Manga reviews

• Story: Takahal Matsumoto
• Drawing: Takahal Matsumoto
• Editor: Any
• Japanese Editor: Shueisha
• Genre: Science fiction
• Tankōbon Number: 9 in corso.

Matsumoto presents to us an adult story and at strong dyes set in futuristic scenery that remember Alita and it told with a narrative style similar at that of Otomo and Shirow, with Akira and Orion far from the common adventurous implications rich of fight and action and centred on philosophic and physiological implications. The future descript is flogged by a sand where the men fight to survive and get hold of the water. In this world Juju lives, he is a boy, belonging to gang of criminal, who... [Continue...]

• Story: Hirohisa Tsuruta
• Drawing: Hirohisa Tsuruta
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• Japanese Editor: Shueisha
• Genre: Shounen
• Tankōbon Number: 2

After the first volume serialization stops, there is no other material, and do it very probably forever, in fact since 2003 has been left no other volumes of B-Reaction in Japan. Kensaku Onodera considers to be the biggest street fighter of martial arts, because he never lost a battle... Soon, however, he must revise his views being knocked down by an attractive girl, Asato Nanae. From that moment our protagonist will not have peace, torn between the desire to defeat her and recover his honor... [Continue...]

• Story: Tsugumi Ooba
• Drawing: Takeshi Obata
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• Japanese Editor: Shueisha
• Genre: Horror
• Tankōbon Number: 12

What would you do if one day you found a book with which you can decide upon the death of a person, simply by writing the name within it? This is the main idea the manga Death Note centers around. Yagami Raito is an exemplary but bored student who discovers a book called "Death note". Reading the inscriptions on the first pages he finds out that if a human's name is written within it, that person shall die in 40 seconds of an heart attack. After experimenting the notebook's authenticity, Raito... [Continue...]

• Story: Harold Sakuishi
• Drawing: Harold Sakuishi
• Editor: Tokyopop
• Japanese Editor: Kodansha
• Genre: Comedy, Music, Drama
• Tankōbon Number: 34

Koyuki is a normal guy, he thinks he's unable to emerge: not satisfied of his condition and of his incapacity with girls, he wish to change life but doesn't know how to do. Opportunity comes when he meet Ryoosuuke, a boy who introduce him in the music world, causing the explosion of his passion for the guitar. Harshly applying himself day after day Koyuki succeed to increase his musical skills, so entering in his friends's band (called Beck from Ryuusuke's strange dog) and thank to this he... [Continue...]

• Story: Judith Park
• Drawing: Judith Park
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• Genre: Shoujo
• Tankōbon Number: 1

One of the first comics presented by the J-POP editor, Ysquare is a dutch-manwha. Edited in Germany with draws and history in oriental style, Judith park's work has Yoshitaka Kogirei as protagonist, a young repeating student totally concentrated on the girls; even if he gives the best of  himself to fell in love some beautiful girl, the result of his action is  a failure.  Decided to change his personality, the first cause of his current fails, he decides to be helped by his... [Continue...]