After some fifteen-odd years of reading it and nearly eight alternately spent talking and writing about how good it is, the final volume of “Blade of the Immortal” has arrived for me. So yeah, I’m going to spend some time savoring the experience this evening. If these words don’t convince you about how big a […]

After two years of regular bi-monthly serialization (save for this volume), the inevitable has happened with this series:  “Sidonia” has finally caught up to the latest volume released in Japan.  It also picked a fine note for that to happen on here.  The opening phallocentric (no, really, it is) chapter and two that follow offer […]

I don’t usually go in for videogame special editions, but the one being offered for “Final Fantasy Type-0 HD” had something that really caught my eye.  That would be a 200-page manga that (as of this writing) isn’t available anywhere else.  In addition to all of the other bells and whistles the special edition came […]

“VINLAND SAGA” LIVES AGAIN!!! Kodansha USA announced last week that volumes six and seven of this excellent series will be released this September and December, respectively.  Even though I was having a good time at WonderCon when I read this news, finding out about “Vinland Saga’s” eventual return to print was the highlight of my […]

“Seraphim… my bastard child.  Yeah, that’s not finished either.” That quote is from the final chapter of Satoshi Kon’s “Opus” as the author remarks on his other unfinished manga series, which was written by none other than Mamoru Oshii, director of the first “Ghost in the Shell” anime.  Editor extraordinaire Carl Horn was considering using […]

In case the title of this post wasn’t expository enough for you, Anime News Network has reported that the crown jewel of Tokyopop’s manga line will be coming back into print.  Mind you, that’s “crown jewel” as I see things.  Over the course of five volumes in the U.S., Makoto Yukimura’s sci-fi series managed the […]

While we’re on the subject of series that are marching towards their end, “Claymore” has reached its penultimate volume.  Regrettably, as has been the case with the last couple of volumes, there’s more bland action than exciting plot revelations here.  This series has always been “Berserk Lite,” but it nevertheless managed to conjure up an […]

The reason you don’t see much shoujo manga featured on this site is mainly because I’m a guy.  Shocking, I know.  I do have a friend who was a fiend for the stuff and I could browse through her library and check out all the stuff that looked interesting.  I wouldn’t have read titles like […]

I was keeping my expectations low for this, and that turned out to be a good thing.  Much as I liked the “Stardust Crusaders” arc of this manga, it represented mangaka Hirohiko Araki settling into a solid groove in both art and writing after finding out what works and what didn’t in those earlier volumes. […]