Angel's Coffin: This has been released by GoComi, and sadly, is nowhere near as cracktastically awesome as the title indicates. Seto is a demon who's been imprisoned in a book, only to be released by the unknowing and innocent Marie Vetsera. Seto promises Marie to grant her heart's desire, which is to have Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, fall in ( Read more... )

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(Original title: 愛すべき娘たち ( Read more... )

This is a collection of short stories. The main one is about Natsu, a working woman who walks in on her husband having an affair. That day, an angel moves in (which Natsu is not cognizant of), and soon after, Emi, the Other Woman, does too (which Natsu is most definitely cognizant of). Natsu's a career woman, and Emi doesn't quite know who she is ( Read more... )

This is an adaptation of the anime of the same name, although I can't tell if Shinkai Makoto mostly came up with the original storyline for the anime and Sahara Mizu did the adaptation, or if Shinkai wrote it and she illustrated it ( Read more... )

Blood Hound - Kanou Rion's friend has disappeared, and she barges into Krankenhaus, a host club, based off of a business card her friend handed her. There, she runs across Suou and the other vampire hosts, solves the mystery of her friend's disappearance, and then goes on to solve another mystery while trying to find Suou again. There's some ( Read more... )

Saikawa Kanade and his half-Japanese, half-French cousin Anais solve three perfume-related mysteries. I feel this plot seems deceptively simple compared to the tangles in Angel Sanctuary and Cain Saga/Godchild, but given that it's only a one shot, what can you do ( Read more... )

This is a slim volume about the aftermath of the atomic bomb on ordinary people, one being a woman in the Hiroshima of 1955, and one being a girl in present-day Japan. It's beautifully written and drawn; the art style seems to be less typically "manga" (whatever that means) for those of you who don't generally read manga; and Kouno does some ( Read more... )

And still not all the manga I read all weekend ( Read more... )

Asian Beat comprises of two short stories, remarkable in their ordinariness and the complete lack of angels, demons, and supernatural monsters. Baku is much more typically Mizuki, as it does not have angels, but definitely has demons and supernatural monsters. Both collections feature what I suspect Mizuki loves above all else: broken, demonic ( Read more... )