This is why I don't make New Year's Resolutions to read less manga: the statistics would come out the next year, and I would laugh in my own face. The scary thing is this list doesn't include random scanlations or recent chapters of series I follow, and it's still at 275 volumes ( Read more... )

It's over! Wah! Though I was briefly confused despite rilina already having told me that a 21st Century Boys existed, and I couldn't really figure out if it was over or not. I blame the Japanese publisher. Usually there is a handy-dandy "Complete" kanji on the spine for completed series, and it wasn't on vol. 22, and when it listed the publishers' series ( Read more... )

My mad rush through the series continues! For anyone curious about this series and why it has taken over my brain, you can ahem it at mangatraders dot com (free login required, but you can ahem by the volume, which is eight billion times better than individually grabbing 200+ chapters). Also, for the record, yes, I do mean to buy this once it comes ( Read more... )

I think my reactions to all the plot developments and twists in these five volumes (how did I read five volumes last night? I was going to stop at one, I swear...) can be summed up as: OMGWTFBBQSQUEE ( Read more... )

For once, I am actually posting these manga write-ups in real time; aka, this is not a couple of days or weeks after I finished the volumes ( Read more... )

This is amazingly addictive. Usually I read manga in spurts; read one or two, forget about it for a month, read another three, forget about it for a month, rinse and repeat. I suspect that I will end up blazing through this in a couple of days ( Read more... )

Most people (me included) have been reading Urasawa's Monster, which is a good series on serial killers and what makes people monsters and what keeps them from being monsters. I like Monsters a lot; I think it's a well-written, solid series.

But so far, I absolutely adore 20th Century Boys.

rilina has already pointed out that this series seems to be ( Read more... )