Manglobe マングローブ

Considering how much I loved reading this volume the first time in Japanese, it was no surprise how much I enjoyed reading it in English finally. I love the fact that the manga only barely touches on issues of depth and is instead just an excuse to rampage through the past, make silly anachronistic jokes, and kills lots of people:D You've got to love a samurai manga where a girl puts up a poster for a bodyguard with a note on it that says, "Must be as cool as (Toshiro) Mifune." Hee!

Jin actually did get a bit of depth in the first volume trying to decide what he should fight for, but I was more amused by how much trouble (and help) his pretty boy looks were. Usually, you only see people exploiting bishounnen like that in fanfic and doujin... Also, ninjas! Bwahaha! Yes, there was even a Naruto parody:)

My only complaint would be that they could have included a few more cultural notes. I knew that the ninja/shogun chapter was a parody of an old samurai show (have forgotten the name as usual...) but there was nothing mentioning it in the book.… (mehr)