Manga and Comic Reviews
What feels like the endgame for this series kicks off in this volume as Sato makes his move. What move is that you ask? Why negotiations with the Ministry of Welfare — the same organization that has been kidnapping and torturing demi-humans to see how they can benefit society. What’s that you say? Negotiating with […]
It was announced a year or so back that Netflix would be making a series out of the Dark Horse title “The Umbrella Academy.” While we’re still waiting for news about how that’s going, it looks like the relationship between the two companies goes both ways. I say this because Dark Horse will be publishing […]
Even though I did a podcast featuring both titles, I can’t say that I’ve got a definite plan of covering them together for the future. It just so happens that new volumes of “Kaguya-sama” and “Silver Spoon” come out at around the same time. So I’ll probably talk about them together for the forseeable future […]
The dragon was slain, Falin was rescued, and everyone got a great meal out of the ordeal. All that’s left is for our party to head back to the surface and call it a day, right? NOPE! It turns out that the party’s dragon-slaying attracted the attention of none other than the Lunatic Magician who […]
The previous volume teased this one as promising the most “taboo” content yet. Given how this series has played out so far, that came off as much of a threat as a promise. While it’s hard to say whether or not this is the envelope-pushing-est volume of the series to date, following one that focused […]
Well, that was quick. The first volume of Alita’s latest series had me expecting that it’d be a while before we caught up to her present-day post-”Last Order” exploits. Vol. 2 of “Mars Chronicle” starts out by immediately going “nope” to my expectations and starts off with Alita and Erica meeting at the site of […]
There’s always going to be tech problems at any con. Between mechanical and human errors it’s always a matter of “when” things are going to go wrong rather than “if.” For the first couple of days at this year’s Fanime it seemed like every panel that involved a laptop was hamstrung by some kind of […]
Inio Asano has had enough works translated into English that his tics have become readily apparent at this point. The characters who speak with arch know-it-all sensibilities, his love of magical realism or outright surrealism, and stories that mix everyday whimsy with crushing despair. It’s to the point where I’d imagine that you’re either onboard […]
The company may have lost the “Star Wars” and “Conan” licenses to Marvel, but they’ve been getting plenty of Disney licenses to help balance things out. Last month’s solicitations had the debut of an “Incredibles” miniseries while this month has the first issue of Frozen: Breaking Boundaries which is described as the first multi-issue comics […]
Huh. It turns out this is the final volume. I’m not sure how I failed to see this coming or how I convinced myself in the first place that this was going to be a 22-volume series. Oh well, that just means I’ve reached the end of this really good series a little earlier than […]