What Seiya Kanie thinks is a confession he cannot refuse, delivered by recent transfer student Isuzu Sento, turns out to be quite another kind of proposal in the comedy Amagi Brilliant Park. Seiya is smart and attractive, and the problem is that he knows it. …Read more »
High school student Mirai has nothing left to live for: abused by his stepparents, depressed more than life can bear, he jumps off the roof of a skyscraper. Miraculously, he’s rescued by his guardian angel, Nasse, a cute girl with big feathery wings. To make …Read more »
A first job AND first impressions? Oh ... the pressures. Adapted from Shoutarou Tokunou’s manga of the same name, New Game! follows protagonist Suzukaze Aoba as she, fresh out of high school, struggles with settling in and completing her duties at her dream job as …Read more »
The original Attack on Titan manga has spawned an enormous franchise, from spinoff manga to an anime to films to an attraction at Universal Studios Japan. Now there’s something new for the millions of AoT fans whose appetite for the title might be as insatiable …Read more »
Ryosuke Tomoe’s popular horror manga Museum , first serialized in Young Magazine, has been adapted into a live-action film directed by Keishi Otomo ( Rurouni Kenshin ) and starring Shun Oguri ( Lupin III ). Does the live-action version capture the creepy atmospherics of the …Read more »
In 2014, artist Megumi Igarashi, a.k.a. Rokudenashiko (roughly, “Li’l Good-for-Nothing”), was arrested for violating Japanese obscenity laws. Her crime: emailing 3D printer scans of her genitals to the backers who supported her crowdfunding campaign to build a full-size kayak in the shape of her vulva. …Read more »
By my count, it’s been almost 15 years since we got any English-translated manga from sci-fi master Leiji Matsumoto (that being Galaxy Express 999 in 2002). This despite his mentor, Osamu Tezuka, getting attention in the US manga industry for over a decade now and …Read more »
Manga duo MAYBE’s To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts asks one of the all-time important questions: what if the outcome of a civil war was decided not by the soldiers themselves, but by their ability to create colossal monsters known as Incarnates? This is how the …Read more »
©Hiro Mashima/Kodansha, Ltd. All rights reserved. This Fairy Tail spinoff does as it promises by revealing the birth of the Fairy Tail guild (and more), but does this manga hold its own to someone who’s never read the original fantasy manga it’s based on? Yes, …Read more »
After a series of unfortunate events, the young noblewoman Liselotte is exiled to a faraway land, “east of the east of the east.” Liselotte lives in a little house two days’ walk from the nearest town with her last two faithful servants, Alto and Anna, …Read more »
Happiness is anything but. Makoto Okazaki, a hapless bullied young man, returns a DVD late one night right after a news report about a man being killed in his area. He is set upon by a mysterious girl who bites his neck, turning him into …Read more »
Sometimes, it’s refreshing to find something that has little concern with following any current trends or popular motifs. This is occasionally the ingredient that leads to success and other times it makes something seem like it’s from another time. Cobra: The Animation, while most definitely …Read more »
“Why … do we have to do this?” moans the protagonist on the first page of The Asterisk War , and I felt his pain. Years after a great meteor shower brought mana—basically superpowers—back into the world, skilled supers are trained in the city of …Read more »
Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom was one of my first introductions to otome games. An avid visual novel fan, I had always gravitated toward those games, but I had never truly put the time into one and experienced it before. This particular offering flourished …Read more »
© Tezuka Productions, used courtesy of Stone Bridge Press You’ve got to hand it to Tezuka Productions. Despite the “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka having been dead for more than 27 years, he’s never been more relevant to American fans than now. The secret is …Read more »
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