manga

  • More Manga Now Available Through Hoopla!

    Manga lovers rejoice! Hoopla has expanded its offerings and now includes many titles from Kodansha. This includes Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, and some of my personal favorites: Continue reading

  • #BookBingoNW2023: Manga or Graphic Novel

    Here at the library, we have so many great manga and graphic novel titles that it can be hard to decide what to read next! Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo reading: Those Who Helped Us by Seattle-born Ken Mochizuki (author) and Kiku Hughes (illustrator, Displacement), blends a fiction and nonfiction Japanese… Continue reading

  • Food Comics and Manga

    I’ve been reading a lot of food-focused manga and comics recently. Maybe I’m just a hungry person? I do like food, but really, while these manga and comics share the culinary theme they span some wildly different story-telling territory; from D&D-esque dungeon crawlers, to queer slice-of-life stories, to cooking competitions. Some of these stories even… Continue reading

  • Anime Appreciation: Giants of Anime

    I’m going to assume, for the sake of convenience and my ego, that you all read my last post, ‘Anime Appreciation’ and now are craving more. If so, do I have good news for you! If you watch the three anime below you should satisfy your craving and gain the groundwork to hold a discussion… Continue reading

  • Rae’s Manga Blitz – Library Wars

    Title: Library Wars Manga Author: Kiiro Yumi Original Story Author: Hiro Arikawa Audience: T+ (Older Teen) Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Political, SF (future) Summary: “In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Matthew Amster-Burton

    When I’m sick, sad, or don’t know what to eat for lunch, I always turn to Asian food for comfort. Usually it’s some kind of spicy noodles, like pad Thai or the Tetsu Hell Fire dipping ramen at Samurai noodle, a dish you can’t eat without looking like a barbarian. Similarly, when I wander into… Continue reading

  • Maybe it will make sense now: ‘The Manga Guide to Calculus’

    Even though the library’s digital book service Safari Books Online hasn’t been at the forefront of my pleasure reading (no page-turning fiction to be found here!), I thought I’d take a look through it the other day — maybe there would be SOMETHING in it for me. I immediately liked that you don’t have to download any software… Continue reading