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Manga and Comic Reviews

Under Ninja vol. 2

Breast-Milk Homeless Man fights the Foreign Schlong-Slicer.  The high school student who tried to steal a bra with his drone has to confront his crime.  Kawado goes into the vulgar particulars of her job while also revealing she’s connected to one of the most significant ninja incidents in recent history.  An abused little girl gets […]

Emanon vol. 4

It’s been a few years, but Dark Horse has delivered the follow-up, and possibly concluding chapter, to mangaka Kenji Tsuruta’s adaptation of writer Shinji Kajio’s stories.  After a brief interlude in 1980, the first arc in the volume picks up in 1988 with the title character, who has the knowledge of all of her past […]

Spy x Family vol. 9

In this volume, Anya’s actions indirectly cause the deaths of two people.  They were both thugs who were trying to kill the family that Yor has been trying to protect during this arc.  Which makes it all okay, right? Extremely dubious involvement of an elementary schooler in a battle of assassins aside this volume is […]

Dai Dark vol. 5

Who is Hajime “Hellmaster” Damemaru?  That’s the question Shimada Death wants to answer in this volume.  So she pursues the only rational course of action to find out:  Hooking up his shadow-ified body to the brain of an ancient decaying organism in Darknest in the hopes of getting a look inside.  Shimada and Zaha do […]

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 7

She may be one of the greatest mages of the modern age, but Frieren will never be a First-Class Mage by the Continental Magic Association’s (read:  Serie’s) standards.  So it’s a good thing that Fern has what it takes, along with no lasting enmity between her and her judge.  She’s not alone in passing the […]

Kaiju No. 8 vols. 5 & 6

Why yes, it has been a while since we’ve checked in with this series.  Consider this the start of a digital manga catch-up week around here. You’d think that I’d have wanted to follow-up on the adventures of Kafka Hibino sooner, what with vol. 4 leaving off with him having to prove that he’s still […]

Mob Psycho 100 vol. 12

Mob meets and rescues the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of this volume.  That may sound like a big thing, but it’s a minor footnote compared to what happens next.  While that immediately involves the title character learning the tragic backstory and taking on Serizawa, the last of the Ultimate 5, the real […]

Blood on the Tracks vol. 14

I don’t want to compare my interest in this series to the grip that Seiichi’s mom has on him, but it’s really starting to feel similar.  Even ten years on, our protagonist still can’t take control of his own life without facing the specter of his mother.  As for me, while I can’t quite say […]

The Heroic Legend of Arslan vol. 18

All of the setup in the previous volume felt like it was leading to a big battle, and that’s what we get here.  Two, in fact, with the first involving a clash of 250,00 Lusitanians against 100,000 Parsians.  It sounds like a very lopsided battle – and the Parsians don’t even have the strategic genius […]