Posts tagged with "manga"
Manga Monday—Oreimo: Kuroneko Vol. 1 Out This Week!
April 13, 2015
Ruri Gokou, otherwise known as Kuroneko ("black cat") returns this week in the first of a new five-volume manga series, Oreimo: Kuroneko. Ruri is often described as a "fan-favorite character" in the Oreimo series. I would like to argue that this term isn't quite correct, and that there's a better one: Breakout character. Read More...
Space is Messy—Someone's Got To Clean it Up!
April 10, 2015
Planetes follows the space-garbage crew of aspiring explorer Hachimaki, mourning Yuri, and secretive Fee. A two-time recipient of the Seiun Award, Japan’s highest honor for science fiction, Planetes grants a whole new generation a chance to journey to the far reaches of the universe. Read More...
Manga Monday: Blade of the Immortal “Note from the Editor”
March 30, 2015
In Hiroaki Samura’s final Blade of the Immortal volume, multiple plot threads, fascinating character relationships, crazy-complex grudges, old faces, and exotic new characters dovetail into one big pile of bloody chaos and ringing steel. Read More...
Manga Monday: Blade of the Immortal Volume 31: Final Curtain
March 23, 2015
Blade of the Immortal—one of Dark Horse Manga’s oldest series—ends its influential run on April 1 with Volume 31: Final Curtain. Our final volume is dedicated to former Dark Horse partner, Studio Proteus founder, and manga pioneer Toren Smith. Read More...
Manga Monday: Out This Week—Oh My Goddess! Vol. 47
March 16, 2015
Oh My Goddess! began publication from Dark Horse in 1994, and it will end this year in 2015; as Dark Horse series go, only Hellboy has been published continuously for longer. This week the second-to-last volume of Oh My Goddess!, vol. 47, hits the stores. Read More...
An Icon Returns In Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 1
Feb. 23, 2015
Collecting rare and out-of-print material, the oversized Astro Boy omnibus collection is the first in a series that brings back Tezuka’s beloved character for a whole new generation to enjoy. Read More...
Manga Monday: Seraphim 266613336 Wings
Feb. 23, 2015
Out this week is our second manga by Satoshi Kon: Seraphim 266613336 Wings. This book is doubly special because it is a collaboration between Kon and Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii; I can’t think of a comparative example where two such talented film directors worked together on a manga. Read More...
Manga Monday: Blood Blockade Battlefront Vol. 7
Feb. 9, 2015
Return to New Jerusalem—the dimension-twisted metropolis once known as New York City—with Vol. 7 of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Blood Blockade Battlefront manga, in stores this week. Read More...
Manga Monday: Gantz Vol. 34
Feb. 2, 2015
The Gantz warriors have seen everything they never imagined, have died and been regenerated time and again to return to the carnage, and each time the experience bores deeper into who they are until the big picture blurs, replaced by each warrior’s own picture. Read More...
Dark Horse Announces The Art Of Satoshi Kon
Jan. 23, 2015
Encompassing everything from illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Paprika and his television series Paranoia Agent, to his manga, commercial art, and more, The Art of Satoshi Kon is an oversized, 136-page tribute to a master of anime filmmaking. Read More...