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 […]

New volumes of this series are an annual event and always one worth celebrating.  Take this volume for instance, which covers over a decade of time yet doesn’t feel rushed at all.  It also has an intriguing cliffhanger to pick up on.  After reforming the shogunate and filling its coffers again, Yoshimune was riding high […]

If seeing junior high kids die after piloting the giant mecha Zearth has been enough drama to sustain this series over eight volumes, then showing us how their sole elementary school pilot accepts her fate should be even more dramatic.  Right?  That’s only partly true here.  As we found out at the end of the […]

I’ve written before about how great expectations can really affect my enjoyment of a given work.  Brian Vaughan, Kaoru Mori, and Ed Brubaker have all found themselves on the receiving end of this sentiment at some point.  “Tropic of the Sea,” is a special case.  You see, this is the longest manga work from Satoshi […]

Consider this the beginning of the end for Hiroaki Samura’s epic. With Shira out of the way in spectacular fashion, the narrative now shifts back to Habaki Kagimura and his Rokki-dan’s efforts to wipe out the rest of the Itto-ryu and the maverick sword school’s work to counter that.  That’s made clear as the bulk […]