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Sunday, December 20, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: ONE-PUNCH MAN Volume 19
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
STORY: ONE
ART: Yusuke Murata
TRANSLATION: John Werry
LETTERS: James Gaubatz
EDITORS: Jennifer LeBlanc; John Bae
ISBN: 978-1-9745-1170-3; paperback (March 2020); Rated “T” for “Teen”
232pp, B&W, $9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
One-Punch Man is a Japanese superhero franchise that began as a webcomic created by the writer-artist ONE. Later, ONE joined artist Yusuke Murata to create a digital manga remake of One-Punch Man, and it began publication on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website in 2012. VIZ Media has been publishing an English-language edition of the digital manga as a paperback graphic novel series under its “Shonen Jump” imprint, beginning in 2015.
One-Punch Man focuses on Saitama, who wants to be a hero. Beginning his superhero training when he is 22-years-old, he becomes a hero when he is 25. He really does not look like a superhero, with his lifeless facial expression, bald head, and unimpressive physique. But he beats the snot out of super-villains with one punch, and he even has his own disciple, the young cyborg, Genos (who really does not need any training).
As One-Punch Man, Vol. 19 (Chapters 91 to 94; entitled “All My Cabbage”) opens, the Hero Association gathers its forces before it launches its most important mission. The Monster Association has kidnapped Waganma, the son of Mr. Nakiri, a man who has some kind of influence over the Hero Association. Nakiri has already seen his “Nakiri Private Force” torn apart during its mission to rescue his son. “Class S” heroes will lead the mission, with Class A and B acting as back-up, but some previously respected Class A heroes are not wanted on this mission... including a familiar face.
Elsewhere, Garo, the so-called “Hero Hunter,” invades the Monster Association's underground lair in order to rescue another kidnapped child, the sniveling, always-in-the-way, Tareo. The boy, however, has already been chosen for some torture fun and games. And Garo's rescue mission will bring him face to face with the most powerful monsters, including the top two monsters.
Meanwhile, Saitama is at home wondering why he has to share his hot pot with uninvited guests. And it seems as if they are going to eat all the cabbage in the hot pot.
[This volume includes the bonus manga story, entitled “Reality Punch.”]
THE LOWDOWN: As the year 2020 approaches its end, I can say that I have dedicated myself to the One-Punch Man manga. It is my favorite superhero comic, and I have read at least seven volumes this year.
One-Punch Man Graphic Novel Volume 19 offers the usual battle manga. However, of late, creators, writer ONE and artist Yusuke Murata, have focused on the half-human/half-monster, Garo, who is known as the “Hero Hunter.” He is a great character, and I dare say as good as Saitama. It pains me to write that because I really like Saitama, and I always look forward to him punching out a giant monster. Still, Garo is quite the unstoppable force himself, and I find him to be as attractive an anti-hero as Marvel Comics' Wolverine once was (before Marvel Comics overexposed the character via a flood of comic book publications). So I am recommending One-Punch Man because it has two great characters, and I wouldn't be surprised if ONE and Murata gave us a third great character sometime soon.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of shonen battle manga and of superhero comic books will want to try the “Shonen Jump” title, One-Punch Man.
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9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Saturday, December 19, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: FOOD WARS! Volume 34
FOOD WARS!: SHOKUGEKI NO SOMA, VOL. 34
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
STORY: Yuto Tsukuda
ART: Shun Saeki
TRANSLATION: Adrienne Beck
CONTRIBUTOR: Yuki Morisaki
LETTERS: James Gaubatz; Mara Coman
EDITOR: Jennifer LeBlanc
ISBN: 978-1-9747-1171-0; paperback (February 2020); Rated “T+” for “Older Teen”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma is a shonen manga series written by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. Yuki Morisaki also works as a contributor, providing the recipes for the series. Food Wars! was serialized in the Japanese manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump, from November 2012 to June 2019. VIZ Media published an English-language edition of the manga as a paperback graphic novel series from August 2014 to June 2020 under two imprints: first, “Shonen Jump Advanced” and then, “Shonen Jump.”
Food Wars! focuses on teenager Soma Yukihira. He grows up cooking in his father's Yukihira Family Restaurant. The 15-year-old wants to be a better chef than his father, Joshiro Yukihira (Saiba), so he hones his skills day in and day out. His father decides to enroll him in a classy culinary school, Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate. If Soma Yukihira really does not want to attend Totsuki, how can he succeed?
As Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma, Vol. 34 (Chapters 291 to 299; entitled “Crossed Knives”) opens, the “Blue,” a world-renowned cooking tournament for the best of the best young chefs from around the world, continues. This year, for the first time, traditional chefs will clash with the “underground noir” (or “cuisiniers noir”) chefs. Soma, eager for a rematch with the noir, Asahi Saiba, who defeated him, heads to a certain famous old castle in a famous city where the event will be held.
Much to the chagrin of the noirs, some traditional chefs have survived the “three gates” challenges and are now in the finals. They are Totsuki's brightest: Soma, Megumi Tadokoro, and Takumi Aldini, as well as recent Totsuki graduate, Eishi Tsukasa. They are joining their classmate, Erina Nakiri, who got to skip the early stages of the “Blue” because of her past achievements.
Now, these traditional young chefs must take on the “freakishly” talents noirs. First up, Soma faces “Sarge” of the cuisiniers noir!
[The volume includes recipes and miscellaneous illustrations and two side-stories (“Treated Like a Child?” and “A Christmas Recipe”) and a bonus short, “Yukihara the Diligent.”]
THE LOWDOWN: The Food Wars! manga races towards its conclusion. The narratives continues to delve into the mysteries of the “cuisiniers noir.”
Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma Graphic Novel Volume 34 is pure shokugeki shonen battle manga. Writer Yuto Tsukuda and artist Shun Saeki offer some of their most surreal and oddly crazy cooking battles to date. It is hard to tell, though; this manga has always been packed with crazy cooking competition, but Vol. 34 offers a baker's twist.
Adrienne Beck's translation keeps up with the crazy, and letterers James Gaubatz and Mara Coman create the fonts for the unusual declarations of these unusual battles. Dish by dish, Food Wars! continues to be both a unique and an entertaining reading experience.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Readers hungry for good manga will want the “Shonen Jump” title, Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma.
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9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Friday, December 18, 2020
#IReadsYou Movie Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY
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Running time: 86 minutes (1 hour, 26 minutes)
MPAA – PG for macabre and suggestive humor, and some action.
DIRECTORS: Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon
WRITERS: Matt Lieberman; from a story by Matt Lieberman, Erica Rivinoja, and Conrad Vernon (based on the characters created by Charles Addams)
PRODUCERS: Gail Berman, Alison O'Brien, Alex Schwartz, and Conrad Vernon
EDITORS: Kevin Pavlovic and David Ian Salter
COMPOSERS: Jeff Danna and Mychael Danna
ANIMATION/FANTASY/COMEDY/FAMILY
Starring: (voices) Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Tituss Burgess, Jenifer Lewis, Elsie Fisher, Conrad Vernon, and Pom Klementieff
The Addams Family is a 2019 computer-animated comedy from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. The film is based on the characters created by The New Yorker cartoonist, the late Charles Addams (1912-1988). The Addams Family the movie focuses on an eccentrically macabre family and their interactions with the denizens of a colorful, but bland suburb.
The Addams Family opens as Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron) prepare to marry in front of their eccentric, odd, and weird family members. However, the people of the local town despise the macabre nature of the happy couple and their family, and chase them away. Luckily, the newlywed Morticia and Gomez and their companion, Thing (sentient hand), escape to New Jersey. There, the trio finds two things. The first is a home in an abandoned and decaying manor-style building that was once an asylum, and the second is a butler in the hulking Lurch (Conrad Vernon).
Thirteen years later, Morticia and Gomez have two children – a precocious and mordacious, Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz); and an explosives-loving son, Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard). The family is in kind of a state of crisis. Gomez struggles as he prepares Pugsley for his upcoming “Sabre Mazurka,” a rite of passage that every male Addams family member must pass. Morticia struggles to keep Wednesday from wanting to experience the world outside the mansion, which includes the girl's desire to go to school.
Elsewhere, reality TV host, Margaux Needler (Allison Janney), is in the middle of building a perfect planned community that she is calling, “Assimilation.” This is supposed to be the highlight of her television series' season finale. However, when she discovers that the Addams' dilapidated home overlooks Assimilation, Margaux is determined to give their home an extreme makeover, whether they like it or not. Meanwhile, many members of the Addams clan are gradually arriving in order to celebrate Pulley's big day.
I have been a fan of ABC's 1960s television series, “The Addams Family” (1964-66), since I was a child. As a child, I was also a fan of NBC's Saturday morning cartoon series, “The Addams Family” (1973). I have mixed feelings about Orion Pictures' two 1990s live-action films, The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). As an adult, I became a huge fan of the work of Charles Addams, especially of his delightfully macabre cartoons that featured the characters that would become known as “The Addams Family.”
The latest media iteration of these characters, the computer-animated The Addams Family, borrows elements from the Addams Family media that has come before it. Here, the illustrative and graphic design of the characters and their world recall both Addams cartoons and the 1973 TV series, although I find the way this film's Morticia and Gomez look to be a little off-putting. Overall, however, I find the look of this film visually appealing, and I think the Addams family's relatives are an interesting lot of inventively designed characters.
One thing that I think The Addams Family 2019 has over The Addams Family 1990s film franchise is that this animated film gets it right in the way it contrasts the Addams family against the outside world. Charles Addams' best cartoons juxtaposed his creepy characters and their playfully insidious actions with the normal human world. Much about the 1990s films was insular and did not send the family out into the normal world. The second film did, at least, send Wednesday and Pugsley to summer camp, which is why I think the second film is much better than the first.
By sending the Addams down the mountain to meet their neighbors in this film, the filmmakers get to play with themes and ideas of individuality, conformity, acceptance, change, and family, which makes this movie more than just another cartoon romp featuring a bunch of strange characters. Ultimately, The Addams Family 2019 emphasizes that a family can be made up of both different people and of people who live and act differently from the rest of the family.
This film's standout voice actor/character pairs are Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday and Allison Janney as Margaux Needler. Nick Kroll delivers a killer turn as Uncle Fester, and Bette Midler takes what is a small role in Grandmama Addams and makes it feel like a major part. Jenifer Lewis, with her commanding voice and delivery, turns Great Auntie Loom into a character that steals scenes.
The Addams Family 2019 is my favorite media adaptation of “The Addams Family” characters outside of the 1960s and 1970s. I highly recommend this film to fans of the characters. It does take a while for the film to get going – about 20 minutes into the story, but it manages to be sweet, charming, heartwarming, and, of course, macabre – the way it should be.
B+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: MURCIELAGO Volume 14
YEN PRESS
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MANGAKA: Kana Yoshimura as “Yoshimurakana”
TRANSLATION: Christine Dashiell
LETTERS: Alexis Eckerman
ISBN: 978-1-9753-0793-6; paperback (April 2020); Rated “M” for “Mature”
194pp, B&W, $13.00 U.S., $17.00 CAN
Murciélago is a manga from writer-artist Kana Yoshimura (stylized as Yoshimurakana). The manga has been serialized in the manga magazine, Young GanGan, since 2013. Yen Press has been producing an English-language edition of the manga since 2017.
Murcielago focuses on a young woman named Kuroko Koumori, a former mass murderer. She gets her dream job when she becomes a hitwoman and hired assassin for the Tokyo police force. In a city overflowing with heinous crimes and violence, Kuroko's targets are other mass murderers that are deemed unstoppable by normal means. For her, a license to kill others leads to some serious job satisfaction, but Kuroko still has time for the ladies.
As Murcielago, Vol. 14 (Chapters 91 to 97) opens, Kuroko continues to pursue an investigation of a string of murders involving corpses drained of blood. Now, Kuroko and her hulking buddy, Urara, descend into the sewers to rescue Narumi from an adversary who has an all-too-familiar face.
Meanwhile, Narumi is determined to escape with the other young women who are held captive by this deranged and blood-crazy killer. However, Narumi has a broken leg, and the maze-like underground sewer tunnels make the odds of their escape grim. For Kuroko and Urara and for Narumi and the other captives, it is a race against the clock as the killer prepares for the next meal.
[This volume includes bonus comics.]
The Murcielago manga is another title that is new to me. I am surprised at how unfamiliar I am with Yen Press' catalog, but luckily, I now have a Yen Press rep to help me discover new titles.
Murcielago Graphic Novel Volume 14 is the first volume of the series that I have read, but I found that this volume, at least, was easy to follow even with me being new to the series. Besides, Murcielago's premise is pretty straightforward, and as an action-horror manga, readers will quickly figure out the good girls, the bad girls, and the ugly. Creator Kana Yoshimura offers something that really makes for good action-horror fight comics and battle manga – intense fights.
Murcielago is also yuri or lesbian manga, as romance and romantic pursuits between women are open and seem like nothing different from other tales of love, romance, and sex. Murcielago seems a bit too mature or at least too edgy to be called “girls' love.” Or perhaps that is my reading of Christine Dashiell's translation. That aside, I find Murcielago's premise intriguing, so I would like to read future volumes or go back to earlier volumes.
7 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You
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