Category Archives: Manga

Outside of Japan, the word “Manga” refers to comics originating out of Japan. Over the years the Japanese have developed a fairly unique art style, approach to storytelling and visual layouts that makes reading them a vastly different experience from your mainstream American or even British-produced comic books. Due to the high volume produced, almost all manga seeing the light of day gets pushed out in black and white inks only and cover almost every aspect of life, from sports, heroes, demons, romance, drama and even work.

Needless to say, as a fan of all things fantastical and particularly of the pencilled story, there is simply no way I couldn’t be a fan of manga, now is there? My all time favourite? Most likely Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue, followed by Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki and the ever popular Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto.

What follows in the Rugged Rock Manga category includes a whole heap of reviews of manga books that I have devoured over the years, as well as a collection of interesting news and opinion pieces to emerge out of the world of the Japanese pencilled word…