Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 4 ended with Asa flying off with researcher Keiichi to confront the monster as it prepares to make landfall in Enoshima. You’d think that would be enough action to base an entire volume’s story around, but mangaka Naoki Urasawa has other plans. As Asa tries to improvise a solution to the crisis at hand, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Berserk vol. 41 Kentaro Miura passed away in May of last year, leaving his epic manga series unfinished. There was still enough material for one final volume and we’ll be getting that in November (it’s advance-solicited here). Though there will be no resolution to the ongoing saga of Guts vs. Griffith, what I’ve […]
Riko Kozakura is currently living her best life. Every day she goes straight home from work without putting in any overtime because she’s got plans. Plans to get in as much gaming as she possibly can before she has to go to bed and repeat the cycle the next day. It looked like this was […]
The last time we saw Mob and Reigen, they had been invited along with a host of other psychics to the house of a millionaire who was offering big bucks to the individual who could successfully exorcize his daughter. It seemed like it could be the basis for a reality show, until Reigen went in […]
Gordon Goliath drives a food truck for a living. That in itself isn’t a remarkable occupation. Except in this case where he’s driving it through a world whose setting can easily be described as “Post-Apocalyptic.” Business in a world where a good portion of its population has been wiped out is as terrible as you’d […]
The last time we saw Zaha Sanko, he had just been mind-controlled by the still-living remains of Hajime Damemaru, whose English name translates to “First Failson.” Hajime had been kidnapped by the Lighthead Order, the cult from which the galaxy-wide megacorporation Photosphere grew out of, and thought that he could use Zaha as a distraction […]
“THE KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE” IS BACK, BABY! I mean, it’s coming back in July to comic shops and in August everywhere else! That’s the big news I learned from the Dark Horse Comics panel at the convention, and it was shocking for a couple reasons. One is that I rarely expect to get big […]
The party gets a new member in this volume! Sein is a priest who likes to drink, gamble, and smoke. Between him and Heiter, Frieren and Fern are having to rethink what they believe the qualities of a good priest actually are. Still, having another healer in the party is always useful and after having […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! vol. 4 Editor Carl Horn mentioned that Dark Horse had licensed vols. 4 & 5 of this series in the afterword to vol. 3. So while it’s not surprising to see this volume here, it’s still very reassuring. (On that note, there’s a Dark Horse Manga panel at […]
Zaha Sanko, the most wanted man in the galaxy, got his ship upgraded in the previous volume. Now it’s time to find stuff to furnish it with! Fortunately his ship’s minibot, Moja, knows that the best place to do this is at the nearest Marutech Shopping Ship. They’ve got a lot of stuff on their […]