Category Archives: Manga

Outside of Japan, the word “Manga” refers to comics originating out of Japan. Over the years the Japanese have developed a fairly unique art style, approach to storytelling and visual layouts that makes reading them a vastly different experience from your mainstream American or even British-produced comic books. Due to the high volume produced, almost all manga seeing the light of day gets pushed out in black and white inks only and cover almost every aspect of life, from sports, heroes, demons, romance, drama and even work.

Needless to say, as a fan of all things fantastical and particularly of the pencilled story, there is simply no way I couldn’t be a fan of manga, now is there? My all time favourite? Most likely Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue, followed by Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki and the ever popular Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto.

What follows in the Rugged Rock Manga category includes a whole heap of reviews of manga books that I have devoured over the years, as well as a collection of interesting news and opinion pieces to emerge out of the world of the Japanese pencilled word…

xxxHOLiC (Volume 6)

Kimihiro Watanuki takes a welcome break from his grueling service to the time-space witch, Yuko Ishihara, only to find himself mixed up in the strangest parade of the Japanese magical world. But a slip up reveals that Kimihiro is a powerless human! How can he survive the festival without being eaten by its dangerous participants? Continue reading

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Imperfect Hero (Volume 1)

Yuji Midorikawa is your typical high school student who has a secret identity: He is Green in the high school battalion unit, Gakusei 5 (G5 for short). G5 is the special unit trained to fight and protect Earth against the invasion of the dreaded Galactic force Gurdark and its sexy queen Mayura. Continue reading

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xxxHOLiC (Volume 5)

Kimihiro Watanuki is the indentured servant of Yuko, the beautiful but completely unpredictable Space-Time Witch. He must work at her bizarre wish-granting shop until he can pay off his own wish: to be free of the spirits that haunt him. Continue reading

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Ghost Hunt (Volume 5)

The students of Ryokuryou High School think they’ve been playing a fun new game called Orikiri. They have no idea that it’s actually a wicked spell conjuring up evil spirits that intend to kill their sensei! Even more troubling is that with each passing minute, the strongest spirit eerily devours the other apparitions and grows ever more destructive. Continue reading

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Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (Volume 6)

The chaotic class trip continues as Negi Springfield and his thirty-one beautiful female students explore the historic cities of Kyoto and Nara. Negi’s special headache is Konoka, the headmaster’s granddaughter, who turns out to have her own magical abilities! Continue reading

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