Reader’s Corner: SHY, Solo Leveling, and Insomniacs After School

A number of the releases we cover this week correspond with upcoming anime, and judging by these volumes—including those from SHY and Insomniacs After School—you should be anticipating them highly! We also review manga and light novels that already have adaptations and have double vision with one of those soon-to-be-adapted work, reviewing the newest Solo… Read More Reader’s Corner: SHY, Solo Leveling, and Insomniacs After School

03.14.202303.31.2023 Staff3 Comments

Reader’s Corner: Fly Me to the Moon (Vols. 12 and 13), Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible (Vol. 4), and Sugar Apple Fairy Tale (Vol. 1)

News of a second season of Banished From the Hero’s Party recently dropped, and coincidentally, we have a review of the newest volume of the manga to share with you today, along with volume one of Sugar Apple Fairy Tail, also soon to be adapted into an anime! Today’s column also features reviews of several… Read More Reader’s Corner: Fly Me to the Moon (Vols. 12 and 13), Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible (Vol. 4), and Sugar Apple Fairy Tale (Vol. 1)

11.01.202211.04.2022 Staff5 Comments

Reader’s Corner: Bleach (Vol. 1), Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 4), and Shortcake Cake (Vol. 12, Final)

Everything old is new again! This anime season has seen the return of classics like Urusei Yatsura and Bleach, so we thought…why not cover the latter as a throwback by a reviewer who has never read it? We’re also looking at the first volume of another classic that’s soon to receive a reboot, Trigun: Maximum.… Read More Reader’s Corner: Bleach (Vol. 1), Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 4), and Shortcake Cake (Vol. 12, Final)

10.18.202210.17.2022 Staff1 Comment

First Impression: Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside

Once known as Gideon, knight and elder brother of the divinely appointed Hero Ruti, the man using the alias Red is now living as a lowly D-rank adventurer out in the distant, rural frontier, far from the war against the Demon Lord that’s consuming the continent. Ares the mage (a strikingly Hamaan-esque character with the… Read More First Impression: Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside

10.06.202110.07.2021 jeskaiangel3 Comments

Fall 2021 Anime First Impressions

As we mentioned in our fall 2021 anime preview post, this season is absolutely stacked, with more than 50 series set to air. The quality of those series—well, that’s a big question mark, but there’s plenty to interest us about the incoming anime to set the stage for an engaging week or two ahead as… Read More Fall 2021 Anime First Impressions

09.30.202110.18.2021 Staff14 Comments

Fall 2021 Anime Preview

The leaves are falling, the heat is ceasing, and the smell of PSLs are in the air…well, maybe none of those are quite true for you yet, depending on where you are (although here’s betting pumkin spice lattes are in the hands of people all around you!). But here’s a sure sign of autumn: The… Read More Fall 2021 Anime Preview

09.23.202110.05.2021 claire7 Comments

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