Alice the 101st

Alice the 101st Volume 1 by Chigusa Kawai

Strong art enlivens a somewhat typical music school storyline in the manga Alice the 101st. At an exclusive music academy the students are buzzing about the admission of a 101st student. Who is the special case who secured an extra spot at the school? Aristide Lang [...]

Alice in the Country of Hearts 4 and Happy Cafe 4

Alice in the Country of Hearts Volume 4 by Quinrose and Hoshino Soumei

I’m always happy to see a new volume of Alice in the Country of Hearts. It continues to display more depth and character development than one would expect from a dating sim manga adaptation. This volume shows the “game” Alice [...]

There’s Something About Sunyool Volume 1

There’s Something about Sunyool, Volume 1 by Youngran Lee

This is an exceptionally silly manhwa, which can be both good and bad. It will be highly amusing to people who enjoy Cinderella stories and arranged marriages, and potentially annoying for people with a low tolerance of such plot devices. Fortunately I am the [...]

More Harlequin Manga, this time about Billionaires

I’m sampling a few more Harlequin manga on emanga.com. Since I’m on vacation now I didn’t take any manga with me, so it is nice to have online access to a library of titles. This time I’m reading Harlequin manga about billionaires!

The Billionaire’s Secret Baby by Carol Devine and Masako Ogimaru

This manga [...]

Viz Ongoing Series – Honey Hunt, Flower in a Storm, and Nana

Honey Hunt 5

Honey Hunt continues to be one of the best soap opera manga around. Yura is starting to gain recognition for herself as an actress as her new series debuts to great ratings. She runs off on a date with pop singer Q-Ta and her manager stays up all night calling her [...]

Hanako and the Terror of Allegory Volume 2

Hanako and the Terror of Allegory Volume 2 by Sakae Esuno

I had mixed feelings about the first volume of this manga but I enjoyed the second volume a lot, mostly due to the opening story which was funny and provided an interesting twist on what happens when you make a bargain with [...]

Biomega Volume 1

Biomega Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei

I’ve been meaning to read Biomega ever since Kevin posted this lovely panel, go look at it if you haven’t read the series yet, then come back!

I think that there are some defining questions you can use to get a sense of someone’s personality – Beatles [...]

Gatcha Gacha Volumes 1-3

One of the problems with the the great manga boom in the past is that I think some good titles got lost in the deluge of new series. Gatcha Gacha is one of those series that I think deserves a second glance. This series was published by Tokyopop, and it probably wasn’t helped by [...]

The Sheikh’s Reluctant Bride, The Shiekh’s Contract Bride, and Sale or Return Bride

I’ve been curious to check out the manga adaptations of Harlequin romance titles, and the folks at emanga were kind enough to load up my reading list with a sampling of titles, so expect to see a few reviews of these titles over the next few weeks. I find them absolutely hilarious summer reading. For [...]

A Drunken Dream and Other Stories

A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio

A Drunken Dream is one of the most anticipated new manga in the manga blogosphere. Hagio is an influential author and her works have been hard to come by since the earlier Viz editions of her work They Were Eleven and A, A Prime are [...]