Manga and Comic Reviews
The journey of young upper-atmosphere window-washer Mitsu and his friends wraps up in satisfying fashion with this volume. After the plant explosion, the lower levels have been sealed off from the middle and upper ones to prevent the chaos and rioting from spreading. Everyone down there prepares for the worst, and Mr. Nishimaru seizes this […]
Going back to “The Beat” again, there was an article from last week that asked the question, “Is Dark Horse Entering a Golden Age?” Writer Hannah Means-Shannon, who also did the article about the “Essential DC Graphic Novels” cites the company’s long reliance on (quality) licensed titles like “Star Wars” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” […]
Everyone who has read my reviews of this series so far should know by know that while I enjoy it a great deal, there’s always been one thing holding it back. The “romance” between Moritaka and his “girlfriend” Miho; or rather, the complete lack thereof due to their idiot promise at the start of the […]
When we last left our protagonists, THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH FUCKED! Thrust into Italy along with several other Gantz teams right into a mission gone horribly, horribly wrong with the aliens in question slaughtering everyone. That continues straight into this volume as Kei, Kato, and the rest of the crew try to handle the chaos […]
“Mobile Suit Gundam” is one of the oldest, most influential and prolific mecha franchises in Japan. You may already know that, but it bears re-stating because this series has come a very long, strange way from the original series that this manga is an adaptation of. Originally a somewhat grounded look at space warfare with […]
Things quickly escalate from bad to, “Oh god! Oh god! We’re going to die!” as the reanimated Claymores each awaken in turn to become new Abyssal Ones. Though this would seem to be the end of Miria’s crusade against the Organization, two of them are focused on hashing out their. The other… well, she wants […]
I’ll admit that I didn’t have high expectations for this series when I started reading it. Even though it did have a key member of the anime’s staff, character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, this was still going to be the same “Neon Genesis Evangelion” that I know from the TV series. On one hand, that’s still […]
I read four different volumes of manga this week and all of them had a cliffhanger ending of some sort. That’s why I’ll be talking about all of them in the same post. So if you want to know what I thought of the endings, and a little of what came before them, in “Slam […]
The big news from Dark Horse out of Wondercon a couple weeks ago was that they have an interesting new “Star Wars” project coming out later this year. Titled, “The Star Wars” it’s an adaptation of one of George Lucas’ earliest drafts of the original script for his immortal space opera. To give you an […]
I believe that my love of all things Tezuka is well-documented on this site, but I’ve always found his mature late-era works to be generally more entertaining than his early kiddie-skewing ones. Here, we have a late-era work that skews towards the kiddie side of the spectrum and is less interesting as a result. “Unico” […]