Cowa! by Akira Toriyama
Continuing on with my impromptu spooky manga for the rest of the month, I just finished reading Cowa! by Akira Toriyama. While I’m aware of the whole Dragonball phenomena, I haven’t read that manga because super-long manga about fighting is generally not my thing. So I was happy to sample this single volume about the [...]
Detroit Metal City #6
I’m not ambitions enough to do a while month of Halloween-themed posts like Bully’s Riverdale Hellmouth, Andrew’s Halloween Countdown and Dorian’s Decade of Schlock. But I thought I’d try to post reviews of manga that fit in the Halloween spirit during the month of October. Thus, Detroit Metal City #6! Detroit Metal City Volume 6 [...]
Vagabond VizBig Volumes 7 and 8
Vagabond Volumes 7 and 8 by Takehiko Inoue I’ve fallen behind with reading Vagabond, but that makes catching up all the more enjoyable since I was able to read 6 volumes of awesome sword fighting action all at once in these two omnibus editions. This is a series that I sometimes find difficult to write [...]
Gente Volume 1
Gente, Vol. 1: The People of Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono I liked this spin-off of Ristorante Paradiso more than than the first, standalone volume. The problems with the way Ono set up the mother/daughter relationship in Ristorante Paradisio are left behind as Gente just focuses on the way the bespectacled gentlemen of Casetta Dell’Orso [...]
Viz Quick Takes – Butterflies, Flowers, Arata, and Otomen
Butterflies, Flowers Volume 4 I think with every volume the situations in Butterflies, Flowers grow more cartoony and thus even more hilarious. Yanagi, the president of the company where Masayuki and Choko work has decided that Choko will be his new personal assistant. Oh, and he just happens to be the man who sexually harassed [...]
House of Five Leaves Volume 1
House of Five Leaves Volume 1 by Natsume Ono This is one of my favorite series on the Sigikki site. I find Ono’s art style very refreshing and the story about a hapless ronin provides an interesting contrast to all the fighting samurai manga out there. Masanosuke is the poor unemployed samurai with a personality [...]
Hyde and Closer Volume 1
Hyde and Closer Volume 1 by Haro Aso How much you enjoy this manga largely depends on how amusing you find cigar-chomping, chainsaw-wielding magical fighting teddy bears. I always enjoy the juxtaposition of chainsaws and cute cuddly things, so I found this manga amusing despite the fairly unsurprising shonen storyline. The Closer in the book [...]
Biomega Volume 1
Biomega Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei I’ve been meaning to read Biomega ever since Kevin posted this lovely panel, go look at it if you haven’t read the series yet, then come back! I think that there are some defining questions you can use to get a sense of someone’s personality – Beatles or Elvis? [...]
Afterschool Charisma Volume 1
Afterschool Charisma Volume 1 by Kumiko Suekane My favorite Sigikki titles are Afterschool Charisma tied with House of Five Leaves. House of Five Leaves isn’t out in print format yet, but I really enjoyed the first print volume of Afterschool Charisma. Shiro’s father is a scientist, and as a result he goes to a unique [...]
Viz Quick Takes – Kimi ni Todoke 4, Arata 2, Magic Touch 8
One thing that’s a little tricky about review copies is when you get sent mid-series books and you haven’t necessarily read the first volumes. If you write about how accessible the book is for someone to pick up midstream, the review becomes less than useful. I think I remember reading a review of the 8th [...]
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