Highschool of the Dead

Highshool of the Dead written by Daisuke Sato and illustrated by Shoji Sato.  Another manga that I read but possibly my most favorite.  I am a huge fan of zombies so this instantly caught my attention.  This manga's audience is mostly towards men for the zombies and the girls (aka fanservice).  I try to get past the fanservice and focus more on the plot of the story which is a group of high school students and a nurse trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.  My favorite character is not any of the female characters which a lot of people would choose, my favorite character is Kohta Hirano who is a overweight nerd who knows his way around firearms.  In all the artwork I think is done very well especially the environments and zombie designs.  I also enjoy the action scenes where they fight zombies and when someone is caught and devoured.  The panel say out for this comic shows that there is not much separation so it kind of looks like the panels  seem to bleed into each other.

This manga has been on hiatus for a couple of years it's been rumored it's still being made just taking a while to be produced, I hope it continues because I love this genre of comics very much.  There is also an anime which I also recommend, it has a lot of humor and a lots of mindless violence.

Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan)

Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) created by Hajime Isayama, is another manga I have grown very fond to.  Pretty much it's a story set in a steam punk renaissance era where humanity is up against these huge creepy looking monsters called Titans, so the human race is protected by these three huge set of walls to keep them out and have set up different security groups to deal with these creatures.  What really got me into this were the monster designs, I'm recently studying anatomy and the monsters anatomy just intrigues me.  Also a lot of line work is put into this manga especially the action scenes.  Also I enjoy all the different tones of grey which adds a lot of detail especially to the Titans.

The comic lay out is pretty standard I really enjoy the one single pannel pages because of how much work is being put into it.  I know I didn't choose many pages with text but just the work just gives off what is going on in that particular scene.

Shingeki no Kyojin has also been turned into an anime which has finished its first season.  The manga is still on going so if you want to go farther into the story I recommend reading it.

Koe no Katachi

Koe no Katachi created by Ooima Yoshitoki, is a very dramatic manga.  What really got me into reading this wasn't really the art but the story and the characters.  The main character who is also in a way the protagonist and classmates bully a girl who is deaf.  Suddenly the teacher calls out the main character (Ishida) on what he has been doing and the whole class just throws him under the bus.  As you can see on the last page Ishida is blacked out when they all gang up on him which I thought was appropriate for this type of scene.  

Ishida is then shunned by everyone and loses all his "friendships" with people, but the deaf girl (Nishimiya) is still giving him attention.  So basically the whole story flip flops and you start to feel bad for the main character.  Another part of this manga I like is how Ishida portrays people in high school with red X over their faces, meaning he hates them, but you can see when he becomes friends with some one the X falls off which I thought was a neat idea. 

The characters look like ordinary cartoons but the backgrounds and objects look quite realistic.  The panels for the manga are set up like any other comic book, square and rectangle panels sometimes with slanted gaps.

The Manga is still on going which I'm excited for because this story can go in many directions and I recommend anyone who wants to read a dramatic story about bullying and how people live with it.