The world lost a great man yesterday with the passing of Nelson Mandela.  Imprisoned for 27 years in the cause of freeing his people, released to see it happen and be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and then going on to unify his country as president.  He was a man who changed the world and […]

“Oh, it’s a review of the latest ‘Gantz’ volume,” you’re thinking, “Time for Glick to rant even more about the title’s downward spiral.”  In that regard, you’re mostly right.  The series doesn’t really do a whole lot to make the current alien invasion storyline more interesting and even adds in a new complication that’s more […]

It’s that time of year again as the annual volume of “Berserk” has finally arrived.  That being said, the “annual” tradition is effectively over now as it’s doubtful that a new volume will even be out in Japan next year.  Mangaka Kentaro Miura announced that “Berserk” is going on hiatus while he works on a […]

Keeping with a Vertical trend for this weekend, here we are with the second volume of this shonen soap opera romance.  Though the first one had its issues, I wasn’t about to write it off because there was the chance that it could pull out a revelation about main female protagonist Emiru’s “sickness of despair” […]

I should’ve seen it coming through the boob window. With a cover like that, how could I actually expect the first volume of “From the New World” to be any good?  Because it was being published by Vertical, that’s why!  For years the company has put out some of the most interesting non-mainstream manga and […]

So this arrived a little sooner than I thought it would, and turned out to be worth the wait as well.  A little win-win situation right there.  Even better is that after a bit of action at the beginning the book’s entire focus shifts to Fukumachi’s efforts to chronicle Habu’s solo, oxygenless climb of Everest’s […]

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 […]