Manga

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (Manga) Review

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I’ll put up my hand and admit that I’ve never given Majora’s Mask a proper go, I didn’t like the timed aspect when I read about it at the time of its release and since then despite hearing how good it is I’ve yet to make time to play through it. So reading the Majora’s Mask manga has been interesting, though admittedly over the many years I do know all the major beats of the story so it wasn’t exactly reading it fresh it was still a different experience to the Ocarina of Time story I reviewed earlier. There’s also a fun original story about the creation of Majora’s Mask that was a good little read added on. So, let’s take a look!

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Manga) Review

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As a new on-and-off review series I’ll be looking at the Legend of Zelda manga series as I brought the rather lovely treasure chest shaped box containing the hardback Legendary editions of the series (except the Twilight Princess series anyway). While I was tempted to put them in game-release order I decided to instead follow the series as it was released, therefore let’s start with Ocarina of Time! It’s odd to be covering the Manga of OOT when I haven’t actually covered the legendary game itself yet, but there you go! Let’s take a look at how good it is as a manga, as well as comparing it to its source material (ignoring obvious differences like Link talking, obviously…)

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Star Wars: The High Republic – The Edge of Balance Volume 2 Review

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The first volume of the High Republic manga “The Edge of Balance” was harmless but extremely light on … pretty much everything, so I am happy to say Volume 2 has more meat on its bones and even ties into the greater High Republic Phase 1 story more naturally, but sadly it takes a while to get going… So let’s take a look then!

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Dragon Ball Super (Manga) – Granolah The Survivor Arc (Chapters 68 – 87) Review

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The Dragon Ball Super manga has continued its monthly printing for the past few years with the “Granolah The Survivor” arc, a story arc that started off so well but quickly spiralled downwards until it ended with one of the very worst finales I think I’ve ever seen, read or listened to. Want to know more? Trust me, you don’t.

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Star Wars: The High Republc – The Edge of Balance Vol. 1 Review

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So last year we got a bunch of Star Wars Anime shorts, now I’m reviewing not just a Star Wars manga but one set during the High Republic era, which I’ve been loving the last year or so. It’s always nice when something ticks so many boxes at once! That being said due to being printed in the traditional western way and having a very simple plot this felt less like manga than I was expecting… Is it still worth reading though? Let’s find out!

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The King of the Fighters: A New Beginning – Volume 6 Review

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What is it with written / drawn adaptations of fighting game franchises and finishing in a rush? Yes, here we are with King of Fighters: A New Beginning, which after five volumes of showcasing each team (for better or worse) we suddenly reach the end and the teams that haven’t had any spotlight yet are suddenly thrown in for a quick cameo as the story wraps up just as quickly. Annoying? Yes! Still, what’s it like overall? Let’s find out…

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Bleach: 20th Anniversary One-Shot Chapter – No Breathes From Hell Review

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So I thought to myself a few weeks ago “if the special chapter isn’t just a jokey throwaway thing I might do a quick look at it on my blog, but otherwise I have enough Bleach going up at the moment…” and then suddenly not only is it full of new continuity, characters and plot but it also seemingly starts a whole new story arc! Bizarre. Let’s take a look, though keep in mind it has spoilers for both the chapter and the overall ending of Bleach, so if you’re waiting for that 1,000 Year Blood War Arc anime adaptation you may want to skip this review…

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The King of Fighters: A New Beginning – Volume 5 Review

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“A New Beginning” once again leans heavily of prior King of Fighters lore as the NESTS arc from KOF 99-01 is pretty much given a sequel here and all connections to KOF XIV is nearly dropped, if it weren’t for Team South America’s presence. Is this a bad thing? Not for me, it was the NESTS arc that drew me into the series proper, but for a manga titled “A New Beginning”? Probably, yeah… Let’s take a look anyway!

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The King of Fighters: A New Beginning – Volume 4 Review

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The King of Fighters XIV manga adaptation continues to show the same pattern of “two chapters of fighting, interlude, two chapters of fighting” that the previous volumes have, but also continues to heavily feature the NESTS organisation, which gives it many bonus points in my eyes. Let’s see how it continues on, shall we! Erm… BURN TO FIGHT! I guess? (that’s the pre-fight phrase, for some reason…)

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Dragon Ball Super (Manga) – Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc (Chapters 42 – 67) Review

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Now the Dragon Ball Super anime has stopped airing it has been through the Manga that we have followed the further Toriyama-penned (though not drawn) antics of Goku and co. The latest arc has come to a close, focusing on a powerful magic-user from 10 million years ago returning named Moro, so I thought I’d have a look at it! I would review manga volumes, but this arc awkwardly starts halfway through Volume 10 and I’m NOT reviewing the Universe Survival arc for a third time any time soon, so I thought it would be easier to just count the Chapters instead, especially as I’m following the monthly chapters anyway… So let’s take a look!

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