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Manga Gift Guide

Many manga bloggers are putting together gift guides to help people with their manga shopping this holiday season. Here’s my contribution, and I hope it helps you with some suggestions for different types of manga fans that might be on your shopping list!

1. For the younger set

It can be tricky to find [...]

Bride of the Water God

Bride of the Water God Volume 1 by Mi-Kyung Yun

Does exquisitely pretty art compensate for lack of plot? Bride of the Water God tells the story of Soah, a young girl from a drought stricken village. At an early age she’s set aside as a candidate for sacrifice to the Water God Habaek. [...]

Banya the Explosive Delivery Man and Hayate the Combat Butler

Banya the Explosive Delivery Man by Kim Young-Oh (amazon.com)

Banya is a deliveryman in a historical fantasy world filled with warring tribes and strange monsters. His dedication to deliver packages at any cost finds him picking his way through a battlefield and polevaulting over castle walls. At every possible moment he likes to recite his [...]

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Ohtsuka and Housui Yamazaki (amazon.com)

“Man, it sucks being an entry-level Buddhist.”

A group of students with unique talents at a Buddhist university find that their skills make them totally unsuited for normal work, so they band together to form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. They decide to [...]