Manner of Death Volume 1 is very good. I stress that it’s Volume 1 because, being an ongoing mystery story, its serialized nature is more important than in some of the other manga I’ve reviewed recently. It’s a stylish enough BL crime thriller that I …Read more »
There’s a whole subgenre of manga that does what most of human neuroscience says is impossible. That is, comics about music! That shouldn’t work! Comics don’t have sound! And as selling manga with a recorded soundtrack would be cost-prohibitive, the best manga can do is …Read more »
I love superheroes and have since long before the current Marvel movie fad. So when an erotic superhero manga came up for review, I took the job. Super HxEros delivers perfectly serviceable harem comedy. There are indeed boobs aplenty. It even has a decent plot: …Read more »
A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy: © KAZUMA KAMACHI/YASUHITO NOGI 2017 Don’t get too excited, military science fiction geeks: this manga franchise is no more about rail guns than Bleach is about getting stains out. There is, however, a “certain science” to explaining how the paranormal powers …Read more »
Sometimes a title helps sell a story, and by golly this is not Devilman: Book of Magic. Nope, the archaic word choice says this story is aimed at teenage boys who read Alistair Crowley and like Black Sabbath. If that sounds dismissive, it’s not meant …Read more »
Clockwork Planet lists “manga by” and “character design by” and it feels like a manga weirdly shaped by opposing forces. The story takes place on a literal clockwork planet, made of springs and gears after Earth is destroyed. That’s at least two big science fictional …Read more »
© Hideaki Yoshikawa 2014 The Other Side of Secret has an interesting question at its heart: “What happens to the kid who stays home in a portal fantasy?” Yuuto's sister vanished through a dimensional gateway years ago and he misses her. Suddenly the portal opens …Read more »
© Ichigo Takano 2014 Time travel is the ideal plot device to make readers care about a high school pairing. One day, 16-year-old Naho Takamiya gets a letter from her future self, asking her to befriend transfer student Naruse Kakeru. After quickly figuring that the …Read more »
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