Manga and Comic Reviews
I certainly didn’t plan to review these two volumes together. Aside from sharing the same publisher, they’re almost completely different in tone, style and execution. One (no, not ONE *rimshot*) is translating the “Gundam” aesthetic into manga form via the mangaka’s own sensibilities in a way that at least nods to grounded sci-fi. The other […]
This isn’t a review of vol. 13. That’s because it’s basically the first half of the ending of the series. The volume’s six chapters are all about Laios and company’s climactic battle against the Winged Lion and you’re not going to find out anything about how it ends here. However, you will have to wait […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu The solicitation text calls this Lovecraft’s most popular novel and given the title character’s prolificacy in pop culture, I’m hard-pressed to disagree. The story itself involves two bands of cultists, one in the Arctic and one in the bayous of Louisiana who share a practice of blood […]
Eizouken’s latest work about the wooden clock tower, produced with the Anime Culture Studies Club, is another success for them. However, while they’ve always moved forward for each new project, their latest one sees them taking a step back. Back to where it all started with the short that got them established as a club […]
The stakes continue to get higher with this volume as we find out what Celine “The Perfumer” Argente has come to Japan to find. Under Hakua’s orders, she’s to track down “Tozakura” which is described as an unnatural flower in a mountain somewhere, but longtime readers will also know it as Hinako’s last name. Surely […]
The saga of the Schlong Slicer comes to a climax here after Junna brings the foreigner back to her apartment, with all hell breaking loose shortly thereafter. What should’ve been an easy takedown by experienced ninjas winds up being a three-way free-for-all involving a drone as the foreigner proves to be more capable than initially […]
This is one of those series that I’ve heard about for years, but never actually read until now. That’s mainly because no one ever thought that it would be licensed for the longest time as its subject matter and tone were decidedly non-mainstream for the American market during its publication from 1994 through 2006. Slice-of-life […]
After four volumes we’re finally getting to the part of the manga that wasn’t covered by the anime (yet – Season Two is coming this summer). We’re also getting a look at another aspect of the Japanese entertainment industry as Aqua, along with Kana and Aakane, is recruited to be part of the theatrical adaptation […]
Three volumes in and Riko Kozakura thinks she has this whole cat ownership thing down. So much so that when the idea of adding another cat to her household is raised, she jumps at it. A few hoops later and Musubi now has a roommate. But are they going to get along? Will Musubi’s territoriality […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Count Crowley vol. 3: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter After saying that I was interested in checking this series out, I finally got around to reading the previous two volumes. They turned out to actually be pretty good, with the second volume even improving on the first a bit. It also left off on […]