Midtown seems to be getting in some titles that Diamond has already shipped elsewhere. So, on that note…
I’ve already reviewed Twin Spica here, so see that for more details. But in short, this is a cute series about space exploration that rises above its cutesy designs to touch the heart. Recommended highly.
DMP is releasing another Comic Flapper title, Taimashin: Red Spider Exorcist, which has a great title if nothing else. I’m sort of hoping that he meets a female blue spider exorcist and together they combine to exorcise green spiders. There’s also the 2nd wideban volume of Itazura Na Kiss, the cute and hideously influential series that ran in Betsuma back in the early 1990s. It likely has far fewer spiders. I’d say fewer exorcisms, but you never know with shoujo romance.
Hellsing is ending? Wow, it seems like it’s been around since the 1990s. Oh right, it has. It started in 1997, and through various hiatuses (hiatusii?) crawled up to 10 volumes! We’ll miss you, gore-soaked vampire and your hot suit-wearing Mistress. This series ran in Young King OURS, my favorite seinen magazine, alongside Trigun, Excel Saga, and Geobreeders. No one could draw sneers quite like Hirano.
Then there’s Oh My Goddess 35. Now with romantic plot development! Hahahaha… just kidding, you know there’s nothing like that. Generally speaking, if a series hasn’t developed within 4-5 volumes I tend to drop it. There are a few exceptions. Oh My Goddess is one of them, if only as I’ve been buying it for so long my body has forgotten how to not buy it. I blame Megumi Morisato, really. She bewitches me.
And in Viz-land there is I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow. I try to support most of the Ikki series, but I had to stop this one after a few chapters. It read a bit too much like those indie comics you read where the plot is guys talking about making it big drawing indie comics. And their ideas? Are about indie comics! It’s an endless recursion of not a lot. Still, a lot of bloggers seem to like it, so give it a flip through at the store and see if it catches your fancy. Perhaps I dropped it just as it got good. (Which has happened before.) Besides, looking at Viz’s release schedule, I should be back to gushing again next week.
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