Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]