Manga and Comic Reviews
While I admire a lot of things about this series its best trait may be how economical its storytelling is. What I mean is that in comparison to other (very) long-running Shonen Jump titles, mangaka Yusei Matsui rarely feels the need to drag arcs of this series out over multiple volumes. For example: Last volume […]
The bad news is that there’s not one moment in the art for this volume that gets me like it did in vol. 4. There are some striking moments, however. Gosho’s iron-willed determination to get out of a fiery situation late in the volume is impressively conveyed and followed up with the sequential art version […]
We’ve reached the end of the summer convention season and Dark Horse finally (FINALLY!) announced a new manga license. Well, it’s not a manga, actually. You could probably call it manga-adjacent, really, given that its subject is best known as an illustrator/character designer. The license in question is Yoshitaka Amano: Beyond the Fantasy — An […]
For a series that started off so very well attuned to my (trashier) sensibilities, “Murcielago” has been doing a lot to get me to not like it. After lesbian mass-murderer protagonist Kuroko Koumori enthusiastically came on to an underage girl and the rock-stupid antics of Hinako in the last volume, the series plows into some […]
Vol. 1 left off with an effective cliffhanger that had another Outsider grabbing little girl Shiva’s face as her guardian Outsider, Teacher, walked in. What follows is unusual for the series so far in that it’s a fight scene and a surprisingly violent one at that, delivering blood and dismemberment at one point. It’s also […]
I checked the publication date for vol. 37 and found something surprising. It hasn’t been the four or five years that I thought had passed since the publication of the previous volume of “Berserk” on these shores. It’s only been three years and eight months. Does this knowledge make me feel any better about the […]
Mangaka Akiko Higashimura has successfully mined the follies of female otaku for comedy and drama over in “Princess Jellyfish.” Now she tries to do the same for Japanese career women of a certain age (read: over 30) who have finally started to realize that their chance to get married has passed them by. Rinko is […]
Yeah… this arrived much, much sooner than I was expecting. It was even part of a Kodansha “Digital First” sale at ComiXology so I was able to pick it up at a discount. As glad as I am that I was able to read vol. 4 of this series, it does cast some shade on […]
Dark Horse had some notable media announcements during Comic-Con this year with three of its titles receiving TV adaptations. One of them, “Flutter” about a shapeshifting girl who turns into a boy to pursue a girl she likes, I haven’t read. Another, “Mind MGMT,” is one I’m very familiar with and kind of surprised to […]
Some people come back from Comic-Con with stories of the long lines they had to stand in so they could get into the panels they wanted to see. Not me, though. I stayed the hell away from Hall H and the other big media panel rooms and only went to comic-focused panels. So not only […]