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”…
Kagaku na Yatsura (カガクなヤツら, “Scientific Guys”) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa. There was an OVA adaptation released along with the fourth volume, animated by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Hiraku Kaneko. Characters Haruki Komaba (駒場 遥希, Haruki Komaba) Voiced by: Junji Majima Haruki is high school boy with two eccentric girl friends. He gets involved in ecchi troubles caused by the…
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…
Abara (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from May 19, 2005, to March 18, 2006, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. The series takes place in a dystopian universe characterized by towering edifices. It centers around a particular class of beings, termed Gaunas, who possess the unique ability…
8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン, Eitoman) or 8th Man (8人目, 8 Hitome, in the US) is a manga and superhero anime created in 1963 by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata. 8 Man is considered Japan‘s earliest cyborg superhero, pre-dating Kamen Rider. The manga was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine and ran from 1963 to 1966. The anime series was produced by Eiken in association with TCJ Animation Center. It was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System and ran from…
Zeni Geba (銭ゲバ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by George Akiyama. The series was originally serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1970 to 1971, with its chapters collected into two tankōbon volumes. Shōnen Sunday was once specified as “harmful” in some prefectures when the series has started, because of its violent and drastic depiction. The story was about a boy named Fūtarō Gamagōri (蒲郡風太郎) who…
Yakuza Reincarnation is a Japanese manga series written by Takeshi Natsuhara and Hiroki Miyashita and illustrated by Miyashita. It has been serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X since July 2019, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes as of June 2022. Premise A good-hearted old man yakuza dies on the job. He wakes up in another world in the body of a young princess,…
The Walking Man (歩くひと, Aruku Hito) is a Japanese manga by Jiro Taniguchi. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s Morning Party Zōkan from 1990 to 1991. It has been published in English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon and in French by Casterman. It was nominated for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan at the 2007 Eisner Awards. The work has been described as poetry or meditation and compared to the works of Yasujirō Ozu. References…
