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New to Sunday: Tsubasa Fukuchi's "Parashoppers"
Yo. Gonna preface this entry: I try not to be biased when I write these entries, but in this case it's nearly impossible. Tsubasa Fukuchi is...
New To Sunday: Mizuki Kuriyama's "Dragemis"
The irony of a writeup for a Japanese manga being late because I was in Japan is not lost on me. In any case, Kuriyama-sensei is one of…
New to Sunday: Yuuhei Kusakabe's "Kakukamata"
I find myself in a very fortunate place. Authors that serialized works before I decided to do these write-up/reviews are returning to the magazine one after another! Even…
New to Sunday: Konoshima Ruka's "Utsuranain desu"
Five more serials means five more write-ups! Starting with Konoshima Ruka's "Utsuranain desu" which is a strong foot forward for the Spring ...
New to Sunday: Mitsutani's "Land of Monsters."
It's been a long time coming, but we're at last at the final entry for the Weekly Shonen Sunday January serializations. This round saw the r...
New to Sunday: Hajime Saeki's Sternbild's Road.
Hello again Sunday fans! Here we are at week three of five of new Sunday serials! Not much has changed from the first two so no need to…
New to Sunday: Jinsuke Honma's "Ichika bachika."
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New to Sunday: Sakane Toyobashi's "Futari Bus."
January certainly has felt like traveling down a highway at top speed. What do you mean we're already almost done with the first month of 2026?! With that…
New to Sunday: Kazuhiro Fujita's "Silver Mountain."
I've had the opportunity to write about legends in the Weekly Shonen Sunday sphere as of late here on the blog, and perhaps Kazuhiro Fujita is one of…
New to Sunday: Kazuhiko Shimamoto's "Vampidol Tagiru"
Back up on stage again (literally) with the second of the four new Weekly Shonen Sunday serials! This time around, I tackle yet another Shogakukan legend in Kazuhiko…
New to Sunday: Miyu Morishita's "Ogami Tsumiki to kinichijou"
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New To Sunday: Yuzuo Bato's "Rock a Rock"
Hear that sound? It's the sign that when Sunday comes a knockin' you should be rockin. The second of the new spring Sunday serials is Yuzuo ...
New to Sunday: Yellow Tanabe's "Kai-hen Wizards"
Oof. It's been a while since the last one of these, and there really isn't any excuse for it, just been busy with other things. Arguably, ho...
New to Sunday Mako Hatamachi's "Hello Work Monsters."
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New to Sunday: Chigusa Ichihara's "Shite no hana."
Shonen Sunday has been operating on a usual (but not unheard of) schedule in the latter part of 2024 and the beginning of this year. Shite n...
New to Sunday: Atsu Benino's "Hokago vocaken de!"
2026 Sunday serials come fast, like life itself. Every time I finish writing about a new set, another one is announced, which is great for the magazine (and…
New to Sunday: Number 8 and Ryohei Masuko's "Strand."
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New to Sunday: Takeru Atsumi's "Chiisai Boku no Haru"
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New to Sunday: Miho Isshiki and Naoki Mizuguchi's "Mizupolo"
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New to Sunday: Toomi Ota's Shuusekiban go 0 ban
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New to Sunday: Mashu and Lettuce Taro's "Kagurai: Kagura to Raito."
The journey of writing these initial reviews takes me all sorts of places in my research. In that way I have a new appreciation for what the Shogakukan…
New to Sunday: Shiishihi and Takahiro Arai's "Te no Geka"
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New to Sunday: Shota Komatsu's "Kokoro Himeru no Zen Himitsu"
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New to Sunday: Shinta Harekawa's "Momose Akira no hatsukoi hantanchuu."
Here we go, 'tis the season for new Weekly Shonen Sunday serials, and this round presented us with some goodies from the giddy up. This wri...
New To Sunday: Shiishihi and Yuki Tsukikoshi's "Aga kimi chiruramu"
Happy New Year! 2026 is shaping up to be a fascinating year for Sunday (for more details, check out our 2025 write-up), with the serializations coming fast and…
New to Sunday: Akihisa Maki and Miki Yatsubo's "Kaiten no Albus."
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New to Sunday: Aiko Koyama and Takenori Ichihara's "Kimi wa Akeboshi"
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Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 11
Surely that's their longest appearance yet... Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 10
We know the score here. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 03
There are two ways you can approach an Adachi Mitsuru story at this point in his career. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 19
More and more this has the feel of a fait accompli. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 04
There's an awful lot of unfinished business with this story, and this is not a writer who normally does breakneck pacing. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 17
If he weren't so shameless, we wouldn't love hm so much. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 07
I almost feel like I'm living in a parallel world with Mix. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 18
It's a major recurring theme in Mix that adults are always a prisoner of their past in some ways. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 21
Rather cruel making us wait an extra week for that. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 12
I have to assume Adachi-sensei didn't get my memo. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 15
Rarely will you find a series where the past is so much a main character in the story as Mix. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 09
In the immortal words of Audrey II, "Oh, Shit". Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 13
Saturdays around here have been a day for the quiet ones this spring. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 08
It's really interesting that Adachi would go there. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 05
That was a big step forward - or backward, depending on how you look at it. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 02
I hope the day Adachi laughing at himself stops being funny never comes. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 22
Well, that was depressing. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 14
An Adachi team with two frontline pitchers - what's the world coming to? Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 01
Let the madness begin. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 20
I feel like I'm missing something here. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 06
The cat is outta the bag. Read more
Mix: Meisei Story – Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e – 16
To a bunch of teenagers playing a game, what the hell does what happened thirty years earlier matter? Read more