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Welcome to the first installment of Otaku USA’s new manga column, On The Shelf! Every week I’ll be letting you know what comes out at your local comic shop, bookstore or favourite online venue. There may be no such thing as a perfect list of …Read more »
Is Black Jack a hero, a sly opportunist, or just a straight up dick? After 13 volumes of his varied exploits the answer remains murky, with a slight lean toward "all of the above." Part of Black Jack's very nature is the fact that his …Read more »
Those obnoxious aliens! The cast of Urusei Yatsura Don’t act surprised. You knew it in your heart of hearts it would happen. The calendar on the wall may claim that the year is 2011, but the truth is much, much stranger. Arale-chan from Dr. Slump. …Read more »
Ayako brings us another massive single-volume tale from the manga master, Osamu Tezuka. Like some of Vertical's previous long-form Tezuka releases— MW and Ode to Kirihito in particular— Ayako isn't afraid to get dark and dreary. In fact, Ayako may be one of the bleakest …Read more »
Dr. Black Jack can come off as quite the shrewd son of a gun when it comes to money, and he'll be the first to admit it. As he says in the story "Operation of the Spirit," for instance, "I've even operated on a mummy …Read more »
Shogo Chikaishi is a young man with a severe aversion to love and all the various butterflies and allurements that come with it. He is cold, sadistic, and no one knows what he may be capable of beyond harming animals for seemingly no reason at …Read more »
If I remember correctly, the original 2006 Vertical edition of Ode to Kirihito was my first true exposure to a dark, somewhat self-contained Osamu Tezuka tale. It also may have been the largest bulk volume of manga I consumed prior to Drawn & Quarterly's release …Read more »
Before the latest volume of Black Jack is even a third of the way through, the good doctor fends off sharks with scalpels while adrift at sea with a critical patient. Does something as seemingly preposterous as this make me balk? Oddly enough, no. Instead, …Read more »
The tension is palpable in Pluto at this point, but somewhere in the thick miasma of suspense is a subtle hint of disappointment that it's all barreling toward a close. There may be two volumes left, but never before has the light at the end …Read more »
In the latest volume of Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack , the good doctor goes above and beyond the call of duty many times to show that he's just about the coolest manga character there is. He takes rabid dog-bites to the arm to prove a …Read more »
Black Jack can do anything he wants. Money isn't an issue, and there's hardly such a thing as going too far to teach the kinds of lessons he deems important. Take the case of one Mr. Ichigahara, for instance. Formerly involved in the disposal of …Read more »
As the tale of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Pluto branches out and more characters emerge, the spotlight is beginning to shift and expand, ushering others toward center stage and crafting an ensemble piece of mystery and taut suspense. Thus, Inspector Gesicht gets in the …Read more »
It seems like just yesterday that I was sitting on the couch reading Black Jack volume 5, so I was a little shocked when the next one came my way like some mist-born apparition. Then I sat and thought about how I live in a …Read more »
I came back home—returning to the shimmering grasses of Louisville, KY that put New Jersey's post-apocalyptic wasteland miserably to shame—for Memorial Day, and the first thing on my mind wasn't simple mental relaxation. Rather, having just read the first volume of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto , …Read more »
The collected tales of the greatest unlicensed surgeon in the world continue in the fifth volume of Osamu Tezuka's legendary Black Jack . The fourteen stories here take the eponymous doc from the halls of hospitals loaded with overblown, pompous directors to a cabin in …Read more »
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