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 »
© 2011 Production I.G, CLAMP / Project BLOOD-C TV / MBS The 2011 Blood-C anime (which had no direct continuity relationship with Blood: The Last Vampire or Blood+ ) has gained infamy over the years, thanks in no small part to its savagely gruesome finale. …Read more »
Before the ink dries on the first cardboard sign expressing a fan’s love and devotion, the countdown to a boy band’s inevitable demise has already begun to tick away. As its members age, it’s only a matter of time until their boyish charms fade, at …Read more »
Stories about being sucked into virtual worlds have proliferated since their inception—from the early 1980’s Guardians of the Flame novels about a D&D group transported into the game narrative, to Tron early in the history of the video game, and more recently in franchises like …Read more »
Recently there was a series called Young Black Jack. Billed as an origin story for Osamu Tezuka’s famous creation, the title suggested we’d learn about what made him become an unlicensed rogue surgeon to begin with. Instead, what we got was him doing what he’s …Read more »
Occupying much the same place in the manga food chain as Demonizer Zilch , Taboo Tattoo also has hand-to-hand combat, occult conspiracies, and teenage dudes with massive destinies getting fawned over by superpowered girls. Seigi “Justice” Akatsuka is a boy who studies martial arts with …Read more »
It’s the Taisho Era and Sayaka and Narutaki have a forbidden relationship. She’s a nouveau riche heiress and he’s her servant—specifically her chauffeur—who’s been working for her family for years. There’s a five year age difference between them, and Sayaka’s mother died and her father …Read more »
The disconnect begins before you even crack the shrinkwrap on Demonizer Zilch: the 18+ rating and cleavage indicate a racy adult manga, but the art has the huge eyes, awful anatomy, and Amiibo-esque geometric character designs of a manga for kids. Page 1 begins with a …Read more »
Kosuke Fujishima has spent most of his career on one classic manga: Oh My Goddess! , the nearly 50-volume saga of a motorcycle-loving boy and the three Norse goddesses who share his Tokyo apartment. Oh My Goddess! started as a supernatural comedy in the mold …Read more »
In Daikoku City, augmented reality eyewear (cybernavi), used by everyone from medical professionals to children, has been an integrated aspect of life for over a decade. Years of updates to and reformatting of the virtual world (new space), however, have resulted in omitted areas (old …Read more »
Asuka can’t wait to get married. Although she’s a very successful and hard-working real estate agent, her goal in life is to be a homemaker. She wants to be the one to create a safe haven for her husband and children. Unfortunately, she can’t seem …Read more »
The human body sure is one hot mess. On a biological level, the degree of detail, efficiency, and reliability is staggering, miraculous even, some would say, but on a practical level, it’s a daily battle to stay on top of it all, to keep up …Read more »
As they did for the previous entry in the franchise, Atlus recruited Shuji Sogabe to handle the manga adaptation of Persona 4 , the latest in the Persona RPG series. The manga is a retelling of the game’s central plot rather than a spinoff or …Read more »
Akame ga Kill!! is a well-paced, shockingly dark and violent fantasy manga, pitting a group of ruthless terrorist/assassins called Night Raid (aka our heroes) against a corrupt government that makes them look virtuous by comparison. The setup is formulaic—quirky young people with cool powers and …Read more »
High school romance may be one of the most common themes in anime, but the new film Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita (I’ve Loved You For a Long Time) comes to us with a new and unusual production history. The film, which opened April 23 …Read more »
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