Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Comics based on the “Aliens” movies been one of the cornerstones of Dark Horse’s publishing efforts over the years. More often than not, they’ve also been a very good example of the company’s commitment to raising the standard of quality for licensed comics and treating them as projects to be invested in as opposed to […]
“Knights of Sidonia” continues to remain, for me at least, an intriguingly weird meeting of mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s unique style with a fairly generic mechs vs. aliens story. The most memorable bits usually come when he makes an overt attempt to integrate a particular trope into the story. This is how we get things like […]
If you were expecting things to continue on much as they did in the first volume, then you’ll likely be satisfied by this second volume about the love-and-work-lives of gay couple Shiro and Kenji and the food they eat. This also means that the title’s flaws — its predictability, the way the momentum grinds to […]
Now I know I expressed some concern about the upcoming finale of this series in my thoughts about the upcoming volume. After reading this one, I’m happy to report that they’ve been effectively dispelled. Things start off with an effective epilogue to Abayama’s battle in the previous volume as we find out about the time […]