COSMIC CENSORSHIP VOL. 1
TITAN COMICS/Titan Manga
WRITER-ARTIST: Ryu-ichi Sadamatsu
TRANSLATION: Molly Rabbitt
LETTERS: Tom Williams
DESIGN: David Colderley
EDITOR: Louis Yamani
ISBN: 978-1787745704; paperback (July 1, 2025)
256pp, B&W, $12.99 U.S., $16.99 CAN, £9.99 UK
Rating: Age 15+
Uchuu Kenetsukan is a five-volume sci-fi, mecha, and action manga written and drawn by Ryu-ichi Sadamatsu. It was serialized over 39 chapters in the online platform, LINE Manga, from 2020 to 2023. Titan Manga is publishing an English-language edition of Uchuu Kenetsukan as a paperback graphic novel series under the title, Cosmic Censorship. The first volume debuted July 1, 2025.
Cosmic Censorship Vol. 1 (Chapters 1 to 8, and “Intermission”) opens in the year 2019. It introduces Maki Makino, a high school student and former track and field club member. She was once a track star in middle school, but a horrible leg injury ended that.
One day, Maki meets a mysterious man wearing sunglasses on her way to school. He saves her life, but he starts acting like a stalker. His name may be “Roger Penrose,” or is that the name Maki gave him? He is apparently a part-time janitor at her high school... and something called a “cosmic censor” – whatever that is! What Maki does not know is that this encounter connects to her past and future. Maki is going to die soon.. or is she? The future cannot be changed! Or can it? And now, Maki has to learn to navigate new powers...
THE LOWDOWN: Since October 2023, Titan Manga has provided me with print and PDF copies of their manga publications for review. One of the latest is Cosmic Censorship Volume 1.
I came across a description of Cosmic Censorship as being in the same vein as the classic mecha Japanese media franchise, Neon Genesis Evangelion. I have to admit that I have never watched the anime, but I did read several volumes of the manga. I suggest the Neon Genesis Evangelion 3-in-1 Edition Volume 1 as a good way to start on the manga version.
Cosmic Censorship Graphic Novel Volume 1 does indeed offer some mecha fun and alien monsters, but this first volume is more fight comic than anything else. That is not a bad thing. The duels and battles here had me flipping through the pages to see more. That is because the beautiful it yields bracing, fast-paced, engaging storytelling.
For all its kinetic energy, however, this series is lightly humorous and teases a “boy meets girls” relationship, with a macabre spin, of course. Maki and Roger have the potential to be a couple that really captures the reader's interest because she is so inquisitive and he is so determined to protect her from the disasters that her nature may bring.
Cosmic Censorship's sense of mystery also draws me deeper into the series. I am already curious about the next volume, and I am ready to see what befalls Maki and Roger next.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of mecha manga and of science fiction-action manga will want to try Cosmic Censorship.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
COSMIC CENSORSHIP VOL. 1 is available in print and digital editions from booksellers, including from Amazon.
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