For most of Keiko Suenobu's Limit , the girls have been contending with both the elements and rifts initially caused by their various social standings back at school. Thus, despite some grey areas, the main antagonist role fell to Morishige, an outcast in school who …Read more »
Pepita is a mixture of genres and mediums: art, history, philosophy, photography. While it is written by mangaka Takehiko Inoue ( Vagabond , Slam Dunk ), it’s not a manga. Inoue expresses his thoughts and stories in many different ways in this book, but never …Read more »
Lucius is a down and out architect living in ancient Rome. His ideas on building public baths are seen as too antiquated, and this causes him to lose his job. A friend drags him to a public bath in an attempt to get Lucius to …Read more »
We're back once again with more sci-fi action from manga author Tsutomu Nihei ( Blame! , Biomega ). Knights of Sidonia takes place in a world where humanity has achieved photosynthesis, and gender is blurred and split into new categories, leaving protagonist Nagate Tanikaze as …Read more »
I consider myself a casual Gundam fan at best. I've seen enough series and movies to satisfy myself, but I'm definitely not a maniac for the work of Yoshiyuki Tomino and those who followed. Some of it is pretty good, a few pieces are really …Read more »
Anyone who’s familiar with Taiyo Matsumoto knows he likes to be unusual, gritty and offbeat. And they will certainly get an unusual, gritty and offbeat experience from reading Sunny . There is no easy way of explaining this book. The Sunny of the title is …Read more »
Superhero comics are often thought of as an American thing, but why can’t manga get in on the superhero action? Every superhero story needs its own mythology, and Tiger & Bunny has an explanation for how superheroes exist. Forty-five years ago some sort of mutation …Read more »
If you take a look at the cover of Triage X... yeah, it gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect inside the manga. I mean, Triage X does have a plot, and it does have some good, exciting action sequences. It’s not …Read more »
This season already started with a handful of much-talked-about anime, but none were perhaps as hotly anticipated as Attack on Titan ( Shingeki no Kyojin ). Production I.G subsidiary Studio Wit takes up the task of adapting Hajime Isayama's popular Attack on Titan manga and, …Read more »
I’m thinking Ouran High School Host Club needs no introduction for this audience. I’d say most of you have either watched at least some of the anime, or read at least some of the manga, or both. I’d say a good number of you have …Read more »
At this point in Shuzo Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil , our hopeless lead Takao Kasuga is officially under the spell of Sawa Nakamura. It's up to the reader to decide just how deep her strings plunge, but the wicked activities and plotting between the …Read more »
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally come in full-season or half-season chunks. In the late Nineties and early Aughts, a typical twenty-six episode television series would run …Read more »
As our review of Limit vol. 2 winded down, I started wondering whether or not the narrative was getting a bit comfortable and easing up on the tension that's been there since the beginning. Appropriately, vol. 3 answers that question by turning the tables and …Read more »
Due to the fate of some of Weekly Shonen Jump 's more recent additions, I'm going to remain cautious when it comes to their latest, World Trigger . I enjoyed the brief run of Barrage for what it was, but I was seriously bummed when …Read more »
Raku, a high school student, is still pining away for a girl he met in his childhood. When they parted, he kept a pendant with a lock and she kept the key so that when they found each other again, they would know it’s the …Read more »
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