Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s been over two decades since a manga from Kaiji Kawaguchi was published in America. I’m bringing this up because that manga was the excellent “Eagle: The Making of an Asian American President.” Even if its depiction of American politics of the time comes off as quaint in relation to our current political hellscape, it […]
Gilbert and Mr. Kohinata are back from their honeymoon in Spain with stories of great food and lost luggage to regale Kenji and Shiro over dinner. This isn’t the only dinner date in this volume as our protagonists also have one with their neighbors the Tominagas where they try to guess what the husband did […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition First off, don’t ever be a researcher into ancient cultures or lore in a Lovecraft story. If you do happen to be one, just do your research from the safe and hallowed halls of academia. Don’t do any fieldwork. If you do go out into the […]
I had a feeling this was going to be a tough year for me when I looked at the panel list and saw a lot of potentially interesting panels. From presentations by established regulars, to unions in videogames, to cosplay wrestling, to games that mess with you, to that one industry panel I always attend, […]
Saku has had a hard life, and not just because she’s an orphan. This Japanese girl has always had a tendency to get involved in fights, and to nearly beat the people involved in them senseless. It’s not that she goes out looking for trouble, but because she’s possessed by the spirit of an antagonistic […]
This series hasn’t just been popular enough to spawn multiple anime adaptations, but spinoff manga series as well. While I’m sure that they were all done with mangaka Kore Yamazaki’s approval, I’ve never felt that Japan’s quality control on these things is really any better than America’s. So I’ve been skipping them and I was […]
It’s time for the members of Oinokami’s hockey team to face their first real match! Coach Nihei has set them up to play against Sekka High in what you’d think would be a relatively normal game to ease these kids onto the ice. Except that Sekka is filled with hardcore delinquents and they make it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien vol. 9: The Book of Changes Alien Harry Vanderspiegel has been through a lot since settling in the town of Patience and assuming the identity of its resident doctor. Now he’s retired, in a relationship with a human woman, who he has had a hybrid child with. It’s that last bit […]
The kings are dead? That’s certainly how it looked at the end of vol. 21 as a possessed Innocentis grabbed Andragoras and threw them both off of the tower they were in. It would take a formidable constitution (and a lot of luck) to survive such an act, so does this mean that Arslan is […]
Who was Martha before she was the elite retainer to the Blackbell family? A soldier for Ostania who fought in the last war against Westalis. There she saw firsthand the horrors of armed conflict and only escaped with her life through a combination of luck and the kindness of strangers. Though her return home was […]