An eye underwater, the moon in the day sky, nostalgic piano, uplifting violin. A male voice, five female voices, one after the other. Surrounded by high-school imagery, we see flashes of our main characters, who express their life philosophies in terms of “the blue,” the obstacles in life, and the way we try to find… Read More First Impression: Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle
Welcome to the fall 2025 anime season! Wait, are we a little early? Nope, not all—new series have started dropping already (though to be fair, one of them is a prequel episode) as we charge into autumn! So ready or not—and hot on the heels of the Demon Slayer movie conquering the theater, here comes… Read More Fall 2025 Anime First Impressions
A ton of manga and light novel titles hit shelves today, and we’ve got you covered! Among the volumes we review below are the newest releases for Hirayasumi, The Way of the Househusband, Agents of the Four Season, and Oshi no Ko. But there are plenty of other reviews as well! Take a look and… Read More Reader’s Corner: Oshi no Ko (Vol. 11), Cosmos (Vol. 2), and Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring
Every manga and light novel publishing house has its sweet spot, the areas in which they excel or that they have a heavier focus on than other companies. That’s part of what makes this such a golden age for readers of Japanese works: there’s such a variety of works to choose from! This week, we… Read More Reader’s Corner: I Want to End This Love Game (Vol. 1), Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (Vol. 3), and Usotoki Rhetoric (Vol. 5)
I love the numbers reflected in our reviews this week: 1, as in the initial volumes of four series we review this week. 5, as in the volume of Chitose where the other shoe drops. 19, as in almost caught up with the 20 volumes of Fly Me to the Moon that VIZ has released.… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement, and Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle
What setting most strikes your fancy? Would you love to inhabit an elegant but haunted mansion? Attend a school full of super-powered mutant students? Walk to and from school thinking of the moon clouded over on a rainy night? Or breakdance at a competition in a packed and unbelievably loud underground club? Too hard to… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Vol. 2), Wandance (Vol. 6), and Jungle Juice (Vol. 1)
Bullying, betrayal, and bombing—devastating events personally and, in the case of the bombing in Hiroshima, nationally—form the backdrop of several of the volumes we’re reviewing this week. But not to fear, there’s lighthearted fare, too, and often within the very same works as the difficult topics. Read our reviews of these sometimes complicated works as… Read More Reader’s Corner: Bloody Sweet, A Reincarnated Witch Spells Doom, and Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World
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