Gamon Sakurai's impressive work on Ajin: Demi-Human keeps chugging along at a powerful pace in volume 4, which ramps up the action and the animosity between society and the immortal beings known as Demi-Humans. The calm but sinister Sato (AKA Hat) wants to turn the …Read more »
What happens when you find out your lead might just be a massive, unsympathetic jerk? I guess nothing, really—contrary to popular belief a character doesn't need to be likable to be a good character—but that's one of the handful of revelations in Ajin: Demi-Human vol. …Read more »
Despite the fact that he can't die, Kei Nagai is on the run. He recently found out he's something called a Demi-Human, and now he's wanted by pretty much everyone. No matter where he turns there's a chance he could be captured, and then what? …Read more »
Thanks to Vertical Inc. the number of Moyoco Anno manga available in English has been rising at a nice pace, from Sakuran to the gag-filled chronicle of life with Evangelion director and husband Hideaki Anno, Insufficient Direction , and now In Clothes Called Fat . …Read more »
Looking back at the first two Wolfsmund volumes after finishing the third and fourth leave me with a greater impression of them both. They put in a lot of thankless work in setting up the story we've come to at this point, at the risk …Read more »
Those who just can't get enough of Hajime Isayama's monstrous Attack on Titan series, will love one of Vertical Inc.'s biggest New York Comic Con announcements. The publisher plans to bring the prequel light novels, Attack on Titan: Before the Fall , to North America …Read more »
The setup of Mitsuhisa Kuji's Wolfsmund manga is pretty simple. In the European Alps of the early 14th century, the Sankt Gotthard Pass checkpoint, AKA Wolfsmund, houses a notorious gatekeeper. The ruthless bailiff Wolfram is known for his cruel measures in sorting out those attempting to …Read more »
A bittersweet feeling kicked in as I typed the words above: "Onizuka's wild trip comes to an end." Yep, it's all over. GTO: 14 Days in Shonan ran a solid nine volumes, with a fully realized story that ends on a satisfying note, but I'd …Read more »
It looks like the time for battle draws nigh, as US and Japanese manga publishers are banding together in an attempt to deal a mighty blow against their greatest adversary: scanlations. On the Japan side of things, The Japanese Digital Comic Association—whose 36 members include …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 »
Joseph Luster
