This is the title where Amazon failed me.  After years of delivering all of my comics at fairly generous discounts with varying degrees of timeliness, they cancelled my order for this title and have yet to offer a physical copy of it for sale on their site.  Kodansha, its publisher, is currently pointing its finger […]

All those nice things I said about the cover of the first volume?  Yeah, none of that applies here.  Instead of something to set this apart from the crowd, we get some tawdry pseudo-bondage that thrusts the tits of the main female character into the reader’s face.  You get the feeling that the first volume […]

How good is this series?  So good that when it devotes the majority of a volume to its least interesting protagonist and storyline, the series still manages to be pretty compelling. I refer to aspiring wheelchair basketball ace Kiyoharu Togawa, who takes the spotlight again after several volumes in the background.  Though he clearly has […]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the soft reset. When we last left the disturbed, doomed romantic pair of Kasuga and Nakmura, they had made their way onto a float during the town’s Summer Festival.  With a knife.  Also calling out the entire town as, “Shitbugs.”  That was a great cliffhanger and mangaka Shuzo Oshimi doesn’t […]

Yeah, I couldn’t believe it when I read Dark Horse’s solicitations either.  Thirty months after the last volume shipped, the company has announced that vol. 14 of “Eden:  It’s an Endless World!” will be arriving next March.  I had pretty much given up hope of ever seeing this volume.  In fact, this was the first […]

It’s Laila and Leily’s wedding and we get to see all the work that goes into such an event in this region.  From the girls’ beautification process, to the butchering of sheep for the feast, and the arrival of all guests (invited and not) we get to see every little detail of this epic celebration. […]

When the volume begins, it seems like business as usual.  Yes, there’s planetary-level chaos after the climax of the Zenith of Things Tournament (ZOTT) and the majority of the opening chapter is a three-way conversation between two A.I. entities and Alita, but this is that kind of series.  We get plenty of melodrama as the […]

The good news is that this volume continues to keep the title’s momentum going.  We get a decisive end to the conflict between the Claymores and the Organization here with some nice surprises.  Things continue immediately on to the next arc where we get a change to the status quo of the Claire/Priscilla/Unholy Abomination of […]

Given that Vertical has been expanding into shojo manga over the past year, I initially thought that this was another entry in that vein.  It’s a romance story, there’s a whole lot of melodrama in the execution and the art initially comes off as very shojo-esque in its panel arrangement and design.  Then in chapter […]