawn of the Witch follows those same footsteps, but with a slightly unusual twist: rather than taking place in the school itself, it follows a group of students and their eccentric teacher on …
Aster of Pan isn’t your typical post-apocalyptic story. Sure, its world is a harsh one where survival is hard-fought and communities fiercely protect their own with strict rules and a heavy distrust for outsiders. But it’s also full of humanity, hope, and its fair share of humour; where the common …
Unrequited love is one of those universal things that everyone struggles with at some point in life. It’s something that everyone handles it differently, but few handle well—a broken heart is a painful thing, after all. But it can also have surprising consequences, and even bring people together in a …
The Hunt is On, the first volume of Nie Jun’s Seekers of the Aweto graphic novel series, is something truly beautiful. Drawing inspiration from everything from traditional Chinese art to contemporary western comics, its watercolour style and vibrant, almost psychedelic colours are simply mesmerising, bringing a mythological adventure and the …
Kill a Man is raw, violent, powerful. Steve Orlando, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Al Morgan, and Jim Campbell’s story of a gay MMA fighter who gets outed and sets himself down a path for revenge is an unflinching exploration of homophobia in the sports world, of the challenges of coming out, …
Gaku Kuze’s Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, Volume 1 is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. The cynical perspective of a 30-something whose life didn’t turn out how they thought it would is already a topic rife with potential for black comedy, but run through …
There are few historical figures who’ve had such widespread and varied fictional appearances as Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kōjiro. These famed samurai have inspired everything from period-appropriate fighting game characters to sci-fi RPGs, from an Iron Maiden song to Pokemon‘s Jessie and James. Orient, by Shinobu Ohtaka (Magi: The Labyrinth …
Quincredible, Volume 1 – Quest to be the Best! is a fresh take on the familiar superhero origin story that dares to question the often unexamined relationship between superheroes and police. It’s a common sight in superhero comics: a hero foils some villainous plan, ties up the bad guys, and …
