Manga and Comic Reviews
I’ve been keeping up with this series, though I haven’t felt the need to write anything more about it until now. That’s because for the past few volumes, the series has felt like it has been losing its focus. Where the initial conflict early on was defined between Maya’s Jukan group and Mitsuomi’s Executive Council, […]
First things first: Whoever wrote the summary text for the inside cover of this volume deserves a real *slow clap*. I mean really, ending with “…until the enemy’s tentacles threaten to overwhem her,” suggests an entirely different experience than what this series (or pretty much any title released by Viz) is about. Part of me […]
The wait for this volume was still worth it. Granted, most of this volume doesn’t focus on mountain climbing and almost seems to go out of its way to focus on the series’ weaknesses. I’ve said before that writer Yumemakura Baku has a tendency to over-write many scenes, leaving NO DOUBT AT ALL as to […]
So it appears that Carl Horn was on to something when he kept referencing vol. 13 of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” in his notes from the current volume. There’s also more Yasuhiro Nightow manga than you can shake a stick at here… which is apparently two volumes. But one of them is a three-in-one […]
As with its previous volumes, this title again brings something new to the table. Now that “Perfect Crime Club” — rechristened as “Perfect Crime Party” for its serialization debut — has made it into Weekly Shonen Jump the trick will be to keep it there. In a move that keeps the protagonists and the story […]
Takao Kasuga is a middle-school student in a small town who likes reading, and has a particular fondness for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. He also has a crush on Nanako, the most popular girl in class, so when the combination of a moment of weakness and the perfect opportunity strikes, the kid winds up […]
This second volume shows that, much like the first, when you have this much style you don’t need to have that much substance (or coherence, for that matter). The main characters are still the members of the secret organization “Libra,” and they’re still trying to maintain the peace between the many different creatures and factions […]
Longtime readers know that I love to bitch about the long delays between certain manga from Dark Horse. It’s a pet hate of mine that I doubt I’ll ever get over. However, when it comes to the length of the wait between volumes, this second volume of “The Monkey King” has them all beat. Had […]
Two new manga series debut from Dark Horse in their latest solicitations. Well, one new one and one new edition of a series previously published by Tokyopop. As all of the collections are advance-solicited by two months, this means that a full year after “Eden vol. 13” came out there’s still no sign of the […]
If it seems that I write about this particular manga more than others, that’s because it usually winds up bringing something new to the table with each volume. Case in point: Creators Moritaka and Akito finally deliver their manga masterwork here. This a watershed moment for the series as the title was pretty much founded […]