Manga and Comic Reviews
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) […]
I really liked the first volume of this series, especially at the price it was being offered at on Amazon. In the months since I wrote that first review, my affection for it has actually grown. Mangaka Izumi Tsubaki really nailed the essence of character-driven comedy with that first volume of this series about a […]
I think if I wanted to be a hipster, this is the volume where I would declare that this series is “Over.” That’s right “One-Punch Man” is no longer cool because our hero no longer embodies the title of his series. When an alien spacecraft lands on Earth and proceeds to lay waste to the […]
It wasn’t all panels, screenings, and checking out places to eat at the con. …Actually on second thought, it really was with my phone and 3DS picking up the slack otherwise. But for the plane trips there and back I had to rely on the comics in my backpack. They were generally quite good and […]
I’m doing my best to shake off the annual bout of post-con depression here. This year’s Fanime didn’t have the depressing lows or thrilling high of the previous one, but it was an awesome experience overall. That’s because there was enough going on between panels, screenings, and visits to the dealer’s hall and artist’s alley […]