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Review: SEDUCE ME AFTER THE SHOW
June is Pride Month, and as such we're going to be doubling up on reviews. We'll be covering two manga per week: one BL title, one yuri title. We'll be starting out with our best foot forward for BL,...
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Review: MUSHROOM GIRLS IN LOVE
There are loads of yuri manga out there, but there's only person crazy enough to write a yuri manga about mushrooms and make it good.MUSHROOM GIRLS IN LOVE (Kinoko Ningen no Kekkon), by Kei Murayama....
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Review: POISON CHERRY DRIVE
Of course, for every great BL out there there's easily half a dozen BL books of lesser quality, and this amongst the worst I've come across in the site's history.POISON CHERRY DRIVE (Poizun Cheri...
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Review: KINIRO MOSAIC
Sadly, not all yuri (or yuri-adjacent) manga can be as interesting as Mushroom Girls In Love. Some are simply about blandly nice girls having blandly nice fun in an attempt to be blandly funny.KINIRO...
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Review: WILD ROCK
Something I love about BL is that you find just about any premise you want in it...and I do mean ANY premise.WILD ROCK (Wairudo Rokku), by Kazusa Takashima. First published in 2002 and first published...
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Review: LONE WOLF AND CUB
It's time once again for Old School Month, and not even a disastrous windstorm can keep us away forever! Let's kick things off with one of the first manga to find an audience in the US, all the way...
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Review: I"S
Shonen romance can in some ways be some of the most timeless manga, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be any good. I"S (Aizu), by Masakazu Katsura. First published in 1997 and first published in...
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Review: ALIVE: THE FINAL EVOLUTION
We're back with a month of horror manga, and this time let's look at something a little different...and possibly a bit too timely, considering everything that's happened this year. ALIVE: THE EVOLUTION...
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Review: SHAMAN KING
With its recent rerelease, it's time to take a look at a suitably spooky Shonen Jump title from the past.SHAMAN KING (Shaman Kingu), by Hiroyuki Takei. First published in 1998 and first published in...
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Review: HUNGRY FOR YOU: ENDO YASUKO STALKS THE NIGHT
After that last review, we should look at more recent take on horror. It should be something a little funnier, a little moodier, and maybe more than a little bit gay.HUNGRY FOR YOU: ENDO YASUKO...
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Review: MERMAID SAGA
It's a little late, but think of this review like a treat, that last bag of clearance-price Halloween candy on the shelf the day after. So let's take a look at one of Rumiko Takahashi's rare stabs at...
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Review: THERMAE ROMAE
This week has been one for the history books here in the States (to say the least), so let us have a month that's all about the many ways manga has explored world history! And I know precisely where...
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Review: NG LIFE
Shojo sometimes dabbles with history, usually for the sake of reincarnation drama or the concept of star-crossed lovers. In this case, the creator of Yona of the Dawn looked at it and said "why not...
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Review: ONWARD TOWARDS OUR NOBLE DEATHS
Of course, sometimes historical manga is made to record actual history (or at least a somewhat fictionalized version of it) straight from the source. Shigeru Mizuki made many manga like that over his...
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It's Christmas (and Giveaway) Time!
It's finally December, which means that it's time for our annual Holiday Reviews! That means from now until Christmas, we'll be reviewing one new manga title from 2020 to explore some of the best and...
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Holiday Review: BLUE FLAG
We'll start things off with a sort of blue Christmas mood, by which I mean a couple of titles with "blue" in their title. BLUE FLAG (Ao no Flag), by Kaito. First published in 2017 and first published...
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Holiday Review: BLUE PERIOD
Let's keep this 'blue' mood going with a manga about finding one's passion for art. BLUE PERIOD (Burupiriodo), by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. First published in 2017 and first published in North America in...
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Holiday Review: BL METAMORPHOSIS
So this next series has two things in common with our last review: a title that begins with "bl" and a story about people unexpectedly falling in love with a kind of art.BL METAMORPHOSIS (Metamorphose...
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Holiday Review: NOT YOUR IDOL
While shojo manga still largely falls under the radar for most manga readers, this year saw one of the most interesting slate of shojo licenses yet, including this one.NOT YOUR IDOL (Sayonara...
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Holiday Review: CUTIE AND THE BEAST
Seven Seas picked up a number of interesting shojo titles over the courses of the year, and this one might simultaneously be the most problematic yet the most endearing of them all.CUTIE AND THE BEAST...
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