Nanohana (なのはな, transl. “Rapeseed Blossoms” or “Cole Flowers”) is a Japanese manga anthology written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. Published from 2011 to 2012 in the manga magazine Monthly Flowers, the series is a collection of one-shots on nuclear power and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Noted as one of the first works on the incident published in Japan, the series focuses on a message of hope in the face of the…
Lapis Re:Lights (Japanese: ラピスリライツ ～この世界のアイドルは魔法が使える～, Hepburn: Rapisu Riraitsu: Kono Sekai no Idol wa Mahō ga Tsukaeru, lit. “Lapis Re:Lights: Idols in This World Can Use Magic”) stylized as Lapis Re:LiGHTs is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by KLab and Kadokawa Corporation. It features a scenario written by Hajime Asano and character designs by U35. It includes a smartphone game for Android and iOS devices, a manga adaptation by Hirochi and…
Galaxy Angel (Japanese: ギャラクシーエンジェル, Hepburn: Gyarakushī Enjeru) is a bishōjo sci-fi metaseries composed of anime, manga and dating sim video games. It was created by Broccoli in July 2000, when it launched a multi-platformed project called Project G.A. The anime and Galaxy Angel Party manga comprise a comedy story in an alternate universe, while the games and the regular manga have a serious romance and action plot. A sequel game trilogy, Galaxy Angel II, was released…
Fancy Lala, known in Japan as Fancy Lala, the Magic Stage (魔法のステージ・ファンシーララ, Mahō no Sutēji Fanshī Rara), is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998, following an OVA released in 1988. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in Ribon. The original designs were created by Akemi Takada, who worked on many of the 80s’ Studio Pierrot series. The anime series was…
Dame Oyaji (ダメおやじ, lit. “No Good Dad”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Furuya. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Shōnen Sunday from September 23, 1970 (issue 43) to July 28, 1982 (issue 30). Dame Oyaji received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. The manga was compiled in thirty-nine tankōbon volumes, with Akebono Shuppan publishing the first 21 volumes under their Akebono Comics label and Shogakukan publishing the final…
Canon (Japanese: カノン, Hepburn: Kanon) is a Japanese shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi (潮見 知佳, Shiomi Chika). The series was originally serialized between 1994 and 1996 in Akita Shoten‘s manga magazine Mystery EX, and the chapters were compiled into four bound volumes. The series has been licensed by CMX Manga and has released all four volumes in English. Plot A vampire attacks a high school and kills thirty-nine students, leaving one “alive” — Canon Himuro…
Baito-kun (バイトくん, “Part-timer-kun“) is a yonkoma manga by Hisaichi Ishii serialized in the Kansai area information magazine Play Guide Journal (プレイガイドジャーナル, Purei Gaido Jānaru) beginning in 1972. This was Ishii’s debut professional work. In addition to being a long-running series in the magazine, many of the characters from Ishii’s later series first made their appearances in this series. Summary The story takes place at the fictional Higashi Yodogawa…
Adachi and Shimamura (安達としまむら, Adachi to Shimamura) is a Japanese yuri light novel series written by Hitoma Iruma and illustrated by Non, which began serialization in October 2012 in ASCII Media Works‘ Dengeki Bunko Magazine and is published under the Dengeki Bunko imprint. The light novels are licensed for English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. The series has been adapted into two manga series, and an anime television series adaptation by Tezuka…
Zyword (ガイオード, Gaiōdo) is a single-volume manga created by ex-Clamp member Tamayo Akiyama. It was first published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten in September 2000. Story Zyword is an unbalanced dimensional structure held by three connection spells called Dawn, Deep, and Omega. Since these spells are unstable, Zyword is vulnerable to complete chaos. That’s exactly what happens when the three Goddesses of Zyword betray…
Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan (ヤンキーJKクズハナちゃん, “Yankee High School Girl Kuzuhana-chan”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toshinori Sogabe. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion since March 2020. Publication Written and illustrated by Toshinori Sogabe, a one-shot chapters of Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan was first published in Akita Shoten‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion on October 31, 2019; it began publication as a serialized manga in the same magazine on March…
Vendémiaire no Tsubasa (Japanese: ヴァンデミエールの翼, Hepburn: Vandemiēru no Tsubasa, lit. “The Wings of Vendémiaire”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mohiro Kitoh. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1995 to 1997, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. Plot The story is broken up into eight differing sub-stories all involving a series of sentient mechanical puppets known as Vendémiaire (which is also…
Umizaru (Japanese: 海猿, lit. “Sea Monkeys”) is a manga series by Shūhō Satō which was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Young Sunday from 1998 to 2001. Yōichi Komori is credited with the original idea for the series, and he also did the research to make the series more authentic. The series focuses on Daisuke Senzaki, an officer in the Japan Coast Guard, and tells the stories of shipwreck rescues…
