Akira Tendo is a corporate slave. He is so badly sleep-deprived that he looks like he could blend right in with the hordes in the late-night zombie movies he watches every three or four days when he finally makes it home for some cup noodles and a bit of kip. Things weren’t always this way… Read More First Impression: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
We’re just days away from the summer 2023 anime season and it is coming in hot! A couple of series return/begin this week with Saturday effectively being the start of the new season. As has become the norm, new seasons and cours of popular series receive the most attention. What’s really cool about summer 2023… Read More Summer 2023 Anime First Impressions
One of Jesus’ most beloved parables is “The Good Samaritan,” the tale of the most unexpected person showing the greatest care for a victim on the side of the road. Our team looks to how three anime—Trigun, Kimi ni Todoke, and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real… Read More Tangle x Cast 17: Good Samaritans of Anime
An adventure tale centered on questions of morality. A businessman who transforms into a magical girl. Another young man who is reborn as a vending machine. And of course, the multiple layers to the fantastic series, Oshi no Ko. Things are most definitely not what they seem in this week’s selection of manga and light… Read More Reader’s Corner: Oshi no Ko (Vol. 2), Zom 100 (Vol. 10), and How to Grill Our Love (Vol. 1)
Before there was Chainsaw Man, there was Mermaid Rhapsody, Little Sister’s Elder Sister, and Tatsuki Fujimoto other one-shots. We look at another collection of his early manga today, along with series about cute would-be couples, surviving the zombie apocalypse, an assassin charged with killing isekai’d humans for the church, and much more! Hit the links… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Eminence in Shadow (Vol. 6), Dandadan (Vol. 3), and Love’s in Sight! (Vol. 1)
Do you like villainess isekai series? We’ve got it covered. Church intrigue involving priestess assassins? Yeah, we’ve got that, too. Alien romance? Sure. Thoughtful fantasy series? Double covered. Zombies? You guessed it—covered. Come join us this week for a most unusual mix of manga and light novel reviews, including the most recent releases of series… Read More Reader’s Corner: Fly Me to the Moon (Vol. 14), A Galaxy Next Door (Vol. 3), and Zom 100 (Vol. 8)
Zombies, wizards, alien princesses, and rooster superheroes? It’s just another week here on Reader’s Corner. Scroll down to see the eclectic mix of manga we’re reviewing for you in this edition. Fiancee of the Wizard (Vol. 1) • Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke (Vol. 1) • A Galaxy Next Door (Vol. 2) •… Read More Reader’s Corner: Rooster Fighter, Zom 100 (Vol. 7), and A Galaxy Next Door (Vol. 2)
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