Manga and Comic Reviews
Kuro Kumogakure’s infiltration of Kodan High School has hit a few hitches. There was the gang of gals that tried to take him and his friends down at the start of the, and he found himself drawn into Eita’s bullying situation as well. Yet he managed to deal with both of these issues, and has […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Adabana vol. 1 A small town is rocked by the double murder of a student and a ramen shop owner, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case after a classmate of the student confesses to the crime. The catch is that the culprit’s public defenders are convinced there’s more to the story […]
With Aqua now satisfied regarding the identity of his father – and by extension, with the idea that the man behind Ai’s death is also dead – he’s content now to have an average showbiz career as he prepares for medical school (again). However, with Ruby now aware of how the doctor who treated her […]
In this volume, things get worse for the survivors on the titular ship. Some kids are using the chaos to settle old scores, while others see it as their last chance to, uh… score before they die. Most of them have split up into two camps with the upper-class Hilltop kids taking control of the […]
The Five Digits came to Roanapur to take out Dutch for what they think is his role in a long-ago criminal action. Then they found out firsthand just how little pity this city has for those who waltz into it unprepared. Particularly when one of their own, Le Majeur, is just itching to settle scores […]
The arc that wraps up at the start of this volume may have started out annoyingly dumb, but it at least concludes with some likeable dumbness. Which involves Nightfall overcoming the limits of a human’s built-in damage restrictions to take out the enemy double-agent and send herself into the hospital afterward. It’s all quite silly […]
The “Tokyo Blade” stage play has completed its successful run and Aqua isn’t sure what his next move is going to be. Now that he’s found out what has happened to his supposed biological father, he’s at a loss regarding what he wants to do with his life and career. Ruby, on the other hand, […]
Mangaka Koshi Rikudo really wanted you to think that things were turning around with the appearance of King Gertsucoma at the end of vol. 18. Anyone with half a brain, though, could tell you that the advantage was going to shift right back to Poseidon at the start of this volume. Which it did, and […]
I was hoping that mangaka Hirohiko Araki would rein himself in after the previous volume felt like it was all over the place in terms of its quality and focus. That doesn’t happen here as it seems that he’s going to try and go bigger and weirder before this Part is over. As “Bohemian Ecstatic” […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cat + Crazy vol. 1 I wasn’t sure if there was going to be enough of an audience to support a series like mangaka Wataru Nadatani’s “Cat + Gamer” when Dark Horse first published it. The series was, after all, a simple little slice of life series about a gaming focused office lady […]