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Various artists’ Manga Survey, Part 2
Akimine Kamijyo, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Vols. 1 & 2 Ra In-Soo and Jae-Hwan Kim, King of Hell, Vols. 1-3 Ayano Yamane, Crimson Spell Vols. 1 & 2 This is the second part of what turned out to be a long … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Manga Survey, Part 3
Kentaro Yabuki’s Black Cat, Vols. 1-6 BONES, Keiko Nobumoto, and Toshitsugu Iida’s Wolf’s Rain Makoto Tatenos Steal Moon, Vol. 1 Science fiction is another area in which Western comics and manga have made a strong presence for themselves. Aside from … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Manga Survey, Part 1
Matsuri Hino’s Vampire Knight (Vols. 1-5) Maguro Wasabi’s Necratoholic Tite Kubo’s Bleach, Vols. 1-2 Comics and graphic novels have always had an affinity for the bizarre, surreal, fantastic, and otherwise otherworldly, and manga is no exception. Although many titles – … Continue reading
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Studio CLAMP’s Legal Drug, Vols. 1-3
Legal Drug is a series by CLAMP, with story by Ageha Ohkawa, illustrated by Tsubaki Nekoi, that, sadly to my mind, was dropped in 2003 when the magazine in which it was being serialized ceased publication. The first three volumes, … Continue reading
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Tagged boys' love, manga, mystery
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Momoko Tenzen’s Seven
Momoko Tenzen’s Seven is another one of those boys’ love manga that, like Kimi Shiruya, moves the genre boundaries outward, although unlike the latter — and most popular examples of the type — it is rather bleak, at least at … Continue reading
Satoru Ishihara’s Kimi Shiruya: Dost Thou Know?
A few general remarks on Japanese comics first, for those who are new to this area. Manga is the term for Japanese comics in general, within which the two major divisions are shoujo, or “manga for girls,” and shounen, “manga … Continue reading
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Hyouta Fujiyama’s Ordinary Crush, Vols. 1 & 2
Hyouta Fujiyama has become one of my favorite mangaka doing BL, mostly because of her strong, clean graphics and charming stories. (For some general remarks on BL, see my comments on Dash!.) In Ordinary Crush we have the core of … Continue reading
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Isaku Natsume’s Dash!
Isaku Natsume’s Dash represents an excellent example of the genre in shoujo manga (“manga for girls”) known in Japan as BL (boys’ love), bishonen-ai or shonen-ai, or, as is generally the case in the West, yaoi (pronounced, if one is … Continue reading
Futaro Yamada and Masaki Segawa’s Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, Vols. 1-5 (trans. David Ury)
Basilisk is Masaki Segawa’s manga adaptation of Futaro Yamada’s 1958 historical novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. It counts mostly as “historical fantasy,” and as rendered in the manga version, the story line is fairly spare while the “surround,” the visual … Continue reading
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Aya Kanno’s Blank Slate
Aya Kanno’s Blank Slate is the sort of thing that turns up in manga from time to time — a grim story peopled by some frightening characters, all wrapped in gorgeous drawing. I will say, however, that I didn’t expect … Continue reading