I picked up this volume out of hope that the series would improve after the inauspicious start it presented in vol. 1.  Guess what?  Things did improve!  Granted, the nature of the improvement doesn’t immediately turn this into a must-read title.  In fact, the way things play out here make me wonder if mangaka Gamon […]

A man with a cut-out newspaper mask streams videos of his threats of violence on the internet before carrying them out.  Now it’s up to the members of the Metropolitan Anti-Cyber Crimes Division to catch him and his helpers before he and his partners commit more crimes in the real world.  However, public sentiment is […]

I was planning on writing up my thoughts on “Prophecy,” a new manga from Vertical, but then I read this earlier today.  After putting out five nice two-volumes-in-one hardcover editions of “Vinland Saga” in the space of a year, Kodansha U.S.A. has “temporarily” suspended publication of this excellent title.  As announcements of this such go, […]

“Tragedy?  Or one last moment of triumph?” That’s what I wrote last year when the previous volume left off with wrestler “Scorpion” Shiratori preparing to head back into the ring.  Never mind the fact that his rehabilitation unfinished, the man is unable to even stand up without assistance.  How the hell is someone like that […]

There are certain volumes in some of my favorite series that I just dread re-reading when I get to them.  “The Sandman vol. 9:  The Kindly Ones,” “Blade of the Immortal vol. 11:  Beasts,” “Berserk vol. 13,” and I could go on.  Even though I love these series, I always dread getting to these particular […]

Only one more volume left. So what does mangaka Hiroaki Samura choose to do with this penultimate entry in his legendary series?  Go balls-out with the action as he has three different battles unfold over the course of this volume.  Even though the fighting is pretty much non-stop from beginning to end here, he still […]

Yeah, this is going to be the last volume of the series I buy.  What started out as the most hilariously awful thing I’ve read in a long time actually got better and became less interesting in the second volume.  Then something happened between the release of that volume and this latest one that stole […]

So I guess you can call “Gantz’s” return to being a title I actually look forward to a sustainable trend with this volume.  I will admit that it doesn’t do this in as dramatic a fashion as I had hoped.  More like, there are a lot of little moments here that either prove to be […]

Anime News Network reports that “The Shinji Ikari Raising Project” will be ending with vol. 18 next year.  (Man, where was this when I was looking for something interesting to use as a lead-in to yesterday’s post?)  To which I can only say, “It’s about goddamn time!”  While the series initially started off as a […]