Yen Press Manga Reviews and Ratings

When zombies invade their high school, a mismatched group of students and teachers must find a way to band together to stay alive against an ever-increasing hoard of the blood-thirsty undead.

Sebastian is the utterly unflappable and completely competent butler in service to young Ciel Phantomhive, the heir and head of the household of the Phantomhive toy manufacturing empire. But are there darker reasons for Sebastian's almost inhuman ability to serve?

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.

30-year old bachelor Daikichi goes to his grandfather's funeral only to discover that the now deceased patriarch fathered a 6-year old daughter. When the rest of the family argues about the fate of little Rin, Daikichi takes her in before he really realizes what he's just taken on.

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.

Taitou is a brash and strong warrior. At his coming-of-age ceremony, Taitou learns that he' s one of the seven heroes prophesied to save the empire and receives a magical sword. But when its stolen, Taitou must learn how to be a hero to get it back.

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.

Hanato Kobato is the new girl in town, and she's here on a mission: she must heal broken hearts so that she too can get her dearest wish granted.

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.

College student Taiga Mutou falls for a cute co-worker only to find that she has a strange personality quirk: she's a fujoshi, a girl geek who is totally obsessed with yaoi manga, anime and other geeky pursuits.

Miharu has the potential to be the most powerful ninja, ever. Too bad he can't be bothered to care about his innate talent, much less the all-out war that's brewing between the world's most powerful clans.

In this series from the creator of Dramacon, readers are plunged into a fantasy world where teenage witches and vampires may wield fearsome powers of darkness, but they still have to go to school.

Like a mix between Raiders of the Lost Ark, The DaVinci Code and Night of the Living Dead, Raiders centers on a quest for a religious artifact, but adds zombies into the mix.

Shakespeare's tragic tale of two teens in love gets a swashbuckling, sci-fi twist, thanks to anime studio GONZO and manga artist COM.

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.

Maka and her scythe Soul Eater are just two of many teenage teams at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, all seeking to harvest 99 human souls and one witch's soul to become a powerful scythe worthy of the god of Death.

Traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence meets Holo, a wolf girl who just happens to be a village's harvest god. As Holo joins Lawrence on his travels, the merchant finds that this wily and sexy wolf has got a thing or two to teach him.

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.

Bella Swan moves to a sleepy small town in the Pacific Northwest. There, she falls for her mysterious classmate Edward Cullen, a teen who just happens to be a vampire.

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."