With Parents Day looming, our group of teen heroes-in-training are preparing for their visiting families by writing thank you letters. Before that though, Todoroki has to figure out who he wants to attend the event, and how to avoid his father, Flame-Hero Endeavor, from finding out; Ida has theme park tickets to share with some… Read More Review: My Hero Academia – School Briefs I (vol. 1)
A seemingly normal day starts under the thick clouds of a storm. A young girl stands on the banks of the Hudson River, watching as an oil drum is dredged up from the depths. On the other side of the city, a two-bit ruffian is being questioned by a terrorist group, given an ultimatum he… Read More Review: Baccano – 1933: The Slash ~Cloudy to Rainy~ (Vol 6)
Somewhere in the great vastness of Northern Europe, a small, secluded village sits hidden in the snowy mountains. Hostile to visitors coming and residents going, the people of the town live quiet lives disconnected from the rest of the world. Together, a group of immortals—Maiza, Chez, Sylvie and Nile—find themselves here, following the trail of… Read More Review: Baccano – 2001: The Children of Bottle (Vol 5)
We’ve returned to 1930s New York, where criminals run the town, and everyone else just lives there. This time as we rejoin the crazy world of Baccano! we follow a mysterious drug floating around the streets, claiming to have no physical side affects. The Runorata syndicate seems unusually involved in the happenings, and hapless junkie Roy Maddock… Read More Review: Baccano – 1932: Drug & The Dominos (Vol 4)
All aboard readers as we continue our crazy journey on the Flying Pussyfoot, the transcontinental trip from Chicago to New York. Along for the ride is the young boy Chez, train-hopping journalist Rachel and two warring-but-unrelated factions. We jump back to the mysterious events occurring on this trip, and see if everyone makes it out… Read More Review: Baccano! 1931: The Grand Punk Railroad – Express (Vol 3)
The menacing serial killer Masquerade is an ever-lurking threat to beautiful young women around the city—multiple bodies have been found with a missing limb and their face removed, earning the killer their name. Newbie Officer Yuri Uguisu has been obsessively dedicated to the case since the first of the slayings—the victim, her younger sister—and now… Read More Review: Masquerade and the Nameless Women
