Michelle Smith
Blue Moon Reviews — Silent Möbius: Complete Edition, Vol. 1
- by Michelle Smith
- Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 11:10 AM EST
The influential sci-fi manga Silent Möbius is back in a new edition from UDON Entertainment, featuring “a new UDON translation, the restoration of the traditional right-to-left reading format, as well as new scans of every page taken directly from the original artwork.” UDON also plans to release a one-volume prequel and two volumes of short [...]
Blue Moon Reviews — Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU, Vol. 1
- by Michelle Smith
- Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 6:33 AM EST
Meet Pelu. This cute and fluffy little guy is actually an alien and he’s come to earth with one goal in mind… makin' babies.
Blue Moon Reviews — Summer Fun with Shonen Jump
- by Michelle Smith
- Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 7:44 PM EST
In this column I take a look at four entries from VIZ's Shonen Jump/Shonen Jump Advanced line-up, with mixed results. On the agenda are Tegami Bachi, Gin Tama, Waqwaq, and Naruto.
Blue Moon Reviews — Black Cat, Vols. 1-2
- by Michelle Smith
- Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 7:20 AM EST
Black Cat is a series I missed while it was coming out (the twentieth and final volume was released in May) but recommendations by trusted reviewers compelled me to check it out. I’m glad I did, since reading it reminded me of the best and most addictive qualities of shounen manga.
Blue Moon Reviews — Kaze Hikaru, Vols. 1-2
- by Michelle Smith
- Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at 11:30 AM EST
I was a big fan of Rurouni Kenshin, purchasing every volume of the manga as it was released and watching every episode of the anime, even including the terrible filler ones towards the end. When Kaze Hikaru first came out, and was billed as a shojo version of Kenshin, I was dubious. It’s taken me [...]
Blue Moon Reviews — A.I. Revolution, Vol. 1
- by Michelle Smith
- Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 PM EST
A.I. Revolution is the story of a high school girl and her male robot companion. Unlike another series with a superficially similar premise, this one’s actually pretty good.
Blue Moon Reviews — Goong: The Royal Palace, Vol. 1
- by Michelle Smith
- Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 8:57 PM EST
Lately, I’ve fallen in love with manhwa (comics from Korea) in a big way. The latest specimen to please me is Goong: The Royal Palace, originally an ICE Kunion title but now being released by Yen Press.
Blue Moon Reviews — The Devil's Trill
- by Michelle Smith
- Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 PM EST
The Devil's Trill
By Sooyeon Won
NETCOMICS, 248 pp.
Rating: 13+
Score: B-
The Devil’s Trill collects two supernatural stories by Sooyeon Won, creator of the more well-known manhwa, Let Dai. In the title story, we follow a vampire named Eichner over several hundred years as he encounters various reincarnations of his true love. In the second story, “Magic Box,” [...]
