Manga Review: Case Closed, Vols. 95 & 96 by Gosho Aoyama Note: SPOILERS for past volumes, start with an earlier review if you’re new to the series! Quick recap: Conan Edogawa appears to be a child, but is actually the famous teen genius detective Shinichi Kudou (Jimmy Kudo in the dub), who’s been reverted to… Continue reading Manga Review: Case Closed, Vols. 95 & 96
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Manga Review: Skip-Beat! Volumes 10-11-12
Manga Review: Skip-Beat! Volumes 10-11-12 by Yoshiki Nakamura Note: SPOILERS for earlier volumes! If you are just now finding out about this series, you may want to read earlier reviews first. Quick Recap: Kyoko Mogami dropped out of school to move to Tokyo with the boy she loved, Sho Fuwa, so she could support him… Continue reading Manga Review: Skip-Beat! Volumes 10-11-12
Manga Review: Mao Vols. 21 & 22
Manga Review: Mao Vols. 21 & 22 by Rumiko Takahashi Note: This review will contain spoilers for previous volumes. If you’re new to the series, please consider reading older reviews on this blog. Quick recap: Nanoka Kiba lost her parents in a suspicious accident when she was young. Years later, she learns that the site… Continue reading Manga Review: Mao Vols. 21 & 22
Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025
Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025 by various creators. I haven’t been reading Shounen Jump as much this year, busy with other things, but it is the thirteenth anniversary of my blog, so let’s take a look at what I’ve been covering the longest. One Piece is still running, though this looks to be maybe… Continue reading Manga Review: Shounen Jump Weekly 2025
Manga Review: City Hunter Omnibus Edition 01
Manga Review: City Hunter Omnibus Edition 01 by Tsukasa Hojo Shunichi Ogino is an up-and-coming young boxer who’s got a title shot coming up. He’d previously been hit and run by a car, and during his recovery fallen in love with his physical therapist, Dr. Megumi Iwasaki. They’re planning to marry after the big fight.… Continue reading Manga Review: City Hunter Omnibus Edition 01
Manga Review: My Name Is Shingo 1
Manga Review: My Name Is Shingo 1 by Kazuo Umezz It is 1982, and Satoru Kondo is in his last year of elementary school. He’s a boisterous boy, loud and excitable. Some of his classmates are already succumbing to heterosexual amatonormativity, but Satoru hasn’t quite reached that stage yet. His father works at a motor… Continue reading Manga Review: My Name Is Shingo 1
Manga Review: Blade of the Moon Princess Volume 2
Manga Review: Blade of the Moon Princess Volume 2 by Tatsuya Endo Quick recap: Princess Kaguya Takenouchi is banished from the Moon by her mother, Empress Fujiya Takenouchi for petty offenses. This is actually an excuse to send Kaguya to the Tainted World (Earth) to protect her and the empire from a power grab by… Continue reading Manga Review: Blade of the Moon Princess Volume 2
Manga Review: Happy Kanako’s Killer Life Volumes 1-4
Manga Review: Happy Kanako’s Killer LIfe Volumes 1-4 by Toshiya Wakabayashi Kanako NIshino has had a pretty miserable life until now. She was relentlessly bullied in school, and once she got a job as an office lady, harassed and belittled every day there. Kanako’s boss bullied her into quitting, and then mocked her for being… Continue reading Manga Review: Happy Kanako’s Killer Life Volumes 1-4
Manga Review: Case Closed Volumes 91-94
Manga Review: Case Closed Volumes 91-94 by Gosho Aoyama Very quick recap: Shin’ichi Kudou (Jimmy Kudo in the dub) is a teen genius detective. He crossed paths with the mysterious Black Organization, criminals that gave him an experimental poison. Instead of killing him as intended, it shrunk him to child size, so he must solve… Continue reading Manga Review: Case Closed Volumes 91-94
Manga Review: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition 5
Manga Review: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition 5 story by Eiji Otsuka, art by Hosui Yamazaki Well, it’s been a long time since I looked at this series. Mainly because Dark Horse decided that sales weren’t good enough to economically produce the individual volumes, so they started reprinting Kurosagi in an omnibus edition that… Continue reading Manga Review: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition 5