Manga and Comic Reviews
New Year’s Week is always the deadest week of the year for comics, but there’s at least one uh… decently lit spot for me. Vol. 4 of “The Massive” will be arriving then, so we’ll see if Brian Wood’s post-cataclysm series can finally start living up to its potential before the end. There are also […]
“Action-packed” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this series or manga from Kaoru Mori in general. Yet it’s a fitting description for this volume of “A Bride’s Story as armed conflict breaks out between the people of Amir’s city and her family’s tribe. After her brother, Azel, and his friends […]
It’s the eye of the tiger/ It’s the thrill of the fight/ Rising up to the challenge of our rivals… Wait, where was I with this title? Ah yes, Musashi was still looking for the key to progress as a swordsman and is determined to find it while being a surrogate father to an orphaned […]
The title characters from this series are beings that can’t be killed and have unique abilities that involve shadow-forms and a voice that can paralyze then make you do what they want. Average high schooler Kei couldn’t be bothered to care about things like that as he studies to pass his mid-terms. At least, that […]
The definition of “tsundere” that comes up when you Google it goes like: a Japanese character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing his or her warm side over time. I’m bringing this up because it perfectly describes the newest addition to “Sidonia’s” […]
It’s finally here. After following it for a good portion of my adult life,* one of my all-time favorite series reaches its conclusion this March (because Dark Horse advance-solicits collections two months ahead in their solicitations). “Blade of the Immortal vol. 31: The Final Curtain” brings the series to a close fifteen years after I […]
I wasn’t expecting this volume to match the utterly gripping drama of its predecessor. The setup, payoff, and twists in between that were delivered in vol. 4 represent one of the most satisfying comic book reads I’ve experienced all year. To try and top that, well, it’d be a tall order from even the best […]
Make no mistake: The first volume of this series was one of the funniest things I’ve read all year! It’s a special thing to see creators run through the tropes inspired by “Aliens” and countless other sci-fi works without the slightest bit of self-awareness and utterly convinced that what they’re doing is special and worth […]
There really isn’t that much to talk about with the publisher right now. It’s been one of those months. However, they did announce at Kumoricon that they’ll be releasing the “Fate/Zero” manga that was adapted from the prequel novel for the popular series. Adaptations like this are usually of inconsistent quality, so I don’t see […]
Hrm… Had I realized that this was going to be the last volume of this title, I probably would’ve postponed the podcast for another year. The issue is moot now, as mangaka Motoro Mase’s drama about a society where people who are randomly injected with a capsule as children will die early deaths as adults […]