Manga and Comic Reviews
The first couple of chapters provide the kind of silliness you’ve come to expect from this series. Which means we get to see Nene and Clarion visit the doctor, play (what is almost certainly) “Monster Hunter” with some kids, and take part in an underground robot fight club where the owner has his own customized […]
If there’s one thing the previous three parts of this series haven’t lacked for, it’s been direction. Even if the individual arcs within them went off in some pretty odd directions, each Jojo had his own particular goal to strive for. Until now, that is. The second storyline in this volume, “Chilli Pepper,” features the […]
This is a volume of “Delicious in Dungeon” where the emphasis is on the plot and characters rather than the dishes created from defeated monsters. Sounds like kind of a mistake, doesn’t it? If you’re like me and the series has had you engrossed since the first volume then chances are you’ve got some investment […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Steeple All of the books from Dark Horse that I was considering for this month involved potential. Not so much that I was expecting greatness from them, but that they had the potential for that or just to surprise me. So why does “Steeple” get this spot? Because of all the things I’ve […]
The descriptive text on the back of this volume says, “Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally.” Half of that sentence is unimpeachable gospel. The other half is a real case of Your Mileage May Vary. […]
We get the finale of the Kanto Tournament in this volume and the winner shouldn’t surprise you. Meguru turned the tide at the end of vol. 10 and he continues to press his advantage as he gets into the zone against Muroi. Yet the fact that he wins isn’t the most interesting thing about the […]
OH NO! Gieve is departing Arslan’s service! After being really smug to one of the new officers about how he killed– I mean, spared his brother from suffering, the minstrel gets in a very well-choreographed swordfight before Farangis shows up to put a stop to it. Gieve realizes that his services are no longer necessary […]
The craziest train in comics continues… I mean, it’d be easy to fill a couple paragraphs with all of the “What the hell did I just read?” moments from this latest omnibus edition. Instead, I’ll just fill one: Bando getting a bionic arm and saying nuts to the castration surgery to go fulfill his vendetta […]
The plot of this series does move forward in this volume, albeit incrementally. There’s some drama at the beginning as Mari and Yori’s relationship goes through another rough patch. It’s more the latter being angry at the former for trespassing against her boundaries, though we do learn a little more about Yori’s family life in […]
This current storyline has the feeling of a final arc, what with how everything hits the fan here, but it still feels like we’ve still got a ways to go yet. That’s because Sato has finally revealed his plan for destabilizing Japan. It employs the same kind of stupid/clever planning that this series has specialized […]