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Kory Cerjak

The Difficulties of Long Distance Relationships

Relationships are some of the hardest, yet most fulfilling, things in life. Not just relationships between a significant other, like ...

Josei Manga: Comics Aimed at Women

It seems like so much manga is aimed at girls and teenagers, but there is manga aimed at women, called josei manga.

Ai Yazawa’s Josei Manga: Comics Aimed at Women

Let's discuss josei manga, or manga that is aimed at women.

An Introduction to Classic Manga

Manga, as we know and love it today, arguably started in 1946 with Osamu Tezuka’s first manga publication, Mainichi Shokokumin ...

Astronauts, Vikings, and Makoto Yukimura

I’ve seen the vast reaches of space, I’ve visited a human-made base on the moon, I’ve lived among Vikings in ...

Shojo Me the Manga: “Girls'” Manga Is for Everyone

I’m not sure I took the correct career trajectory path when I started really getting into anime around 2009. But ...

Prepare for Super Bowl 50 with EYESHIELD 21

It’s one of the most exciting and one of the saddest sports times for someone like me. I dig college ...

Bullying and Redemption through A SILENT VOICE

It’s not often that comics elicit the whiplash of emotions that A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi in Japanese) does, ...

Reading SOLANIN Helped Me with the Death of My Grandmother

When something happens in our lives—major or minor, good or bad—we want to escape into something that isn’t real, or ...

How Sports Manga Got Me Into Sports

I love sports. It wasn’t always this way, but I love them now. Watching the Bears disappoint on Sundays or ...