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Merry Month of Manga Review: KIZUNA: BONDS OF LOVE
After yesterday's review, I'm willing to look at some better smut. So let's take a look at a classic yaoi title! Lord knows it can't be worse!KIZUNA: BONDS OF LOVE (Kizuna: Koi no Kara Sawagi), by...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: APOTHECARIUS ARGENTUM
Ok, I've had enough of wallowing in bad smut. Time to focus on something good, and what can be better than a fantasy shoujo series from CMX?APOTHECARIUS ARGENTUM (Yakushi Argent), by Tomomi Yamashita....
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Merry Month of Manga Review: READ OR DIE (R.O.D.)
You know, I have waited far too long to cover this manga, especially when you consider that I use its lead character as my icon both here and at Infinite Rainy Day. Let's dive into the rousing (if...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: NO. 6
Whatever happened to shonen-ai? Once upon a time we used to get manga like FAKE and Gravitation, series that hinted at gay romance, but were focused first and foremost on telling a story. With the...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: TRANSLUCENT
You know, I don't cover a lot of Dark Horse comics here. I need to change that, so let's start with a quiet little gem from their library of titles.TRANSLUCENT (Toransurusento: Kanojo wa Hantomei), by...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: CROWN
I've always felt a little bad for Go!Comi. They were one of the many B- and C-list manga publishers from the 2000s, and their gimmick was that they focused exclusively on shoujo. They did have good...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: V. B. ROSE
As we approach June, we launch head-first into wedding season. Since I already covered Wedding Peach, there's really only one other wedding-themed shoujo series I could review.V. B. ROSE (V. B. Rozu),...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: CAFE KICHIJOUJI DE
I've never quite gotten the appeal of bishonen titles. I suspect that it's because I got into manga much later than most people; instead of getting into it as a hormone-crazed teenager, I got into...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: DUCK PRINCE
If there's a mangaka who never got a even break on the North American market, it's Ai Morinaga. She made some great comedy manga, but not a single one of them were printed in full, and all of them...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: ZYWORD
It's no understatement to say that CLAMP has been highly influential in the world of manga. The only problem is that some people are determined to take that influence a bit more literally than others....
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Merry Month of Manga: BLOODY MONDAY
It seems like that for every good and/or successful shonen series out there, there are half a dozen titles like today's selection - ones that try to appeal to older kids, try to be grittier, but never...
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Merry Month of Manga Finale: GIRL FRIENDS
To wrap things up, let me say something nice about Seven Seas for once by taking a look at the series that put Milk Morinaga on the map as far as American manga fans are concerned.GIRL FRIENDS (Garu...
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Review: DEATH NOTE
This month, I'm going to be taking a look at some of the many titles to make it over here from the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump and its many spinoffs. So let's kick things off with one of the best...
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Review: STRAWBERRY 100%
What people sometimes tend to forget is that Shonen Jump showcases just as many romance stories as it does action stories. On the other hand, it's easy to forget that when the manga in question are as...
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Review: CITY HUNTER
Of course, Shonen Jump has been around a lot longer than the 2000s, even if we've not necessarily seen a lot of those titles. We've got a few of the big-name titles from the 1980s, such as Jojo's...
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Review: SERAPH OF THE END
Lucky for me, one of Shonen Jump's most recent hits has an animated adaptation that's just wrapping up at this point. Reviews for it have been rather mixed at best, and having looked at the manga, I'm...
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A Tour of the Shelves & Manga Tag with Megan
It's a holiday weekend, and like so many people, I don't want to do any hard work. So before I launch into this month's reviews I'm going to do something something special. Before I get too far...
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Review: FUSHIGI YUGI: GENBU KAIDEN
It's another summer season full of sequels on both the big and small screens, so now's as good as time as any to explore the many sequels, prequels, and spin-offs to some of the biggest titles in...
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Review: KUJIBIKI UNBALANCE
I've seen all sorts of manga spinoffs in my day, but today's review has to be beyond a doubt one of the weirdest of them all. It's not a sequel, prequel, or parody of any given series, but the manga...
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Review: FULL METAL PANIC! OVERLOAD
Comedy spin-offs of popular franchises are a dime-a-dozen in Japan but we very rarely get them Stateside. If this book is any indication, though, there's more than a few good reasons why we don't see...
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