Queen Millennia (Japanese: 新竹取物語 1000年女王, Hepburn: Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō, lit. “The New Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Millennium Queen”) is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime television series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through 25 March 1982. An anime…
Panic × Panic (Japanese: ぱにっく×ぱにっく, Hepburn: Paniku × Paniku) is a shōjo manga by Mika Kawamura, published in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi and collected into two volumes. It is licensed in English by Del Rey Manga. Reception Matthew Warner of Mania Entertainment felt the first volume was generic, feeling as if he had read the story before, and criticised the second volume for becoming “insultingly stupid”. Rachel Bentham of Active…
Ocha Nigosu. (お茶にごす。), also known as A Bad Boy Drinks Tea!, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2007 to July 2009, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. A twelve-episode television drama adaptation premiered in Japan on Amazon Prime Video in March 2021 and premiered on TV Tokyo in October of the same year. Plot…
Nagi no Oitoma (Japanese: 凪のお暇, “Nagi’s Long Vacation”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Misato Konari. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten‘s josei manga magazine Elegance Eve since June 2016, with its chapters collected into ten tankōbon volumes as of August 2022. A television drama adaptation aired from July to September 2019. As of January 2021, the manga had over 4 million copies in circulation. In…
Machida-kun no Sekai (町田くんの世界, “The World of Machida-kun”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Andō. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Bessatsu Margaret from 2015 to 2018. The manga received a live-action film adaptation directed by Yuya Ishii and released on June 7, 2019, as Almost a Miracle. The manga won Andō the New Face Award at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards…
La Satanica (ラ・サタニカ, Ra・Satanika, Italian for “The Satanic”) is a Japanese manga anthology written and illustrated by Momoko Tenzen. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga through its June imprint, on 9 September 2009. Reception Rachel Bentham liked the role reversal between the characters in that Mashita, the pursuer, becomes submissive in sexual matters. Danielle Leigh enjoyed the…
Kabu no Isaki (カブのイサキ), literally Isaki of the Cub, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Ashinano. It first appeared in the August 2007 issue as a one-shot and subsequently became a semi-regular feature in Kodansha‘a Monthly Afternoon manga magazine. The series ended in the January 2013 issue, and the final volume was released in January 2013 as well. Kabu no Isaki shares many…
Jarinko Chie (Japanese: じゃりン子チエ, lit. “Chie the Brat”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Etsumi Haruki. It was serialized by Futabasha in Manga Action between 1978 and 1997 and collected in 67 bound volumes, making it the 45th longest manga released. Jarinko Chie received the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. Jarinko Chie was adapted twice, first as an anime theatrical film produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Toho and directed by Isao Takahata, which premiered in…
I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup (stylized as I (♂) Cross-Dressed for the IRL (♀) Meetup), known in Japan as Josou-shite Off-Kai ni Sanka Shite Mita, is a romantic comedy manga series created by Kurano, and published since January 12, 2020. The story follows Cocoa, a young man who dresses up like a woman to join a monthly meetup; he finds himself…
Haganai (はがない), short for Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (僕は友達が少ない, loosely “I Don’t Have Many Friends”), is a Japanese light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka, illustrated by Buriki, and published by Media Factory. It has been given several manga adaptations; the first incarnation, its title and basic plot unchanged, began serialization in 2010; it was written and illustrated by Itachi and published in Monthly…
Gaba Kawa (ガバ·カワ) is a Japanese manga by Rie Takada, originally serialized in Japan from July to November 2007 by Shogakukan in Shōjo Comic and collected in a single bound volume. It tells the story of a demon girl named Rara who comes to the human world to cause mischief, only to find herself falling in love with a human boy. To help him, she…
Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells (Japanese: ハズレ枠の【状態異常スキル】で最強になった俺がすべてを蹂躙するまで, Hepburn: Hazure Waku no “Jōtai Ijō Sukiru” de Saikyō ni Natta Ore ga Subete o Jūrin Suru made) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kaoru Shinozaki. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2017, before Overlap acquired and published it in print with illustrations…
