Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
“The Entertainer” arc wraps up in this volume as everyone involved gets what’s coming to them. Kuroko finds out who the Comedy Writer is and clues them in on one of the basic rules of storytelling. Meanwhile, Hinako trails a possible second perpetrator to their lair and winds up getting more than she bargained for. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Steeple vol. 2: The Silvery Moon Well, this is a pleasant surprise! I thoroughly enjoyed John Allison’s miniseries about young curate Billie who came to the English coastal town of Tredregyn only to get involved with its weirder side. The parts that involved sea monsters, windmills calling forth the rapture, and the local […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]