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Review: SHOUT OUT LOUD!
It's August, which means it's time once more for another month of old-school manga. Also, this weekend was 8/01, a date near and dear to yaoi fans everywhere. So I figured what better way to combine...
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Review: OH MY GODDESS!
It's rather appropriate to review this series now, considering that it's finally ending after running for nearly THREE DECADES and getting an omnibus rerelease. After reading this volume, though, it's...
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Review: KARE KANO
Let's keep up with this romantic vein with an old-school shoujo classic, one of many that Tokyopop put out in their time.KARE KANO (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo, or His and Hers Circumstances), by Masami...
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Review: HERE IS GREENWOOD
Sorry for the late start this month. I had a theme in mind, but the books I had on hand for it were all so boring that it was hard to muster up enough enthusiasm to write them up.Seriously, for...
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Review: LA ESPERANCA
There's a lot of school-themed boys' love out there, especially those set in that most obvious hotbeds of teenaged homoeroticism: the boarding school. Today's selections is one of the better known...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
It's October once more, which normally means that I'd be starting yet another round of horror manga. This year is a little different though. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT
So do you remember that bit in the final episode of Evangelion where the show briefly turns into your standard ordinary high school anime show? Well, that bit seems to have resonated with a LOT of...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: ANGELIC DAYS
As I noted before, there are plenty of school-set Evangelion spinoffs, and while Shinji Ikari Raising Project is the best known, it was not the first of its kind. Looking at today's selection, though,...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION - CAMPUS APOCALYPSE
Ok, it's time to move on to the more interesting Evangelion spinoffs. Dark Horse has made it all but a mission to release every Evangelion-related thing they can get their hands on, and in doing so...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJI IKARI DETECTIVE DIARY
Of all the Evangelion spinoff manga to be found here, I guarantee you that you will not find one as weird as this one. Yes, that is including the gag manga. No, I am totally serious.NEON GENESIS...
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Review: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION COMIC TRIBUTE
Now we're getting down to the dregs of the Evangelion spinoff manga, the ones that are little more than goofy glorified doujinshi collections. In their eternal question to own ALL the Evangelion manga...
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Review: TONY TAKEZAKI'S NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Well, we've come to the last and most recent of the Evangelion spinoff manga. I wasn't exactly excited to see Dark Horse putting out yet ANOTHER comedy collection, but this one made more than a solid...
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Review: YAKITATE!! JAPAN
It's November, and what better way to celebrate the bounty of harvest than with a bounty of food-related manga, starting with one of the wackiest ones on the market!YAKITATE!! JAPAN (Freshly Baked!!...
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One Volume Wonder: NOT LOVE BUT DELICIOUS FOODS MAKE ME SO HAPPY!
Let's change the pace a little with a semi-autobiographical one volume wonder about life, friendship and good Tokyo restaurant from one of my favorite mangaka.NOT LOVE BUT DELICIOUS FOODS MAKE ME SO...
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Review: MIXED VEGETABLES
It's weird that there's honestly so little shoujo out here about food. There's plenty that feature plenty of sweets, but not so much about cooks themselves, save for this one. Maybe the quality of...
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Review: OISHINBO
Let's wrap this one up with one of the longest running food manga in Japan, and it's still kind of a wonder that it ever got published here, even in this form.OISHINBO (The Gourmet), written by Tetsu...
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IIIIIIIT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!
Well, more accurately it's December, which means that it's time for another month full of reviews of some of the latest, greatest (and not-so-greatest) manga titles of 2015. That also means that it's...
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Review: ONE PUNCH MAN
Well, let's kick things off with a bang (or should I say a punch?) with one of the most anticipated shonen titles of the year.ONE PUNCH MAN (Wanpanman), by Yusuke Murata and adapted from the webcomic...
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Review: JUNJI ITO'S CAT DIARY
This was a year where we started to see some newer works from some older creators, and one of the strangest and most unexpected of the lot is today's one volume wonder.JUNJI ITO'S CAT DIARY: YON AND MU...
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Review: PANDORA IN THE CRIMSON SHELL: GHOST URN
Speaking of older mangaka, this one features not one but two classic creators teaming up for a single story. Why wouldn't anyone be excited to see what the creators of Ghost In the Shell and Excel...
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