A few weeks ago the last chapter of Mohiro Kitoh's Bokurano was finally published. After taking the time to re-read the completed story from the beginning I've been wondering how to organise my thoughts in such a way as to be able to discuss it without spoiling it for anyone else ( Read more... )

To my great joy, volume 7 of Shadow Star finally dropped through my letterbox today.

The series itself is essentially a very black satire on the Pokemon/Monster Rancher kids-with-pet-monsters genre, aiming to show a rather more plausible take on what might happen if angry and depressed teenagers suddenly found themselves in possession of nearly ( Read more... )

For those of you who've yet to read the delightful Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, there's now a torrent containing all fourteen volumes of the scanlation available. Now you've no excuse. Do yourself a huge favour: grab a copy of CDisplay and settle down with simply the most beautiful manga every produced, bar none ( Read more... )

For anyone who hasn't yet seen it, Kozue Amano (the creator of Aria) has an absolutely gorgeous gallery of sketch-work up on her website.

(As ever, Athena is composed entirely of win. But this is probably my favourite picture.)

Frustratingly, although a bookstore in Reading does have one of her artbooks, it's almost entirely devoid of Aria/Aqua ( Read more... )

I've been saving up a few things to comment on, and now seems the best time to get them written down.

First, and very definitely foremost:

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

After almost twelve years and fourteen volumes, this delightful manga series has finally come to and end with the publication of this month's installment (scanlation available from Cafe ( Read more... )