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This volume picks up the day after the previous volume ended. Socks and SG meet up for food and SG gets a response from the poster he created saying someone is also a sad ghost and wants to meet them. While SG is excited, Socks is anxious and upset because he feels like he is … More Review: The Sad Ghost Club Volume 2 by Lize Meddings
This was a fascinating retelling of Dracula, but it also had Frankenstein and The Mummy as well. Count Vlad Dracula has been reborn as a katana-wielding young vampiress named Vladislaus Draculesti and has been living in her castle with her shapeshifting servant Nan waiting for the next battle. When she rescues a girl named Clara … More ARC Review: BLOOD BLADE Vol. 1 by Oma Sei
This is a prequel/ sequel to The Last Ronin story and jumps back and forth from the past by telling us what happened to Michelangelo during his 20 years away from NY and the present with Casey Marie and April who are raising the new batch of turtles. After reading The Last Ronin, Michelangelo hinted … More Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin – Lost Years by Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz
This was a cute and short post-apocalyptic story featuring the demon Prince Beelzebub, his assistant Thief, and a human Sheriff Rao, searching the barren wasteland for the long lost phantom lake because water is greedily controlled by the king. This was a great standalone story about humans and demons struggling to survive and a few … More Review: Sand Land by Akira Toriyama
“Just because it feels huge now doesn’t mean it will forever…” This was a wonderful graphic novel about mental illness and how friendship and therapy can change a person’s perspective. SG is a ghost who has anxiety and is struggling with his anxiety over school work, his future, making friends, and the social anxiety of … More Review: The Sad Ghost Club Volume 1 by Lize Meddings
This volume collects episodes 103-126 of the Webtoon comic. In this volume, Persephone starts her first day of work in the underworld, Hades and Minthe finally break up, and blackmail is gathered against Persephone. We previously saw Hades struggling with the toxic relationship he was in with Minthe but after the events at the end … More Review: Lore Olympus Volume 5 by Rachel Smythe
TW: eating disorders, mentions of bullying Nick and Charlie’s story continues with Nick being in his final year at Truman and starting to look into universities. Charlie has got his anorexia mostly under control and has returned to school and is dealing with how to tell Nick that he is ready to take their relationship … More Review: Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
This volume concludes the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill event with a baseball game then leads into Yuji, Nobara, and Fushiguro being given a mission. With this mission we finally get to learn more about Fushiguro and some of his backstory. We also see him really step up in his abilities and not back down. Yuji and … More Review: Jujutsu Kaisen Volumes 7 and 8 by Gege Akutami
“We were always so different. So much alike. I miss my brothers. So much. And I miss my father. More than anything else, I wanted to make him proud. In the end…too little, too late. Story of my life.” This was an emotional, gritty, and dark Turtles graphic novel. In the future, Michelangelo is the … More Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman
The Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill event continues with Kyoto vs Jujutsu High students. The fights in this are great and I am loving all of these characters, even the Kyoto students. We see so many cool new abilities and how strong some of these characters can be. I really loved seeing what Panda can do since … More Review: Jujutsu Kaisen Volumes 5 and 6 by Gege Akutami
This volume introduces us to Jujutsu Sorcerer Kento Nanami who is working with Yuji while Gojo is busy. This was an interesting volume because Nanami has a really unique fighting style and his opponent, a special grade curse sprite named Mahito, has a unique ability that makes him hard to kill. I will be very … More Review: Jujutsu Kaisen Volumes 3 and 4 by Gege Akutami
Well this was so fun! I didn’t even read the blurb before checking this out but I really enjoyed this introduction to this world where dinosaurs still exist. Suma Suzume’s enthusiasm for dinosaurs was great and I loved how she never gave up and was always amazed by her job. I really look forward to … More Review: Dinosaur Sanctuary Volumes 1 and 2 by Itaru Kinoshita
Red-Haired Ash Reads 