Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Innocent: Rouge Omnibus vol. 2 I was legitimately glad to see the first “Innocent: Rouge” omnibus in these solicitations after the end of the original series. After reading it, I was successively thrilled, perplexed, and engaged at the further adventures of the Sanson family with Marie now centered as the protagonist, and Charles-Henri […]
Professor Nathaniel Peaslee had it all. A respected teaching position at Miskatonic University, a happy marriage with children, until a fateful Thursday in 1908 when he had a seizure and became… someone else. It wasn’t until 1913 when he became himself again and started to reckon with the time that he had lost, as well […]
Aqua Hoshino has a plan to get revenge upon his dad who caused the death of his mother, Ai. It’s a movie about her life called “The 15 Year Lie” and it has a script, as well as a good director attached to it. What it doesn’t have is a distributor, and even if they […]
After twenty volumes the truth behind Arslan’s parentage comes out. It likely won’t surprise anyone who’s been reading the series up to this point, but it does prompt a change in the title character. Now he’s more determined than ever to become the Shah of Pars. Before he can do that, he’ll need to recover […]
High schooler Kensuke Fuji continues his tutelage in the ways of cats under mysterious cat whisperer Jin Nekoya, just in time to solve the mystery of the disappearance of every stray cat in town. The answer will introduce him to Nekoya’s nemesis and to answer the question of whether it’s better for a cat to […]
Mob is about to graduate middle school, but he hasn’t decided on the direction he’d like to take in high school. That’s nothing compared to the issues facing Tome Kurata, head of the Telepathy Club. Not only has she made it through middle school without encountering any aliens, but her fellow club members have treated […]
Okay, so the bit about the zombie horse is a letdown, but as for everything else… That there are random mummified body parts strewn throughout the desert course of this leg of the Steel Ball Run is perhaps the least surprising thing about this volume. Yet it turns out that there are some very powerful […]
If you’re thinking that I’ll be writing up my thoughts on the second (and concluding) volume of James Harren’s gonzo kaiju-fighting series, you’d be right. If you’re also thinking that the reason I’m writing it up as the latest part of this type of article is because I didn’t like it all that much, you’re […]
Anyone who listened to my podcast regarding “Innocent” last year will know that I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the third omnibus volume. Rather than being a conclusion to the story of pre-revolutionary-era France executioner Charles-Henri Sanson, it was actually a transitional volume for mangaka Shin’ichi Sakamoto to refocus the story on the character he was […]
The Winter Holiday continues and things are as normal as they get around Elias and Chise’s place. Which means that the former’s ostensible landlord has shown up to ask for the former’s traditional help in dealing with the curse that has plagued his family for generations. That’s small potatoes compared to what the head of […]