Often when reading a story, one particular element may stick out. Kill la Kill , however, has so much resplendent insanity it’s hard to know where to start. For one, it has a school that’s so strict it casually kills its own students as a …Read more »
There are several unusual things about Maria. For one thing, he’s a priest (he’s also a he) even though he’s still young enough to be in high school. For another, vampires attack him all the time, as if especially drawn to his blood. And then …Read more »
College freshman Tada Banri meets Yanagisawa Mitsuo on his first day of school. It’s a bromance at first sight as both of them are hoping for a fresh start in college for very different reasons. Tada suffers from amnesia and Mitsuo suffers from girl trouble, …Read more »
Walking home one day, Tatsumi meets a sick merman on the river bank. Being a soft touch, he takes the stranger home. The merman, Wakasa, has had enough of the polluted river he lives in and takes up residence in Tatsumi’s nice, clean bathtub. And …Read more »
Last year I got the chance to play the 2014 remake of Hatoful Boyfriend . The game was a visual novel and dating simulator where the player acts as a human girl attending in a world dominated by birds. It was a surprisingly enjoyable experience …Read more »
Artwork from SHIGERU MIZUKI'S HITLER is copyright Mizuki Productions, and provided courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly. Shigeru Mizuki is one of the most magical manga artists: sometimes scary, sometimes wryly funny, always human and humane. Drawn & Quarterly has been doing the Lord’s own work …Read more »
If you think your school is torture, you should check out Honnouji Academy. If you miss practice on the girls’ tennis club, you’ll be purged by being hit with millions of tennis balls, even if your excuse for not showing up was the fact you …Read more »
Fangirls (and boys) rejoice! High☆Speed! - Free! Starting Days - has just been released on the big screen in Japan and we’ve got an exclusive review just for you. Fans have been anxiously waiting to see the pubescent versions of their favorite swimmers on the …Read more »
Of all Spring 2015 TV anime, if I had to pick one most likely to be remembered in five years, Blood Blockade Battlefront is it [because Ninja Slayer is a web series]. The anime adaptation of the latest manga from Yasuhiro Nightow ( Trigun ) …Read more »
You don’t see many manga based on tabletop role-playing games these days. For the most part they’ve been supplanted by manga (oh so many manga) based on video gaming, so there’s a certain retro charm to Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls …Read more »
Hououin Kyouma is not just a regular scientist: he likes to tell people he’s a mad scientist. And the world around him is about to go mad. It starts with him taking an interest in teen genius Kurisu Makise, who not only has already graduated …Read more »
Ghost Urn © Koushi RIKUDOU 2013, © Shirow Masamune 2013 Nana-Korobi Nene wants to achieve world peace—and if that means starting by saving the island city of Vulcan from destruction using her cybernetic prosthetic body that’s been modified with a tactical app, then that’s what …Read more »
Few anime define an era, but for the early 1990s generation Vampire Hunter D embodied what “anime” was. In a time before DVDs or general awareness of the word “Internet,” before most people even knew of words like “anime” or “otaku,” one look was all …Read more »
Hayashizaki Kanae, otherwise known as “Storm Cat,” is a master swordsman, and her adopted brother Kazuki also wants to become a swordsman at the National Knight Academy. However, due to the “Enigma” symbol that appeared on his hand, Kazuki must enter the Magika school and …Read more »
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