Tag: Titan

January 7, 2024 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Alpi is a wandering exorcist (or “Soul Sender”), although she is not very good at it. She has only taken on the dangerous job in an attempt to track down her missing parents, who disappeared some years earlier. But much of the appeal in “Rona’s” manga comes from the quirky way this […]

December 28, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Ran is a “Child of Impurity”, a warrior with the power to exorcise monsters, but only by taking on their curses himself. As a result, he is a toxic figure, shunned by the villagers he defends, doomed to a short life-span when the accumulated poisons eventually overwhelm him. And he has acquired […]

November 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Of all the cities in the world where a witch might be able to blend in, Edinburgh is probably a prime candidate. Marie Blackwood is the “Black Witch of Albion”, a notorious sorceress who may be much older than she looks, who tries to maintain a low profile by running a magic […]

January 7, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. As Japan is rocked by a series of grisly murders, the Tokyo police set up a specialised task force to take down murderers that they come to believe to be super-powered aliens. The Gurongi, in fact, are antediluvian beings cast in the Predator mould, intent on advancement through a hunting ritual that […]

November 11, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Atom: The Beginning is a marvellous experiment in retro manga, a retelling of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy in prequel form, narrating all the back-story and build-up that is only hinted at in the original. In this new version, written by Masami Yuuki and drawn by Tetsuro Kasahara, big-nosed incel Hiroshi Ochanomizu and […]