Imagine if you’re Mob at the start of this volume.  You’ve just been defeated by the members of a secret organization of super-humans who are out to use their powers to take over the world.  You’re currently trapped in a room with your brother and a former rival.  Some of the other kids who were […]

Do you know who we haven’t seen a whole lot of over the course of this series?  The humans from the Inside, that’s who.  That changes here as the King who almost sacrificed Shiva in the previous volume gets a lot of page space as he reckons with his infirmity in failing to go through […]

This final volume arrived a couple months back and it’s been sitting, buried, under other, objectively better comics after I finished reading it.  BUT NO LONGER!  The craziest train in comics deserves to have its final volume recognized in some form.  Even if I’m going to be recounting a lot of the insanity that makes […]

Conventional wisdom dictates that “Kaguya-Sama’s” best days are behind it now.  After all, Kaguya and Miyuki are now a couple so all of the romantic tension is deflated along with the “Will They or Won’t They” shenanigans.  If fourteen volumes of this series have told us anything, it’s that “Kaguya-Sama” laughs in the face of […]

It took a while, but “Diamond is Unbreakable” finally realized its main plot and actually steered a couple of its principal characters into a conflict with Stand-wielding serial killer Yoshikage Kira.  However, the characters in question were Jotaro Joestar and Koichi.  In other words:  “Guy Who was the Protagonist in the Last Arc” and “Best […]

Back in the early days of my anime/manga fandom, a popular bit of trivia about mangaka Rumiko Takahashi was that she was the second-richest woman in Japan.  It was an easy to believe factoid, too.  She was the creator of long-running hits like “Urusei Yatsura,” “Ranma ½” and her current series, “Inuyasha,” was working its […]

This was a satisfyingly dense volume. It starts off strongly by revealing the nature of the threat from the previous volume, which I recognized from its presence in one of my favorite songs from a videogame.  That Chise is clever enough to find a way to deal with it isn’t a surprise, though the role […]

This volume starts out with a two-part story.  What’s the story about, I hear you ask?  It’s about what the cast of this series does when they have some spare time.  Mr. Smith goes for a walk.  Amir sings.  Karluk goes to look at some horses.  Leila and Lily complain to their husbands.  It’s 40-plus […]

“Murcielago” may never get back to being its old, gloriously nasty self.  Vol. 15 at least marks the closest it has come to being genuinely interesting after divesting itself of its shock tactics.  After a chapter is taken to wrap up the events of the previous storyline, we bear witness to the next psycho’s gimmick […]