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Review: Doubt, Vol. 1
Werewolf is a game for 7-20 people. The idea is simple. You live in a village beset by evil lycanthropes who are eating townspeople left and right. Each turn is split into two phases, night and day....
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Review: Monokuro Kinderbook
Coming to terms with the fact the majority of content from Japan that is published in English is written for children takes a little while. The content for children and young adults is by far the most...
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Review: Wolfsmund, Vols. 1-2
It is the beginning of November, and although we’re past the official date of 11/5/13, might I share something? Remember, remember the Fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and Plot I know of no...
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Things We Learned From the AMA
Kodansha USA did an Ask Me Anything on reddit last week. Although I was unable to participate, there were some interesting questions asked, and a little data here and there that are worth exploring. 1....
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Review: From the New World, Vol. 1
The relationship between manga and anime is a fruitful one; anime studios may pick a popular manga to adapt into a television show, a manga might be written as an adaptation of a popular anime work....
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Manga Thanksgiving 2013
It’s been a few years since I did a Thanksgiving post; hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving in the USA, and a safe Black Friday. This year I wanted to make a highlights real of all the...
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Review: Pink
Kyoko Okazaki is one of the greatest mangaka to see publication in 2013. Her work is the foundation that many of my favorite josei mangaka have built from, and her influence is evident in the work of...
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Some Thoughts on 2013
It has been somewhat of an eventful year in the world of English manga publishing. From the dominance of Attack on Titan to the closure of PictureBox, this is the Manga Widget 2013 year in review;...
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Lessons From the Crater Project
In May of 2013, an indie publisher, Kansai Club Publishing, set in motion a Kickstarter project to fund the printing of a Tezuka classic, Crater. The critics community was pretty excited. We had seen...
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Review: Sunny, Vol. 1
Taiyo Matsumoto has a penchant for writing stories about children. Rough children, broken, eccentric children, but children all the same, with children’s hopes and dreams. And most importantly,...
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