It seems like mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki finally got around to watching “Memento” before he sat down to create this volume-length story.  I say this because the first half of vol. 6 has the same gimmick as that classic film: a story told in reverse. Things start out with Bianca, one of the veteran mobile suit […]

This latest volume can be neatly divided into three sections.  What’s telling about the division is that even its weakest section, which would be the first, is still pretty engaging.  That first section focuses on a manga editor and his assistant traveling to Taiwan to get some photo reference shots after just about everyone else […]

The main story of Col. Kurtz’s efforts to gain control of Buer and Nene and Clarion’s very roundabout way of foiling him came to an end in vol. 8.  It was a nice wrap-up for this series that has been an enjoyable bit of harmless fluff since the beginning. Yet, it wasn’t the end of […]

This rambling and energetically chaotic volume finally catches us up to the Japanese release after a couple years of waiting.  Now we get to wait some more as mangaka Kohta Hirano has never been known for having the strictest work ethic.  He’s not in the same league as “Berserk’s” Kentaro Miura, but this volume shipped […]

This is starting to drift into “Why am I still reading it?” territory.  It looked for a while that the series was going to become more than a wacky rom-sit-com as Tsukimi, Kuranosuke, and the rest of the otaku AMARS gang branched out into making their own fashion startup.  That completely fell through and now […]

I didn’t realize it until reading this volume, but I screwed up when compiling my “Best of 2017” list.  For reasons that I cannot explain, the brilliance of “Happiness” vol. 4 managed to slip my mind when I was putting things together.  It stings even more because mangaka Shuzo Oshimi manages some really impressive tricks […]

Vol. 2 left off on a pretty great cliffhanger where Sugimoto was being beaten and stabbed by twin soldiers while in the custody of Lt. Tsurumi.  The resolution as to how he manages to get out of this situation is the best part of the volume.  It involves a greased-up “Escape King” Shiraishi, some quick […]

Mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki cranks up the action in this volume as the Federation and Zeon forces embark on their respective operations to get the secrets of the Reuse P Device from the Nanyang Sect, and take a few potshots at each other in the process.  We start off with Darryl Lorenz and his team extracting […]