Read reviews and ratings of manga and graphic novels published by Yen Press, a division of Hachette Publications and a leading publisher of manga, manhwa, and original English language (OEL) manga, including With The Light, Black God and Zombie Loan.
Keita is an aspiring game programmer who thinks nothing of mooching off money his long-suffering friend Akane. But his so-called normal life comes to a screeching halt when he meets a girl with superhuman fighting abilities who enters into a pact that ties their destinies together in unexpected ways.
Black God Volume 2 introduces readers to Mikami and Shingo, an older
mototsumitama / human duo. At first, Kuro is thrilled to meet a fellow
mototsumitama, but her happiness is short-lived as she discovers that the streetwise Mikami is an assassin for hire, and her next target is Akane, Kuro and Keita's dearest friend.
After witnessing the shocking death of a young doppleliner, Keita is shaken to his core. But when he meets Excel and Steiner, a powerful human /
mototsumitama duo from Europe, he discovers that his deceased mother may have a sinister connection with a rogue
mototsumitama in Okinawa.
Darren and Steve are best friends who share a fascination with monsters. Then a visit to an unusual circus forces them to make life-changing choices that change both of their lives in strange and frightening ways.
Keiichi Maebara is the new kid in town, and he's already made lots of friends. But high school hi-jinks aside, there's something sinister simmering just below the surface, and Keiichi is starting to suspect that his newfound friends are hiding a horrifying secret from him.
14-year old Kieli has a special gift: she can see and talk to ghosts. When she meet Harvey, a cynical (but strangely young looking) veteran of a long-ago war, she discovers that he too can see spirits, but not for the same reasons.
When Kazunori Akabane and his classmate Satoru Moriya are transported to a fantasy world, a scantily-clad female warrior tells the pair that they must 'exchange bodily fluids' to fortify her magic powers.
Maximum Ride, or "Max" for short is a pretty teen who must deal with far greater problems than prom dates and exams: she has wings and the scientists who created her are out to get her and her flock of winged teens.
A young girl dressed in black, carries a coffin on her back as she travels across the countryside. Is she a vampire? Is she a witch? Is she cursed? No one really knows but Kuro, her bat friends and two little cat-eared girls who are her companions as she continues on her mysterious quest.
10th grader Ayumu Narumi can solve mysteries that leave adults twice his age stumped. But he's haunted by the disappearance of his older brother and his tie to the mysterious "Blade Children."
Headstrong and pretty, high school student Haruhi Suzumiya tends to get her way, whether anyone else around her likes it or not. But what she doesn't know is that she has the power to disrupt the universe, and a group of espers, aliens and time travelers have enrolled in her school to keep an eye on her.
Based on the true-life experiences of parents raising autistic children,
With The Light (Hikari to Tomoni) tells the story of Sachiko, a young mother and her struggles to understand autism and her autistic son, Hikaru.
Read a review of
Y Square, a romantic comedy
shojo manga series by German-Korean
manga creator Judith Park from Yen Press. Yoshitaka is a dunce in romance, with a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Yagate has girls flocking to his side. So what happens when two very different "Y" guys try to figure out what turns girls on?
Read a review of the August 2008 / first issue of
Yen Plus, a
manga and
manhwa anthology magazine from Yen Press, featuring James Patterson's
Maximum Ride,
Nightschool and
Soul Eater.
Shy and mousy Michiru is the class doormat. But she has a supernatural ability to see when someone's death is imminent. Her power scares her, but she soon meets two handsome and mysterious classmates who are undead 'bounty hunters,' trying to pay off their "zombie-loan."
