In a mythical age before the separation of the material world and the spirit world, the realm of Britannia is a place fraught with peril. Not only do monsters stalk the dark places where no civilized being would dare to tread, but the Seven Deadly …Read more »
Prison School is pure id, the sort of utterly shameless concept whose unprecedented levels gives self-styled “art connoisseurs” the necessary levels of disdain they need to continue functioning. Early in the career of manga author Akira Himamoto, his editors tasked him with creating Me and …Read more »
I reviewed the first season of Noragami (literally “stray god”) last issue and praised the series for its likable cast, fresh designs, and quirky comedy. Now Noragami is back with a new series, subtitled Aragoto (referring, I believe, to a style of kabuki). The main …Read more »
Because Those Who Hunt Elves was released before 2000 I found myself considering it a "recent relic." It's definitely in that odd pocket of time that saw plenty of anime saturating the American market, but it still falls before the dark period of awkwardly advancing …Read more »
What if Superman was incredibly lazy and bored? Saitama’s an unemployed and somewhat dimwitted slacker who happens to be the most completely and utterly invincible superhero of all, sporting a garishly silly costume very similar to Anpanman’s. Why, he trained so hard to gain power …Read more »
The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
If you sit back and think about all of the shonen action anime series out there, a few favorites probably come to mind: Dragon Ball Z , Naruto , One Piece ... the list goes on. A series that you may be overlooking (quite unfortunately, …Read more »
What if you crossed Yu-Gi-Oh! with Kosaku Shima? You might get Noitamina’s [C] Control— The Money and Soul of Possibility, a series that’s at once a reaction to the 2008 financial crisis and a game-ified gambling-for-your-life magic stock market show. At first glance, I sincerely …Read more »
If there’s one thing that anime sorely lacks, it is weirdness. And I’m not talking about the kind of weirdness that is the hallmark of spectacularly crazy anime like M.D. Geist or Crystal Triangle (weird only because of the haphazard approach to plot construction), or …Read more »
The rise of yuri as an identifiable subgenre of anime and manga has brought some distinct oddities with it. One of the biggest oddities—and the one most relevant to AOI HANA: Sweet Blue Flowers in a roundabout way—is that yuri very rarely deals with actual …Read more »
In the West, our exposure to highly exaggerated Japanese historical figures is mostly limited to some ninja, samurai, and the occasional Oda Nobunaga, but there’s another fairly big one: the onmyoji. These mystics, active between the 7th and 19th centuries, practiced “onmyodo” (which includes divination …Read more »
A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body, or so the saying goes. Unfortunately for the average person in Soul Eater , there are creatures that want to devour these sound souls, and they’re willing tear the body and rend the …Read more »
In a media wasteland where vampires are sparkling, simpering waifs, one yearns for a return to form. And when that simply can’t happen, a weird, quirky take on the bloodthirsty monsters is always welcome instead. That’s what you get in the form of Blood Lad …Read more »
Keima Katsuragi is a ladies’ man. All the girls fall for him left and right as he chooses optimal dialogue choices and woos digital women across his video game platform of choice. In real life, however, he couldn’t be further from a Casanova. He’s a …Read more »
In an age of melodramatic romances and tsundere female characters, a relatable anime rom-com is hard to find. If the protagonist isn’t a complete tool, the several women he’s involved with are frustrating and needy, or it’s a never-ending parade of sexual jokes that fall …Read more »
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