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When you think of maids in connection with anime and manga, the first image is probably one of moe characters and otaku fanservice, maybe maid cafes in Akihabara. Emma: A Victorian Romance is a maid series, but it appears to have little in common with …Read more »
In the wild world of manga, every age group and every social class has their own genre and magazine that defines them. For the elementary school kid there are video game based properties like the ones that dominate Shogakukan's Coro Coro magazine. Nothing says office …Read more »
The formula used to create a spin-off like Sasami is a very simple one, but its tried and true results should be respected and studied; dissected and researched for the success of future generations. This is important, not because Sasami is just some cash cow …Read more »
Kujibiki Unbalance is a strange series in ways that have little to do with the actual content of the book. In some kind of bizarre metaverse, the very manga I just finished reading exists solely by "cartoon laws,•bCrLf is discussed solely by cartoon characters, and …Read more »
While it used to be that the anime and manga world in the US was all about "mature content,•bCrLf and much of the stuff out there tended to center on people getting chopped to bits with katanas, blown up, and/or raped, it would seem that …Read more »
FREEDOM was a "special project•bCrLf to the people who made it, so here is a special review, written in real time, minimally edited, with the aid of a six-pack of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale. Heads up! Here comes an opening sequence: cell shaded screen tone …Read more »
It's a good time to be an OEL manga artist. Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo has been licensed for publication in Japan, one of the first manga-influenced American comics to be so honored. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso intends to promote otaku culture worldwide, and in May …Read more »
I started reading manga back in the 80s. Most of the manga I initially read came from mainstream publishers - Shogakukan, Shueisha, and Kodansha. You could say that the first decade or so of my otaku-life only knew of Shonen Jump , Shonen Sunday , …Read more »
Stop me if you've heard this one: At the close of World War II, in a desperate attempt to create the ultimate super-soldier, a Nazi submarine absconds from Germany with the heart of Frankenstein's Monster in tow. The submarine transports the still-beating heart to Hiroshima, …Read more »
For those of you unfamiliar with the premise of School Rumble, based on the original manga by Jin Kobayashi, think high school love, awkward moments and faces that pull and squish like silly putty. The series primarily focuses on Tenma Tsukamoto, a bubbly student looking …Read more »
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