The tag line reads, “Not your mommy's magical girls”. Oh boy is that the truth. This time on “Keeping It Ghastly” we'll be taking a look at the seinen zombie-magical girl mashup series – Magical Girl...

Anomal is a collection of short stories that is loosely centered around yokai and things of a generally supernatural origin. (I say generally because chapter three is a detective story that is about as...

Hideó Suzuki has a hard time with social interactions, but when he's alone it all seems alright. He has locked doors to keep out intruders, an imaginary friend to talk to, and a rifle to remind himself...

It's the stuff of 1950s and 60s double features that drives Katsuhisa Kigitsu's stories of grotesque medical misadventure. Fran Madaraki is the creation of Dr. Madaraki, the most feared and respected mad...

This time on "Keeping It Ghastly" I'll be crawling out of the catacombs of my English-language horror manga collection and going over something a little more recent – Inio Asano's 2006 horror/drama...

Resurrected three centuries after his defeat at the hands of the samurai Naonosuke, the powerful vampire Migiri has reasserted himself as a deadly enemy of humanity. With his cult followers, Migiri, now...

What time is it? Kazuo Umezu time! From the creator of Scary Book, Orochi: Blood and Reptilia comes a sci-fi horror series aptly named The Drifting Classroom. Set in the early 1970s Japan, The Drifting...

2016 is turning out to be a Sci-fi horror year for me. I rewatched The Thing, Event Horizon and Alien, read Parasyte vol 1 for Comics Bulletin, and now I get to review Biomega?! This is awesome. Biomega...

Welcome to 2016! In the last week Iran and Saudi Arabia have been at each other's throats, the gun debate in the US has reached a tipping point, and North Korea has claimed a successful hydrogen bomb test....

Very few manga have the staying power to remain in print format in the US. Sites like Crunchyroll cater to those who are looking for legally available licensed english translations, but with the legal grey...

I knew it! I knew if we all prayed hard enough more Junji Ito comics would be published in the US! And lo, it was so. Thank you Viz Media, LLC for making our June 2015 PREVIEW order forms that much more...

Between the gore and gaped mouth screaming within the majority of Hideshi Hino's series, Hino Horror, lies a profound understanding of human nature. More specifically, what does human nature look like to...

It does my little shriveled heart good to see a horror manga that has continued to thrive. Despite the many times that this story has switched publishers, and in spite of the difficulty of laying your...

I keep finding more and more Hideshi Hino manga in used book stores and comic book shops. Publishing companies in the mid 2000s was very, very into this particular creator. Rightly so, as Hino's works are...

Reptilia – a Japanese slasher manga. A hidden killer who won't stay down, an innocent, young last-girl constantly being chased by said killer, and if you count “Goosebumps” logic then of course all of...