NEO Gold Award Winner! Colors contains special coloured versions of previously published chapters covering four of the main OMG characters: Belldandy, Urd, Skuld and Peorth. It also contains black and white bonus articles by editorial staff at Afternoon, including essays on the OMG universe, the characters, summaries of the chapters all the ay up to volume 30, vehicles from the series (including bikes and broomsticks!), as well as an encyclopedia. This Oh My Goddess collection has been delayed for several years now, so its release has no doubt been meet with sighs of relief from hard-core OMG fans. The project was rumored to have met with huge problems regarding the checkered release history of the series in the US, as translation of...
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The goddesses’ still can’t use their powers 100%, Yggdrasil is still down, but things are relatively normal now that they can gather small amounts of energy from special bracelets Keiichi made. The girls also return to their normal activities; Belldandy knits a sweater for Keiichi, Urd makes a love potion, and Skuld screws up Urd’s concoction. Only instead of facing Urd’s wrath, Skuld tries to replace the potion. Initially, Urd doesn’t realize anything is wrong, so she tricks Belldandy into taking the love potion. Which works, only too good. Belldandy becomes really aggressive and tries to seduce Keiichi every chance she gets. Will Keiichi finally man up, or will Urd and Skuld save Belldandy from herself? Mara makes her return to Earth,...
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If Keiichi thought he had his hands full with the discovery of a plane that he wants to rebuild and Urd’s continuing interference in trying to push him and Belldandy together, it’s nothing compared to what trouble arrives when the demon Mara appears to wreak havoc in their lives. Mara is a demon, first class, and even Belldandy will find herself challenged by the mischief making demon. With Keiichi being transformed into a Newt, Urd’s love potion creating chaos, Sayoko teaming up with Mara and Megumi being turned into a car, things for Keiichi have never been livelier! The appearance of Mara really throws everything into one adventure after another for comedy and a lot of divine intervention in this latest volume. Each chapter acts like...
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Urd’s attempts to shove Keiichi and her sister Belldandy together know no bounds. Not above using her goddess powers or a bit of trickery, she tries to get the two wallflowers together. Keiichi thinks he’s caught a lucky break when he wins a trip to a hotel and brings Belldandy with him. But Sayoko shows up to interfere and Urd appears to help her little sister out, all of which leads to a food fight unlike any other! Later a New Year’s resolution doesn’t slow Urd down as she interferes via the use of an enchanted board game. Add in the stress of an upcoming exam, a wild party and cross-dressing and Keiichi is in for one riotous adventure after another. The short guy has no shortage of bad luck when a new and hot rich man on the make...
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This divine romantic comedy hits even sweeter notes in this latest volume. Keichi's father finally appears and with a strange phobia of girls and an odd way about him. How will Belldandy be able to get to know the father of the man she loves? If that wasn't complicating things enough, Keichi's mother shows up as well? Can they keep Belldnady's godhood a secret from his parents? When an all out race between father and son ensues with a bet that has Bell?s secret on the line, who will end up crossing the finish line first??? These latest volumes of OMG really do a tremendous job of tying everyone together as a family. Last time was Urd's mother and now finally we get to meet the odd duck, Keima. Keichi's dad has a lot of odd traits but we...
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After several years of publishing Keisuke Fijishima's manga Oh My Goddess, Dark Horse Comics recently decided to reissue the early issues in the series. Not only that, but they elected to make a change in their manga publishing strategy: after eleven years of distributing an Americanized version, Dark Horse will now release the title "unflipped." What does that mean? Well, it means that the book is read in traditional Japanase format - right to left, instead of left to right. To the uninitiated, this can be confusing at first (in part because even when you realize you should read the book from the "back" first, there is still a Westernized tendency to begin on the left side of the page and read across, as opposed to the reverse). The...
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After making the transition to the smaller, unflipped format with vol. 21, Dark Horse goes back and starts re-releasing this popular series in the original format as well. Packaging: This volume uses the cover for the Oh! My Goddess Complete books that came out in Japan recently. The artwork is a bit deceiving, because it's a beautiful picture of Belldandy done up in Fujishima's latest style of drawing her. The blacks and rich hues of Belldandy's costume really make this cover stand out. The series logo in English is across the top and in the original Japanese on the left. The back has a smaller portrait of the earlier Belldandy and Keisuke. It's fun to flip the book back and forth and see how much Belldandy has changed since the series...
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No, your mind isn't playing tricks on you - after releasing 21 volumes of Keisuke Fujishima's perennial manga classic Oh My Goddess, Dark Horse has decided to start over with Volume 1. Except they haven't. You see, after 11 years of distributing manga, Dark Horse has decided to follow the lead of other publishers and release OMG unflipped, or in right-to-left format. All future books in the series (starting with Volume 22 in December) will be unflipped, and in addition, Dark Horse will be re-releasing the earlier volumes of the series in original format, with one right-to-left volume coming out every two months. So this isn't the first OMG manga in America, but it's the first unflipped one. Got all that? Good. If you've never gotten...
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Oh My Goddess, Vol. XVII: The Traveler Ever since the day that college student Keiichi tried to call for takeout food and instead reached the Relief Goddess Office, his life has been much stranger. Mild and beautiful goddess Belldandy entered his life, later followed by devilish elder sister Urd and the younger computer whiz, Skuld. This volume collects three stories. First, echoing The Bride of Frankenstein, little robot Banpei learns that bringing to life the women of your dreams is only the start of trouble. Then, when KeiichiÂ’s motorcycle club stores a dormÂ’s worth of stuff at this house, Skuld creates a space-expanding machine, but Keiichi and Belldandy end up trapped in infinite space. Finally, a Matthew Sweet song provides the...
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