Not a week goes by without a slew of game reveals, release date announcements, new game footage, manga licensing acquisitions, and all sorts of other bits of exciting pop culture news. Rather than run myself ragged trying to cover everything, here’s a quick highlights reel of the best news from …
This week, Kodansha USA expanded its partnership with digital comic platform INKR Comics, with over 400 volumes of Kodansha-published manga now available through the service. Among the latest additions are Attack on Titan, To Your Eternity, A Silent Voice, and Your Lie in April, with more to follow next week, …
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 …
Eku Takeshima’s Whisper Me a Love Song gets off to a great start in its first volume, laying the groundwork for a super-cute yuri romantic comedy about the comical misunderstandings and awkward moments that the word “love” can bring. Is there any word in the world more complicated than “love”? …
