Oh My Goddess! Omnibus Volume 5

Oh My Goddess Omnibus #5

by Kosuke Fujishima

Skuld, who loves to overengineer, has trouble understanding the simple appeal of a bicycle--until Sentaro, a boy in town, teaches her how to ride one. But Skuld is new to understanding love as well...Meanwhile, the girl on campus who can never get enough love (and worship), Sayoko Mishima, is willing to sell her soul to help demonness Mara defeat Belldandy...and turn Nekomi Tech into a literal castle where Queen Sayoko reigns supreme!

Oh My Goddess! is America's longest-running manga series. Dark Horse first published Oh My Goddess! in comic book format way back in 1994 and has been the exclusive publisher ever since. Now, Dark Horse is collecting Oh My Goddess! in the larger, omnibus format with three of the original trades in each omnibus for the low price of $19.99.

Oh My Goddess! Omnibus Volume 5 collects chapters 73-89.

Genres: Manga

568 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2016

About the author

Kōsuke Fujishima (藤島康介, born July 7, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist.

Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of Puff magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship. He later became assistant to manga artist Tatsuya Egawa in the production of the Making Be Free! manga, and in 1986 began his first original manga series You're Under Arrest. His second manga series Oh My Goddess!, also translated as Ah! My Goddess, is extremely popular and has made Fujishima a household name in Japan. In addition, he is also well known as the character designer for several games in the Tales RPG video game series and Sakura Wars.

He is known for his love of automobiles and motorcycles, and several of his series and their characters reflect this, such as in éX-Driver and Oh My Goddess!.

Reviews

[Phoenix · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is more like 3.5 stars, since I still love this series (for nostalgic and aesthetic reasons) but have since grown out of this style of manga. The humour is cutesy, which isn’t bad, but appealed more to my younger self. The characters are still super strong though, and there’s a lot of moments I’m surprised to remember upon rereading.

Overall, I’m happy I own this (thanks for locating and mailing this copy Liv!), as the completionist in me is loving the act of reading this long-running story in sequence and in its entirety. I used to collect this series as single issues from a local comic shop in high school and I started around the issues that were collected in this volume.

[Frosty Id · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not better than the last one, but I do like the character development when it comes to the side characters. The plot twist at the end of the manga, where they go into this wacky arc, I didn't like because it felt like the gags weren't used well--also, the suspense wasn't there.
Looking forward to the next volume though.