The last time I talked about this series, I said that it hadn’t become the great Shonen Jump title that everyone else said it was.  Since then, it has made some great strides in that direction.  Thug turned basketball man  Sakuragi Hanamichi will never stop being an idiot, but his self-proclaimed genius as an athlete […]

In case anyone was wondering whether or not my favorite comic from last year has lost a step, let me assure you that it hasn’t.  Mangaka Naoki Urasawa (with Takahashi Nagasaki in tow) continues to spin an absolutely riveting tale as he slowly parcels out information about the conspiracy at its heart.  Things kick off […]

This series has been coasting on goodwill from me for quite some time.  With this volume, said goodwill has finally run out.  I mean, how am I supposed to get excited or interested in a story that involves one of the hoariest of plot devices — amnesia — and runs through it in exactly the […]

Way back in vol. 2, “Kurosagi” did a volume-length story about the group getting involved with mysterious, murderous happenings with a company that specializes in undertaking.  Despite a few plot holes, it was a satisfying tale that cemented the series as one to follow in my mind.  Nine volumes later, we’ve got another extended storyline […]

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 […]