Manga and Comic Reviews
As far as cliffhangers go, the one for vol. 9 of this series was top-notch. It implied something awful and I was bracing for the worst when I opened up vol. 10. What I got… was a big ol’ flashback to when Teacher was still human. While his days as a human had long been […]
I, like many other people, was greeted with some truly awful news when I went to check the online news this morning. Kentaro Miura, the creator of “Berserk,” passed away due to aortic dissection on May 6th. He created a number of shorter works such as “King of Wolves,” “Japan,” and “Giganto Maxia” over the […]
Am I going to keep talking about each volume in this series as it comes out? Yes. Yes I am. At least until the inevitable anime adaptation arrives. Most likely after the end of this series. Which, if you squint after reading this volume, may just be barely in sight. This is another volume where […]
When we left off, Minare was preparing to accompany Mizuho and Katsumi on the latter’s research trip for his next novel. Minare is mainly going along for moral/tech support, though she’s rooting for her roommate to make some progress in getting recognized by the novelist. The plan is for the three of them to head […]
How do you follow up a volume that ended with the protagonist’s mother trying to strangle him? If you’re mangaka Shuzo Oshimi, then you have things get a little worse before they get better. This involves Seiichi kicking a teacher’s desk during cleaning duty, getting reprimanded for it, and then moping on a bench after […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Mob Psycho 100 vol. 7 *lets out a long exhale* You can’t imagine my relief when I saw this volume in these solicitations. While vols. 5 & 6 were promptly re-scheduled after the pandemic interrupted Diamond’s schedule last year, and the “Reigen” volume arrived in November, there’s been no word on new volumes […]
Whenever this series makes the news over at “Anime News Network” it’s usually because it’s either going on hiatus or coming off of hiatus. Inio Asano has stopped and started his current series multiple times over the past few years and there’s never really been an explanation regarding why this is the case. I’ve got […]
You know how I said in my review of the first volume that Godai wasn’t going to stay a schmuck forever? Well, that part is absolutely true. It’s just that after reading these two volumes it feels like I’ve underestimated the length of time that it’s going to take for him to grow out of […]
So it turns out that THIS is the penultimate volume of “Ajin.” Mangaka Gamon Sakurai sure had me fooled with the ending of the previous volume. As it showed Kei getting up and starting the climb out of the sewer to face off against his nemesis one last time, I was ready to expect things […]
Getting new manga from Naoki Urasawa after years of nothing over here should’ve been a reason to celebrate. Except that “Mujirushi” was a flawed attempt at telling a heist story with some nods to other media and politics that fell flat. His short story collection “Sneeze!” was par for the course for these kinds of […]