Manga and Comic Reviews
Between the two sales-challenged manga series that I routinely talk up, “Vinland Saga” and “Eden: It’s an Endless World!,” it looks like the former is getting a reprieve later this year. Kodansha U.S.A. announced at the Emerald City Comic-Con that vol. 8 of Makoto Yukimura’s excellent historical viking action series will be coming out later […]
I should hate this series now. After all, this volume finally breaks the one thing I really liked about the early volumes. That would be the “Magneto-esque” morality behind Sato’s actions. Clearly a skilled killer, his actions against the government were somewhat justified in light of the ruthless experimentation and testing being performed on other […]
After “A Girl on the Shore” didn’t entirely satisfy my craving for a new quality manga from Inio Asano, this one hits the mark. Let me say upfront that it’s kind of a depressing read as well. It’s about average grade school kid Punpun Punyama trying to make his way through life as his situation […]
I talked about the first two volumes a bit at the end of the “Gantz” podcast as they represented a dramatic shift from mangaka Hiroya Oku’s seinen sci-fi action series. It’s still a sci-fi action tale, but one more concerned with how a timid old man, the titular Inuyashiki, adapts to the power granted to […]
There’s a new volume of “Berserk” slated to come out in Japan this summer. If we’re lucky, Dark Horse might be able to put it out in English by the end of the year. Even if they do manage to pull that off, three years will have passed between the release of new volumes of […]
This is another first volume from Yen Press that only costs $3 digitally on Amazon. Unlike “Handa-kun,” I was left ready for more after reading it and was disappointed to find that the company is letting the release of the digital editions lag behind print. That’s because “Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun” is a charming and funny […]
At this point, Dark Horse has published more “Halo” comics for a longer time than when Marvel had the license to do so. The one thing they haven’t done, however, is publish a hardcover anthology of short stories based in this videogame universe. Well, that’s going to change this October when Dark Horse puts out […]
This is a prequel of sorts to “Barakamon” in the sense that it shows what Sei Handa, the straightlaced calligrapher protagonist of that series, was like back in highschool. As it turns out, he was even more uptight and neurotic when he was younger. This is because Handa is convinced that everyone in school hates […]
Up until this point Saitama has faced off against some pretty bad villains. But how will he survive the threat of a meteor which threatens all life on the planet? Or what about the Deep Sea King who has invaded the surface along with the rest of his fishy clan? Is this a threat that […]
Fran Madaraki just wants people to be happy. As the greatest creation of the legendary mad scientist Dr. Madaraki, she has the surgical skills to bend science and medicine to her will in order to accomplish just that. Whether it’s the head of a zaibatsu who wants his son brought back to life, a high […]