Chizuko is spending the week with her Grandpa. Mom is busy with work stuff, so it’s off to small-town life near the Sea of Japan for the glum middle schooler. She’s a polite kid though, not wanting Grandpa to feel bad when he too needs to jet off, leaving her on her lonesome at the… Read More First Impression: Acro Trip
Life has been hard for 17-year-old high school student Uryu Kamihate. Having grown up in an orphanage after losing his mother to illness, Uryu is determined to make it into the top medical school in Japan, and as such decides to live at a shrine in Kyoto to focus on his studies, even though he… Read More First Impression: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
Like her friends, our heroine is a big fan of a certain otome game. Unlike her friends, she would choose to be reincarnated as the villainess and not the goody-two-shoes, lip service-spouting commoner heroine. No sooner does she think it, than…she wakes up as seven-year-old Alicia Williams in the world of the otome, destined to… Read More First Impression: I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
I often begin this column by noting the wide variety of manga and light novels we’re covering that week, and while I always mean it, this week particularly takes the cake. We’ve got isekai and crossdressing manhwa (got it…); an artbook and a coloring book (wow, cool!); and a Magic: The Gathering-focused romance set in… Read More Reader’s Corner: Uncle from Another World (Vol. 10), Spy x Family: The Official Coloring Book, and Destroy All Humans. They Can’t Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga (Vol. 1)
Noel’s grandfather is a legendary seeker, known for slaying numerous beasts that came from the abyss. After his grandfather dies in battle, Noel wants to follow in his footsteps. There is one problem though, his role is to be a Talker, which means his combat skills are worthless. The only way he could become a… Read More First Impression: The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan
Did Yoko Kanno develop the music for Cowboy Bebop before or after seeing the episodes animated? Did discussions during late-night drinking sessions between Shinichiro Watanabe and his voice actors somehow make their way into the series? Speaking of the seiyuu, were they given the freedom to riff in the roles, like improvised jazz? Three, Two… Read More Review: Three, Two, One: Let’s Jam! The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Original Cowboy Bebop
Six childhood friends make a pact to become hunters when they grow up—er, at least five of them do. Krai is a little…noncommittal about it all. Flash forward to a dreary city street as Krai, now a dreary young man, face obscured by his hood, voices a dreary monologue as he queues up outside the… Read More First Impression: Let this Grieving Soul Retire
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