With Garo recuperating from Orochi’s beatdown and Saitama walking. very. slowly. into the underground lair of the Monster Organization, this means that “One-Punch Man’s” two main protagonists are currently out of the action.  Which means that it really is up to the heroes in the Hero Organization to pick up the slack in terms of […]

This is a volume of two halves.  The first half is notable for how it does its absolute damndest to get me to give up on this series with this volume.  That’s because it’s essentially nothing but teenage wish fulfillment involving a porn star who can change her size at will.  All of the weirdness […]

Vol. 4 finally saw this series start to live up to its potential as the crew of the Quin Zaza tangled with an arrogant, high-class dragon researcher, and a legendary dragon in that order.  This volume doesn’t have the same level of excitement or adventure, but it does broaden the scope of the series in […]

The end of the previous volume promised us a showdown between longtime rivals Io Fleming and Darryl Lorenz.  We don’t quite get that here as the first half of the volume gives us a still-thrilling encounter between the two as Fleming presses his advantage as hard as he can.  It’s only the unbreakable determination of […]

BARBARIANS OUT!  That’s the rallying cry of the politicians from Kyoto as they despair at the savages — you know, like the British, the Dutch, and us Americans — that are infesting random small parts of the nation.  However, it’s not like Japan can just close itself off from the world as doing so might […]

Three years.  That’s how long it’s been since the last volume of “Master Keaton” was published in the U.S. and the last time anything from Naoki Urasawa hit these shores as well.  After “Monster” and “20th Century Boys” established him as one of the most acclaimed mangaka around, you’d think we’d have received something new […]

I really liked this volume.  The problem is that I’m not sure I liked it for the reasons that mangaka Gamon Sakurai intended me to. In a move that I hope surprised absolutely no one (And if it did, welcome to the world of fictional genre stories.  Be sure to remember that whenever the author […]

This volume arrived on Monday.  If I had more foresight I would have had that WTH revelation lead directly into this review, because… Revealing that charismatic Ainu revolutionary Kiroranke was one of the people who assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II certainly ranks as one of the more outrageous backstories in this series.  I’d go so […]

Are we done here?  Nope! How do you follow up a volume that combined Russian wall-fighting, manly steam baths, and wolverines?  By having the majority of it take place at the circus!  After an urchin steals one of their bags, Sugimoto’s group tracks him back to Yamada’s Circus who are back in Japan after a […]