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15 Best Light Novels to Read Right Now

Light novels are a huge and popular medium in Japan, and increasingly so in the […]

It’s often the great European and American mystery writers of the 19th and 20th centuries

Seinen manga covers a wide variety of genres. In fact, it’s a type of manga

Japanese folktales have had an enormous impact on the history of fiction and storytelling, not

Year after year, we are treated to more incredible Japanese books in translation. After the

Of all the most beloved, best-selling manga — the ones with the biggest legacies; the

When I first read and reviewed Banana Yoshimoto’s seminal work, Kitchen, I mentioned how it

The Kaguya-sama: Love is War manga is translated from the Japanese by Emi Louie-Nishikawa Created,

Slice of life manga come in many shapes and sizes. Some focus on romance, others

Before you travel to any new country, you should know a little about its history,