Manga and Comic Reviews
While there’s still no word on how the Disney/Fox merger is going to affect the comics based on Fox properties that Dark Horse publishes, it’s good to see the company taking steps to shore things up before that issue is resolved. Interestingly, one of these new licenses is coming from Disney itself: “Frozen.” Dark Horse […]
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 […]
While we’re still waiting to see if the massive Disney/Fox merger is going to go through, and take all of the Fox licenses away from Dark Horse, Marvel started the year off by sniping a completely different license. After more than a decade at Dark Horse, Marvel is now the new publisher of “Conan” comics. […]
Here’s the latest volume of the other Dark Horse manga series to get a reprieve thanks to two successful anime series. I say other series because between “Battlefront” and “Drifters” this is clearly the lesser of the two titles. It’s still not without its charms as the opening story in this volume shows. The Libra […]
Vol. 12 may have ended with the promise of a new female shogun dealing with Commodore Perry’s arrival in Japan, but that seismic event only plays a small part in the political intrigue here. Most of the focus is on newcomer Masahiro Abe, the quick-witted Baron of Ise, who rises to the position of Chief […]
Are you ready for another rousing volume of adventure as the title character struggles to take back his homeland from those who have stolen it from him? Well, that’s not what happens here! Vol. 7 is the beginning of an extended diversion from the main plot as Arslan and company have to deal with an […]
Comedy is tough. It gets even tougher to pull off when it has to transition from one language to another. The gulf in context between Japanese and English swallows some of the gags from this volume whole, something which only becomes clear after you read the translation notes. I mean, I was willing to assume […]