NG Life
NG Life Volume 1 by Mizuho Kusanagi This shoujo love triangle story features both reincarnation and gender-bending. Saeki has vivid memories of his past life in Pompeii. He can recognize other people from his past life from their auras, although they have no memory of the life they shared together. Saeki’s Pompeiian best friend and [...]
Peace Maker Kurogane
Peace Maker Kurogane Volume 1 by Nanae Chrono I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up Peace Maker Kurogane, I was a little leery of reading the first book of a sequel series when I hadn’t read the previous series. It turns out I was right to be worried, because I had a [...]
Oishinbo
Oishinbo Volume 1 by Kariya Tetsu and Hanasaki Akira I’m happy that the manga industry in the U.S. has matured enough to bring American readers didactic cooking manga. I’ve enjoyed reading manga that use cooking as a setting like Mixed Vegetables, Kitchen Princess, Iron Wok Jan, and Yakitate Japan, but the cooking portrayed in those [...]
Tsubasa: Those with Wings
Tsubasa: Those With Wings Volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya I enjoyed this manga much much more than Phantom Dream, even though they are both earlier Takaya works that appeared in the mid 90s. Kotobuki is an orphan thief in post-apocalyptic world. She has a love/hate relationship with an officer of the military named Raimon. Kotobuki [...]
Ask Tangognat – Manga for a 6 year old girl
Justin writes: My 6yo. daughter just loves Tanya del Rio’s Sabrina comics, but now that her run is ending, I don’t know where to go next. She’s kind of into some superhero titles–the new Shazam and Supergirl–but I think she’ll like manga more. Got any suggestions? I know you asked for manga, but the first [...]
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld: Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths lives on in the mind of my inner 10 year old girl as one of my most traumatic comic book memories, because the mini-series managed to kill Supergirl and blind Amethyst. Since those were the only comic books I was following at the time, Crisis really bummed me out. I’m not [...]
Phantom Dream
Phantom Dream Volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya Fruits Basket is one of those defining series, both for the artist and whoever is lucky to publish it. As it is starting to wind down, Tokyopop is publishing Natsuki Takaya’s earlier works like Phantom Dream and Tsubasa: Those With Wings. Unfortunately Takaya’s first series Phantom Dream just [...]
Ask Tangognat – Manga for an 11 year old girl
I really like doing manga reader’s advisory! If you want suggestions for what to read, go ahead and ask through my contact form. Here’s a request for suggestions from Lisa, who writes: Hello Tangognat! Can you recommend a manga for my daughter? She (we) have never read one before but would like to try. She [...]
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #12 (second series)
Sorry for the long delay between Amethyst posts! They are time consuming so when I am busy with my not very glamorous life, I don’t have much time to put them together. This issue is a bit of a filler story before Amethyst gets caught up in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. It has a [...]
Name of the Flower
Name of the Flower by Ken Saito (amazon) Since I tend to order my manga months in advance, I’ll often pick up the first volume of a series without knowing much about it. I was pleasantly surprised by Name of the Flower, a melancholy slice of live manga that details the relationship between a young [...]
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