**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Viz Media/Shonen Jump, 2006 ISBN: 978-1421501529 Available: New Kubo’s first graphic novel, Zombie Powder, is a […]
Category: manga/anime
Anime Crash Course: The Devil is a Part Timer!
September 14, 2019The title of this one captures a lot. The Devil flees his world during a siege by the good guys and ends up with his best general nearly powerless and in modern Japan. They have to acquire jobs, an apartment, and pay their bills like normal people. But they aren’t normal, and they aren’t the […]
Anime Crash Course: Castlevania
August 31, 2019Like vampires and demons and snark? Then this is an anime for you. Inspired by the Castlevania video game franchise, this series follows Vlad Dracula and his vampires as they try to exterminate the human race and Trevor Belmont, Alucard Dracula, and magician Sypha Belnades as they try to stop the genocide. Castlevania contains violence […]
Anime Crash Course: Ouran High School Host Club
July 26, 2018Ouran High School Host Club is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek manga and anime about Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at an exclusive (expensive) private school who runs into some trouble with the school host club (more or less, they guys are escorts, without actual sex, playing doting, perfect boyfriends to rich, teenaged girls.) The club forces […]
Anime Crash Course: Inuyasha
April 1, 2018Inuyasha is one of the essential anime series. It certainly is the one that got me into the genre. Inuyasha is about a teenage girl, Kagome, who discovers she’s the reincarnation of a powerful priestess when a demon attacks her ad she falls through an old well at a shrine and ends up in the […]
Soul Eater Season 2 Episode 7
May 14, 2016“The Black Blood Resonance Battle! – A Small Soul’s Grand Struggle against Fear?” Black Star and Maka go against Stein’s commands when they come against Crona. Maka is determined to face Crona and Ragnarok alone. Maka seems to feel a kinship with the tormented meister, or maybe she is just determined to figure out […]
Soul Eater: Season 2 Episode 6
May 7, 2016“The Underground Battle Commences – Break Through Medusa’s Vector Arrow?” With the lead characters off to stop Medusa before she can wake the kishin sleeping under the academy Lord Death, Sid and the rest of the students wait trapped in the academy and Lord Death comes clean about why he started the school, why he […]
Review: Soul Eater Part 2, Episode 5
April 30, 2016“The Eve Party Nightmare – And so the Curtain Rises?” As the celebration of the anniversary of the school’s founding begins Death the Kid is both worried and irritated with his father. He has found out that the school is built on a sleeping kishin, and Medusa’s plot is to wake it. Lord Death doesn’t […]
Review: Soul Eater Part 2 Episode 4
April 23, 2016“Legend of the Holy Sword 2 – Wanna Go Drinking, Gambling, and Playing?” We had a few serious issues, and some good questions, so now it’s back to the silliness with an Excalibur episode. Ox, top in the class, hunts down Excalibur, and we all know how that will end. Excalibur is ridiculous. This episode […]
Review: Soul Eater Part 2 Episode 3
April 16, 2016“Fierce Battle Aboard the Ghost Ship – The Hell inside My Head?” Crona is one of the more powerful villains of this series. Of ambivalent gender, they are the child of a witch and has been corrupted from the beginning of life to strive to be a kishin. Crona is clearly suffering an extensive list […]