Scenes from Awajima continues its understated and melancholic—if subtly optimistic—stories of the young women who attended Awajima Revue School with three new tales in its third volume. As with the previous volumes, these are stories less concerned with grand drama (a surprise—considering the setting—but not a surprise, considering the author) than with the complicated emotions… Read More Review: Scenes from Awajima, Vol. 3
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Time to run away! Sort of! After the confrontation between Chitose and Asuka’s father in the final episode of the first cour, the new cour of Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle begins with the two adolescents on a train ride from Fukui to Tokyo. Are they off to help Asuka pursue her dream of… Read More First Impression: Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Part 2
It’s a big week in Reader’s Corner, with thrilling conclusions, shocking revelations, and some truly spectacular artwork! We’re celebrating the conclusion of Penelope’s main story in Villains Are Destined to Die, returning to the mysteries of the imperial palace in the manga adaptation of The Apothecary Diaries, and marveling at Kohei Horikoshi’s illustrations in My… Read More Reader’s Corner: Villains Are Destined to Die (Vol. 4), The Apothecary Diaries Manga (Vol. 1), and My Hero Academia: Ultra Artworks
After being buried alive in their bus on the way home from a school trip, a class of students awakens in another world. There, they are given skills and begin new, exciting lives. But Makoto, the last student to awaken, discovers that his skills—calm mind, water magic (beginner), RPG player—are seemingly as basic as can… Read More First Impression: Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers
There’s a rumor going around town: a faceless kid in a hoodie. If you encounter this person, something unusual will happen to you. What kind of “something”? Well, for a schoolgirl named Hiromi, it all begins when she hears on the news that there will be snow in the afternoon, despite the day seeming quite… Read More First Impression: Horror Collector
Academy City is a showcase of modern tech, 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world; and it’s also the cutting edge when it comes to educating and developing espers, that is, people born with seemingly magical, but actually totally scientific, superpowers. Like Shizuri Mugino’s electron beam (level 5), Kinuhata’s nitrogen control… Read More First Impression: A Certain Dark Item
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