There’s a girl on the cover. She wears a sailor suit uniform with a skirt hiked almost, but not quite, high enough to flash panties. Her almost featureless face wears an expression that’s vaguely seductive but mostly blank. She cradles an elaborate weapon bigger than …Read more »
Prison School is pure id, the sort of utterly shameless concept whose unprecedented levels gives self-styled “art connoisseurs” the necessary levels of disdain they need to continue functioning. Early in the career of manga author Akira Himamoto, his editors tasked him with creating Me and …Read more »
I reviewed the first season of Noragami (literally “stray god”) last issue and praised the series for its likable cast, fresh designs, and quirky comedy. Now Noragami is back with a new series, subtitled Aragoto (referring, I believe, to a style of kabuki). The main …Read more »
Because Those Who Hunt Elves was released before 2000 I found myself considering it a "recent relic." It's definitely in that odd pocket of time that saw plenty of anime saturating the American market, but it still falls before the dark period of awkwardly advancing …Read more »
The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
Strange things are afoot on the science fiction world of Gift, the setting for the original 2015 TV anime Comet Lucifer, which is directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi and Atsushi Nakayama and features animation from 8-bit. Set sometime in the indeterminate future, Comet Lucifer takes place …Read more »
Ranging from helpful to destructive, beings with capabilities beyond those of ordinary humans abound on Earth yet are seldom seen. Although society is at peace with this cloaked cohabitation, that status quo is sustained largely only through a law that bans the use of superhuman …Read more »
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