The harem genre isn’t exactly known for its quality. The general impression for a lot of people is that it’s nothing but shows with casts of cookie-cutter characters competing over the protagonist for no other reason than the fact that he’s a self-insert wish fulfillment …Read more »
Gangsta is a new show this season based on Kohske's manga of the same name. The series stars Nicolas Brown and Worick Arcangelo, two “handymen” who do special (usually violent) jobs that the local police and mobs can’t easily handle. I have to say, …Read more »
Ultraman is little more than a fond memory to the people of Japan in one of his latest manga adventures, which comes from Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The selfless heroics of the Giant of Light are documented and celebrated regularly at a memorial museum, …Read more »
Last year, reviewing the first Attack on Titan compilation film, I wrote that while seeing and hearing Titan on the big screen was fun, the compression of 13 episodes into 2 hours made for a pretty unsatisfying experience. But this time around, my thoughts are …Read more »
Ajin: Demi-Human is one of the best manga series being released in English right now. Gamon Sakurai has taken the relatively simple story of a certain breed of people who can't be killed and turned it into a tense game of cat and mouse between …Read more »
Izuku Midoriya is kind of a wimp. He has a lot of heart and spirit, but he can turn on the waterworks at the drop of a hat, and he's a total shrimp physically. That's what makes this middle-schooler's determination to enter the prestigious U.A. …Read more »
It's been a while since we had a new work from acclaimed horror mangaka Junji Ito in English. It's been a while for Ito, too, apparently, as even he says he was shocked to learn it had been eight years since his last collection of …Read more »
In the back of Dream Fossil , Vertical's collection of Satoshi Kon's manga shorts, composer Susumu Hirasawa shares some thoughts on meeting and getting to know the late creator. While discussing his unique style—which he describes as being neither like animation nor live action–Hirasawa says, …Read more »
When I reviewed the first volume of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga, I wasn't entirely convinced of how long it could riff on its premise. Now that we're three volumes in, I think it's clear Matsui has enough ideas to keep this going as long …Read more »
Class 3-E is special. So special, in fact, that it's completely separate from the rest of Kunugigaoka Junior High School. This isn't necessarily the good type of special, though, as the rest of the student body knows Class 3-E as the final destination of hopeless …Read more »
This review first appeared in our August 2014 issue, and it's now available online as a bonus supplement to the Atelier Escha & Logy anime feature in our latest issue, available now . *** The Atelier series is one that simply doesn't receive enough recognition. …Read more »
Rumi Yokoi and her ever-creative classmate Toshinari Seki are back in the second volume of Takuma Morishige's My Neighbor Seki ( Tonari no Seki-kun ) manga. It's more of the same goof-off hijinks this time around, proving that Morishige's key hook has plenty of life …Read more »
Gundam Battle Operation was, if nothing else, an interesting failure. Released for the PS3 back in 2012, it drew inspiration from a number of earlier Gundam games and attempted to shoehorn some familiar (and unfamiliar) ideas into a free-to-play online game. That game’s sequel, Battle …Read more »
For those of you just now joining us… uh, what are you thinking? You've got 12 volumes of Knights of Sidonia to read, and if you start at 13 you're going to have a really tough time parsing sentences like, "Success! The Semi-Autonomous Conversion Organ …Read more »
Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga has done a pretty commendable job of staying consistent throughout its run, and volume 12 does nothing to sway that. In fact, I'd say 12 was one of the most enjoyable volumes of late, mixing in a dash of …Read more »
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