Welcome back to another VIZ pubwatch! There’s a lot to talk about this month, from Anime NYC to a new one-shot collection from the team that brought you The Promised Neverland! Let’s start with the news.
Seven Seas Pubwatch: September 2022
September is here which school is in session! Wishing students of all ages a happy and safe semester or a new school year! I’m not built for summertime anymore, thanks to the heinous duo that is climate change and global warming so I’m happy to start welcoming the colder weather. Sweater weather, soup season and…
REVIEW: Fujimoto’s Look Back Lures You In and Leaves You
I don’t know if I’ll ever read Chainsaw Man but after reading Tatsuki Fuijimoto’s one-shot manga Look Back I might have to. Capturing youthful arrogance and harsh reality, Fujimoto bewitches you in this emotional exploration of the effects we have on each other.
VIZ Pubwatch: September 2022
It’s time for many students to go back to school, and for me to write another VIZ Media Pubwatch! This month we’re following up on some series and creators covered in Pubwatches past, including Spy x Family and Ghost Reaper Girl. But first, the news!
Seven Seas Pubwatch: August 2022
August is here, which means you can work through all your FOMO before Summer’s end, not to mention the stress of not one, but two plagues. This month we’ve got some treats for the mature readers who love smutty goodness, some older manga, and an important update on a translation controversy! Jump in, and take…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: July 2022
July is here which means an even bigger heat wave to press down upon us before Fall arrives! Like many of you, I’m trying to find ways to beat the heat as I wonder why it seems our rights are being rolled back to our grandparents’ times! There’s a variety of titles this month that…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: June 2022
June is is just about over and Pride Month is about to make its exit! Hopefully, this month was less discourse of certain authority figures at Pride Marches in the ongoing conversation of how unsafe these places can be with them attending and more emphasis on the survival of queer, transitioning and trans folks in…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: May 2022
April showers bring May flowers and I hope your manga picks help you weather the storms that climate change is bringing to your door–because climate change is in fact, one day coming for us all. Plenty of superb titles released last month that I scooped up including the second volume of the very swoon-worthy second…
Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri on Movies, Memory, and Moving On
Following his previous one-shot web manga, Look Back, Shounen Jump+, Shueisha’s online platform, recently published Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri. In Goodbye, Eri, a boy named Yuta faces fallout after screening a film about his ailing mother, composed entirely of footage shot of her and his family to the very moments of her death. Yuta becomes…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: April 2022
Blessed Spring is here and my seasonal allergies are knocking on my door for my lunch money. And we’re bringing back the Seven Seas Pubwatch! I’ve lost track of what stage in the apocalypse we’re in but you can rest assured of some manga-related news from one of my fave independently owned manga and light…
Roundtable: Creativity, Canvases, and Camaraderie, a Celebration of Akiko Higashimura
Akiko Higashimura is a manga legend. Since her debut in 1999, she’s been publishing award-winning hit comic after award-winning hit comic (including Princess Jellyfish, Blank Canvas, and Tokyo Tarareba Girls) and has now branched out to Webtoons in addition to serialized print manga. Paulina Przystupa got the WWAC crew together to discuss her long and…
REVIEW: A Fake Affair Is Classic Akiko Higashimura
Award-winning mangaka known for Princess Jellyfish and Blank Canvas tries a new format for her dramatic josei stories with her webtoon A Fake Affair.