Manga and Comic Reviews
If you’re familiar with mangaka Hitoshi Iwaaki’s great, overlooked series “Parasyte,” then the premise behind this series may ring a few bells. Hikaru is a highschool girl who broadcasts her social aloofness to the world by wearing headphones everywhere she goes. She’d be perfectly happy without getting to know the rest of her classmates until […]
… and now we wait. Longtime readers and listeners will know that I think mangaka Kentaro Miura’s “Berserk” is pretty damn incredible. You’re also probably aware that I’ve expressed some concern with how the series will read now that Dark Horse is no longer releasing volumes bi-monthly now that they’ve caught up to the series […]
Yup. I’m still reading this. It’s funny because when you look at what’s happened in the past eleven volumes it seems like a lot. The problem is that it doesn’t feel that way as you read each individual volume, as I tend to breeze through them in less than half an hour. Still, we’re at […]
I’m sure that I’m reading “Bokurano” right now for different reasons than the majority of its American audience. Having seen the anime adaptation that came out a few years back, I’m more interested in seeing how it deviated from its source material. After all, not many directors go public with their dislike of the manga […]
Twenty months after the arrival of vol. 3, the fourth volume of “Ghost Talker’s Daydream” has finally arrived on American shores. For a while I’d figured that this series had gone the way of other Dark Horse Manga titles like “Satsuma Gishiden,” MPD-Psycho” and “Eden” and been quietly “cancelled.” I was disappointed that we weren’t […]
Three volumes in and I’m having the sinking feeling that my optimism regarding the first volume was misplaced. While the subject matter here is considerably less depressing than it was in the last volume, it’s all hugs and smiles as life lessons are learned, bitter adults become less bitter, and displays of the power of […]
Continuing with tonight’s theme is the latest from the creators of “Death Note.” While that series was entertaining for a while, it jumped the shark with the death of its co-protagonist halfway through and then crashed and burned spectacularly at the end. I wasn’t too thrilled about the idea of reading another manga from writer […]
“The Best/Worst Manga of the Year” panel needs to be longer. One hour is not enough time to hear such great speakers as Jason Thompson, Christopher Butcher, and Shaenon Garrity talk about what rocked and what did not in the world of manga over the last year. The only thing more disappointing than not getting […]
This year’s Comic-Con was a more manageable beast than last year’s. I don’t know if it was the absence of the “Twi-hards” or just better management on the part of the con staff, but the crowds were less beastly than they were last year. In addition to seeing panels with great and legendary creators like […]
You know, I like this series but the events of this volume were a real bummer. After being accepted into the Tokyo Space School, Asumi finds herself acclimating rather well to its curriculum and solidifying the friendships she began in the last volume. The problems begin when she finds out that if she becomes an […]