How do you follow up one of the most thrilling volumes of comics I’ve read all year?  If you’re mangaka Makoto Yukimura, you dig right into your new status quo of the united factions from the previous volume taking on the King of Denmark for all he controls.  It’s a setup that doesn’t offer as […]

I thought that “Insufficient Direction,” Moyoco Anno’s “essay manga” of her life with husband Hideaki Anno, was pretty enjoyable for what it was.  This is actually an atypical reaction compared to the previous manga I’ve read from her.  Titles like “Happy Mania,” “Flowers and Bees,” and “Sakuran” left me cold and not feeling much for […]

I’ve made my thoughts clear that the previous volumes of this title do not represent Fumi Yoshinaga’s best work.  This volume, however, continues the trend of seeing the mangaka take baby steps towards giving this title more depth than it initially started out with.  There’s a brief moment where Shiro, the serious attorney, is complaining […]

There’s a great line in “Misato Katsuragi’s ‘The Shinji Ikari Raising Project’ Report” (from the “Evangelion Comic Tribute” that Dark Horse brought over last year)  that pretty much sums up the title it’s mocking.  The segment basically takes Shinji’s propensity for tripping, falling, and winding up on one or more of the female cast in […]

This volume is a 191-page exercise in waiting for the other shoe to drop.  It was a given that Kasuga’s trip back to his hometown would force some kind of confrontation with his past.  The question mangaka Shuzo Oshimi poses to the reader is when this will actually happen.  Will it be when he’s attending […]

I mentioned a while back that this represents the most important new manga release from Dark Horse in quite some time.  Not only is it a sequel to the most popular manga the company has ever released, but its success may even spur the release of new (old) series from the classic creative team of […]

Over a week ago, I expressed my thoughts regarding manga writer Eiji Otsuka’s presence at this year’s Anime Expo with the specific hope that this was set up by Dark Horse to sell more copies of his manga out here.  It turns out that his presence was set up by the company and there was […]

After the current arc reached a climax with the fighting in Jaburo, mangaka Yoshikazu Yasuhiko takes a break to flash back and give us the backstory of the conflict between the Federation and Zeon, along with some of the key players on the latter side.  This actually turns out to be a smart move as […]

It was announced today that Anime Expo would have another special guest at this year’s convention.  Eiji Ohtsuka, the writer of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” and “MPD-Psycho” will be giving a lecture and overseeing two workshops at this year’s convention.  I’ll admit that his presence makes passing up this year’s convention just a little […]