Cool action scenes, short-skirted SWAT team babes, and sharp artwork carry Rose Hip Rose past its unlikeable hero and head-scratching plot developments.

Snazzy weapons and cool artwork can’t save this series from terminal blandness.

With a brand new story arc, volume 28 makes a great place to jump into Naruto… assuming, of course, you aren’t already reading it.

Paging Dr. Ruth Westheimer!

We’ve got something for everyone: warriors in leopard masks, families with secrets, yakuza, and hikikomori.

Fans of Blame! may be interested in this prequel, but others will find it both boring and confusing.

Ken and Kate review old-school classics Andromeda Stories, Appleseed, and Uzumaki as well as two shojo titles: La Corda d’Oro and Short Sunzen.

Ken gives high marks to the anime adaptation of this wildly popular shonen series.

Ken looks at the new unflipped edition of Shirow Masamune’s classic.

This OEL title about a paperboy with a deadly route strains too hard for laughs.