Austin Lanari 12/15/14 Austin Lanari 12/15/14

Review: Weekly Shonen Jump #3

School Judgment is officially serialized! I am the Nostradamus of an entertainment medium targeted at Japanese boys in their teens and pre-teens! Huzzah!

Austin Lanari 12/9/14 Austin Lanari 12/9/14

Review: Weekly Shonen Jump – Week 2

Without even gushing about how they are flashing back to my favorite original Naruto chapters, here are three awesome things about the latest Weekly Shonen Jump.

Austin Lanari 12/1/14 Austin Lanari 12/1/14

Review: Weekly Shonen Jump - Week 1

Wondering how Weekly Shonen Jump’s new series are going? Enjoy talk of boobs? INQUIRE FURTHER WITH THY CLICKING UTENSIL AND EYEBALLS!

Austin Lanari 11/24/14 Austin Lanari 11/24/14

Review: Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #52

Here are not one, not two, but three (that's less than four and five and every number after it) awesome things about issue 52 of Weekly Shonen Jump!

Austin Lanari 11/19/14 Austin Lanari 11/19/14

Review: Opus

By Austin Lanari

OPUS is Kon’s beautiful and tragic inquiry into what any creator owes his/her creations in worlds both fictional and real. If you are unfamiliar with the name Satoshi Kon, get familiar. As far as I'm concerned, there's Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, and then everyone else on planet earth. Kon was an assistant artist on the Akira manga, meaning that he did as much work (if not more, but we won't go there) as Otomo himself. He then went on to direct the full-length features Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika all to critical acclaim, while also having the anime series Paranoia Agent under his direction. Kon passed away in 2010 before he could share more of his gifts with us.

Austin Lanari 11/11/14 Austin Lanari 11/11/14

Review: Naruto #699

The penultimate chapter of Naruto is our final look at our beloved characters in the present day and the ultimate love-letter from Kishimoto to his characters and to the fans of the series. You could not ask for a better ending.

Austin Lanari 11/10/14 Austin Lanari 11/10/14

Review: Food Wars - Chapter 94

Food Wars 94 is the second chapter of the series to be officially serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and makes for a fun, Shonen-style series for the aspiring cooking geek.

Austin Lanari 10/30/14 Austin Lanari 10/30/14

Sasuke and Naruto: Eternal Rivals

Sure, the title of “eternal rivals” rightfully belongs to the ever-adorable and kick-ass pair of Gai and Kakashi. But Naruto 698—the climax of the final fight between Sasuke and Naruto—put a finishing touch on the central relationship of the series not just with an absolutely unforgettable final panel, but with the revelation that Sasuke is just as in awe of Naruto as the rest of us.

Dustin Cabeal 10/26/14 Dustin Cabeal 10/26/14

Review: Alive

The highest compliment that I can give Alive is that it’s the manga Stray Bullets. That is the only comparison I can make to it and while the story telling is completely different, the subject matter has little in common, they are similar in one important way… they capture slices of real life.

Dustin Cabeal 10/25/14 Dustin Cabeal 10/25/14

Review: VS Aliens

If you’re into manga there’s a publisher that you may not have heard about called Gen Manga. If you have then you’re probably loving their comics since they’re unlike anything being brought over from Japan to the states. To put it in terms that average comic readers understand they’re the Image Comics of manga.

Justin Wood 9/26/14 Justin Wood 9/26/14

Review: The Dirty Triangle (NSFW)

I go in blind on every indie book I review, just a PDF in a very big file of PDFs. I tend to make my selections by title, whatever stands out at the time.

Dustin Cabeal 8/26/14 Dustin Cabeal 8/26/14

Review: Kamen – Vol. 1

Kamen’s story begins with a man waking up in a field with a bad ass mask on. He panics because of the mask on his face, but suddenly a voice starts talking to him via the mask. It tells him to calm down and not to remove the mask because they both die. Already your interest should be piqued.

Dustin Cabeal 8/26/14 Dustin Cabeal 8/26/14

Review: Musashi

Your first question is probably, “Is this about Miyamoto Mushashi?” and the answer is simply yes. Musashi is all about the famous Japanese samurai Miyamoto Mushashi that lived at the end of the samurai era. The story takes an interesting take on presenting his life though as it’s narrated by Mushashi’s adopted son.