Initial D is one of the most popular anime series out there revolving around street racing (let’s be honest, probably the most popular), and it continues to attract new fans as the years pass. So it’s not surprising that the film trilogy is being released …Read more »
In the crowded genre of isekai “portal fantasy” manga, Arifureta’s innovation is to add an extra level of misanthropic bitterness: it’s not enough to leave your boring high school life and become a demigod, you have to do it angrily and drag all your former …Read more »
Michiru Amazuki moves from the country (Okayama Prefecture) to Tokyo for a sales position. But since she doesn’t want to face the metropolitan landscape alone, she decides to live in an all-female boarding/share house—Stella House Haruno—with three strangers. Her new roommates may have wildly different …Read more »
Having just moved to mountainous Yamanashi, plucky high-schooler Nadeshiko is eager to catch some classic views of Mt. Fuji. A late-night hiking encounter gets her interested in camping, so she joins her school’s Outdoor Exploration Club, which has only two other members. (The mountaineering club …Read more »
Serious about noodling around (Warning: watching this show on an empty stomach will result in embarrassingly audible stomach growling, noodle cravings on an abnormal scale, and making ramen plans with friends.) Adapting the manga of the same name by Naru Narumi, Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen …Read more »
To Your Eternity is a fascinating manga that defies easy characterization. It opens with an orb – it. It, we are told, is more than an orb, because it can replicate any form. “I decided to cast the orb unto the Earth,” explains an unknown …Read more »
Spoofs of fantasy anime and JRPG tropes are by no means a recent development. Back in the 1990s, the two-part OVA Dragon Half was frequently praised as one of the silliest anime ever, and the longstanding fan rumor to explain why it only lasted two …Read more »
In Japan, the color blue signifies youth, a time of excitement and infinite possibilities. After graduating high school, Iori moves to Izu, on the coast, to go to college for mechanical engineering. “I’ll put all my effort into having the best college life possible!” he …Read more »
When it comes to dating, sometimes it can be hard for singles to find someone with shared interests. That’s especially true for 26-year-old Narumi Momose, who’s been dumped by every boyfriend she’s ever had because she’s an otaku. What’s a girl who loves manga, games, …Read more »
Benio Hanamura is unlike many of the other girls her age. For a young lady in the Taisho era of 1918 Japan, this 17-year-old bucks tradition in favor of a tomboyish attitude and time spent hanging out with her friends Tamaki and Ranmaru. As progressive …Read more »
Fullmetal Alchemist is a series nearly every manga and anime fan as seen in at least some form. It’s one of the shows fans tend to watch as a rite of passage. Viz’s new omnibus edition of the manga, Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, is a …Read more »
In Devil World, every halfway decent devil has a familiar, a helper animal like a bat or a salamander. Every devil, that is, except Patty: her familiar is a human being! Specifically, he’s Norman Volcanello, demon researcher, a hulking man in a well-pressed trenchcoat who …Read more »
I’ll admit, I straight up didn’t enjoy the first episode of the Pop Team Epic anime. What I’ve seen of Bkub Okawa’s original four-panel manga has been pretty funny, but I wasn’t feeling whatever they were going for in the adaptation. It didn’t take long …Read more »
Is it wrong to be a fan of a series with dull characters and a largely inconsequential plot? If so, I’m in trouble, because I somehow became a fan of the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? anime. Maybe …Read more »
The second season of Attack on Titan had an uphill battle ahead of it in more ways than one. I’m not just talking about the ever-raging fight against the Titans themselves; the expectations alone were an enemy that could have demolished a slightly less sturdy …Read more »
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