Lady Snowblood (Japanese: 修羅雪姫, Hepburn: Shurayuki-hime) is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Kazuo Kamimura. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Playboy magazine from February 1972 to March 1973. The series revolves around the title character, a female assassin who seeks vengeance against the bandits who raped her mother and murdered both her father and older brother. Lady Snowblood was translated into English and…
Kage Gari (影狩り, lit. Shadow Hunters) is a 1969 jidaigeki manga series by Takao Saito. It follows the adventures of three ronin – Jubei (十兵衛), Sunlight (日光), and Moonlight (月光) – who dedicate their lives to hunt down “shadows”, the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate. Films The series was later adapted into two live-action films in 1972 Kage Gari and Kage Gari Hoero taiho directed by Toshio Masuda and…
Jihai (JIHAI〜磁海〜, lit. “Magnetic Sea”) is a SF Manga series by Toshimi Nigoshi that was serialized in Comic B’s-LOG magazine (an Enterbrain publication) from April 2006 until January 2008. The series was collected in three tankōbon volumes. The English-language release was licensed by CMX Manga. It was published in English in 2009. Plot In the future, mankind has installed a ring around the Earth to prevent the disasters that…
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2014 to April 2018 and has been collected into eleven tankōbon volumes. A light novel adaptation titled Dagashi Kashi: Mō Hitotsu no Natsu Yasumi, written and illustrated by Manta Aisora, was published in a single volume by Shogakukan in December 2015 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint….
Abashiri Ikka (あばしり一家, known in the United States as The Abashiri Family) is a Japanese manga series created by Go Nagai that originally ran in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion. Some of its characters returned with different names as part of other series, such as Cutie Honey, UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinger Angels Z among others. Some of the first stories were adapted into an original video animation by Studio Pierrot in 1991,…
009-1 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. The manga was serialized in the Futabasha publication Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. The story concerns Miléne Hoffman (“Mylene” in the English translation), a female cyborg who works as a secret agent. The Japanese title of the manga was 009ノ1, or “Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi”, a…
Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo‘s digital publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected into 11 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular “Abyss”…
Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩, lit. “The First Step”) is a Japanese boxing-themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 1989 and collected into 137 tankōbon volumes as of March 2023. It follows the story of high school student Ippo Makunouchi, as he begins his career in boxing and over time obtains many titles and defeats…
Fairy Gone (stylized as Fairy gone) is a Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works that aired from April to December 2019. Plot In the aftermath of the War of Unification, all the nations of the continent of Eastald are forcefully united under a single ruler. During the war, special soldiers were implanted with Fairy organs, allowing them to summon…
Eden: It’s an Endless World! is a science fiction manga by Japanese artist Hiroki Endo, published monthly in the Japanese magazine Monthly Afternoon. It is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, in the United Kingdom by Titan Books, and in Germany by Egmont Manga & Anime. Eden is set in the near future, following a pandemic called closure virus which killed…
Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Japanese: 黄泉のツガイ, Hepburn: Yomi no Tsugai, lit. “Pair of the Underworld”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It has been serialized in Square Enix‘s Monthly Shōnen Gangan shōnen manga anthology magazine since December 2021. Publication Daemons of the Shadow Realm, written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa, was officially announced in the August 2021 issue of Square Enix‘s shōnen manga anthology magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan in celebration of…
Babel II (Japanese: バビル2世, Hepburn: Babiru Ni-sei) is a Japanese 1971 manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It was translated into an animated format in 1973 as a television series, in 1992 as an original video animation series and in 2001 as a thirteen-episode television series. Yokoyama’s sequel to the series, set in a parallel universe, is entitled His Name Is 101 (その名は101, Sono Na wa Wan-Zero-Wan). Plot The series…
