“I spent all my time wondering ‘what if,’ then one day I woke up and I was 33,” main character Rinko says on the first page of Tokyo Tarareba Girls. Rinko and her close friends Kaori and Koyuki are all 33 and single, with past …Read more »
The furballs are back! When we last left them (four years ago!), the tanuki of the Shimogamo family found out exactly how their patriarch came to be the main ingredient in the Friday Club’s hot pot, the heartbroken-gone-mad Soun was banished from tanuki society, and the …Read more »
The season finale at Episode 25 left anime viewers with many unanswered questions, but none more vital than “how long until new episodes come out?” Yet no new Attack on Titan season was even in the pipeline, such that it’s only now—nearly four years later—that …Read more »
Kameko Shimana hates her life, she hates her name (it sounds weird in Japanese), and she hates her new stepmother and baby brother, even though she knows they didn’t really do anything wrong. Depressed ever since her mother’s death, she thinks dark thoughts and skips …Read more »
As a teenager, one of the first things I loved about romance manga was that characters expressed anxiety about love and sex … not like in mainstream Western media, where sex seemed like just something beautiful people just did, and if you didn’t do it, …Read more »
Remember that famous anime character who was on TV in the US back in the 60s? The little robot boy who flew around and saved folks from bad guys? Yes, I’m talking about Mighty Atom. Er, Astro Boy. Right. Astro Boy’s American renaming has made …Read more »
Once you get past the typos in the first 10 pages and settle into the awkward phrasing of the English localization, Hatsune Miku: Acute is a really decent Lifetime movie. The manga is based off the Vocaloid song by KurousaP/WhiteFlame but familiarity with the song, …Read more »
Mikuri is a licensed clinical psychologist with postgraduate qualifications who is struggling to keep a job. Any job. While she’s living with her parents, her father finds her work as a housekeeper for the picky Mr. Tsuzaki, a former colleague of his. When her parents …Read more »
The animation by MAPPA isn’t the only worthwhile aspect of the show, Nina and her co-stars are a delightful group that play off of each other very well. If you watched the first series, Genesis. there’s no reason not to continue with Virgin Soul. If …Read more »
Grimoire of Zero is the result of what might happen if you combined anthropomorphic animals with The Familiar of Zero and Berserk. With that said, it’s not exactly my cup of tea, nor the type of series I’d normally seek out (even though Berserk is …Read more »
I recently heard about an anime-style novel contest that was held in Japan. While this by itself isn’t significant, the stipulations on the contest were. The first, “no alternate realities,” and the second, “the protagonist cannot be a teenage male.” The hopes were to eventually …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Yoshino Koharu has found herself in a bit of bind. She’s on the edge of graduating from college and she’s searching for full-time employment in the sleepless metropolis of Tokyo, because Tokyo is where everything happens. The problem is she’s already had 30 different interviews …Read more »
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