Oira Sukeban (Japanese: おいら女蛮, “I’m a Sukeban”), sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai, serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1974 to 1976. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school to try and clear his…
I Tell C (Japanese: アイテルシー, Hepburn: Aiterushī), stylized as i tell c, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazusa Inaoka. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February to June 2021, with its chapters collected into three tankōbon volumes. Publication The series is written and illustrated by Kazusa Inaoka. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February 1 to…
Nanimo nai Kedo Sora wa Aoi (何もないけど空は青い, “There’s Nothing, But the Sky is Blue”) is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroyuki Nishimori and illustrated by Yuuki Iinuma. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 2014 to August 2015, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. Publication Written by Hiroyuki Nishimori and illustrated by Yuuki Iinuma, inspired by Nishimori’s novel Manten no Hoshi to Aoi Sora, Nanimo…
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Japanese: マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝, Hepburn: Magia Rekōdo: Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika Gaiden) is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017. A North American version was available from June 2019 to October 2020. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and…
Land (Japanese: ランド, Hepburn: Rando) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazumi Yamashita. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning from March 2014 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. Publication Written and illustrated by Kazumi Yamashita, Land serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning from March 13, 2014, to July 9, 2020. Kodansha collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from October 23, 2014, to September 18, 2020. Reception Land placed 13th on Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga…
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～, Hepburn: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren’ai Zunōsen, lit. “Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses’ War of Hearts and Minds”) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka. It was first serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump from May 2015 to January 2016, and later transferred to Weekly Young Jump, where it ran from March 2016…
Jiu Jiu (JIUJIU -獣従-, lit. “Beast Servants”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Touya Tobina which first began in December 2009. The series follows Takamichi Hachioji, a girl from a family of hunters who track down and kill demons, and her two “Jiu Jiu”, a pair of shapeshifting wolves named Snow and Night who work with her. Plot Takamichi Hachioji, is a…
I Saw It: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: A Survivor’s True Story, titled Ore wa Mita (おれは見た) in Japanese, is a one-shot manga by Keiji Nakazawa that first appeared in 1972 as a 48-page feature in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump. The story was later published in a collection of Nakazawa’s short stories by Holp Shuppan. I Saw It is an autobiographical piece following the life of Nakazawa from…
Hana & Hina After School (ハナとヒナは放課後, Hana to Hina wa Hōkago) is a yuri manga (girl’s love comic) written and illustrated by Milk Morinaga, and serialized by Futabasha in the magazine Comic High! until June 2015, and then in Monthly Action. In August 2016, Morinaga announced that she is ending the series in November. The manga is translated and published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. Plot Hana Hasegawa…
Gal Gohan (Japanese: ギャルごはん, Hepburn: Gyaru Gohan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Marii Taiyou. It was serialized in Hakusensha‘s seinen manga magazine Young Animal from December 2016 to March 2020, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Seven Seas Entertainment. Premise Home Economics teacher Shinji Yabe is asked to teach Miku Okazaki, the flashiest “gal”…
Family! (Japanese: ファミリー!, Hepburn: Famirī!) is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Taeko Watanabe, the author of Kaze Hikaru. The story follows the lives of the Andersons, a conventionally dysfunctional family in which the parents are as childish as the children are mature; nevertheless, they manage to live happily together. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine from the July 1981 issue to the…
Ekiben Hitoritabi (駅弁ひとり旅, “Train Lunch Solo Journey”) is a seinen manga series by Jun Hayase, serialized in Manga Action. It focuses on the main character, Nakahara Daisuke, as he eats ekiben, bento meals sold at train stations, as he travels around Japan by rail. A 12-episode live-action television series adaptation aired between April 5 and June 21, 2012. Plot Nakahara Daisuke is the owner…
