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Review: ORESAMA TEACHER
Look, a gang is kind of like a club, right? It totally counts for this purpose!ORESAMA TEACHER (Ore-sama Ticha!), by Izumi Tsubaki. First published in 2007 and first published in North America in...
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Review: CHIBI VAMPIRE
October is a time to face one's fears, and I think this October is a good time to face one of my own: my fear of lousy vampire manga. I've come across far too many in my decade of manga blogging....
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Review: BLOOD ALONE
Ok, so that last one wasn't quite what I was looking for. Maybe I could try a manga combining vampires and crime fiction?BLOOD ALONE, by Masayuki Takano. First published in 2005 and first published...
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Review: HAPPINESS
I thought that reading a vampire manga by a more modern horror mangaka would be a good plan, but after reading this one I'm not entirely sure...HAPPINESS (Hapinesu), by Shuzo Oshimi. First published...
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Review: THE VISION OF ESCAFLOWNE
It's November, which means it's time once more for me to review some robot-centric manga. While I may have exhausted all of the Evangelion and (most of the) Gundam manga out there in English, that...
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Review: GETTER ROBO DEVOLUTION
Getter Robo is one of the defining works of mecha manga, but none of Ken Ishikawa's original series nor its many sequels have been released in English. The closest thing we have is this series, but...
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Review: PLUTO
Of course, I can't talk about robot manga without talking about this one. While it's only tangentially connected to one of mecha's founding works, it's one of the most critically acclaimed manga in...
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Review: THE MEN WHO CREATED GUNDAM
There's still plenty of Gundam manga out there I could talk about (and probably will at some point), but there is only one is about the making of Gundam itself ...sort of.THE MEN WHO CREATED GUNDAM...
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Holiday Review (and Giveaway) Time!
This year has been a hard one for many, but not for the manga industry. If anything, it continues to grow like never before in size, variety of works, and even on the front of labor rights. This...
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Holiday Review #1: KAMEN RIDER
For the second year in a row, I'm able to kick things off with a classic manga from Shotaro Ishinomori, and it might be the best one yet.KAMEN RIDER (Kamen Raida), by Shotaro Ishinomori. First...
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Holiday Review #2: RECORD OF RAGNAROK
Viz's domination of the manga market continued into this year, but that domination was pretty much entirely on the back of its Weekly Shonen Jump properties. That's a good thing when their non-WSJ...
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Holiday Review #3: AYAKASHI TRIANGLE
Most shonen romances these days are looking and behaving more and more like their shojo counterparts, but at least one guy is dedicated to making his shonen romances as old-fashioned and pervy as...
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Holiday Review #4: THE TOWN OF PIGS
After years of struggling, American publishers have finally figured out that horror manga can be successful and that they don't have to exclusively lean upon Junji Ito for that success.Nowhere is that...
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Holiday Review #5 - OROCHI
Viz has been the biggest beneficiary of the Junji Ito horror manga craze, but it wasn't until this year that they were willing to capitalize on that and bring back some titles from an even older horror...
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Holiday Review #6 - BE VERY AFRAID OF KANAKO INUKI!
Even Kodansha got in on the horror manga craze, picking up an anthology from one of Junji Ito's peers who has been somewhat neglected by English-language readers.BE VERY AFRAID OF KANAKO INUKI! (Inuki...
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Holiday Review #7 - I'LL NEVER BE YOUR CROWN PRINCESS!
Speaking of ladies, this year was better than average for josei manga. Seven Seas has been dabbling in it for a little bit, but this year they went so far as to establish an entire imprint for it....
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Holiday Review #8 - TALK TO MY BACK
Others looked back to the past and towards the more alternative side of manga to find the unique voices of women who would otherwise go unnoticed in the world of American manga.TALK TO MY BACK (Shin...
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Holiday Review #9: CAT + GAMER
Sometimes though, you don't want bodice-ripping smut or complicated emotional masterpieces. Sometimes you just want a simple story about an adult lady having a good time with a cute cat. Luckily,...
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Holiday Review #10: CATCH THESE HANDS!
But if we're talking about adult ladies in manga, we have to talk about yuri. It continued to thrive and grow as a category here, so much so that it hard to settle on just one to talk about....
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Holiday Review #11: THE TITAN'S BRIDE
BL manga also continued to thrive, and you could only imagine my surprise when THIS got licensed.THE TITAN'S BRIDE (Kyojinzoku no Hanayome), by ITKZ. First published in 2019 and first published in...
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