Manga and Comic Reviews
Akiko Higashimura’s epic of female otaku, fashion, and jellyfish takes two conventional, but not unsatisfying, turns in its second volume. The first is that the standard shojo manga love triangle starts to become a bit more codified here. Dowdy jellyfish-lover Tsukimi really does have the hots for crossdresser Kurano’s handsome, responsible, and utterly inept in […]
Here is where we take a break from any long-term story threads this title has been nurturing. Anyone expecting to learn more about Chise and Elias’ pasts, the mage school that approached Elias in the previous volume, or what that evil alchemist from the first couple of volumes is up to will have to wait […]
Yup, fine. Between driving down on Friday and hanging out with Steve afterwards and on Saturday, I probably spent less time at the con than I have in past years. There was still plenty of rummaging through the half-off bins as well as the four panels I attended, and fun was had in these activities. […]
As I write this, Comic-Con is almost upon us. That means there are all sorts of announcements, official and otherwise, about upcoming titles from the major publishers hitting the internet. In the case of Dark Horse, that includes “Ether” a five-issue miniseries from writer Matt Kindt and artist David Rubin about an inter-dimensional explorer whose […]
If you were expecting Inio Asano’s story of adolescent love, loss, and ANGST to get any happier with this second volume, then I’d bet this is the first of his manga you’ve read. In that case, congratulations on taking the plunge! Much like real life, however, vol. 2 shows that this series is going to […]
Does Nagisa go a little crazy after the setup from the cliffhanger in the previous volume? Yup. Does he manage to rein himself in and deliver some satisfying comeuppance to the main antagonist from this arc? You better believe it. “Assassination Classroom” isn’t a series that will be remembered for its unpredictability, but rather its […]
I thought I knew who the antagonists were in this series going into this volume. You have Silver Mask, now revealed as Hilmes — son of the murdered King Osores, who was the secret power behind Lusitania’s invasion of Ecbatana and has a serious mad-on for its King Andragoras and (by extension) Arslan. Yet Andragoras […]
Okay, I guess? There’s nothing to get me excited like I was for their announcement of “I Am A Hero” last year, but I’ll be buying two of the three titles they announced at their Anime Expo panel earlier today. The full list is: Hatsune Miku: Rin-chan Now!, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko […]
Oh man. With one scene in this third volume, “Mushoku Tensei” effectively cements itself as something just for the fanboys. It was my hope that the story would focus more on the redemptive aspects of Rudy Greyrat’s journey from reincarnated NEET to first-class wizard in this fantasy realm with the fanservicey bits firmly in the […]
This took over a year longer to arrive than I expected, but it doesn’t matter! The final volume of this series has made it to print after the long delay had me fearing that we’d never find out how this series ends. It picks up shortly after the bit of (what I found to be) […]