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 »
A lot is going on in the latest volume of Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica . In addition to the space school adventures of the principal cast, one of their peers is possibly about to embark on the opportunity of a lifetime. The pale, eyebrow-less Shu …Read more »
In the city of New Babylon, only ninety percent of the population consists of humans. The other ten percent is, by the book’s own definition, “officially God-only-knows.” Actually, they’re vampires, werewolves and ghouls—but mostly vampires. Isaac juggles being a college student and a vampire hunter, …Read more »
Well after having finished Velveteen & Mandala , the English-language debut of mangaka Jiro Matsumoto ( Freesia ), I can't shake the memories of Makoto Aida's Mutant Hanako . Maybe it's some strange trigger caused by Matsumoto's sketchy-detailed art style, though the two aren't really …Read more »
In some ways, Ai Ore! is difficult to pin down and I had mixed reactions to it. It’s a relationship story, and the main boy in it (Akira) looks like a girl and the main girl in it (Mizuki) looks like a boy. It’s a …Read more »
The fourth volume of Kobato starts off feeling much like the past volumes. That’s not a bad thing, but it feels as if nothing new is going to happen. Kobato is going to continue trying to fill her bottle so she can get her wish …Read more »
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Danica Davidson
