Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 2 threw a surprising curveball into the series’ pleasant narrative with the demonizing of actual demons. The creativity displayed by writer Kanehito Yamad and artist Tsukasa Abe continues through the remainder of the arc as Frieren goes to confront the demons’ leader Aura and her magical Scales of Obedience while Fern and Stark take […]
I didn’t start reading this volume from the beginning when I got it. Instead, I flipped back to the “Notes on vol. 3” section for one specific reason: To find out if “Eizouken” will continue to be published in English beyond this volume. What I read told me that YES IT WILL! Editor Carl Horn […]
Sapporo may be one of Japan’s northernmost cities, but the action in the city is heating up in this volume. That’s because all of the major characters and their associated groups have converged on the town as they hunt for not one, but two tattooed convicts. One has additional tattoos on his face and a […]
Depending on your point of view, vol. 16 was either a triumphant stomping of the Federation by Darryl Lorenz and his friends in the Nanyang Alliance, or 200+ pages of the antagonists of the series having their way with no consequences whatsoever. Vol. 17 would seem like a good time to balance the scales, right? […]
Last time, things started going off the rails again as the end-of-volume drama edged closer to self-parody than compelling. This was only part of the reason why I was hesitant at first to crack this volume open. I’ve talked before about how this series thrives on making the reader uncomfortable via the toxic relationship Seiichi […]
Vol. 7 had Minare and Mizuho heading out to Motomachi to help a shut-in get out of his room in order to get a story that they could use for the former’s radio show. Everything was going (kinda, sorta) to plan until SUDDENLY OUT OF NOWHERE AN EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN! Now everyone’s doing their best […]
We left off last time dealing with the story of the incredible shrinking mafioso. Narancia was the shortest member of Bruno’s gang and he started to get a lot shorter after being hit with the Stand known as Tiny Feet. His troubles only increase in this volume as he winds up having to deal with […]
No points for guessing what took a long time to come back into stock for me to order over at The Right Stuf. The upside here is that now I should only have to wait 21 months until vol. 13…? Regardless of how long the wait is, I’m sure it’ll be worth it because “Vinland […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Jinx This is the story of a couple of two-bit hustlers, Goldfish and Columbia, who each wind up with half of the location to where a major cash stash is located, and the title character, a bounty hunter who crosses their paths. It’s also the longest series Brian Michael Bendis did by himself […]
One thing I was disappointed with last year is that the “Dorohedoro” manga never went on sale at ComiXology. I say this because I’ve got nineteen more volumes left to buy and I’d prefer not to pay a premium for them, no matter how much I liked the first three and (especially) the anime. While […]