Manga and Comic Reviews
Yeah, I’m not as impressed this time around. Most of the sex-themed humor has lost its appeal with a couple deeply misguided attempts to mine rape (implied and attempted) for humor early on. The narrative is also bogged down in countless circular arguments regarding whether or not what Maria is doing is good that come […]
Dark Horse announced some new manga licenses at their Anime Central panel over the weekend. They included “Giganto Maxia” by Kentaro Miura of “Berserk” fame, a license rescue of “RG Veda” by Clamp (previously published by Tokyopop), and a “Danganronpa” manga based on the anime which was based on the videogame. So far we’re well […]
WonderCon? Yeah, it was over a month ago now and I’m still working on the last few volumes of “Appleseed” that I picked up there. This has been going on for about a week now. Long story short: My opinion of Masamune Shirow’s pre-”Ghost in the Shell” cyberpunk series hasn’t improved much over the years. […]
It’s a simple premise: Seki goofs off in elaborate ways in class while the girl who sits next to him, Yokoi, reacts to his actions. One would think that such a setup wouldn’t be enough to sustain an entire volume, but mangaka Takuma Morishige proved in the first volume that it had real legs in […]
It’s been a while since I started reading a new Shonen Jump title, but I’d forgotten about how most of them have a “getting acquainted” period for the first few volumes. As weekly titles, Jump series can take a while to hit their stride as they introduce their cast and flesh out their worlds. The […]
You know, I would’ve liked to have read a series about a cold-blooded killer with otherworldly powers uniting others of his kind to fight against a social order that would otherwise exploit them to the fullest extent. That’s the kind of series “Ajin” felt like during its first few volumes as Sato/Hat tried to get […]
In my review of vol. 2 I made a number of predictions about what we could expect to see in this concluding volume. This is how they panned out: “[T]hings ending with the death and/or imprisonment of the members of the Paperboy group.” Right on both counts, actually. Not everyone makes it to the finale. […]
The text on the back of this volume spells out its appeal in succinct detail: “The bailiff takes one up his ass.” It’s no secret that the series has been building to the takedown of this character. Anything less would’ve had its audience riot in the street, small as it is. So let me say […]
Strip the covers off of your (first print) copies of “Star Wars #1,” send them in to Dark Horse, and get a free variant cover of their new “Barb Wire” series. It was the “April Fool’s” joke that wasn’t. I’d call it schadenfreude, but it really isn’t. Anyway, with over a million copies in circulation […]
Real progress towards sorting out the Goridian’s Knot of Madarame’s love life by the end of the volume. You’ll have to wade through a lot of waffling on the cast’s part to get there, though. That’s because ComiFest time has arrived again and everyone who is not Ogiue (she’s busy prepping her own doujinshi for […]