What Makes Made in Abyss Manga Panels Stand Out Most manga pick a lane. They’re cute or they’re horrifying. They focus on characters or on environments. Made in Abyss refuses to choose, and that refusal is the entire point. Tsukushi draws his child characters — Riko (the protagonist, a young girl obsessed with exploring the … Read more
What Is Junji Ito’s No Longer Human? For anyone new to manga (Japanese comics, read right-to-left, typically in black and white), here’s the short version: No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) is Junji Ito’s manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel of the same name. The original novel is one of the best-selling works in Japanese … Read more
What Makes Junji Ito’s Manga Panels Unforgettable Junji Ito (伊藤 潤二), born July 31, 1963, has spent decades perfecting something no other horror manga artist has achieved at quite the same scale: panels so visually striking that they function as standalone pieces of horror art, completely independent of their surrounding story. His work achieves this … Read more
What Makes High School of the Dead Manga Panels Distinctive The thing that sets HOTD apart visually is a tension that runs through every page: this is technically accomplished horror art fused with extreme fan service, and somehow both elements are executed at an equally high level. Shoji Sato can render decomposing zombie flesh with … Read more