Posts tagged with "manga"
Manga Monday: Thank You, Anime Los Angeles!
Jan. 19, 2015
We’d just like to say thank you once again to all the staff and attendees of January 9-11’s Anime Los Angeles convention, where Dark Horse made a panel presentation. ALA is held at the opposite time of the year from L.A.’s better-known Anime Expo, and this year it had a membership cap of “only” 4000 people. Read More...
Manga Monday: Satoshi Kon And Seraphim 266613336 Wings
Jan. 12, 2015
Seraphim is the co-creation not only of Satoshi Kon but of Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii, and I can’t think of another case where two such talented anime directors collaborated on a manga. Seraphim contains two afterwords, one by the original Japanese editor of the manga, and one by the editor of the Dark Horse version, that explain the unique history behind Seraphim. Read More...
Manga Monday: Drug & Drop Vol. 1
Jan. 5, 2015
Happy New Year! This is the first Manga Monday post of 2015, and what better way to begin it than with vol. 1 of a new series from CLAMP: as the Beastie Boys might say, Drug & mmmmmmmmDROP! Read More...
Manga Monday: In The Incredible Future Year 2015!
Dec. 29, 2014
When that new year is going to be A.D. 2015, nothing could fit more than: a.) a bowl of garlic pork ramen the size of a hot tub, and b.) Neon Genesis Evangelion. Only Dark Horse promises to bring you both, in this image from next May’s manga special, Tony Takezaki’s Neon Genesis Evangelion! Read More...
Manga Monday: Vampire Hunter D Vol. 22: White Devil Mountain Parts 1 And 2
Dec. 22, 2014
Volume 22 of Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano’s long-running series comprises a two-part story…originally published in Japan with a five-month gap between installments, which must have driven fans crazy. But you get them both in one volume, on sale this week! Read More...
Manga Monday: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Vol. 15
Dec. 15, 2014
Indeed, those who thought this series was incapable of character growth might be surprised by the latest volume. Read More...
Manga Monday: New Lone Wolf And Cub Vol. 3
Dec. 2, 2014
Kazuo Koike returns to Lone Wolf and Cub with his twenty-first-century sequel, New Lone Wolf and Cub. Samurai Togo Shigekata has brought the dead Lone Wolf’s son, Daigoro, to an oasis of safety, the warship of Togo’s master, the lord of Satsuma. But when Togo is accused of treason, all hell breaks loose! Read More...
Manga Monday: Satoshi Kon’s Opus
Nov. 24, 2014
Satoshi Kon wrote and drew OPUS in 1995-96, when he was preparing to make his first movie, and it resonates with his trademark themes of reality, fantasy, perception, and the role of the creator. Dark Horse takes pride in being able to publish the best comics creators in the world, and it’s a great privilege to say that this week, we can add Satoshi Kon’s OPUS to our library. Add it to yours! Read More...
Manga Monday: Out This Week—The Sky: The Art Of Final Fantasy Book Three!
Nov. 17, 2014
Dark Horse’s release of the individual artbooks from Yoshitaka Amano’s The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy continues this week with the third and final book in the set: The Sky: Book Three! It is only $24.99, yet it’s 156 pages of illustrations on heavy, high-quality paper, 10 5/8" x 11 5/8" (27 x 29.5 cm) in size and bound in hardcover with an elegant metallic ink overprint. Read More...
Manga Monday: Samurai Executioner Omnibus Book Three
Nov. 10, 2014
Samurai Executioner is a manga series from Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, the creators of Lone Wolf and Cub. It’s set in the same world as Lone Wolf and Cub, but whereas Yamada “Decapitator” Asaemon is a minor character in LW&C, he is the protagonist of Samurai Executioner. Read More...