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Review: METEOR PRINCE
2015 was a pretty good and diverse year for shoujo. It certainly got off to a good start with this charming little series.METEOR PRINCE (Otome no Meteo), by Meca Tanaka. First published in 2013 and...
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Review: THE DEMON PRINCE OF MOMOCHI HOUSE
Of course, there was plenty of shoujo series that were merely content to jump on the bandwagon, and apparently this year's bandwagon is "be just like Kamisama Kiss."THE DEMON PRINCE OF MOMOCHI HOUSE...
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Review: L DK
Of course, some shoujo mangaka go the extra mile when it comes to being derivative. They don't just try to ape whatever series is popular at the time, but instead choose to recycle their characters and...
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Review: FIRST LOVE MONSTER
Other shoujo manga go in an opposite, but not necessarily better direction. They try to stand out by courting controversy by exploring social issues or unusual kinks. The problem is that you can...
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Review: REQUIEM OF THE ROSE KING
I can live with all those lesser shoujo titles, though, because this year also brought us some really great titles, like today's inspired take on both history and classic literature.REQUIEM OF THE ROSE...
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Review: THE ANGEL OF ELHAMBERG
This year also brought us something that I was looking forward to: a new one-volume wonder from Olympos creator Aki, and a brilliant one at that.THE ANGEL OF ELHAMBERG (Elhamberg no Tenshi), by Aki....
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Review: YOUR LIE IN APRIL
Even the shonen series were taking some cues from the shoujo mags, if this series has anything to say about it.YOUR LIE IN APRIL (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso), by Naoshi Arakawa. First published in 2011,...
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Review: THE WORLD'S GREATEST FIRST LOVE
Of course, as with every year 2015 brought yet another slow trickle of new yaoi titles. Many considered this one of their most anticipated manga titles. For me, though, this was one of my most...
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Review: DOES THE FLOWER BLOSSOM?
Digital Manga Publishing continues to crawl along, occasionally putting out yaoi when they're not scraping by on the proceeds of their Kickstarter campaigns. Imagine my surprise when I looked over...
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Review: KISS HIM, NOT ME!
Of course, with the rise of the fujoshi market we're seeing a gradual increase in fujo-friendly titles. That not only means more BL (or BL-friendly) works, but also manga about fujoshi like today's...
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Review: PRISON SCHOOL
A lot of manga releases this year were hoping to follow in Attack on Titan's footsteps in that they too were hoping for a huge surge in sales thank to an animated counterpart. Today's selection is...
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Review: SWORD ART ONLINE: GIRLS OPS
Of course, wherever there are manga trying to cash in on the success of anime, there too are the increasingly large pile of Sword Art Online manga. I wasn't crazy for the original, but I thought that...
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Review: YAMADA-KUN AND THE SEVEN WITCHES
This one was one of the surprise hits of the year. While it had been on Crunchyroll for a while, it didn't really take off until the recent series that adapted it. YAMADA-KUN AND THE SEVEN WITCHES...
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Review: TOKYO GHOUL
Today's review is not only one of the biggest titles to get a TV-related boost, but one of the best-selling manga of the year. Who would have expected that to come from a horror series?TOKYO GHOUL...
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Review: TOKYO ESP
Tokyo Ghoul was hardly the only Tokyo-titled manga to come out this year. There was also this quiet little superhero story from the good folks at Vertical.TOKYO ESP (Tokyo Iesupi), by Hajime Segawa....
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Review: ARAKAWA UNDER THE BRIDGE
2015 was also a good year for digital manga distribution, including (but not limited to) Crunchyroll's manga service. A lot of their best offerings got licensed for print, so most of them will have to...
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Review: STEINS; GATE
This year saw the return of Udon to the manga scene. They spent much of the 2000s trying to convince American manga readers to read manhwa with little success and have spent most of the last few years...
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Review: PANTY & STOCKING
Meanwhile, Dark Horse was still present as always, but they were busy with more omnibus rereleases and finishing up Oh! My Goddess. They didn't have much in the way of new releases, but they did...
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Review: MY NEIGHBOR SEKI
2015 was a surprisingly good year for comedy manga, a genre that's been sadly neglected here for many years. It certainly got off to a great start with today's selection.MY NEIGHBOR SEKI (Tonari no...
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Review: HAVEN'T YOU HEARD? I'M SAKAMOTO
This was the year that Seven Seas finally started to redeem itself in my eyes. I've ragged on them for years for putting out what I've often dubbed as moe and harem garbage (well, that and a zillion...
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