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First manga I ever read. It was early evening, I was in 8th or 9th grade, and I was browsing the back aisles of Bookstar(now closed)in my city. I was always interested in manga/anime(didn't know the names of what it was called at the time) but I thought they were mostly provocative due to me scanning over a kissing scene in one of classmate's manga in elementary school-Egad! and not being allowed to watch Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.After discovering AMVs(first was Death Note) on Youtube one night and sneaking and watching Inuyasha one 4 am morning, I again became captivated by the art and storyline much like when I was younger and addicted to Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Yugioh, Digimon, Kirby, Sonic, and eventually Dragon Ball Z; there was something about those shows that seemed to always capture my attention and bring this intense feeling of pure elation. I even believe Tuxedo Mask was my first ever crush. Well, I bought the manga, hopped in the car, and my dad drove my sister and I next door to Starbucks where we got a hot chocolate. I was super excited about finally owning this thing that had intrigued me all my life. I dived right in and quickly realized you had to read it the opposite way; once I got a handle on the direction I was hooked.I loved Lelouch and the art and everything. I found the plot to be interesting but seemed a bit slow in getting to the action, which I didn't want to admit to myself since I had gotten my hopes up incredibly high.I finished the manga and was excited to get the second and work my way into this new world of Japanese comics. This manga and several anime and amvs led me through some of the best and absolute worst times of my life. They both defined and became a part of who I was as a person; I grew interested in Japanese culture and wanted to study aboard there or at least visit, wanted to dye my hair blue, craved coffee in tin cans, wanted to go to conventions, discovered techno/electronica music, wanted bangs(which I eventually got), wanted to try Pocky, wanted to live in this fictitious world where adventure and excitement was happening around every corner whether you were with friends or not. It became an addiction that both entertained and haunted me which only got worse when I finally grew a "girly" bone in my body and started liking Shoujo manga/anime.Such dark times my middle school and early high school days were...Would never ever want to go backIt all eventually evened out in the end and I am no longer that obsessed girl I was back in the day(at least not with anime/manga haha). Don't get me wrong. I still adore anime and manga and every so often I'll pick up a volume at the bookstore and read it, but I've toned down A LOT. Also I left out a lot of details of what that obsession was like. This is a book review after all. Still...I know for a fact that even currently watching too much anime and/or reading too much manga would probably make me relapse. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Vol 1: 3.5 stars out of 5 

Final Volume!One of the best things about Kohta Hirano's sexy apocalypse of warring vampires, Nazis, Catholics, werewolves, and Australian mercenaries is that all the way up to, and possibly through, this final volume, we don't know who's going to win. The streets of London are awash in blood, a zeppelin descends a la Hindenburg, and six of our favorite characters are locked in face-off fights. It's possible that no one will come away from this crescendo "alive." Of course, we're not sure who's alive or undead at this point. But what's most certain is that London needs babies, because there isn't a civilian soul left alive in this battle to the undeath. Alas, Hellsing, we knew you well.

Tahun 1600 terjadi perang kekuasaan di Sekigahara dan penumpasan Shimazu. Shimazu Toyohisa mengincar kepala pemimpin lawan dengan mengejar sampai mati!!Saat sedang sekarat, pintu menuju dunia lain terbuka! Samurai terkuat zaman sengoku diundang ke dunia peperangan yang baru!!Judul asli: ドリフターズEditor's note: Gambar bagus, cerita menarik.Status di Jepang: 3 volume dan masih berjalan.Periode penerbitan di Jepang: 1 volume per 15 bulan.

After Alucard's triumphant return, the streets of London were flooded with the blood of vampire Nazi soldiers and crazed Catholic warriors. After the dust settled, only the Hellsing order of Protestant knights was left standing. Now it's up to the earthly agents of divine punishment to save the souls of the innocent. However, chaos soon engulfs the streets yet again. Come to find out, not all the Nazis were vanquished after all. Will Alucard and his allies have what it takes to save what is left of the city?

London is already bathed in blood, its citizenry almost entirely slaughtered by vampiric, reborn nazi soldiers. And marching through the rivers of blood - thousands of extreme Catholic warriors in creepy cloaks. But the focus of this chaotic eighth volume is the return of Alucard, the slave-paladin of the British Protestants, who's just piloted an aircraft character up the Thames to join the fray. It's a crazy face-off between three gory armies and their primary killers, and if you think that sounds nuts, wait until you dive into the crimson-stained new volume of Kohta Hirano's creepy-cool Hellsing manga series.

What do you get when you mix reanimated Nazis, vampires, and freaky killer Catholics and Protestants breathing down each others’ necks? In the case of Hellsing, you get an all-out bloody war. Or such has proven to be the case so far. The world is engulfed in the flames of destruction, and all seems lost. Vernedead’s "Geese" are literally being eaten alive, and it might just take half-vampire, Seras Victoria, a certain loss of innocence to provide a shred of hope. But that’s not all this story hinges on. The vampire Hellsing himself will surely show at some point, and the Catholic Iscariot Army, a dreaded force, is also on the march. This is a situation of boiling blood, and it’s about to burst!

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Chronicles the exploits of the secret Hellsing Organization, formed by the Hellsing family to protect England and the Protestant church from vampires and other monsters, and its top operative, the vampire Alucard.Title: Hellsing 4Author: Hirano, KohtaPublisher: Diamond Comic DistributorsPublication Date: 2004/09/22Number of Pages: 208Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: bl2004105993

I really don't want to bring the rating for this series down. I'm reading these volumes at the request of a friend, and they are, I suspect quite good for Manga. I'm not really much of a Manga reader. What I find fascinating about the series is the way religion is tied so effortlessly into the plot. Alucard is no doubt the coolest of the vampires. There's quite a bit of theological stuff to chew on here as well. I'm not usually shy about expressing my opinion, but I really don't have much to compare this with. As a kid I read comic books like everyone else did, but apart from a stint reading all the Calvin and Hobbes books, and Gary Larson's The Far Side, I've gone pretty much textual.Kohta Hirano is talented both as an artist and as a story-teller. Probably it's my age, but I'm not sure I'm following the story correctly, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. A fine way to pass a rainy afternoon.

Hellsing continues with more blood, guts, ghouls, and gothic murder. Created by Kohta Hirano, and making its way into an incredibly popular anime, Hellsing pushes the boundary of horror, yet looks so visually stunning and graphically cool that instead of being scary, it's super fun. Certainly not intended for younger readers, this series follows the Hellsing Organization, an old institution created by English royalty to squash the ghoulish undead of the world, as they face an insurgence of murderous monsters running rampant across the isles, fueled by... could it be... Nazi's? Watch the dark story unravel as Dark Horse Manga presents Hellsing volume 2.

There's a secret organization somewhere in England created to defend the Queen and country from monsters of all sorts. Yes, it's hard to believe in this day and age.... but really, isn't this the true age of monsters?Enter Hellsing, an agency, long in tooth, with the experience, know-how, and...er...equipment to handle the problems that arise when vampires, ghouls take on these dark forces. "What equipment?" you may say. How about another vampire, and a big pistol loaded with special silver bullets? That oughta do the trick.Hellsing the long-awaited manga is finally in America, thanks to Dark Horse Comics and the folks at Digital Manga, and you're gonna love it. Come get some smart-ass gore and action as only Japan seems to produce, in that crazy "non-Western" formats the kids seem to love. And nice and thick at over 200 pages!

This is the story of Nicholas Wolfwood and Livio, two boys for whom friendship was brief, but still burned deep into their boyhood conciences. But those bits and pieces, though full of light, are mere shadows to these men of guns and blood and violence. Yes, in this volume of Trigun, our hero Vash takes a bit of a rest, and he certainly deserves one. So, now we'll study a boyhood relationship, one that, in this very volume, just might come to a destructive and angry end. Though, it may be a bit tough for either one of these "friends" to knock each other off. They both have secrets up their sleeves, and Livio, well he might even have an extra sleeve!As always, published in the ever-popular non-westernized format, with Yasuhiro Nightow's commentary in the back and the comical original black and white covers printed on the inside.

Fourteen volumes, almost three-thousand pages, an internationally popular anime, and one of the most recognizable characters in the genre: this is the saga of Vash the Stampede. For the past decade, Trigun Maximum has pollinated the manga medium and now permeates the otaku culture worldwide. Now, join Dark Horse Manga as they celebrate the amazing conclusion to this epic tale. Running and gunning Vash keeps his trademark wits and savvy fully loaded with both barrels blazing as his enemies draw nearer and his friends hang dangerously in the balance. As the sun sets on this climactic final fight, will it be happy trails for Vash or will it end in a blaze of bullet-riddled glory?

If ever there was an intense volume of Trigun, "Wolfwood" would at least be its equal. Since the day Vash spotted his decimated soul in the middle of the desert, Nicholas Wolfwood has become a favorite of fans. A man of the cloth with a tortured soul and a past full of bullets, the protector of our story’s hero, Wolfwood might just be reaching the end of his pew. Ironically, the past has come back to attack him. And by that we mean that Livio, the young man Nicholas once befriended. Livio is more than a match for Wolfwood, having been trained by the same master, Chapel. And now the master and both disciples meet in a deadly face-off, and only one man will survive. But readers are in for more than just one surprise in this climactic volume of Trigun.

SPOILERS!This is probably the most informative volume (more plot, less filler) that I have read so far which I have to say is pretty exciting. I admit I was confused a couple of volumes back when the bug kid (male) called Beast died and then came back as a teenage girl and was still somehow the same person. Yeah, that gets explained. Turns out that humans and plants (like Vash and Knives) aren't the only intelligent species on the planet. We also have giant sandworms who apparently share memories (like planaria!) and can evolve new abilities (like evolving a poison with a specific desired effect). The mosquito-type things that follow Beast around are part of the sandworm collective too. Beast actually is a human that has been infected with a parasitic mindcontrol worm (totally gross).Meanwhile, a delegation from Earth has just come out of warp drive near the planet Gunsmoke. Why is this relevant? They have sentient plants similar to Vash on board. Apparently Earth had encountered the same problem of plants spontaneously becoming self aware and made better choices when it came to studying the new species. They even went so far as to place neural blockers on later generations to prevent plants from fusing together and losing their individual identities (yeah, Knives doesn't have that, he's totally going insane (well, more insane)).I hope the next volume is this good.

Trigun Maximum Volume 3 is intensity embodied — a front to back fight! Vash the Stampede and the mysterious Wolfwood versus the terribly resilient Gray the Ninelives and one of Yasuhiro Nightow's most curious villains, the completely frightening puppet master, Leonoff. The Gung-Ho Guns get harder and harder to beat as the philosophical tension between our two heroes grows daily.The Trigun Max manga includes many aspects and characters from the television show but places them in different situations at different times giving the reader a much more detailed and dramatic idea of who these terrible enemies really are and the rough challenges Vash faces every day.

 In the first volume of Trigun Maximum, we caught up with Vash and watched him jump back into service for Peace and Love! But now the action really begins. Remember the Gung-Ho Guns? That modge-podge group of assassins born and bred to kill Vash? Well, they're the ones who're still alive and are still trying to kill him, and in Trigun Maximum volume 2, we'll see the beginning of a whole new set of worries for our gunslinging mysterious nice guy. See the whole menagerie of freaky Gung-Ho Guns come after Vash in lots of crazy ways. The fun is really getting rolling in Trigun Maximum, taking you way beyond the anime and into new, dangerous territory. Co-published with Digital Manga. Pub. Date: August 2004 Format: Soft cover, 200 pages, b&amp;w, 5 1/8" x 7 1/4"

I've noticed that I cannot follow Nightow's fight scenes at all, but this one made even less sense than I remember any of the others making. There's a fight between a woman and a man (not that you can really tell by looking at them, but I think they refer to each other as he and she). In one scene she is holding his messily severed head. On the next page he's up and fighting pretty much in one piece. Several times during the fight he is pierced with ten or more three-foot nails through his body cavity, but a page later the nails are gone, and his clothing isn't even torn. When there's an actual story here with plot and character interaction, this is an interesting series. This whole volume was composed of two nonsense fights with a few pages scattered here and there about saving the planet. I think. This story line is supposed to get wrapped up in the next volume. Maybe some of this will then make sense, but I'm not holding my breath.

Unlike the subtitle of this new installment of Trigun Maximum, our hero, Vash the Stampede isn’t exactly experiencing the happiest of days. Rather, his struggle with his brother-in-destruction, Knives, is escalating to extreme heights. But wait, before we get to the frantic action, creator Yasuhiro Nightow would like readers to know about these boys’ mysterious past, and uses almost half of this issue presenting the lives of the two super-men before they fell to the dusty planet. This volume of Trigun Maximum promises not only past history, but future frenzy. For instance, you’ll soon discover that not only is Vash not the only one of his kind, but neither is Wolfwood.

There's a mysterious past buried in the mind of the affable, yet somehow incredibly dangerous Vash the Stampede, and everyone on this desert planet seems to know about it. Not only that, they've been trying to hunt him down for the sixty million double-dollar bounty on his head. Well, enter two insurance adjuster ladies, claiming that the man is a localized disaster, and voila! No more bounty. But that doesn't seem to end Vash's troubles, or his trail of destruction.This is the world of Trigun. Chock full of hi-jinks, frantic action, dusty western poses, and a resounding theme: Peace and Love! Join us as Vash continues his adventures across this kooky, unfortunate landscape, seeking something to end his tragicomic journey.

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