Content warning: this manga depicts attempted rape and physical/sexual abuse of a child. Kasane was written and illustrated by Daruma Matsuura as her debut work. The manga was serialized in seinen publication Evening from 2013 to 2018. The manga received… Read More ›
Abbott is a five-issue mini-series that originally ran from January to May 2018. The comic was written by Saladin Ahmed, who has previously authored a variety of fantasy and science-fiction works. Ahmed’s writing credits include short story and poetry pieces… Read More ›
Oendan is the Japanese term for a sports cheering squad present at high schools and universities. In contrast to the pom-pom wielding cheerleaders of the West, oendan is stereotypically depicted as hot-blooded, gakuran-clad, boisterous performers who rile up their home… Read More ›
The sub-genre of sports manga and anime has been hitting a demographic renaissance with a female audience since the early 2000’s. While unintentionally started by Takeshi Konomi’s The Prince of Tennis, later series such as Kuroko’s Basketball and Haikyu!! have… Read More ›
Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Canadian science fiction and pseudo-thriller film created by first time writer and director (from what I gleamed from IMDB) Panos Cosmatos. Beyond starts with a 60’s video reel explaining how Dr. Mercurio Arboria founded… Read More ›
Freelancers is a comic about Los Angeles orphans Cassandra and Valerie, whose jobs entails keeping up with writing and editing deadlines for five different comic or magazine publications…no wait, wrong freelancers. Cassandra (Cassie) and Valerie (Val) are freelancers in the… Read More ›
Edginess is a recurring problem I’ve seen from time to time in certain shounen titles that are aiming for the 16+ or 17+ age demographic. The titles in question often fall within a difficult region wherein they attempt to tell… Read More ›
Understanding cultural context when consuming media created in other countries is a concept I’ve really learned to keep in mind in the past few years. In particular, learning about the collectivist culture prevalent in many East Asian cultures has helped… Read More ›
Stories about psychological drama tend to be my bread-and-butter with regards to anime and manga, but I’ve realized over the years that it’s a genre with its own set of noticeable issues. Namely, a pattern where series that fall under… Read More ›
While working on today’s review, I came to the realization that there are rather few mainstream anime and manga that deal with natural disasters on a realistic scale. I’m talking something realistic like Barefoot Gen or Grave of the Fireflies,… Read More ›
5 Centimeters per Second is an adaptation of the Makoto Shinkai film of the same name. Shinkai is well-known for his various film works which feature highly detailed animation and background work; some notable pieces in his filmography include Voices… Read More ›
Back in the far flung past of 2011; I was binge reading a ton of manga by famed horror mangaka, faux-snuff film writer, and modern samurai Hideshi Hino. My university library, a place normally used by me to bum time… Read More ›
Even as a fan of modern live-action Japanese cinema, I felt a tinge of dread when I heard that the 80’s police drama-comedy Patlabor series was going to get a live-action T.V. adaption. People who have read my other reviews… Read More ›
Children of The Blazing Fist 