Oosawa doesn’t have time to think about love or marriage. He works full-time at a restaurant and is also a single parent taking care of a kindergarten-aged daughter. His wife walked out on him and Oosawa’s top priority is making sure his daughter Chizu is …Read more »
What do you want first, the good news or the bad news? Most people wisely choose to get the bad news out of the way, but Usamaru Furuya starts with the good in the third and final volume of his Osamu Dazai adaptation, No Longer …Read more »
It's a sign of good storytelling when even the most solemn of reflective moments resonates with the reader in some way, and that's a skill that mangaka Kou Yaginuma has been honing throughout the run of Twin Spica . If you've been following the series …Read more »
Cracking open Vertical Inc.'s release of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan brought back a lot of manga memories, specifically of Tokyopop's early-2000s publication of Toru Fujisawa's Great Teacher Onizuka manga, to which this serves as a follow-up. Most importantly, it reminded me why I used …Read more »
Kurosu admits that his skill at drawing is average, but he still enrolls at an art university. While there, he is amazed by the work of fellow student Yukari. The two of them end up on the same train together, but when Yukari leaves his …Read more »
The first volume of Usamaru Furuya's No Longer Human , based on the novel Ningen Shikkaku by Osamu Dazai, plunged us deep into the life of Yozo Oba. Oba isn't like your average student; sure, he gets along with his classmates, but it's all a …Read more »
It's a bittersweet feeling to see Vertical Inc.'s release of Osamu Tezuka's medical thriller Black Jack finally come to an end. On one hand, I'm actually not anywhere near tired of reading his episodic exploits. B it's also really nice to see the entire run …Read more »
"Gon smash!", "Gon chomp!" and "Gon hungry!" are about the only remotely feasible bits of dialogue I could imagine coming out of the vice-like mouth of that little orange dino, Gon. That's precisely why I'm glad he never says anything in Masashi Tanaka's manga, which …Read more »
Prince Sapphire has a unique problem: he's a she. Due to a heavenly mixup, Sapphire was born with both a boy and girl heart, but her mother must conceal this secret in order to protect the throne from the evil, opportunistic Duke Duralumin. Though he …Read more »
Yozo Oba has been living a lie his entire life, and he's damn good at it. Far from your average teenager with easily defined emotional issues, Oba plays off everything he feels on the inside to his advantage. He is the class clown. He is …Read more »
Rika may or may not be the reincarnation of the deity Oyashiro-sama, but if she is, it doesn’t save her from a gruesome murder. At the beginning, she asks us, the reader, who will kill her. In a continuation from the story started in the …Read more »
Haruhi of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is pretty wacky. Haruhi-chan of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan is even wackier. For fans of the oddball and moe antics of the original series, this parody is sure to please. Often written in the form of four …Read more »
The "Demon of Surgery" is back in Vertical Inc.'s latest volume of Black Jack and, unfortunately, there's only one more to go after this one. Don't let that get you down, though, as volume 16 packs nearly 350 pages of unlicensed surgical action into yet …Read more »
When I started reading Dragon Girl , I thought it would be a girl-power story about a high school girl joining a cheering squad that up till then only allowed boys. That didn’t end up being the case. In the first volume , Rinna starts …Read more »
If there's a manga release bigger this week than Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon … you know, it's not even worth speculating. There isn't. Fans have been dying to get their hands on this series again, and Kodansha provides one heck of a product for 'em—uncut, …Read more »
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