“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 […]

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” […]

The nuttiness continues in this volume as the gang races to complete not only Ogiue’s debut manga, but also her doujinshi for Comi-Fest.  Then Ohno’s other American friend Angela (of the ginormous boobs) also makes a return appearance once the con begins in earnest and the direction of this “second season” becomes a bit more […]

This is a review of vol. 24 of “Blade of the Immortal.”  The reason the title isn’t listed above is because I wanted to write, “The latest volume of ‘Blade of the Immortal’ is so goddamn good that you need to stop reading this now and go out and buy it!”  (Which I’ll admit could […]

The last volume of this came out… wow, over two years ago.  Normally such a long delay would be frustrating in the extreme, but not this time.  While the actual delay in creating new chapters has been down to mangaka Takehiko Inoue’s health problems, we’ve still been getting a steady stream of work from him […]

I picked this up with the hope that Carl Horn would have a very wide latitude to work with in localizing these stories given that this would be a collection of parody shorts from a variety of mangaka.  The good news is that not only was that apparently true, you can also tell that he […]