Review: BLOOD ALONE

 Ok, so that last one wasn't quite what I was looking for.  Maybe I could try a manga combining vampires and crime fiction?

BLOOD ALONE, by Masayuki Takano.  First published in 2005 and first published in North America in 2006.

PLOT:

Misaki seems like a sweet, polite girl.  Her partner, Kuroe, is much the same.  You'd never guess that sweet little girl was a vampire or that Kuroe is the survivor of a vampire attack.  You'd certainly never expect these two to be part-time investigators who use their connections and powers to solve the crimes that are beyond the capability of the police.

Review: POPO CAN

With E3 having come and gone, it feels appropriate to look at a manga about games.  Alas, like a bad E3 trailer this one promises one thing and offers something else (and something worse) entirely.

POPO CAN, by Masakazu Iwasaki.  First published in 2003 and first published in North America in 2003.

PLOT:

Yasuharu Koizumi was only looking for a weird new video game to play.  What he got was the game's heroine, Popomi, popping out of his TV on a vague quest.  In the mean time, she's content to hang around Yasuharu's house, eat his food, get fawned over by his grandfather, mess with Yasuharu's childhood friend Miko, and generally sow chaos wherever she goes.  That's not even counting the robot housekeeper and the ineffectual villainess that follows after Popomi!