The tragic trajectory of Yakumo’s flashback follow its natural arc in the third volume of Descending Stories as he and adopted brother Sukeroku move beyond their long apprenticeship to define themselves not just as shin’uchi – rakugo performers in their own rights – but as …Read more »
The Takakura siblings—triple protagonists of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum—have inherited a broken world. As heirs to the leaders of the Kige terrorist group that bombed Japan’s subway lines some 16 years ago, they have been left little by their vanished parents’ beyond their onerous reputations …Read more »
Read Austin’s review of the manga’s first volume here! While the second volume of Haruko Kumota’s Descending Stories manga delves more deeply into Yakumo’s tragic past and so into more sensitive psychological territory than the first volume did, it still retains the coarse emotional framework that …Read more »
Title, subtitle and premise all suggest that Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions is another negligible addition to the isekai fantasy subgenre so prominent in anime and light novels these last few years. “Grimgar” is exactly the kind of name a teenager obsessed with a particularly violent kind of power fantasy might ascribe to the …Read more »
I anticipated the first volume of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju with a mixture of joy and dread. Nick Creamer, one of my favorite contemporary critics, had recommended the anime adaptation’s first season with great enthusiasm, but not without reservation. “The larger than life... …Read more »
No series seemed less in need of a sequel than Steins;Gate . Convoluted as its tale of branching timelines had been in process, in conclusion it was perfect. Every dangling plot thread had been gathered, every possible plot hole filled, every question of character and …Read more »
Kodansha’s deluxe reissue of Masamune Shirow’s seminal Ghost in the Shell (scheduled, no doubt, to capitalize on the live-action film’s release) fixes many of the concerns fans had with earlier editions. No longer is it flopped, nor have the original sound effects—their presence an essential …Read more »
Though the Chimera Ant and Chairman Election arc did plenty to develop the world of Hunter x Hunter, both saw Yoshihiro Togashi sidelining the series’ early focus on high adventure and universe-building to better focus on certain questions of identity, motivation and morality—which he had …Read more »
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