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Manga
With our eight plus years of experience, we delve deep into the manga abyss.
No Longer Human Review: My Little Nihilist Can’t Be This Empty!
No Longer Human originally ran in Japan’s Comic Bunch magazine starting in 2009, and was written and drawn by Usamaru Furuya, whose work Lychee Light Club we’ve covered previously on our site. Furuya’s manga is an adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s semi-autobiographical novel of… Read More ›
Blood Lad Review: Young People These Days…
We humans have an odd relationship with supernatural monsters; sometimes we fear them, sometimes we respect them, and sometimes we just sex them up. Vampires in particular seem to get a lot of the last one, which is funny… Read More ›
Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something Review: Introduction Material or Extended Reading?
An Anglophile is described as a person who is greatly enthralled, to a point even obsessed, with British culture. Fellow CotBF member Franklin Raines and I personally knew and went to high school with an Anglophile. She was obsessed with Doctor… Read More ›
Lychee Light Club Review: Should I Be Worried That I Am Conditioned To Kids Killing Each Other In Fiction?
When it comes to visual style and thematic elements, I tend to uphold them perhaps above everything else when it comes to entertainment. Now, plotting and characterization are usually just as important as well, but considering that my time and… Read More ›
Sakuran Review: Silk Hiding Steel
The subject of prostitution is a growing topic in this day and age, helped by the growing problem of illegal sex trafficking in certain countries. Modern media paints the topic of prostitution in a negative and bleak manner, whether displaying… Read More ›
The Shadowman Review: He Might Just Be My New Favorite Super Hero
Whenever I think of Japan’s equivalent of the usually caped-crusaders found in abundance in America, I tend to think Tokusatsu. But Tokusatsu tends to see live-action television venues, where if you consider one of the terms’ progenitors, Shotaro Ishinimori’s Kamen… Read More ›
Kieli Review: With a Ghost and a Zombie, Off To The Graveyard Express
I rarely ever stumble upon works of fiction that take place in a remote planet that has been colonized by humans. I am not saying that the kind of story is rare, but rather that my own experience with the… Read More ›
Color of Rage Review: The Fresh Prince of Nippon
The Edo period, Japans love affair with the past, much like how in America they romanticized the Old West in various forms of media. Many story tellers have visited the Edo period time and time again wanting more, with one of… Read More ›
Walkin’ Butterfly Review: Basically A Fighting Manga…About Modeling
Previously, I have written about Josei manga and how there seemed to be no real push for them to ever reach US soil. A title I brought up before was the efforts of now-defunct Aurora Publishing, their almost complete release… Read More ›
Alice in the Country of Hearts Review: So It’s Like a Whimsical Ghetto?
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland have had a hand in captivating people for a long time, as well as inspiring a great deal of work based or influenced by the two books. And Japan is no slouch on borrowing themes or… Read More ›
Magic Knight Rayearth Review: Wait? I Have Seen This Before, Yet It Is Somehow Different.
I feel like recounting my first expose to Shojo manga; thus drastically dating myself in the process. Starting as a ten-year old purchasing the first issue of Viz’s premier Shonen anthology magazine Shonen Jump, I grew accustomed to a boy… Read More ›
Rohan at the Louvre Review: If Only I Could Posture Like Rohan, But Unfortunately I Have A Spine
One of the two digits worth of things that keeps me tossing and turning at night (this is no joke, I might actually have a serious problem) is whether something is considered manga. As someone who will just as simply… Read More ›
Children of The Blazing Fist 