Tag: Reviews, PAGE 24

[Review] Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Attack on what now? It's easy to forget that everyone's still eagerly anticipating more from the Attack on Titan anime adaptation when Wit Studio is busy tiding anime fans over with their latest banger of a production. That's thanks in no small part to the …Read more »

[Review] Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless

July 24, 2016

Ink

Listlessness, whether manifesting in constant naps or an omnipresent and general malaise regarding anything requiring any kind of effort, isn’t a medical condition for high school student Tanaka, it’s a way of life! If he had enough energy to devise a life plan, it would …Read more »

[Review] Anne-Happy

July 23, 2016

Ink

Hibiki can get lost traveling from Point A to Point B along a one-way street … that doesn’t have any intersections. Ruri is cursed with unrequited love … for a mascot featured on ubiquitous construction signs. Botan suffers from bird bone syndrome (osteogenesis imperfecta) to …Read more »

7th Garden Manga Delivers a Solid Setup

July 21, 2016

Danica Davidson

Awyn Gardner is a gardener. That’s the normal part of his life. But he also pledged himself to a demon, and that’s about where everything went crazy. 7 th Garden conceptualizes its own world: it takes place in the Holy Braith Kingdom in the year …Read more »

[Review] Twin Star Exorcists

July 20, 2016

Joseph Luster

You know the drill: Boy is just chilling minding his own business when an anime girl falls from the sky and lands right in his arms. Twin Star Exorcists busts out a variation on the trope in the first half of Episode 1, but in …Read more »

Mysterious Girlfriend X Manga Hooks with the Strangest Lure

July 17, 2016

Joseph Luster

Mysterious Girlfriend X is an inexplicably endearing comic. Despite it having debuted in 2006, Riichi Ueshiba's characters have a nostalgic air to them, and while the series is technically proficient, there's a warm, unrefined quality to it that reinforces its '90s aesthetic. It's also a …Read more »

[Review] Oyajina! Chinatsu and Tomoe

July 3, 2016

Danica Davidson

Chinatsu is 16, and she has a thing for middle-aged men with mustaches. She’s getting dressed up very nicely one morning so she can go reveal her love to the man who works at the flower store. But as she’s stepping into her skirt, she …Read more »

[Review] Franken Fran

July 2, 2016

Brittany Vincent

© Katsuhisa Kigitsu 2007, 2008 As a horror manga connoisseur, I’ve always stuck to the classics: Junji Ito, Shintaro Kago, and Hideshi Hino. Katsuhisa Kigitsu’s Franken Fran was always one series that called out to me, however, after untranslated images hit the Internet and I …Read more »

[Review] Forget Me Not

June 29, 2016

Evan Minto

I’m not a big fan of love stories, but love is one of the most useful frames for a character study. Through examining the way characters navigate their love life, we gain an understanding of who they are and what they value in life. Forget …Read more »

The Graphic Self-Discovery of A Girl on the Shore

June 29, 2016

Amanda Vail

The blurb on the back of Inio Asano's latest manga calls it "an intense teen romance." The intense part, that's true. And I suppose you could call it a romance—that is, if you could call Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood a romance. Which it's not. And …Read more »

[Review] Black Clover

June 29, 2016

Amanda Vail

Take Harry Potter in one hand and Naruto in the other, then toss them in a blender on high. That’s Black Clover . One plucky underdog with a hard head goes up against his tsundere, cool-as-a-cucumber frenemy to become the bestest, most badassest dude ever …Read more »

[Review] Storm Fairy

June 25, 2016

Daryl Surat

This may be hard to believe, but once upon a time “shojo” wasn’t automatically synonymous with “teen girl romance.” There was variety! You could have mysteries and action/adventure stories with girls as the lead characters, and—get this—some of these stories featured minimal romance, or none …Read more »

Black Clover Manga Shows Some Shonen Promise

June 24, 2016

Danica Davidson

Fifteen-year-old Asta doesn’t have any luck. In a world where “magic is everything,” he wants to be the Wizard King. The problem? He doesn’t have any magical abilities. He also is in love with a woman in his village and wants to marry her. The …Read more »

[Review] I Am a Hero

June 22, 2016

Jason Bradley Thompson

Hideo Suzuki is 35 and still talks to his imaginary friend. Haunted by hallucinations, he often spends all night in his apartment waiting for the visions to end and for dawn to arrive. By day he works as an assistant to a porno mangaka, responding …Read more »

[Review] Nichijou

June 18, 2016

Evan Minto

People have been telling me to watch Nichijou for years. Somehow I’ve never managed to see it, despite my friends’ insistence that the 2011 anime series is “the next Azumanga Daioh .” However, seeing as THAT show came out nearly 15 years ago, I suppose …Read more »