Yeah, no points for guessing one of the series I’ll be talking about here.  Yet it’s only one out of five that have made it into this particular rundown.  If you’re wondering what the rest of them are, just know that they involve two gay guys, a wannabe king, the most hapless crossdresser in manga […]

Eizouken overcame their most dire challenge as a school club, being allowed to actually exist, in the previous volume.  Now that they’ve been recognized as a club that actually makes anime, it’s time for them to start making some.  Doing so comes with its own complications, however, once Eizouken is asked by the Robot Studies […]

You know… When I started reading this series, I wasn’t expecting to read a storyline where Minare and a couple of co-workers head out to a rural village for research, fall into an aqueduct via trapdoor, and are recruited by a cult to spread their dogma.  Dogma that happens to come with a side of […]

It was one thing for the opening pages of vol. 1 to imply that this was going to be a story about a girl and her relationship with a giant monster that was clearly Not Godzilla.  It wasn’t until the very end of that volume where it became clear that’s  exactly what this story was […]

There’s lots of good stuff at the beginning of vol. 18 and towards the end of vol. 19.  Stuff like how the cast tries to figure out how to tie a cherry stem into a knot using only their tongues.  Or with Chika getting a case of PTSD when she offers to train Ishigami in […]

Last time I wrote that I wasn’t expecting to use the word “surprising” when I wrote about my thoughts regarding vol. 8 of this series.  Now, after having read vol. 8 in its entirety, I have to say that’s still the case.  Much of the volume consists around the Quin Zaza’s chase regarding the legendary […]

Get this:  Saitama actually plays a significant role in the volume’s first half.  That’s all about the final throw-down between Child Emperor in his Brave Giant mech against the supercharged Phoenix Man.  While there’s some quality spectacle to this fight, the important parts take place in “Phoenix Space” as the monster tries to convince the […]

A funny thing happened after I got the five volumes I’m going to write about here.  I got another shipment of manga from the Right Stuf.  Which means that my backlog of manga to write about has only become that much larger.  Rather than wait until one of these series has accumulated enough volumes to […]

…and that’s a wrap.  At least, it is until the next time I go eight months without reviewing a volume of this series. Vol. 19 may have been this title’s most recent high point, but it didn’t quite herald the next stage of its story the way this volume does.  That’s at the end of […]

After all the excitement of the previous volume, you’d think that it’d be time for the story to take a break and let the cast catch their breaths.  This lasts for about two chapters as the main cast does just that and the focus of the story shifts back to some of the 7th Division […]