Marfisa Feb 27, 2015
Honest, intelligent news and reviews for manga romantics
Wings is a shoujo manga magazine published by Shinshokan on a monthly basis that is aimed at a female audience age 16-20. Most of the series are action/fantasy oriented and some shounen-ai as well. Thanks to TokyoPop we’ve gotten a lot of series in North America from Wings, but most of those are a decade ago now. We’ve also gotten a lot of series by Fumi Yoshinaga, who wrote regularly for Wings, from DMP. Of course Dark Horse has taken over some of CLAMPS titles, so we’re getting series from them as well.
So which series have we seen in North America? RG Veda, Tokyo Babylon, Vampire Game, Princess Ai, Antique Bakery, Flower of Life, Dragon Knights, and Alice the 101st to name a few. Well, what can we beg publishers for? Here’s what’s currently running in Wings:
Fin! Those are all the series currently running in Wings. There are always short stories and one shots of course. These are the main series you will see that are ongoing.
So which of these series that’s non-licensed would I like to see? There’s only a couple series that interest me from the synopses.
How about you? What title would you buy if it was on the shelf?
[…] from Japan: At Heart of Manga, Laura looks at the shoujo manga currently being serialized in Wings magazine. The Sacred Blacksmith will come to an end with volume 10. Drops of God is also going into its final […]
Are the two Sebastian ones official spin-offs about Sebastian from “Black Butler,” or has Sebastian just become such a generic name for a butler in Japan that they figured they could get away with using a butler character named that who looks like a less intimidating version of the BB one?
I cracked up laughing when I saw the one about the middle-aged uncle witch who’s apparently the geezer version of a magical girl, so I’d like a chance to find out if that’s as funny as it looks. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of Arakawa’s “Hyakushou Kizoku,” either. It looks like some kind of continuation of the strip about life on her parents’ dairy farm in Hokkaido that appeared in the late lamented J-Manga, which was pretty entertaining.