Manga

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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”? …

Even if you don’t enjoy sports, it’s easy to love sports manga. Though they vary as wildly in tone as they do in the sports they cover—and just about every sport imaginable has been adapted into a manga series—but you can always count on the universal thread of a coming-of-age …

Memory’s Dogma CODE:01 will be out soon, and along with a the launch of new Steam store page, developer Liz-Arts has released a free Memory’s Dogma manga to introduce the game’s world and a few of the characters. It sets up what will no doubt be a fascinating story, with a candid exploration …