Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cat Gamer vol. 1 I like videogames. I like cats. Show me a manga where the two come together and you can be sure that I’ll buy it. “Cat Gamer” comes from mangaka Wataru Nadatani and is about aging (she’s 29, so I’m going by Japanese standards here) office worker Riko who is […]
If you thought that Asa meeting up with Keiichi at the end of the previous volume was going to be the start of this series moving on to bigger things, then you were right. …From a certain point of view. That’s because we’re still in 1964 and the Tokyo Olympics are about to kick off! […]
I’m not sure I could ever describe a volume of this series as “coasting,” but things come awfully close here. The opening chapters, which involve detailing a certain character’s backstory, Miyuki and Kaguya reaffirming their love for each other, and setup for the Valentine’s Day chapters, are all fine. It’s also nice to see Ishigami […]
Shino Oshima is about to start high school and will have to introduce herself in front of her other classmates. This is something that most students wouldn’t give a second thought to, but is a terrifying proposition to our protagonist. That’s because Shino has struggled with a case of stuttering up until now. It’s something […]
While I liked the past four volumes that told the story of Baron Muster and his influence on Erica, they still felt like a diversion from why I’m reading this series. Which would be to find out Alita’s backstory from when she was known as Yoko on Mars. Mangaka Yukito Kishiro does take some steps […]
The main goal of the characters in this series has been to find the tattooed skin of many convicts that, when combined, will lead to a massive treasure trove of gold. After twenty-two volumes, we’re told that there are only four skins left to find with one of them being a notorious river pirate and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Sir Edward Grey: Acheron I imagine that a lot of people are excited for this one-shot as it represents the first full comic that Mike Mignola will be illustrating after he finished “Hellboy in Hell” five years ago. What interests me more than that is that this is the first Mignolaverse comic to […]
In the year 199X, the world was engulfed in nuclear fire. The remnants of civilization that crawled out of its ashes were greeted with a new world where only might makes right. If you didn’t have the brawn or the bullets to back up your threats, then you simply had to resign yourself to a […]
The end of vol. 17 implied that we were going to get some kind of wacky sex-comedy plot as Prince Kazu (who, in case you’ve forgotten, is a woman pretending to be a man) came up with a plan to get pregnant in order to secure her beloved Iemochi’s position as shogun. It goes on […]
I’m… starting to wonder if I was mistaken about this series. My impression was that I’d be getting a slimmed-down, all killer/no filler version of the legendary romance between hapless college student Yusaku Godai and pensive widow-turned-landlord Kyoko Otonashi. Compared to the overlong 96-episode anime series that started out strong, but was waylaid by filler. […]