Posts Tagged With Manga Mania

For this segment, of my on-going series on my 2016 reads, we’re going to look at the longer series on my TBR lists which are, with fifteen or more volumes out and all still on-going in Japan. Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You is the longest shojo series I’ve ever read (a record previously held by Fruits Basket which has 23 volumes) and it is now the third longest series in my collection since I dropped Bleach.  It began its run in Japan in 2009 and is now up to […]

For today’s installment of my mini-series of series I’m currently reading/collection, I’m taking a look at two series I’m actually finishing up this week (already ordered) and the series I’ve actually only read one volume of so far.  These three are also the only three in my current reads list with primarily adult main characters, versus teens or even college age, other than The Ancient Magus’ Bride’s Elias and side characters. Happy Marriage?! Happy Marriage?! Is a shojo series from Maki Enjōji, and I believe her first to be licensed for English release.  Though it’s under Viz’s Shojo Beat label, […]

Over all, I have eleven relatively recent manga series I’m currently reading/actively collecting that I’ll be highlighting for my 2016 reads.  I decided not to include some older titles, like Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost Hunt because of their age and, in the case of the later, it’s status being due more to the difficulty in finding volumes than anything. So cover the series better, I’ll be splitting the manga up into multiple posts, with this first one covering the three most unusual series in the list. A Silent Voice Yoshitoki Oima’s series A Silent Voice is one of the most […]

5 Centimeters per Second is a two-volume manga written by Makoto Shinkai, based on his critically acclaimed film of the same title, with illustrations by Yukiko Seike.  He also did a novel adaptation of the same title.  The manga was released by Vertical as a single omnibus volume. I picked up this title at Half Price recently on the strength of all the praise I’d read about the film and my enjoyment of another of Shinkai’s hit films, Voices of a Distant Star.  5 Centimeters focuses on Takaki Tohno and Akari Shinohara, two elementary school kids who meet after Akari […]

I Am Here! is a five-volume manga series written and illustrated by Ema Toyama. For the English release, Del Rey published in two omnibus editions.  The story focuses on Hikage Sumino, a “plain” girl in the eight grade who is invisible to her classmates, almost literally!  No one seems to even remember her name, they don’t notice when she is in the room, and they most definitely do not notice how much she longs to be part of the ground and the fun around her.  The problem goes beyond school, though, with her shown having to wait hours to be served at a restaurant […]

This week I’m looking at another Arina Tanemura’s shojo series Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, also known as Phantom Thief Jeanne.  It was originally published in Japan by Shueisha from 1998 until 2000.   The seven volumes were then originally released in English by CMX Manga, which later went defunct.  I think it was the only one of Tanemura’s series not to be released by Viz Manga, until recently when Viz did a license rescue and re-released it using Shueisha’s 2013 reprint of the series, which condensed it to five volumes with higher page counts.  Viz released it under the title Phantom Thief Jeanne, with fresh translations, […]