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 »
In Highschool of the Dead , zombies are taking over the earth and everyone could soon be dead. It’s the perfect excuse to show girls bursting out of their tops. Yeah, I’m not even going to try to say Highschool of the Dead is being …Read more »
It should come as no surprise that manga is a rich medium for exploring gender issues; boys' love/yaoi content is famously infamous within fandom, and girls' love/yuri is becoming almost as recognizable, if not as emblematic for manga, as its male/male counterpart. Yet for all …Read more »
The first volume of the Time Killing Arc opens with a horrific murder in 1985. From there, without explanation, we’re taken back to 1978. Tokyo police detective Akasaka is being sent to Hinamizawa, despite the fact that his wife is about to give birth. And …Read more »
Now 42-years-old, Shizuo has quit his regular job, taken up a gig at a burger place where his boss is 25, and is trying desperately to become a professional mangaka. Time and again he bemoans how many years he’s let slip by, and how hard …Read more »
Kotoko and Naoki get along a lot better on the cover than they do inside the manga. The cover gives you the idea they’re a loving couple. Ha! On the first page, Kotoko tries to give Naoki a love letter so he’ll know she’s had …Read more »
Poor Nanako. She failed her college entrance exam, and now she’s a prep school student trying to get her life on the right track. And she dresses up as a fake maid for a maid café to pay for her school expenses. The usual stuff. …Read more »
Rin is a problem child. He’s also the son of Satan, which could explain that, but he doesn’t know his family relations yet. Rin and his younger twin brother Yukio are being raised by Father Fujimoto, who is an exorcist as well as a priest. …Read more »
Making its debut on April 21, the 55th volume of Masashi Kishimoto's mega-hit Naruto has officially hit #1 on Oricon's weekly comic ranking charts. This makes it the 11th Naruto volume to pull off such a feat. The numbers for the volume during the week …Read more »
The die is cast! There's no going back now! The GANTZ premiere event is LIVE! This may read like delirious fan fiction now, I but I swear it actually happened… When last we left off at the GANTZ premiere, I was in the V.I.P. …Read more »
Rabid fans await the arrival of the stars of GANTZ. Will that thin strip of cloth keep them at bay? Part One: In which your humble editor in chief hosts a Hollywood event Bright lights, screams, being scared you’ll mess up in front of …Read more »
Is it just me or has there been more Berserk animated news in the last year than ever before? After everyone clamored for more Berserk on TV for so long, it's been hard not to take everything with a dash of skepticism, but here's some …Read more »
Things seem to be going a little better for the young otaku Milton as we enter volume 3, the last leg of Felipe Smith's consistently bold Peepo Choo . His views of Japan forever altered, he begins to transition from the "anger" stage into his …Read more »
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