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Holiday Review: LA MAGNIFIQUE GRAND SCENE
This year saw the debut of a lot of new digital-only manga publishers. The most prolific of the lot was Media-Do, whose library could be generously described as a grab-bag. Even then, there were some...
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Holiday Review: TEASING MASTER TAKAGI-SAN
TEASING MASTER TAKAGI-SAN (Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san), by Soichiro Yamamoto. First published in 2012 and first published in North America in 2018.PLOT:Every day, Nishitaka tries to think of ways to...
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Holiday Review: KENKA BANCHO OTOME
It's finally time to move on to some of this year's shojo manga. We don't get a lot of reverse harem manga these days, and when we do more often than not they're based on otome games.After reading...
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Holiday Review: SACRIFICAL PRINCESS AND THE KING OF BEASTS
The monster boyfriend trend that was spurred by The Ancient Magus' Bride continued into this year, although now they're getting a little more explicit with the Beauty & the Beast homages than...
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Holiday Review: CLAUDINE
Sadly, another year has all but gone and we still have yet to see a release of Riyoko Ikeda's immortal shojo classic, The Rose of Versailles. Thankfully, Seven Seas beat them to the punch with another...
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Holiday Review: THAT BLUE SKY FEELING
2018 was a good year for LGBTQ manga in general. It wasn't just the usual BL and yuri titles, but we saw a lot more slice-of-life style manga about gay kids growing up.THAT BLUE SKY FEELING (Sorairo...
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Holiday Review: TRAP IN A SKIRT
It was a good year for BL manga, though. Mostly it was the fact that more publishers began licensing it, including Kodansha. Sadly, their print releases don't start until next year, so I have to...
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Holiday Review: GO FOR IT, NAKAMURA!
This year also saw Seven Seas enter the world of BL, and they entered it with a bang thanks to this sweet stand-alone title.GO FOR IT, NAKAMURA! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!), by Syundei. First published...
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Holiday Review: THE DELINQUENT HOUSEWIFE
There's actually a fair bit of josei manga to talk about this year, and one of my favorites was this little sleeper of a title from Vertical.THE DELINQUENT HOUSEWIFE (Futsusuka na Yome desu ga!), by...
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Holiday Review: AN INVITATION FROM A CRAB
Everything old is new again, and this was even true for manga publishers this year. Ed Chavez, the long-time head of marketing at Vertical, has returned from years of exile to start his own company:...
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Holiday Review: TOKYO TARAREBA GIRLS
Still, no josei title this year made a bigger splash than this one, the latest title from Princess Jellyfish creator Akiko Higashimura. This is another cheat (as this was another previously...
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Holiday Review: SATOKO AND NADA
Webcomics continue to be the new frontier in manga, and Seven Seas has been on the forefront of bringing more personal and unique stories like this to the West.SATOKO AND NADA (Satoko to Nada), by...
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Holiday Review: WAKAKOZAKE
As we get closer to Christmas, why not read a manga that's all about enjoying good food and drink? Luckily, this year we got one from Media-Do that I had been craving for years.WAKAKOZAKE, by Chie...
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Holiday Review: THE BRIDE WAS A BOY
Seven Seas brought us multiple webmanga this year, but aside from the sequel for My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, this may have been the most anticipated of the lot. As important as Claudine was...
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Holiday Review: POP TEAM EPIC
Let's wrap things up with the most gentle, good-hearted manga to come out in 2018, a story of love, stardom, and magic...Just kidding. Merry Christmas!POP TEAM EPIC (Poptepippiku), by Bkub Okawa....
View ArticleHoliday Giveaway Winner & 2018 in the Rear View Mirror
First of all, it's time to announce this year's winner of the Holiday Review Giveaway: Megan "Queenira" Z!For me it has to be To Your Eternity. Its a beautiful and haunting story with great visuals.I...
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Review: INUYASHA
*blows the dust off the blog*My apologies for the unannounced hiatus. This wretched winter has seemingly forced me into a sort of hibernation. Now is the time to emerge, though, and to explore new...
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Review: ORPHEN
Of course, 90s fantasy manga wasn't all about young girls being whisked away to strange new worlds and times. Others were meant to be wackier collections of adventures with a rag-tag team of weirdos....
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Review: SO I'M A SPIDER, SO WHAT?
With so many modern fantasy manga about random guys falling/reincarnating/etc. into other worlds, I guess it was inevitable that someone would write a story about a GIRL doing much the same. So what...
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Review: THE RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO
Sadly, not all isekai fantasy stories these days are as harmless as So I'm a Spider, So What?. The concept has always been a playground for male power fantasies, and these days it seems the fantasies...
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