Manga and Comic Reviews
The first round of testing for the First-Class Mage exam has begun. All that the teams involved have to do is capture a Stille and make sure all of their members are still alive by sunset the following day. This sounds simple, but the Stille is a bird that can fly at supersonic speed and […]
Hmmmm… In light of recent events, I think I’m going to have to re-title the next edition of this. Above-the-Board Recommendation: Delver vol. 2 I thought that the first volume of this series offered an interesting perspective on the fantasy trope of a dungeon crawl, with some surprisingly intense action to go along with it. […]
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the first four chapters of this volume. Oran and Oba have what appears to be a final encounter. Miura goes on TV to let everyone know that the alien mothership is going to explode in a few hours. Hiroshi tries to get out of the city while […]
It’s. Finally. Here. “Kurosagi’s” return was originally announced back at Anime Expo in July 2019 with this fifth omnibus including the never-before-published vol. 15 set for March 2020, and a sixth omnibus of three new volumes to arrive later that year. I don’t think I need to tell you how those plans were interrupted. Given […]
In case you’re wondering what the big event was in vol. 22, The Lonely Island are here to catch you up on it. From Miyuki’s POV, I would assume… Vol. 22 left off on kind of a big cliffhanger as it let us know that Kaguya was going to have to finally break the news […]
There’s been a major change in Seiichi’s life since the last time we checked in on him: His mother has been arrested for pushing Shige off of the cliff way back in the first volume. She’s currently undergoing psychological examination to determine if she’s competent to stand trial, but her absence from her son’s life […]
Longtime readers will know that I was a fan of “Assassination Classroom” by Yusei Matsui. It re-imagined the “Inspirational Teacher” story as a wacky Silver Age “Superman” tale after a round, yellow, tentacled alien took over teaching the worst class at an elite school. All so that they could kill him before the year was […]
You know, it’s been some time since we’ve checked in on Kenji and Shiro. Vol. 18 finds the former at something of a crossroads as the manager of his salon has finally returned from Vietnam. This leads everyone to assume that Kenji’s status as the de facto manager is over and now the stylist is […]
In case you haven’t heard, “Golden Kamuy” has wrapped up its run in Japan with vol. 31. Which is some great timing as the events of this volume clearly indicate that this series is heading into its endgame. It all picks up with the action from the previous volume as all of the parties start […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Jenny Zero vol. 2: Homeland Insecurities The first “Jenny Zero” miniseries was a pleasant surprise based on what it was originally solicited as. We were sold the story of the screw-up daughter of the world’s greatest kaiju-fighting hero getting another chance to follow in her father’s footsteps. What we got was something substantially […]