Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]