Okay, I’ve accumulated a big pile of manga, enough for 3 weeks straight without picking any more up, so I’m going to try and go through them at a volume a day, or as near to it as I can, with some sort of blog post accompanying it, probably just short impressions unless otherwise motivated. I’m also starting one of these for DVDs, of which I’ve gotten a whopping 3 months worth of accumulated discs sitting unwatched. Let’s see how long I can keep this clearly insane plan going…

Our first contender is the first volume of Gunsmith Cats: Burst, a new run on a classic series from Kenichi Sonoda. Okay, okay, it was new when it came out a couple years ago. What? Don’t look at me like that. I’d been planning on rereading the Omnibus editions of the original run before starting in on Burst, I just never got around to it. While it’s (obviously) been forever since I read the original series, Burst is instantly familiar and just as fondly remembered, and if anything, Sonoda’s art work and obsession with detail have only gotten better with time. The cast’s all here, the humor’s good, and the action is punctuated by a couple of fantastic moments that give it that extra little something. I’m eagerly looking forward to the next volume, particularly as they left things in the middle of the story.