Comics (especially Manga) are often not pushed in front of any standardised ratings board before going on sale, and the age ratings from the publisher often seem very lax - and possibly deliberately to sell more books! Or possibly I'm just a little old and out of touch.

Anyway, when writing about a Comic I'll try to look at the level of the language, the level of violence, if there is any blood or gore, and how much skin that characters are showing. If I feel that there's a lot, or if I feel the Comic edges over some kind of boundery, then I'll class the Comic as Mature.

Whatever it was, a Mature Comic had something in it that I didn't think should be seen by little children.

 
 
 

Saiyuki

Put simply, Saiyuki is a typical Action Manga. The four main protagonists could loosely be called “heroes”, and face off against another group of what look like “villains”, until another group betray the first group and become the “real” villains.

Posted Tuesday 1st September 2009 by Crazy Choco
 
 

Suzunari!

Put simply, Suzunari! is one nice long double-act. Suzu is a totally OTT character; Kaede is the “straight man” - um, I mean, “straight woman”. Suzu is kind of an “odd person out” in the Manga; the main humour comes from Suzu’s reactions to everything, and Kaede’s reaction to Suzu’s antics.

Posted Tuesday 25th January 2011 by Crazy Choco
 
 

The Girl Who Runs Through Time

The Girl who Runs Through Time isn't aiming to be overly complex or clever. It's just aiming to be a charming little story, and it succeeds brilliantly.

Posted Friday 2nd July 2010 by Crazy Choco
 
 

Vampire Game

Well, there’s Vampire this and Vampire that. Just like television, Manga seems to have gone through a phase where Vampires are in fashion. We seem to be starting to come out of it now, however as I’m not making any attempt to do...

Posted Sunday 25th July 2010 by Crazy Choco