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 […]

It isn’t that this series has suddenly become dull in its examination of the ongoing misery of the title character’s life as he transitions into high school.  There’s too much disturbing stuff on display for that to happen.  Such as when we witness the loss of his virginity in a way that’s almost as uncomfortable […]

If nothing else, at least mangaka Hiroya Oku finishes off the low-rent crime/revenge story he started off in the previous volume quickly here.  Just one chapter and it’s behind us.  What follows is certainly an improvement as we get back to having the story be about the different approaches the aged Inuyashiki and the teen […]

What, no reviews of the three volumes in the series between this and the first one?  Nope.  “The Ice Reaper” never really rose above the level of fantasy comfort food in its exploration of the backstory of Kurasame and his companions, collectively known as the Four Heroes of Rubrum.  Our protagonist gains greater power as […]