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 ›
2009
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 review: Sugar, We’re Going Down
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 ›
First Squad – The Moment of Truth Review: World War Esper
World War II, so ingrained into the psyche of pop culture that even to this day we are still reading, playing, and watching media based on that time in world history (not just Coach Dunn’s 2A class). Recently, fellow writer,… Read More ›
King of Thorn Review: Sleeping Beauty Based Science Fiction
I once almost had the pleasure of meeting King of Thorn director, Kazuyoshi Katatamaya, at a con when he was promoting King of Thorn around 2009, but came down with a cold (con flu perhaps?) the day before. Regardless, Kazuyoshi… Read More ›
Merantau Review: Caught Between a Rock & a Hard Place
I am a big believer that settings in fictional stories should be meaningful. Settings should complement a story, not simply add an aesthetic. A few times, I have consumed stories wherein the author has an interesting setting or time period… Read More ›
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 ›
Drop Review: Like A Kick To The Gut That You Know Connected
In Japanese culture dating back at least a few decades, the role of a middle/high school delinquent is often characterized by often skipping class, getting into fights, chain smoking, and generally trying to act like a bad-ass. The image of… Read More ›
Heartless Review: One Heart, Two Heart, Red Heart, Demon Heart
Ah, Valentine’s Day. A time for warm embraces and couples sharing their love. I hope all of our readers here at Children of the Blazing Fist are having as much of a great day as any of us will ever… 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 ›
Dark Entries Review: John Constantine Has His Work Cut Out For Him
Throughout Comic publishing’s long history of breeding countless companies, you are bound to find just as many imprints. Dark Horse has had past imprints like Legend where well-known creators like Mike Mignola and Frank Miller tried to create a creator-owned… Read More ›
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