Manga Review

Manga Review

Naruto: 3-in-1: Volumes 1-3

“The fox knows many things; the hedgehog, one big thing.” – Erasmus

Naruto is the third of the four big shonen mangas that I am reviewing the first three volumes of (the others…

• 30th March 2012
Manga Review

Codename: Sailor V: #1 & #2

It wouldn’t be too overdramatic if I said that when Kodansha announced that they had picked up the license for the Sailor Moon manga and would be re-releasing it in English revised with a new translation…

• 24th February 2012
Manga Review

The Drops of God Volume 2

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei

I myself am not a wine connoisseur. I, like most British people, look at them with a slight sense of annoyance and confusion.…

• 16th February 2012
Manga Review

Princess Knight Volume 2

This review covers all volumes of Princess Knight.

Tezuka was not afraid to try anything. Alongside shounen, seinen, gekiga, political works, psychological, medical dramas, fantasy, and …

• 8th February 2012
Manga Review

@ Full Moon

@ Full Moon Volumes 1 & 2

David is a vampire; Marlo is half vampire, half werewolf. The young men have been close friends since childhood and in the two volumes of Sanami Matoh’s light-hearted…

• 2nd February 2012
Manga Review

Love Hina Volume 2

When I think way back into the early days of my anime and manga fandom, I can remember a time when I couldn’t walk into a WHSmiths and easily find a manga section to pick from. I had to take trips to …

• 1st February 2012
Manga Review

Pluto Volume 8

This review covers all eight volumes of Pluto.

I imagine Naoki Urasawa suffered butterflies the first time it truly dawned on him that he was about to adapt Osamu Tezuka’s flagship work,…

• 17th January 2012
Manga Review

xxxHolic Volume 17

The dimension witch Yūko has vanished, leaving her protégé Kimihiro Watanuki in charge of her magical shop – a shop he can now never leave. As the years pass, Watanuki carries on Yūko’s work of wish-granting,…

• 9th November 2011
Manga Review

Domu: A Child’s Dream

My first thought upon turning the last pages of Domu was that the manga has magnificent action. The second was that it doesn’t have much else. I point especially to the first act, which, comprising…

• 3rd October 2011
Manga Review

I Give to You

“The world…is rejecting me.”

Ryoichi’s life has gone badly wrong. Betrayed by a lover who has run out on him, leaving him saddled with his enormous debt of thirteen million yen, he finds himself…

• 27th September 2011