Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 1, 2010
With Trigun experiencing a revival with the upcoming movie, I was originally going to talk about Trigun Maximum in this space. Then, I realized that Trigun is over a decade old and many of you have already read it. On top of that, my copy of Yasuhiro Nightow’s latest manga, Kekkai Sensen (roughly, “Blood World [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 12, 2010
I’ve been reading Moriyama Daisuke’s World Embryo for years, and I was excited back in 2008 when Dark Horse announced its release plans for the Chrono Crusade creator’s current work. Sadly, the book has yet to materialize in America – current listings have it pegged for an August 2010 release, which is a very long [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 21, 2009
I’ll be honest here: I haven’t picked up any Love Attack! (AKA Jun’ai Tokkou Taichou!) in a while, so my opinion on the manga may be outdated by now. But I’m picking up the volumes I’m missing as a self-Christmas present, and with any luck it’ll be just as fun as it was when my [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 14, 2009
Rosario + Vampire is a strange beast – it’s a manga I got into because the anime was so dumb, I had to see what redeeming qualities the manga had. Because, let’s be frank about this, the anime has pretty much nothing going for it, except the opening and ending themes are sung by Mizuki [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 7, 2009
On a recent trip down to the Japanese used book store Book Off, I managed to snag a near-full set of the light horror manga Kaibutsu Oujo (AKA Princess Resurrection). I’ve had a mild interest in the series since 2007, when I heard about the anime, but didn’t watch it because I’ve never been a [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 30, 2009
This week’s Manga Monday is from an artist very near and dear to my heart: Inui Sekihiko, who made his professional debut drawing the excellent Comic Party manga. His latest work, Ratman, is both a love song to and a critique of the superhero genre, be it the Japanese tokusatsu hero or the American comic [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 23, 2009
With FUNimation’s licensing announcement for the Tetsuwan Birdy TV series, this week’s Manga Monday is the manga that the series is based on. Note that there are actually two Tetsuwan Birdy manga series – the recent series is Yuuki Masami’s (Patlabor) remake of his own 1980s manga, which he never completed. So, two decades later, [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 16, 2009
I’m highlighting Kaichou ha Maid-Sama (released in English as “Maid Sama!”) for two reasons: one, I’m just now starting to catch up on reading the manga after losing track around volume 5 or 6, and two, it’s going to become an anime in 2010 some time – no season has yet been announced.
The manga has [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 9, 2009
This week marks the start of some new weekly features here on AnimeReel, and to kick things off we have Manga Mondays, where I dip into my overly large manga collection – or those of a friend, sharing is caring – and review a random manga, new or old. This week’s manga is a recent [...]
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