Miyuki has the money.  He’s got the plan.  He’s got the friends needed to carry it out.  Now all he needs to do is execute it…  ON HIS BIKE!  Or maybe not since his friends tell him at the start that he should just take a cab to the first stop on his plan to […]

It’s been a few years, but Dark Horse has delivered the follow-up, and possibly concluding chapter, to mangaka Kenji Tsuruta’s adaptation of writer Shinji Kajio’s stories.  After a brief interlude in 1980, the first arc in the volume picks up in 1988 with the title character, who has the knowledge of all of her past […]

In this volume, Anya’s actions indirectly cause the deaths of two people.  They were both thugs who were trying to kill the family that Yor has been trying to protect during this arc.  Which makes it all okay, right? Extremely dubious involvement of an elementary schooler in a battle of assassins aside this volume is […]

Who is Hajime “Hellmaster” Damemaru?  That’s the question Shimada Death wants to answer in this volume.  So she pursues the only rational course of action to find out:  Hooking up his shadow-ified body to the brain of an ancient decaying organism in Darknest in the hopes of getting a look inside.  Shimada and Zaha do […]

She may be one of the greatest mages of the modern age, but Frieren will never be a First-Class Mage by the Continental Magic Association’s (read:  Serie’s) standards.  So it’s a good thing that Fern has what it takes, along with no lasting enmity between her and her judge.  She’s not alone in passing the […]

Why yes, it has been a while since we’ve checked in with this series.  Consider this the start of a digital manga catch-up week around here. You’d think that I’d have wanted to follow-up on the adventures of Kafka Hibino sooner, what with vol. 4 leaving off with him having to prove that he’s still […]

Mob meets and rescues the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of this volume.  That may sound like a big thing, but it’s a minor footnote compared to what happens next.  While that immediately involves the title character learning the tragic backstory and taking on Serizawa, the last of the Ultimate 5, the real […]

I don’t want to compare my interest in this series to the grip that Seiichi’s mom has on him, but it’s really starting to feel similar.  Even ten years on, our protagonist still can’t take control of his own life without facing the specter of his mother.  As for me, while I can’t quite say […]

All of the setup in the previous volume felt like it was leading to a big battle, and that’s what we get here.  Two, in fact, with the first involving a clash of 250,00 Lusitanians against 100,000 Parsians.  It sounds like a very lopsided battle – and the Parsians don’t even have the strategic genius […]