Katsumata Agetarou works hard at his family's tonkatsu shop, but he's not always on top of his game. He gets through the day out of obligation, but he's clearly destined for something beyond the realm of tonkatsu. When Agetarou is the only person able to …Read more »
The Lost Village , aka Mayoiga, is definitely one of the most strangely alluring anime series of the spring season. The deadly combination of director Tsutomu Mizushima ( Girls und Panzer , Squid Girl , Prison School ) and writer Mari Okada ( Kiznaiver , …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 »
In the latest issue of our special Anime USA magazine , our contributors took some time to put together a feature on the ever-expanding world of anime shorts. Naturally we didn't have enough room to cover all of them, and while Trigger got plenty of …Read more »
For longtime fans of the franchise, Final Fantasy XV has been a frustrating albeit highly-anticipated game since its introduction as Final Fantasy XIII Versus in 2006. However, fans have become more positive about the ten-year wait since Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy XV Universe …Read more »
Attack on what now? It's easy to forget that everyone's still eagerly anticipating more from the Attack on Titan anime adaptation when Wit Studio is busy tiding anime fans over with their latest banger of a production. That's thanks in no small part to the …Read more »
Listlessness, whether manifesting in constant naps or an omnipresent and general malaise regarding anything requiring any kind of effort, isn’t a medical condition for high school student Tanaka, it’s a way of life! If he had enough energy to devise a life plan, it would …Read more »
Hibiki can get lost traveling from Point A to Point B along a one-way street … that doesn’t have any intersections. Ruri is cursed with unrequited love … for a mascot featured on ubiquitous construction signs. Botan suffers from bird bone syndrome (osteogenesis imperfecta) to …Read more »
Awyn Gardner is a gardener. That’s the normal part of his life. But he also pledged himself to a demon, and that’s about where everything went crazy. 7 th Garden conceptualizes its own world: it takes place in the Holy Braith Kingdom in the year …Read more »
You know the drill: Boy is just chilling minding his own business when an anime girl falls from the sky and lands right in his arms. Twin Star Exorcists busts out a variation on the trope in the first half of Episode 1, but in …Read more »
Mysterious Girlfriend X is an inexplicably endearing comic. Despite it having debuted in 2006, Riichi Ueshiba's characters have a nostalgic air to them, and while the series is technically proficient, there's a warm, unrefined quality to it that reinforces its '90s aesthetic. It's also a …Read more »
Chinatsu is 16, and she has a thing for middle-aged men with mustaches. She’s getting dressed up very nicely one morning so she can go reveal her love to the man who works at the flower store. But as she’s stepping into her skirt, she …Read more »
© Katsuhisa Kigitsu 2007, 2008 As a horror manga connoisseur, I’ve always stuck to the classics: Junji Ito, Shintaro Kago, and Hideshi Hino. Katsuhisa Kigitsu’s Franken Fran was always one series that called out to me, however, after untranslated images hit the Internet and I …Read more »
I’m not a big fan of love stories, but love is one of the most useful frames for a character study. Through examining the way characters navigate their love life, we gain an understanding of who they are and what they value in life. Forget …Read more »
The blurb on the back of Inio Asano's latest manga calls it "an intense teen romance." The intense part, that's true. And I suppose you could call it a romance—that is, if you could call Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood a romance. Which it's not. And …Read more »
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