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CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE AGAIN!
That's right, it's almost December once more, so it's time for my annual Advent Calender of reviews! Every day from tomorrow until Christmas, I will be posting a review of some of the best (and...
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Review: CELLS AT WORK
Let's start this month off with a manga about a subject manner that will be all too familiar to many of us: dealing with infectious diseases!What? That's a perfectly normal subject for a comic, what...
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Review: HANDA-KUN
Folks will remember that two years ago I reviewed the first volume of Barakamon and really liked it. Spoilers: the series is still charming as hell and it's still one of my ongoing favorites. So...
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Review: NICHIJOU
This year didn't bring quite the onslaught of comedy manga as last year did, but it did bring the unexpected license of what was already becoming something of a cult classic in anime circles. With its...
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Review: SERVANT X SERVICE
Of course, I can't finish talking about comedy manga without talking about a 4-koma. The problem is that there weren't many new ones to talk about and what was there wasn't all that good to begin...
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Review: FRANKEN FRAN
Like Vinland Saga before it, today's review was a darling of the scanlation scene long believed to be unlicenseable due to its content. Thankfully for us, Seven Seas took on the challenge and the...
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Review: THE BLACK MUSEUM: THE GHOST AND THE LADY
There was actually quite a diverse selection of horror manga this year, and not all of it is gruesome. Sometimes it was moody and gothic, much like today's selection.THE BLACK MUSEUM: THE GHOST AND...
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Review: MASAMUNE-KUN'S REVENGE
It almost goes without saying that a lot of new manga licenses this year were brought about because they got an anime adaptation. Of course, just because a manga becomes an anime doesn't mean that the...
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Review: OVERLORD
The only thing more common these days than manga licenses being spurred by animated adaptations are manga based on light novels. Today's review allows me to cover both, along with a couple of...
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Review: MISS KOBAYASHI'S DRAGON MAID
I wouldn't have planned on covering this one if not for the fact that it too will be getting an anime adaptation this winter, and by Kyoto Animation no less. It seemed an odd choice of a property for...
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Review: DON'T RUB YOURSELF AGAINST MY ASS!!
Of course, I can't let this year's holiday roundup pass without covering some BL titles. That being said, I didn't want to include a DMP title originally. After all, I kind of made a big deal out of...
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Review: TEN COUNT
In comparison, SuBLime just kept chugging on as steadily as ever. Their biggest license wasn't even a new one, but one that was instead poached from the competition. Still, they put out a few other...
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Review: NTR - NETSUZOU TRAP
Of course, we can't ignore the world of yuri manga, even if we didn't get a lot of new ones this year. That will NOT be the case next year. Indeed, if all the licenses announcedthis year are any...
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Review: COMPLEX AGE
One pleasant trend in manga this year was the marked increase in stories about women. Not girls, mind you - there are a never-ending stream of stories about high school girls. No, I mean actual...
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Review: WANDERING ISLAND
Despite their rather sparse release calendar, this year was probably the most active Dark Horse has been in a while. In addition to their ongoing CLAMP releases and rescuing Planetes, they also put...
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Review: QUEEN EMERALDAS
Leiji Matsumoto was one of the great creators of 1970s anime, but until this year the only time we've seen any of his original manga released here was back in the mid 1990s when Viz put out a Galaxy...
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Review: MY GIRLFRIEND IS A T-REX
Now it's time to check on some of this year's shonen titles, and that means more monster girl manga. This trend lives on well after the bloom has faded from Monster Musume, and if titles like this are...
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Review: HAIKYU!!
Of course, we can't talk about modern-day shonen without talking about sports manga. Thanks to their fujoshi-heavy fandoms, we're seeing an influx of sports manga that even a few years ago would have...
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Review: WELCOME TO THE BALLROOM
Now that we can get actual sports manga over here, publishers feel more confident about picking sports manga with less-conventional sports as their subject. We've already covered most of the big ones:...
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Review: SHOMIN SAMPLE
Of course, I also can't talk about shonen unless I address that genre I've come to dread: the harem series. God knows the genre as a whole isn't getting any better, even if you steer it away from the...
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