Chirpy, eternally hopeful young Yukie works as a caseworker for elder care company Green Net. Unfortunately, thanks to the meddling of a jealous colleague, the senior citizens she’s dispatched to care for are the toughest cases: difficult, dangerous, and frequently supernatural. Yukie’s assignments include a …Read more »
Born into a poor family in 1941, Tadao Tsuge grew up in the chaos and poverty of immediate postwar Japan: a rundown Tokyo of open sewers and ruined buildings, populated by thugs, prostitutes, and occupying American GIs. In the late 1960s and 1970s, these memories …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys is a sprawling epic that began in 1999, though it’s hard to gauge what era this time-jumping story hails from. Flashing back to as early as 1969 and forward to a version of 2017 very different from the one we …Read more »
In this reunion romance with a twist of awkward and a splash of drama, Naoto and Taichi were secret lovers in high school, but lust soon turned into animosity. Several years later, they’re reunited in college. Naoto is looking forward to making friends and kicking …Read more »
If you grew up with the anime classic Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, or its localized title, Battle of the Planets, you’re likely intimately familiar with Tatsunoko Productions and its cavalcade of popular animated superhero franchises. Perhaps you even caught G-Force: Guardians of Space, the second …Read more »
Super-cute shenanigans ensue in this light-hearted exploration of what happens in a video-game-style world after the quest is over. Not too long ago, the King of All Devils rose up and took over the world. God anointed the hero Byron to save the world from …Read more »
Depending on what generation of manga readers you belong to, the idea of manga made outside of Japan might conjure up all kinds of images. Some might think of manhwa, Korea’s homebrewed answer to Japanese manga, while others will have flashbacks to the glut of …Read more »
Noshiro is used to changing schools and being the odd man out, so when he sees his new classmate Sanada being shunned by their class, he steps in to end Sanada’s loneliness. But things are more complicated than Noshiro realizes, and befriending Sanada sets him …Read more »
School is supposed to be about the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Ritsu Tainaka, on the other hand, wants to add two more things to the curriculum: rock and roll. But first she has to save the Light Music Club from being disbanded; she …Read more »
As an amateur but talented photographer, high school student and orphan Tada Mitsuyoshi lives to capture presented moments, but how will body guard-protected, foreign transfer student Teresa Wagner encourage or change his raison d’être? If you’re a fellow anime cynic, the very term “transfer student” …Read more »
Sixteen-year-old Nakamura Okuto has just fallen in love for the first time. Not only is he head over heels in love with his classmate Hirose Aiki, but he’s absolutely clueless on how to act on those feelings. As he observes his blissfully unaware classmate every …Read more »
Hakumei & Mikochi is almost the platonic ideal of an iyashikai (“healing”) manga, designed to provide readers with a relaxing visit with appealing characters in an attractive, detailed setting. Nothing much happens in iyashikai manga; the plots are usually brief, episodic, and low stakes. The …Read more »
When I first sat down to watch Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, currently available for viewing on Crunchyroll, I came to the natural conclusion that this show will hurt us. After all, this is the latest entry in the versatile Fate franchise, and given …Read more »
Would you put up with a two-hour bus commute to attend the high school of your choice? What if you had to wake up before dawn and make the trip from your home up in the mountains? That’s the situation Ten Serizawa faces in Suu …Read more »
Negima! Magister Negi Magi is one of Love Hina creator Ken Akamatsu‘s most recognizable works, so much so that following the original show’s debut, it was given two different anime series. The first, Negima!, aired in 2005, and followed the original manga series closely. The …Read more »
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