Three volumes in and Inio Asano’s latest is finally starting to make some worthwhile strides towards the level of quality I normally expect from his series.  It’s really evident once we find out that one of Kadode and Ontan’s friends has died as a result of the latest human/alien skirmish. Seeing the way the girls […]

Tsutomu Nihei is a creator who has been moving ever closer to the mainstream over the course of his career.  Looking at his multi-volume series, you get the feeling that after he was fully able to indulge his artistic impulses in “BLAME!” Nihei viewed creating a series with mass appeal as a real challenge to […]

This is easily one of the better volumes of the series.  Why? Because it focuses almost exclusively on creator Gamon Sakurai’s greatest strength:  His ability to create some kick-ass action scenes. So if you were expecting great things in that regard after Sato infiltrated the JSDF base in the previous volume then you’re going to […]

While the main goal of Sugimoto and co. right now is to get to Asirpa’s father in Abashiri prison, this volume shows that the series is in no hurry to get there as it splits itself into two halves.  The first is about our group of protagonists and how they make their way to Sapporo […]

The cover to this volume is best appreciated by looking at the version of it on the color insert on the first page.  That’s because the contrast that glossy version affords allows you to see how creepy it really is. Not that Teacher means any ill will towards Shiva in this volume.  Not intentionally, as […]

Between “Delicious in Dungeon,” “Kaguya-sama,” “Silver Spoon,” and now this, just about all of the manga I’ve been reading in scanlated form have now received proper English releases.  (I’ll keep holding out hope for “Dagashi Kashi,” but if it hasn’t been picked up following the two anime series that it’s received…) “Tomo-chan” is the least […]

Fuck this series. What started out as a fun alternate-universe “Evangelion” title burned away any goodwill it had long ago.  There’s no denying that it’s take on the franchise, a happy ending filled with wacky hijinks compared to the world-ending apocalypse of the TV series and movies, was refreshing at first.  After a while it […]

The focus of this series shifts back to Darryl Lorenz and his squad for this volume as the Zeon forces pursue their own efforts to recapture the tech behind the Psycho Zaku from the Nanyang Alliance.  Well, with a side of pillaging to go with the hunting as it’s revealed in the opening chapters that […]

The first few chapters in this volume are set in Belgium and are veeeeeery foreshadow-y.  Specifically in regards to what the endgame of this virus might be, and I hope it’s not as much like “The Human Centipede” as it’s made out to be here.  Then things finally shift back to Hideo, Oda, and the […]