“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. […]

In one of those wars of the medieval era where France and England are fighting each other (there were so many that they start to blend together after a while), a witch named Maria lives in a forest.  When she’s not helping out local villagers, she’s working to defuse the conflict in her own way. […]

If you’re familiar with the web machinima series “Red vs. Blue,” I want to to remember all the way back to the first season.  Back to the moment when Sarge, taken out of action by a grenade to the face, is revived through the heroic efforts of Grif’s administration of CPR.  Sarge is grateful until […]

Two volumes in and it still feels like I know exactly where this series is going to go.  This is mainly because it’s striking to see how movie-like “Prophecy’s” pacing is here.  Volumes one and two really do read like the first two acts of a feature film.  In the first volume we had the […]