No Guns Life takes a shot with reluctant hero against the company that owns the metropolis Joseph Noblit September 28, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Artist Tasuku Karasuma tells a cyberpunk story about a postwar city, decommissioned cybernetic soldiers, a mystery that gets stranger at each turn, and a man with a giant gun for a head with No Guns...
Manga Monday – Not Everyone Is Lucky Enough To Grow Up In I Want To Eat Your Pancreas Joseph Noblit September 21, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Adapting Yoru Sumino’s heartbreaking web novel I Want To Eat Your Pancreas, mangaka Izumi Kirihara brings the first-person story of an aloof boy and his friendship with a terminally ill classmate to...
Manga Monday: Go With The Clouds, North By Northwest takes us from the scenic vistas of Iceland to Japan and back to solve a mystery Joseph Noblit August 24, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Aki Irie takes readers for a field trip across the globe and back with their new series slice-of-life mystery Go With The Clouds, North By Northwest. Kei Miyama is a seventeen year-old boy who, after his...
Manga Monday: Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated As Yamcha cuts Dragon Ball’s lovable loser some much needed slack Joseph Noblit July 13, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Artist dragongarow LEE shines the spotlight onto one of one of the most overlooked characters from Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball series in Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated As Yamcha. One of the...
Manga Monday: Plus-Sized Elf brings the love of food and healthy habits to magical creatures Joseph Noblit July 6, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Artist Synecdoche brings us a story about a love affair like no other: between potato-based junk food and an elf who traveled across dimensions to enjoy them. In Plus-Sized Elf, magical creatures from another...
“Transparent Light Blue” shows that not all secrets can stay in the dark Faith Orcino June 8, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Artist Kiyoko Iwami 2018's one-shot “Transparent Light Blue” brings a tale of childhood friends that face difficult decisions when their feelings grow beyond their current relationship. Ever since...
You Can’t Go Home Again With Ozaki’s Coming-Of-Age Manga The Golden Sheep Joseph Noblit May 15, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews With the release of The Golden Sheep, mangaka Kaori Ozaki tells the story of the passage of time, broken friendships, an uncertain future, personal growth, and the lack there of. Guitar playing high...
Sakoto and Nada finds humor and heart between two students from different parts of the world Joseph Noblit April 25, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews Artist Yupechika along with some assistance with their script advisor Marie Nishimori create Sakoto and Nada, a slice-of-life 4koma manga about two foreign exchange students studying in America. Japanese...
Beastars – High school with predators and prey can be murder Joseph Noblit April 9, 2020 Articles, Manga, Reviews 1 Comment Writer and artist Panu Itagaki crafts murder and mystery into a school divided by herbivores and carnivores with her first serialization, Beastars. Cherrywood Academy is a boarding school for numerous...
SDIFF 2019: “Parasite” brings prey and predators to a unique hunting ground Faith Orcino November 18, 2019 Anime and Film, Articles, Events, Reviews Featured Image courtesy of NEON and CJ Entertainment. This year's San Diego International Film Festival showed the 2019 Palme d'Or recipient, "Parasite". This film from South Korean director Bong...
