Weekly Shonen Jump’s newest series is Ghost Reaper Girl, a manga from Akihisa Ikeda, the creator Rosario+Vampire. Interestingly, Ikeda has specifically requested that western releases of Ghost Reaper Girl are published from left-to-right instead of right-to-life as is traditional for manga. As someone who liked Rosario+Vampire, I was interested in checking out this first chapter.… Read More Manga First Impression: Ghost Reaper Girl
The latest manga series from Shonen Jump is Me & Roboco (Boku to Roboco) by mangaka Shuhei Miyazaki, previouslyknown for the 4-koma The Promised Neverland spinoff, Oyakusoku no Neverland. The setup is simple. Wait, no it’s not. This series is set in an alternate version of Earth where it is commonplace for people to have… Read More Manga First Impression: Me & Roboco
Magu-chan: God of Destruction, a new Shonen Jump series from Kei Kamiki, begins in a medieval fantasy world where an ancient god of destruction, the monster Magu Menueku, is attacking humanity. The ancient warriors and wizards imprison the creature in a crystal and hide it away, hoping to never deal with it again… Enter Ruru… Read More Manga First Impression: Magu-chan: God of Destruction
Ayakashi Triangle is a new Shonen Jump manga series from Kentaro Yabuki, who is best known for Black Cat and serving as the artist for To Love Ru. This new series, from the look of it so far, includes some of the supernatural elements of the earlier and some of the fanservice of the latter.… Read More Manga First Impression: Ayakashi Triangle
Time Paradox Ghostwriter is a new manga series from author Kenji Ichima and artist Tsunehiro Date that began this week in Shonen Jump. The premise is super simple: A young mangaka’s microwave pumps out copies of Weekly Shonen Jump from 10 years in the future. Wait. Let me take a step back. The first chapter… Read More Manga First Impression: Time Paradox Ghostwriter
Jun Kirarazaka’s new manga, Bone Collection, is set in a world where yokai are always on the prowl and often attacking humans. Into this world steps Kazami, a teenager from a long line of powerful exorcists, including his brother and father, and who has been training to fight yokai. The problem? He’s terrible at it.… Read More Manga First Impression: Bone Collection
Moriking is a new manga series from Shonen Jump by Tomohiro Hasegawa. The first chapter introduces elementary school student Shota Aikawa and his high school-aged sister sister, Shoko. In the first few pages, Shoko joins her brother to watch as his pet beetle Moriking begins to emerge from its pupal form. Instead of a normal… Read More Manga First Impression: Moriking
This is a story about a story, a particular one titled Run, Melos. The anime starts off in what seems like ancient Rome or Greece (just guessing), with a girl being married and her brother who put the wedding together is nowhere to be found. He is running away since he was caught attempting to… Read More First Impression: Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement-
“This is the story of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower to see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her.” That summation of Tower of God, the anime adaptation of the popular webtoon, displays early in an opening episode which plays out in usual fashion, introducing the protagonist (Bam), his… Read More First Impression: Tower of God (신의 탑)
Mashle: Magic and Muscle is a new Shonen Jump series by Hajime Komoto that dropped this past weekend. The story begins by introducing us into a world of magic. Everyone in the world can do magic, except for Mash. The protagonists, Mash, who bears a passing resemblance to Shigeo Kageyama of Mob Psycho 100, was… Read More First Impression – Mashle: Magic & Muscle (Manga)