Manga and Comic Reviews
I’ve been writing these “Previews Picks” ahead of my trip to Fanime and I’ve been saving this one for last. Mainly because I thought that after nothing came out of Sakura-Con, we’d get some juicy news from Dark Horse Manga at Anime Central this past weekend. As it turned out, they didn’t even have a […]
Well, vol. 7 really left me feeling that this series had gone off the rails with its focus on Madarame’s Harem. Like all good(?) harem stories, it had several of the series’ female characters positioned as romantic interests for the man but precious little explanation as to why they felt that way. This is even […]
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the most important Dark Horse manga release of the year. Why is that? Well, let me ask you something: When was the last time you saw Dark Horse release a new manga that wasn’t a) from an established creator, b) a spinoff from a popular anime or videogame, or c) […]
The relationship at the core of this series gets bit deeper with this volume as we find out about Elias’ history. It’s related to Chise by the mage Lindel who talks about the fearsome entity he encountered one evening that collapsed out of hunger in front of him. Elias’ exact origins are mostly shrouded in […]
Well… This took its time in arriving. It’s still a worthwhile read, even though this volume represents what they call in the sports world a “rebuilding year.” After a well-done epilogue/victory lap for “Scorpion” Shiratori’s story, the focus shifts back to our three protagonists. Kiyohara is working better with his team with the hope that, […]
Tsukimi Kurashita is an 18-year-old jellyfish fanatic living in Tokyo with a gaggle of other fangirls with their own obsessions. Residing in a communal apartment and going by the nickname “Amars,” they live by their own camaraderie (and off of the goodwill of their parents) while maintaining a healthy distrust of those scary people known […]
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 […]