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A First Look at Cross Manage
For a series whose plot hinges on a mammary collision, Cross Manage is better than it has any right to be: it’s interesting, funny, and populated with appealing characters who rise above type. The...
View ArticleKekkaishi, Vols. 10-15
I absolutely adored the first few volumes of Kekkaishi. It is rare for me to find a shonen series that I like that features art that is both clear and visually arresting combined with plenty of...
View ArticleNisekoi: False Love Vol 1
Nisekoi: False Love Vol 1 by Naoshi Komi I don’t tend to track trends in English releases of shonen manga as much as I do shoujo manga, but it certainly seems like it has been some time since we’ve...
View ArticleOne Punch Man, Vol 1
I make no secret of my affection for shoujo manga, but occasionally even I want to read shonen manga featuring kicking or punching, preferably both. One Punch Man, as one might suspect, is centered on...
View ArticleFood Wars, Vol 1
Food Wars Volume 1 by Yuto Tsukudo and Shun Saeki This is a potentially engaging battle style foodie manga that I found myself having a difficult time getting into due to the copious amounts of fan...
View ArticleWorld Trigger, Vols 1 and 2
World Trigger Volumes 1 and 2 by Daisuke Ashihara World Trigger starts out with a very Attack on Titanesque set-up, expressed simply in one page. Monsters from another dimension are invading the earth....
View ArticleSeraph of the End: Vampire Reign Vol 3
Seraph of the End Volume 3 by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, and Daisuke Furuya One of the reasons why I like this shonen vampire dystopian series so much is that each volume propels the hero forward...
View ArticleAssassination Classroom Vol 1
Assassination Classroom Volume 1 by Yusei Matsui To be perfectly honest, I would have bought this manga for the title alone. The fact that it is a story about a mysterious tentacled alien teacher...
View ArticleJoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 Phantom Blood Vol 1
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 Phantom Blood, Volume 1 by Hirohiko Araki I read this volume without much background in this series other than knowing that it was a huge and long-running series in...
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The Manga Revue: Prison School and Twin Star Exorcists
This week, I take a look at two new releases: Prison School, a hotly anticipated series about five boys trying to break out of an all-girls’ school, and Twin Star Exorcists, a shonen manga about two...
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My Hero Academia Vol 1
My Hero Academia Volume 1 by Hohei Horikoshi So Viz has one hilarious send-up of the superhero genre in One-Punch Man. I was curious to see how the more mainstream and shonen take on the superhero...
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Haikyu!!
Haikyu!! Volume 1 by Haruichi Furudate I’m always curious to check out new sports manga, mostly because we tend to get so few licensed over here. Haikyu!! is a shonen volleyball title. I still have...
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Kuroko’s Basketball, Vols. 1 and 2
Kuroko’s Basketball Volumes 1 and 2 by Tadatoshi Fujimaki I enjoy a good sports manga, and this omnibus of the first couple volumes of Kuroko’s Basketball was entertaining, due to a unconventional...
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Welcome to the Ballroom, Vol. 1
Welcome to the Ballroom Volume 1 by Tomo Takeuchi The ballet manga Swan is one of my all-time favorites, and dance manga doesn’t get translated into english very often so I was very interested in...
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Platinum End Vol. 1
Platinum End Volume 1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata I approached reading Platinum End with mixed feelings, I was interested because this series is another work from the team that brought the world...
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Haikyu!! Vol 5 and Kuroko’s Basketball 3 and 4
Haikyu!! Volume 5 by Haruichi Furudate I still feel like pinching myself a little bit to remind myself that it is actually real that so much great sports manga is coming out now! I’m trying to get...
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Short Takes: Sherlock and We Never Learn
This week, I take a quick look at two recent arrivals: Sherlock: A Study in Pink, a manga adaptation of the popular BBC series, and We Never Learn, the latest addition to Shonen Jump‘s digital line-up....
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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 1
Since its 1999 debut, Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto has sold more than 220 million volumes in 35 countries and spawned a cottage industry of anime adaptations, costumes, trading cards, video games,...
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Altair: A Record of Battles, Vol. 1
Altair: A Record of Battles seems tailor-made for fanfic: it’s got a cast of achingly pretty men, a labyrinthine plot, and an exotic setting that freely mixes elements of Turkish, Austrian, and Bedouin...
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Toppu GP, Vol. 1
In a week when The Fate of the Furious is barnstorming the globe, it seems only fitting that Kodansha is releasing the first volume of Toppu GP, a manga that extols the virtues of “family values and...
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