Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dur-An-Ki I had completely forgotten that this was coming before I saw it in the solicitations. Kentaro Miura didn’t do much in his career that wasn’t “Berserk” – he did the art for the Buronson-written “Japan” and “King of Wolves” and did the one-volume “Giganto Maxia.” He also wrote this short series where […]
Life continues on as usual for Shiro and Kenji for most of this volume. Their favorite bakery is closing as its owner moves to a new location, so they’re going to have to find a new source for freshly baked bread. A new supermarket opens up in their area, giving Shiro another option in his […]
Keun the Kaufman and Gyapollo have reached the final stage of the conflict. The kunstler has just about reached his limit, but he’s got one more card to play against the psychopathic cyborg who kidnapped Yoko and Yunie. Speaking of those two, they’re still captives of Gyapollo’s henchmen. While Yunie is desperately trying to find […]
Well, here we are. Kentaro Miura, the mangaka of “Berserk,” passed away on May 6, 2021, due to acute aortic dissection. While his health issues had been mentioned, but not discussed in any detail over the years, their impact on the frequency of his output was obvious to see for any long-time reader. Yet it […]
Inio Asano is one of those creators who has done such interesting work in the past that I’m always up for checking out what he’s done next. In addressing post-college twentysomething angst in “Solanin,” charting a young boy’s troubled development through a clever visual metaphor in “Goodnight Punpun,” showing us the dehumanizing effects of life […]
Frieren is back… in time! After touching that monument at the end of vol. 11, the elven mage has found herself transported back to the time when she was traveling with the party that eventually defeated the Demon Lord. Eisen is in his prime, while Heiter and (more importantly) Himmel are still alive. Time travel […]
Kuro Kumogakure’s infiltration of Kodan High School has hit a few hitches. There was the gang of gals that tried to take him and his friends down at the start of the, and he found himself drawn into Eita’s bullying situation as well. Yet he managed to deal with both of these issues, and has […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Adabana vol. 1 A small town is rocked by the double murder of a student and a ramen shop owner, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case after a classmate of the student confesses to the crime. The catch is that the culprit’s public defenders are convinced there’s more to the story […]
With Aqua now satisfied regarding the identity of his father – and by extension, with the idea that the man behind Ai’s death is also dead – he’s content now to have an average showbiz career as he prepares for medical school (again). However, with Ruby now aware of how the doctor who treated her […]
In this volume, things get worse for the survivors on the titular ship. Some kids are using the chaos to settle old scores, while others see it as their last chance to, uh… score before they die. Most of them have split up into two camps with the upper-class Hilltop kids taking control of the […]