Quick takes on Jade of Bango, Magic Lover’s Tower and volume two of Very! Very! Sweet.

A fresh twist on the superhero-with-a-secret-identity trope.

Reviews of Alley of First Love, Kasumi, Kikaider Code 02, King of Fighters, Naruto, Tears of a Lamb, xxxHolic.

This premature priest needs to go to confession.

Chloe and Kate tackle the latest volumes of Metro Survive and Nightmare Inspector, as well as new arrivals Red Angel, Two Flowers for the Dragon and Ultimate Venus.

Consign this Junk to the scrap heap.

New reviewer Phil Guie sees some parallels between Junk and classic American superhero comics.

When it comes right down to it, Purgatory Kabuki feels like a collection of cool ideas that were tossed together without a whole lot of thought given to the story.

The final volume of Tezuka’s Phoenix plus the first volume of Metro Survive, a manga with a 70’s disaster movie vibe.

Here are a few more great anime and manga that didn’t make the initial cut for our “best of/worst of 2007″ list.