All posts by Che Gilson

[Review] Evangelion: Legend of the Piko Piko Middle School Students

The familiar characters Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are the top students at NERV, a middle school that trains Evangelion pilots for the day when giant mysterious life forms come to invade Earth. And since the only thing middle schoolers care about are video games, they …Read more »

[Review] Twinkle Stars

February 15, 2017

Che Gilson

Sakuya has been left in the care of her grumpy cousin Kanade. Alone in the world, she takes comfort in the stars. Perky and optimistic, she tries hard not to let life get her down; she smiles in the face of terrible insults and believes …Read more »

[Review] Today’s Cerberus

February 11, 2017

Che Gilson

Chiaki Mikado was bitten by a three-headed dog as a child and that incident has shadowed his whole life. Even as a teenager, years later, he just can’t seem to enjoy anything and doesn’t take much interest in life or friendship. Then one day, twist: …Read more »

[Review] Aoharu x Machinegun

February 10, 2017

Che Gilson

Aoharu x Machinegun starts out like Ouran High School Host Club , plus toy guns. Flat-chested tomboy Hotaru Tachibana thinks her friend was bilked by an unscrupulous host, the handsome Masamune Matsuoka. To avenge her friend, Hotaru shows up to the host club where Masamune …Read more »

[Review] Interviews with Monster Girls

November 23, 2016

Che Gilson

Less sex-joke-packed than Monster Musume but somewhat uncomfortable nonetheless, Interviews with Monster Girls is the story of human high school teacher Tetsuo Takahashi and his “demi-human” (monster) students. Once a biology major, Takahashi now teaches biology at Shibasaki High School. Takahashi has longed to meet …Read more »

[Review] Happiness

October 13, 2016

Che Gilson

Happiness is anything but. Makoto Okazaki, a hapless bullied young man, returns a DVD late one night right after a news report about a man being killed in his area. He is set upon by a mysterious girl who bites his neck, turning him into …Read more »

[Review] Complex Age

September 29, 2016

Che Gilson

Twenty-six-year-old Nagisa Kataura worries that she’s aging out of her hobby as a cosplayer. She spends all the money from her temp job on her obsession, an anime called Magical Riding Hood Ururu. At first Nagisa comes off as one of those elitist cosplay snobs …Read more »

[Review] Not Lives

September 11, 2016

Che Gilson

Mikami Shigeru not only plays video games to win, he’s also a designer. He’s programmed and sold a number of casual games, but he’s looking for the ultimate game experience, and he hopes someday to create that ultimate experience himself. That is until he finds …Read more »

[Review] 7th Garden

August 17, 2016

Che Gilson

Awyn Gardener has taken up the same trade as his name, tending the gardens of a rural estate for the kindly young noblewoman Maria. His constant smile hides a tragic past and an inner reserve of rage at the world. One day Awyn happens upon …Read more »

[Review] Fairy Girls

April 27, 2016

Che Gilson

©2015 Hiro Mashima/BOKU/Kodansha, Ltd. A spinoff of the popular shonen manga Fairy Tail , Fairy Girls follows a night of misadventures featuring four wizards of the Fairy Tale Guild: Lucy, Juvia, Erza, and Wendy. While out on a lark to see the sights of the …Read more »

[Review] Idol Dreams

April 3, 2016

Che Gilson

Shojo manga superstar Arina Tanemura is back in fine form with her latest manga Idol Dreams . Thirty-one-year-old Chikage Deguchi is lonely, invisible, and still a virgin. She labors away in office obscurity wondering what happened to her life and thinking back on the days …Read more »

[Review] Honey So Sweet

April 2, 2016

Che Gilson

Honey So Sweet is every bit as adorable as its name. Nao Kogure is a shy girl, orphaned at a young age and raised by her uncle. She is shocked when during the second week of school the delinquent Taiga Onise asks her to date …Read more »

[Review] The Ancient Magus’ Bride

January 20, 2016

Che Gilson

Strange and beautiful … steeped in fairy tales, danger, romance, and magic…. The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a tapestry of wonders both beautiful and melancholy. Chise, a girl from Japan, finds herself being sold in a mysterious auction and purchased by the mage Elias who …Read more »

[Manga Review] Tokyo Ghoul

January 10, 2016

Che Gilson

© sui ishida 2012 Ken Kaneki is thrilled when he gets the chance to go on a date with Rize, the girl he’s been mooning over from a coffee bar he haunts with his friend. The date goes sour when she tries to eat him. …Read more »

[Review] Evergreen Vol. 1

January 1, 2016

Che Gilson

© Akira Caskabe/Yuko Takemiya “It’s so corny it hurts! It hurts soo baaad!” Yes. Yes it does. Those words are shrieked out by Yoshimatsu Hotaka, the main character of Evergreen , but it may describe readers’ reactions as well. Hotaka is a skinny sad-sack suffering …Read more »