Manga and Comic Reviews
There were times last year where I was worried that I wouldn’t have a manga title to review in a given week. Flash forward to today and now my “to review” pile is positively choked with manga. Which is a good thing as there have been times in the past where, as some series concluded, […]
I thought that the first two volumes of this series were fun, but a little slight in the storytelling department. The good news is that things get a lot more interesting with these two volumes. After the demonic threat, and affectingly tragic backstory, of the previous volume is taken care of, Johanna and Marion head […]
After eight (really sixteen) volumes you’d think that “Prison School’s” schtick would be firmly established by now. The boys act like knuckleheads — maybe one gets caught with his dick out, the girls embarrass themselves in dealing with the boys — maybe one gets caught hanging from a doorknob by her panties, and everything is […]
From the realm of “How the hell did this happen?!” comes the announcement that Dark Horse has licensed the “Mob Psycho 100” manga. It’s from ONE, the co-creator of “One-Punch Man,” and focuses on a con man who exploits a kid with psychic powers to run a ghostbusting operation but also has to act as […]
It’s (red) dragon slaying time! After the opening chapter catches us up with Namari and her party, adding some to the title’s mythos and doing a bit of foreshadowing along the way, the rest of the volume is focused on taking down the dragon that wiped the party back at the beginning of the story. […]
Yes, I really should’ve reviewed this back when it came out around the beginning of March. Mainly because this series is almost as sales-challenged as mangaka Hiroki Endo’s other series published out here, “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” The fact that it was a solid six months between the publication of volumes five and six […]
It turns out that the previous volume was just a fluke and “Murcielago” isn’t done pushing buttons or the envelope just yet. In fact, I can see the subject matter in this volume causing even more people to give up on this series altogether. That’s because the mass murderer of choice here is one who […]
A little over three and a half years ago we reached the end of mangaka Yukio Kishiro’s “Battle Angel Alita: Last Order” series. While the majority of the series focused on the title character and the consequences of the intergalactic martial arts tournament she found herself wrapped up in, its final two volumes gave us […]
It’s the end of an era in these solicitations as a long-running manga series reaches its final volume. That’s right true believers, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project vol. 18 will finally arrive on our shores this August (remember, Dark Horse collections are always advance-solicited by two months). While there’s still no definitive […]
We are officially in the home stretch here with only two volumes left in the series and the plot reaches its climax here. After some early bits of drama in vol. 19 to introduce the mercenary bad guys of this volume, and comedy, as Koro-sensei helps his students put together a class yearbook, the anti-sensei […]