Summer’s winding down, but the anime and merch output from VIZ is not letting up! This month’s drop is pretty shonen-heavy: we’re talking about Bleach, again, as well as some newer series and old favorites. Let’s get started!
REVIEW: “To Strip the Flesh” Cuts to the Bone
To Strip the Flesh is an anthology by author Oto Toda collecting several of her short works together. It includes several stories of varying length about love and being yourself and features a wonderful headlining story about a transgender character titled “To Strip the Flesh”.
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…
VIZ Pubwatch July 2022
Welcome back to another VIZ Media pubwatch, dear readers! It’s the height of the summer anime season, the height of convention season, and the height of “new volumes of ongoing series I like being released by VIZ” season. And I can’t wait to talk about those new volumes! But first, the VIZ anime news.
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…
VIZ Pubwatch: June 2022
Happy pride month, VIZ fans! Unfortunately, most of my offerings this month are not especially LGBT, but I do have a review of Oto Toda’s collection To Strip The Flesh, the titular story of which is about a trans man! But first, the news.
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…
REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section
Boys Run the Riot is an LGBT manga series with a transmasculine lead written and drawn by Keito Gaku (and team). This introductory volume to the series is a poignant and hilarious romp through gender discrimination, high school, punk philosophy, following your dreams, and how fashion is often a double-edged sword for queer people. Basically,…
VIZ Pubwatch: May 2022
Happy May, VIZ fans! In America, the school year is winding down, the weather is warming up, and VIZ has a bunch of new releases for me to share with you all! Today we’ll be talking about a few series new to me, and some new takes on 2000s classic Death Note. But first, the…
INTERVIEW: Sam Sattin Revives a Classic with Unico: Awakening
Writer Sam Sattin and artist team Gurihiru are working together to revive Osamu Tezuka’s Unico, kickstarting the first volume of this new story under the title Unico: Awakening. Sattin, author of the graphic novel adaptation of the Cartoon Saloon film Wolfwalkers, was kind enough to answer WWAC’s questions about Unico, crowdfunding, and creative collaboration.
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…
VIZ Pubwatch: April 2022
Spring is in the air, VIZ fans! I’m mostly done with my thesis and am using my suddenly-abundant spare time to catch up on all the media that’s piled up while I was working on it, including VIZ Media’s latest releases! This month, we’re looking at new action comedy series Sakamoto Days as well as…