Manga and Comic Reviews
What would it take for me to drop this series? At this point it would have to be some truly offensive storytelling or for it to become truly boring. We get neither in this volume as mangaka Gamon Sakurai simply has the opposing factions here continue their battle inside a massive office building. There are […]
It’s official: The anime adaptation of Kohta Hirano’s “Drifters” manga is a hit according to Crunchyroll. It’s the most streamed anime on the site in twenty states, which is a good thing for the manga as well. While the series is currently up to vol. 5 in Japan, we haven’t seen a new volume since […]
After Vertical showed that there was a significant audience for “Gundam” manga with the consistently entertaining “The Origin” series, it was inevitable that we’d get more manga based off of this venerable mecha franchise released out here. Unfortunately, the first volume of “Thunderbolt” is a disappointingly generic entry that lacks any kind of distinctive storytelling […]
I found out recently that “Genshiken: Second Season” wrapped up its serialization in Japan. My friend Steve has been keeping up with the scanlations and he let me know that the series has also been fully translated at this point as well. He also dropped the cryptic hint that Saki — the non-otaku member of […]
The title character only makes a brief one-page appearance in this volume as the focus shifts onto the now-fugitive Hiro. He’s currently hiding out with Shion, the girl who confessed to him and was brutally shot down in the previous volume, and it’s not nearly as awkward as I was fearing from the previous volume. […]
The first two-volumes-in-one collection of this series remains one of the high points for my comics reading experience this year. Mangaka Kengo Hanazawa found a unique take on the zombie genre by making its protagonist, Hideo Suzuki, a mentally disturbed individual who happens to be one of Japan’s few gun owners. While the first half […]
Honoka Takamiya was just your average male high school student who had the mixed fortune to sit next to Ayaka Kagari, the class idol. While sitting next to someone as tall, good-looking, and cool as she is was great, he also had to deal with unwanted attention from her massive fan club. So imagine Honoka’s […]
We’re on to the next major arc in this series. I guess you’d call it the “Grim Reaper” arc as it has the students of Class 3-E taking on the assassin of the same name. Our antagonist for this arc got that title by being kind of assassin you call on when you want someone […]
Hey, guess what I forgot to post on Monday… Makoto Okazaki has it rough. Now, I’m not talking about how he has to deal with the bullies who have made him into their gopher, or how he has to deal with all of his pent-up adolescent sexual urges by himself. I’m saying he has it […]
The fact that the previous volume of this series happened to be a disappointing read was bad enough. It stung even more when you consider that new volumes of “A Bride’s Story” only come out on an annual basis. So I’ve basically spent most of the last ten months worrying that this great series had […]