Manga and Comic Reviews
Now that the great reading mix-up of 2023 is over with, we can get back to normal service with this series. At least in terms of reading order. As implied at the end of vol. 12, vol. 13 begins with a twenty-year time jump all the way to 2017. That’s where we’re introduced to Seiichi’s […]
I was expecting the upward trend in quality represented by the stories presented in the first volume to continue here. The idea is that Fujimoto was getting better with each new manga he made, right? “22-26” shows that wasn’t quite the case and the quality of a creator’s work doesn’t follow a straight line. However, […]
This is a volume of table-setting as we see lots of different factions getting their affairs in order before the fighting starts. We check in with Duke Guiscard first as he delights in having found a way to get rid of his brother, the king: Have the newly captured Princess Irina do it as she […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Innocent Omnibus vol. 1 What we have here is something much rarer than I’d like it to be in solicitations from Dark Horse. That would be the debut of a new manga series without any ties to film or TV. “Innocent” is the fictionalized story of Charles-Henri Sanson the executioner for the French […]
The ongoing narrative of this series kicked into high gear at the end of the previous volume and that momentum carries through the entirety of vol. 17. While Philomena’s awakened form isn’t able to cause (much) more damage at the college, she still manages to slip outside the wards guarding the place. Where is she […]
This volume hits the ground running as Asirpa is still in Major Tsurumi’s hands just after she’s given him her father’s name. Which is a key piece of information about how to interpret the map made by the tattooed skins that have been the focus of this series for so long. Then the bullets start […]
I expressed concern last time that, as the series began its final arc, that “Kaguya-sama” wasn’t going to prize comedy over everything else the way it has before. It pains me to say that this looks to be the case after taking in all of vol. 25. Kaguya disappeared towards the end of vol. 24 […]
Kengo Hanazawa has already given us one one good series with his zombie epic “I Am A Hero.” If you thought that his next would continue to push boundaries in the horror genre, or focus on the struggles of the mentally disturbed, you’d be wrong. (So far.) “Under Ninja” is more of an oddball slice-of-life […]
Once again, I’ve been given cause to wonder where a five day period over Memorial Day Weekend has gone for me. This is the time I use to attend Fanime every year that it happens, but it always goes by quickly enough to make me wonder if it even happened at all. While the con […]
They finally made it. After twelve volumes Thorfinn, Einar, Gudrid, and a whole host of new characters finally arrive in Vinland with this volume. It takes them a while to actually find a place to settle, but this is their new home for the future. Now begins the difficult work of cultivating it and turning […]