Demi-humans—vampires, dullahans, yuki onna (snow women), succubae—are rare human mutations, but they really do exist! The public has become acclimated to their existence to the point where demi-humans attend/teach high school alongside normal humans, but this integration is not frictionless. There are murmurs in the …Read more »
During his prison sentence, inmate Kyoji develops a deep love for rakugo—the Japanese art of comedic storytelling—as well as a burning desire to perform it. And since his rakugo idol, the eighth generation Yakumo, happens to be performing nearby soon after Kyoji’s release, he decides …Read more »
Don’t let Emerson’s “Life is a journey, not a destination” fool you. Sometimes, destinations can be their own journeys. Take, for instance, Kino (a perpetual traveler) and Hermes (an AI-imbued, talking motorcycle), who stay no longer than three days in any country they happen upon. …Read more »
The world is just not fair. All Ossan—a divorced, handsome, successful toilet seat designer—wants to do is womanize after work and fawn over his only daughter (Min), whom he ultimately and affectionately ends up annoying through his thoughtless and lazy ways. Then one day, merely …Read more »
“Keijo” is a sport wherein women wearing bathing suits use naught but their breasts and buttocks in battle to push competitors over the edge of a land—a large float—and into some surrounding body of water. The sport itself is fictional ... thankfully, but the tension …Read more »
Amid the pressures of being the sole figure skater representing Japan in the Grand Prix Final, Yuri Katsuki gets news from home of his beloved dog’s death. The breaking of that emotional straw, along with the associated lethargy of depression and comfort food ingestion, spurs …Read more »
Living a life without regrets is nearly impossible, but what if your future self could send a checklist of actions you could take that might erase your biggest regret? This is the premise behind Orange , an anime based on the manga written by Ichigo …Read more »
What Seiya Kanie thinks is a confession he cannot refuse, delivered by recent transfer student Isuzu Sento, turns out to be quite another kind of proposal in the comedy Amagi Brilliant Park. Seiya is smart and attractive, and the problem is that he knows it. …Read more »
A first job AND first impressions? Oh ... the pressures. Adapted from Shoutarou Tokunou’s manga of the same name, New Game! follows protagonist Suzukaze Aoba as she, fresh out of high school, struggles with settling in and completing her duties at her dream job as …Read more »
©Hiro Mashima/Kodansha, Ltd. All rights reserved. This Fairy Tail spinoff does as it promises by revealing the birth of the Fairy Tail guild (and more), but does this manga hold its own to someone who’s never read the original fantasy manga it’s based on? Yes, …Read more »
While her mother is away on a year-long business trip, Komugi “Goody Two Shoes” Kusunoki moves to rural Hokkaido to live with her estranged father. She has high hopes of starting afresh in a new school, but the consequences of the social faux pas she …Read more »
Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider is a murder mystery presented thusly: Dr. Magata Shiki, a child prodigy whose intellect is fawned over by the scientific community (even though she’s a convicted murderer), is herself murdered within a single-door, staff- and camera-monitored suite to which …Read more »
The Rolling Girls takes place in a not too distant future, wherein a power vacuum stemming from the fallout of the Great Tokyo War leaves Japan divided into its original prefectures. Each region grows rapidly but inwardly according to its defining characteristics, and that egotism …Read more »
A city built on reclaimed land is really an experiment involving the Kizuna System, which connects participants, or kiznaivers, to each other through their wounds. Once a wound is suffered by one, its pain and associated degree of energy drain are distributed evenly among all …Read more »
Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto , adapted from Nami Sano’s seinen manga, revolves around a handsome, aloof savant who exudes poise throughout even (and most notably during) the most mundane moments of everyday high school life with a style that simply cannot be, whether for …Read more »
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