In the latest episode of Secrets of the Silent Witch, Monica Everett does something radical: She loves her enemy. And it doesn’t quite look like what you might expect. As followers of Jesus, we too are called to embody so radical a love, but honestly, it can be hard to know how to begin, or… Read More How The Silent Witch Loves Her Enemy
Sixteen-year-old Monica is the youngest of the Seven Sages, the greatest mages in the Kingdom of Ridill. She’s also got crippling social anxiety—indeed, she nearly flunked out of magic school because she would get too nervous to say incantations. To get around that issue, she did something unprecedented: She invented silent spell casting, no incantations… Read More First Impression: Secrets of the Silent Witch
What are your plans for the summer? Are you headed to the beach (I’m literally there as this post goes up!)? Planning some other vacation? Just doing the typical, like work or school? Taking care of the kids during their summer break? Just trying to stay cool? Is anime in your plans? Well, it should… Read More Summer 2025 Anime First Impressions
Love is in the air! For consorts, mermaids, mages–in-making, and villains and villainesses, too! We bring you the newest in romance manga and light novel in this week’s Reader’s Corner—but that’s not all! Just to balance things out, we throw in some tough hockey players, main-killing plants, and zombies, too. There’s a little of something… Read More Reader’s Corner: Zom 100 (Vol. 17), Fool Night (Vol. 5), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 10)
We’ve got reviews this week of several of our favorite recent series, but some more atypical fare, too, including the newest art book from Studio Ghibli, one from the mangaka behind Delicious in Dungeon, and the latest Spy x Family guidebook. Check out our reviews below to see what we thought of these volumes and… Read More Reader’s Corner: Secrets of the Silent Witch (Vol. 6), Doodles by Kui Ryoko: Daydream Hour, and The Art of The Boy and the Heron
We have some very cool releases to talk about this week! Our reviews include a couple volumes of series we love that haven’t had new releases in about a year (Laid-Back Camp and Secrets of the Silent Witch); the latest in several of our favorite manga (A Condition Called Love, Kaiju No. 8, and Usotoki… Read More Reader’s Corner: Laid-Back Camp (Vol. 15), Dandadan (Vol. 9), and Usotoki Rhetoric (Vol. 9)
Subaru faces not one witch but half a dozen, the banished hero moves one step closer to reuniting with his sister, the plants of a dying world take revenge, a new shoujo heroine rises, and much much more! Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (Vol. 8)… Read More Reader’s Corner: Fool Night (Vol. 2), Pink & Habanero (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 7)
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