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Manga Trio Review

Today I decided to read only manga, so I pulled two disparate titles from my shelf and one from my stack of mail.   Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 6: The Super Warriors Gather Why pull a random volume of Super ​​​? I’d read through all of Super years ago as the Moro saga approached its climax. At least I think it was nearing the climax. Dragon Ball can be kind of interminable with the planetary/universal threats. Turns out this was the perfect volume to read on a lazy day. Classic “let’s round up the Z-Warriors” story with the added benefit of the adversarial universes gathering their own fighters. Not much action, but what’s there is cleanly drawn and entertaining. Cracking this one open was an exercise in Why am I continuing to read Dragon Ball? but after one chapter, I remembered why. It’s fast. It’s dumb. It’s fun. And now it can grace the shelves of a little free library. Kaiju No. 8: Relax, Vol. 1 Never read a gag manga before, and this seems a good place to start. I a...