The characters in "Translucent Tree" (Vertical, 978-1-934287-14-9) are steeped in love and also handle peripherally the concepts of home and belonging. In this novel, winner of... Read More

Aranzi Machine Gun is an awesome series filled with random stories of dolls gone wild. Kawaii or Japanese Cute, the stuffed animal look, will be familiar to most, although this... Read More

Black Jack, one of the best known pop culture characters in Japan, is also, oddly, the Osamu Tezuka creation perhaps most accessible to both Western and non-manga readers... Read More

The title of this book comes from the Japanese word dorobo which means thief, but little children often can’t pronounce it properly, resulting in dororo. Of course, the name... Read More

If the “interpretation of dreams are the royal road to the unconscious,” as Sigmund Freud once said, "Birthday" by Koji Suzuki is a highway to the horrors of human evil.... Read More

While Westerners watched Disney cartoons, the author watched too-and created his own. The “godfather” of Japanese manga and anime (comics and animation), originally trained... Read More