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Spooky season is upon us. Or at least it was at the time of recording. We may or may not have picked manga that corresponds with the time of year of pumpkins and costumes. Because we have the planning abilities of a local city council that keeps getting voted out every six months. Which might be justified because we keep trying to allocate the budget to building a statue to Shinzo Abe with a “Please have Sex” plaque.
Tim has Fear: Reiwa Kaidan which is inline with Halloween season. It’s a set of short stories. Which means it doesn’t have a lot of room to breathe. This also means that you don’t have to tolerate a boring story for too long. We get into some detail a bit deeper in the review. The overall takeaway is Crackers.
Weltall has Inuyashiki. The titular Inuyashiki Ichiro is a boring old man. As many boring old men are at the start of manga, he won’t stay that way for very long. He gets killed in an explosion and then wakes up in a powerful new body given to him by aliens. He basically has superpowers and decides to become a force for good. It gets a Borders.
