Quotes of awesome December 2012, part 4

Bamboo Dong on Hellsing Ultimate: "His speech to his men was so ridiculous, that the DVD and Blu-Rays include a karaoke version of his speech. Yeah, that's right. You can bust out your best fake German accent and speak-along to his rant about sickly soft children and kriegs."

Sean Gaffney on NGE 13: "Neon Genesis Evangelion is (digitally) day/date with Japan! And out only a week later in print! This is truly amazing, and big kudos to Viz for pulling it off. Best of all, this is the version with the happy ending! … OK, I lie, it’s not. It’s still depressing. But hey, maybe Shinji is more proactive? The manga’s been good at that."

Melinda Beasi: ". . . it almost feels at this point as if those years weren’t missing at all. Older versions of Rin, Daikichi, Kouki, and even absent mom Masako are rich with history, and it seems clear that even if we were not privy to their offscreen years, those years absolutely happened in Unita’s imagination."

Jason Thompson on Suppli: "the true uniqueness of Suppli is the way it captures the lives of white-collar people in their 20s and 30s; I've never seen a manga so full of office gossip and back pain and late nights, or where two people have sex and then immediately have to get out of bed afterwards and work remotely on their laptops.. . . Sometimes, true love is just touching fingers at sunrise after you're both totally exhausted…from staying all night in the office doing Keynote presentations. All that stuff you think you know about Japanese business manga, like hostess bars and expense accounts and wine tasting, is so totally '80s. This is an office manga for the recession."

Carlo Santos on The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel 1: "The surprisingly high body count is also part of the story's appeal—this is dark fantasy with emphasis on the dark, a tale of blood and betrayal that doesn't pull punches for sensitive readers or miraculously resurrect characters for future use later."

Jean-Karlo on Gunsmith Cats: 'Sonoda isn't afraid of toeing the line between "tasteful nudity" and"needless cheesecake", either.'