While this series has accomplished many things over the course of its English-language run so far (such as being consistently hilarious, and successfully satirizing some of heavy metal’s more outrageous aspects), I think that its greatest achievement in the end will be making me look like a complete ass.  Since the beginning of its run, […]

Two volumes in and mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s latest work to be translated into English continues to be a stellar example of how to properly do style over substance.  Badass synthetic human Zoichi Kanoe and his AI partner Fuyu continue their quest to stop the evil machinations of the Data Recovery Foundation by blowing up lots […]

This was the only manga I picked up at Fanime this year since it was the only thing I could find there at a discount.  The first volume was a surprisingly gripping tale of a group of survivors trying to make their way out of a department store that had been devastated by an earthquake… […]

Providing further proof that there exists no premise that can’t be made into a manga is the first volume of Hisae Iwaoka’s “Saturn Apartments” which is a pleasant slice-of-life look at window washers in the upper stratosphere.  In the future, mankind has evacuated Earth in order to preserve what’s left of it and everyone now […]