Terumi Nishii is an animation director and character designer who has had a long career working on such hits as One Piece, Pokémon, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable. In April 2019, Terumi made headlines when she tweeted in English about difficult working conditions within the anime industry, flat …Read more »
At Cherryton Academy, the students are anthropomorphic animals and the school is divided into carnivores and herbivores, predators and prey. An uneasy goodwill is maintained until an alpaca student is found dead in the herbivore dorms and police suspect a carnivore of the murder. Soon …Read more »
The all-girl Literature Club at Kazusa Onodera’s high school is supposed to devote itself to high-minded literary discussion. But lately every adult scene in a novel gets the members embarrassed, distracted, and ultimately hot and bothered. When their latest reading assignment gets them talking about …Read more »
Teenage Shuichi has a strange curse. He’s like a werewolf, except that instead of turning into a wolf, he turns into a creepy big-headed amusement park mascot. His mascot form is powerful and deadly; it even comes with a loaded gun. One night, while wandering …Read more »
In a quiet, rustic kingdom where magic is accepted as a fact of life, Coco longs to become a witch, but everyone knows that only people born with special talent can wield magic. So she works at her mother’s out of the way tailor shop …Read more »
What’s Your Sign? Ask any shojo fan that hungrily devoured anime and manga in the 2000s what one of the greats is, and you’ll undoubtedly get the same answer: Fruits Basket. Natsuki Takaya’s emotional roller coaster of a shojo series quickly became one of the …Read more »
© Gou Tanabe 2016-2017 However you feel about horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and his highly xenophobic and racist views, the influence of his work is hard to escape. From traditional pen-and-paper RPGs to harem anime, Lovecraft’s atmospheric settings and cosmic creatures have seeped into every …Read more »
Way Out Truth be told I was a late convert to the church of anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara, and even now consider myself something of a skeptic. While I’ve since come to appreciate his unbridled artistry and technique as well as his utterly unique narrative …Read more »
© Asumiko Nakamura 2008 Some yaoi manga series focus on hot and heavy relationships that move faster than the speed of light. Others take it slow. Classmates: Dou Kyu Sei is content to remain somewhere in the middle, moving quickly when the story calls for it, then …Read more »
© SHINJI KAJIO / KENJI TSURUTA 2008 Japan, 1967. Heading home from school, a lonely college student takes a 17-hour ferry ride to Kyushu, reading a science fiction paperback along the way. On the crowded ferryboat, he ends up seated next to “this hippie chick,” …Read more »
True Confessions! I think it’s safe to say that whoever said that all is fair and love and war clearly never met Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane, respectively the vice president and president of Shuchiin Academy’s student council. Rumors fly by here and there, and …Read more »
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord shows what happens when you end up in a world shockingly similar to your favorite video game. Wouldn’t it be great if video game skills were transferable to real life? Unless you’re planning to work in the Mushroom …Read more »
When I first showed Dragon Marked for Death to one of my friends, it was quickly deemed “the most Inti Creates game” they’ve ever seen. That’s a pretty apt description for what is, indeed, a very Inti Creates sidescroller, which will only mean something to …Read more »
© Shoko Iwami 2018, Rifujin na Magonote 2018 Young Roxy lives in the isolated desert village of Migurd. Her tribe communicates by telepathy, but Roxy was born without telepathic powers. Cut off from her people, Roxy’s lonely existence is shaken when a travelling magician named …Read more »
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