All posts by Amelia Cook

On going to a new, prestigious high school, Akira learns that her childhood best friend Fumi has moved back to town and is going to a nearby school. Now much taller than the cute, bubbly Akira, Fumi is no less prone to strong emotions, insecurities, …Read more »

SP Baby [Review]

November 30, 2017

Amelia Cook

Tamaki has no degree, no qualifications, and no parents, but she does her best to find a good job so she can pay for her younger brother to go to college. One day, after a strange encounter with two men, she gets a job offer …Read more »

Alice & Zoroku [Manga Review]

October 27, 2017

Amelia Cook

Zoroku is a grouchy old florist just minding his own business when young girl Sana disappears in front of him—right after reciting his date of birth and family details. He tries to forget about the incident and carry on as normal, but she appears again …Read more »

Mikagura School Suite [Manga Review]

October 21, 2017

Amelia Cook

Eruna is an unmotivated middle school girl with no wish to go to high school unless it has pretty female classmates in cute uniforms. One day her cousin shows her the brochure for his private high school and she spots the girl of her dreams, …Read more »

[Manga Review] Plum Crazy! Tales of a Tiger-Striped Cat

October 14, 2017

Amelia Cook

Plum is a cat who lives with her owner, high schooler Taku Nakarai, at his mother’s traditional dance school. Plum is a sweet, smarter than average cat and is comfortable at home with the Nakarais—until a stray kitten shows up to disrupt her peaceful life …Read more »

Species Domain [Manga Review]

October 1, 2017

Amelia Cook

In a world where elves, dwarves, trolls, and winged people co-exist with humans, Itoko Kazamori is a relatively rare changeling: an elf who was born in “the other realm” and swapped with a human baby at birth. Now at high school, she has deliberately cultivated …Read more »

Tokyo Tarareba Girls [Manga Review]

September 27, 2017

Amelia Cook

“I spent all my time wondering ‘what if,’ then one day I woke up and I was 33,” main character Rinko says on the first page of Tokyo Tarareba Girls. Rinko and her close friends Kaori and Koyuki are all 33 and single, with past …Read more »

Domestic Girlfriend [Manga Review]

September 22, 2017

Amelia Cook

High schooler Natsuo finds temporary distraction from his crush on his teacher when a girl at a party asks him to help her lose her virginity. She is calm and clear about having no intention of seeing him again, leaving him with mixed feelings. However, …Read more »

Wave, Listen to Me! [Manga Review]

September 19, 2017

Amelia Cook

After a breakup, Minare Koda drowns her sorrows with a group of strangers. The next morning she remembers nothing, but in the middle of her shift as a waitress she hears her own voice coming through the radio, a drunken ramble recorded the night before. …Read more »

The Full Time Wife Escapist [Review]

September 16, 2017

Amelia Cook

Mikuri is a licensed clinical psychologist with postgraduate qualifications who is struggling to keep a job. Any job. While she’s living with her parents, her father finds her work as a housekeeper for the picky Mr. Tsuzaki, a former colleague of his. When her parents …Read more »

[Review] Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

April 5, 2017

Amelia Cook

Kazuto Tatsuta is a middle-aged man from Tokyo who became determined to work cleaning up the infamous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after it was severely damaged in the March 2011 tsunami. Ichi-F describes his everyday life in Fukushima, from the mundanity of apartment hunting …Read more »

[Review] Anonymous Noise

March 19, 2017

Amelia Cook

When they were small children, neighbors Nino Arisugawa and Momo Sakaki would sing together from their bedroom windows to drown out the sound of Nino’s parents fighting. They were close friends until fourth grade, when Momo’s family suddenly left town and he left Nino a …Read more »

[Review] Revolutionary Girl Utena

March 18, 2017

Amelia Cook

Rebellious Utena Tenjou’s world is turned upside down when her interior decorator aunt decides they will move to Amsterdam. Utena has received a letter every year from Mr. Licky Lick, the childhood hero she hopes to reunite with someday, but her friend Kaido tries to …Read more »

[Review] Land of the Rising Dead

February 10, 2017

Amelia Cook

©Sakazaki Freddie 2014 Land of the Rising Dead is part manga and part text: a zombie survival guide with manga illustrations and strips throughout the book adding up to a full story. The manga parts star four girls, each representing a particular archetype and poking …Read more »

[Review] Holy Corpse Rising

February 5, 2017

Amelia Cook

In 15th-century Rome, young monk, scholar, and adoptee of the Catholic church Nikola accidentally awakens a witch who was locked away centuries earlier. Once magically awakened, the witch says she is devoted to him. Intimidated by her strength but committed to doing what’s right, Nikola …Read more »

All posts by Amelia Cook

Sweet Blue Flowers [Review]