In this volume, Saitama does a near dine-and-dash!  He forgot his wallet after ordering a meal at a restaurant, and when Blizzard comes to talk to him about a potential partnership, he runs off to take on another dine-and-dasher and sticks her with the bill.  After he takes care of the other dine-and-dasher, Saitama returns […]

Vol. 13 starts out with a letter to the reader from mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki.  In it, he tells us that he has been suffering from tenosynovitis, an inflammation of the tendons, in his left hand which is also his drawing hand.  Ohtagaki tells us that he has had to change his drawing style as a […]

The crew of the Quin Zaza pulls into the port town of Quon to unload the spoils of their draking endeavors and get some much needed R&R as well.  What passes for recreation is very different amongst the ship’s crew. Takita accompanies Mika has he meets up with Ula, the blind and wizened chief of […]

Remember how the previous volume ended with Koichi at the mercy of Stand-wielding manga artist Rohan Kishibe?  That battle is wrapped up soon into vol. 4 through a so-dumb-it’s-amazing quirk of Josuke’s personality.  Not only does this allow Josuke to go on a hunt with Jotaro for a literal rat who can also wield a […]

I’ve been a fan of Inio Asano ever since “Solanin” was published in English.  The mangaka had an interesting perspective on the world that embraced humor, sadness, and surrealism as its characters navigated their post-college lives without proper direction.  His subsequent works that were published in English — “What A Wonderful World!,” “A Girl on […]

I thought Dark Horse was done reprinting old flipped manga titles from their back catalog.  I’m glad that they’re not, both for this and other titles that have long since gone out of print.  Some history about this one first: “What’s Michael?” was something of an anomaly in the publisher’s seinen (young men’s) heavy output […]

There are signs that this series might be getting back to its old, nasty self.  They’re after the wrap-up of the “Master Swordsman” arc, though. The finish to that storyline serves up some decent action as Kuroko and Kurono’s duel through the ancient castle takes a fiery turn thanks to the former’s shenanigans.  While the […]

I complain a lot about how long Kentaro Miura takes between volumes of “Berserk” on this blog.  However, Rei Hiroe’s lack of output on “Black Lagoon” makes Miura look as prolific as a Jump artist with a hit series.  Vol. 9 of “Black Lagoon” was published here in July 2010, vol. 10 in April 2015, […]

A while back I called out one volume of this series for being somewhat homophobic in the way that it stereotyped the members of a same-sex couple.  Vol. 13 starts off by making amends for that by doing whatever the opposite of homophobic is as Sugimoto and the rest of his crew fight some blind […]

Look at that cover.  You can almost feel the smugness radiating off of it.  No doubt some of it is left over from vol. 15’s cliffhanger revelation that Shogun Iemochi’s new husband, Prince Kazu, is actually a woman.  It read like another kick in the shins at the time, because things have been going bad […]