Okay.  I know that I’ve been fairly critical of this series in the past, but I’m starting to think that it has finally turned a corner here.  After the previous volume managed to present a series of events that didn’t annoy the hell out of me, this one continues the momentum on several fronts.  Things […]

When I started reading the first volume of this series, I had high expectations for it.  After all, it was from the creator of “Planetes,” still the best manga ever published by Tokyopop, and the placement of each new volume on the sales charts indicated that this story about vikings had transcended whatever limitations doing […]

This series has gotten enormous mileage in making delicious suffering out of its protagonist’s entire life situation.  In news that should surprise absolutely no one who has been reading “The Flowers of Evil,” it gets some more during the first half of this book.  Still reeling from being called out by Saeki for not finding […]

Wondercon wasn’t the only con being held this past weekend as Sakura-Con was also going on way up north of me in Washington.   Even though I’ve never been to the con or even in the state itself, it’s of importance to me for one key reason:  It’s the con where Dark Horse announces the latest […]

There’s a lot of suffering to endure in this series.  On one hand, there’s the suffering endured by the inhabitants of the Swiss cantons who are hemmed in by the Wolfsmund gate at Sankt-Gotthardt Pass as they struggle against Bailiff Wolfram’s apparent omniscience in regards to their plans.  On the other, there’s the suffering the […]

This volume focuses on the adventures of a boy, a hermaphrodite and a tentacle.  That’s not to say that this series has turned into a hentai manga, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that since Tsumugi is now represented by a phallic-looking tentacle.  It’s an amusing development in what turns out to be one of […]

While we’re still on the subject of Dark Horse Manga, let’s shift gears a bit to talk about another series that we don’t see new volumes of all that often.  What separates “Drifters” from “Eden,” however, isn’t that it sells that much worse but that its creator has a terrible work ethic.  Mangaka Kohta Hirano […]

Why do I keep coming back to the the state of Dark Horse Manga so often on this blog?  That’s because after all the titles I’ve read from them over the years, I genuinely care about what’s happening to them and would hate to see them go away.  I see the steady decline of new […]

If you’ve read enough of Fumi Yoshinaga’s manga, it becomes abundantly clear that she has two real passions in life:  food and gay men.  She managed to combine them both in magnificent fashion in her best series, “Antique Bakery,” which I recommend to everyone who reads this.  Particularly to those who appreciate good character-driven stories […]