Reiko the Zombie Shop, Volume 1 Book

This was full of that typical Japanese kink - i.e. the lead character is a schoolgirl with giant boobs, a short skirt and pigtails; any chance for the girls to be topless is taken; and there's a couple of "adult male in lust with a teenager" scenarios - and that does tend to weird me out, but for the purposes of reading a manga without being exhausted by all the grossness, I decided to just suspend my feminist, western brain for a little while and roll with the cultural differences. So, ignoring all that, I actually really liked this book.
It's pretty light on story and is split into very short "acts" that don't necessarily link to each other, but what continuing plot there is was pretty gripping and the final showdown was great. I'm really interested to see where it's going to go in volume two as I have no idea how it's going to come back from how it ended.
Reiko herself is a really cool character. I love how she's this mature, clever, calm, cold, business-minded young woman, rather than a silly, simpering schoolgirl, or some kind of hero who uses her power for good. For Reiko, it's a job, simple as that, and that's quite a different take to the superheroes I'm so used to reading.
The level of violence and gore is great. For me, it's on a par with comics like The Walking Dead and Kick Ass which I loved reading the first time around for how graphic they were with all their deaths. Also, I loved seeing the contrast between this gorgeous, innocent looking art style and what was actually going on in the frame; my favourite panel being one in which a guy's face is sliced in half, with a particularly nice emphasis on his eyeball bursting. There are some pretty funny moments as well, which balance out the horror elements really nicely.
All in all, for my first proper foray into manga, it was a fine place to start.