Manga and Comic Reviews
There’s not really much to say about the company’s business above the board this month. Unless you’re interested to know that they’ll be publishing an omnibus of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” later this year. So it’s time to come back to my favorite talking point with the company: manga. I’m bringing it up […]
Two volumes in and I’m still involved in following the ongoing disintegration of Makoto Okazaki’s life as he adapts to the changes that his newfound vampirism have wrought in “Happiness.” Some of these are good, as Okazaki now has a girlfriend and is currently best buds with his former bully after saving that guy from […]
It should go without saying that when you’re trying to build up a new villain for your hero to fight, it probably isn’t a good idea to have said hero incidentally take him out with one punch before they have their big showdown. Most series aren’t “One-Punch Man,” however. If there’s one thing linking these […]
The saga of the boys’ stint in the school’s prison finally comes to an end in this volume. It’s not a spoiler to say that their efforts to find evidence of the Shadow Student Council’s “Expel Boys Operation” is successful. But you’ll have to read the volume itself to find out how clothing switches, impersonations, […]
I believe I made my complete and total dislike of this title’s current villain, Harusada Tokugawa, honored mother of the shogun, pretty clear in my review of the previous volume. Re-reading said review, I regret more the fact that I used the word “power” three times in the space of two sentences than any of […]
While I’ve enjoyed the previous two volumes of this series, I haven’t been entirely crazy about them. Though the love triangle at its core between jellyfish otaku Tsukimi, gorgeous cross-dresser Kuranosuke, and his straight-laced brother Shu is competently handled, there’s not a lot much new there. Even when you consider the crossdressing angle. Mangaka Akiko […]
It’s close enough to the end of the year that it’s time for me to come back to my favorite talking point regarding this company: manga. After 2015 offered a bright spark of hope with the licensing of “I Am a Hero,” 2016 was back to the doldrums. Not that Kengo Hanazawa’s zombie manga wasn’t […]
I found the start of the current arc in the previous volume to be pretty underwhelming and it gets even worse here! It’s awful! Horrible! I’ve now lost all faith in this series and the world is now a dark and empty place because… I’m just kidding about all that, really. The conclusion to the […]
Monster girls are a big thing in anime and manga right now. While the concept of a guy who winds up accumulating a harem of cute girls will never go out of style, some creators have thought to improve on this idea by making some of the girls hybrids of mythological monsters like dragons, lamias, […]
The fact that I’m writing anything about this volume at all likely means that I’m a bad person. After all, vol. 3 had that scene where ten-year-old protagonist Rudy (who is actually a thirty-something otaku NEET who has been reborn into this fantasy world) grope fellow 10-year-old Eris with the intent of getting it on […]