Manga and Comic Reviews
My concern after the (still compulsively readable) vol. 9 was that this series was going to wind up becoming “The Thorfinn Show” as the main plot continued to focus in on him to the exclusion of the rest of the cast. That’s still a valid concern with this volume as Thorfinn meets Vagn, the leader […]
I thought that “Mob Psycho 100” was going to be the only “How the hell did this happen?” manga license from Dark Horse this year. I was wrong. At this year’s Anime Expo the company announced that they’ll be publishing the “Elfen Lied” manga in a series of four three-in-one omnibi. It’s a series about […]
What we have here is an action-centric volume and thankfully a gimmick-free one this time around. After the Spartan crosses the border of the Nanyang Alliance’s territory combat breaks out between the two sides. While that sounds simple enough, there are two complicating factors at work here: One is the Alliance’s efforts to get onboard […]
Apparently this series isn’t going to progress in a straight line, chronologically speaking. Vol. 3 takes us back to the time period of the first volume, and while I’m kinda disappointed that we’re not going to follow up with what Alita is up to in the present, we get some good backstory development here. Not […]
Now this is weird. The previous volume put the main plot on hold to focus entirely on a grown-up Yukiko Gosho as she tried to put the vampire-related trauma of her high school years behind her and live an ordinary life. It was an effective character study that ended in a way that promised a […]
How can you tell when a creator is firing on all cylinders regarding their current series? When they ditch their main cast and setting to focus on an all-new group of people in a completely different situation. That’s what mangaka Kengo Hanazawa does in this latest omnibus as we continue to focus on former shut-in […]
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 […]