It is a world where evil organizations kidnap people and transform them into cybernetic weapons against their will. It is a world where demonic entities lurk in the shadows, ready to possess and consume human souls at the slightest sign of weakness. It is the …Read more »
No one on Earth can die. This isn’t a recent development (like in Torchwood: Miracle Day); violent death hasn’t existed for as long as anyone can remember, and since you instantly resurrect at full strength whenever you’re killed, a bullet to the head is the …Read more »
Decades ago, during the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture, the builders uncovered several mysterious Artifacts of unknown and possibly extraterrestrial origin. In the present day, a research facility sponsored by the United Nations has been established to study these Artifacts, resulting in …Read more »
Aoba is an orphan child raised by kindly old Maaya, but her life is beautiful. She lives on the lovely island of Barbara, a sunny, vaguely Mediterranean place where dryads sun their green leaves on the rooftops, where children can fly, and where the natives …Read more »
Interstellar threats are worrisome to be sure, but the most insidious of troubles are those that lie within. As the source material behind the third season of Sailor Moon Crystal, the Infinity arc in Naoko Takeuchi’s classic magical girl manga is best known for completing …Read more »
While her mother is away on a year-long business trip, Komugi “Goody Two Shoes” Kusunoki moves to rural Hokkaido to live with her estranged father. She has high hopes of starting afresh in a new school, but the consequences of the social faux pas she …Read more »
Twenty-six-year-old Nagisa Kataura worries that she’s aging out of her hobby as a cosplayer. She spends all the money from her temp job on her obsession, an anime called Magical Riding Hood Ururu. At first Nagisa comes off as one of those elitist cosplay snobs …Read more »
Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider is a murder mystery presented thusly: Dr. Magata Shiki, a child prodigy whose intellect is fawned over by the scientific community (even though she’s a convicted murderer), is herself murdered within a single-door, staff- and camera-monitored suite to which …Read more »
Sailor Moon is an iconic franchise to the point that it’s become a household name, and it’s been getting increased attention lately in part thanks to VIZ’s new and more accurate dub. But the franchise also got a reboot in the form of Sailor Moon …Read more »
In the anime pantheon, not many people can reach the level of Hayao Miyazaki. Castle in the Sky is one of his iconic classics, and while it hasn’t reached the degree of recognition in the west as his titles Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke , …Read more »
Sean Michael Wilson is a Scottish writer who specializes in collaborations with Japanese manga artists. I’ve enjoyed many of his books, going back to The Japanese Drawing Room, an adaptation of a Victorian travel journal. But his latest work, Breaking the 10, with art by …Read more »
Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter does a good job of making its story accessible to readers with no background in the Monster Hunter video game franchise. Understanding the story doesn’t require any prior knowledge of the series and the jargon is kept to a minimum. As …Read more »
On a dark and stormy night, eight students and a teacher sit in an empty classroom at Kisaragi High School, telling ghost stories. Their tales soon turn to Kisaragi itself, built on the site of another school, Tenjin Elementary, that was supposedly the scene of …Read more »
Mikami Shigeru not only plays video games to win, he’s also a designer. He’s programmed and sold a number of casual games, but he’s looking for the ultimate game experience, and he hopes someday to create that ultimate experience himself. That is until he finds …Read more »
In Japan, they don’t have the “man on the moon”—in its place is the “moon rabbit” or tsuki no usagi, best known by anime fans for inspiring the punny name of Usagi Tsukino in Sailor Moon . In Battle Rabbits , a manga by story/artist duo …Read more »
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