Tag: manga

January 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Teenager Tom is determined to impress Harmony, the queen of the class at his school, and the only way he can do so is by beating her at chess… which he first has to learn how to play. What could possibly go wrong? So begins Blitz, a light-hearted manga introduction to the […]

January 7, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. As Japan is rocked by a series of grisly murders, the Tokyo police set up a specialised task force to take down murderers that they come to believe to be super-powered aliens. The Gurongi, in fact, are antediluvian beings cast in the Predator mould, intent on advancement through a hunting ritual that […]

December 16, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In the last twelve months, we’ve had the first ever English-language releases of two vintage Miyazaki works, both forty years old or more. The first is his 1978 TV series Future Boy Conan, which I wrote up here. The second is his 1982 manga (kind of), Shuna’s Journey, which is now available in a splendid new translation from […]

November 29, 2022 · 1 comment

By Jeannette Ng. I flat-out don’t know what to do with Marginal Operation. The premise is one that I’ve grown familiar with in light novels and manga: a nerdy young man, who has a talent for video games, loses his unfulfilling job and is ominously beckoned towards a whole new world, where his seemingly useless […]

November 17, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The clickbaity title of Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer suggests the reader might be letting themselves in for some sort of mystery or police procedural, but the opening pages soon dispel that notion. The titular “seatmate killer” is not some creep with an ice pick and a Boris Johnson mask, […]