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Review: MONTHLY GIRLS' NOZAKI-KUN
This year also marked the return of a genre I had long feared dead in America: 4-koma manga. Sure, there's always Azumanga Daioh, but too many companies picked up too many half-assed Azumanga...
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Review: THE ANCIENT MAGUS' BRIDE
Well, it's Christmas at last so it's time to wrap things up. There was no question in my mind what this final entry would be. It had to be the series that I've been reading and rereading all year...
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2015 has been a busy year for me. It's not just the fact that I was able to get through the year without any major hiatuses, though that's a pretty good feeling. It's not just the fact that I got a...
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Review: CLAMP SCHOOL DETECTIVES
It's January, which mean's it's another round of CLAMP Month! Hurray!These days, CLAMP are notorious for making their works crossover into one big happy multiverse. Most people would point to Tsubasa...
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Review: GATE 7
Now we're going to shift gears from one of CLAMP's earliest works to one of their latest series. CLAMP's fortunes have risen and fallen greatly since that time. One has to wonder if they still have...
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Review: THE LEGEND OF CHUN HYANG
It's time to take another look at one of CLAMP's many unfinished one-shots, and this one is truthfully one of the better ones of that lot.THE LEGEND OF CHUN HYANG (Shin Shunka-den), by CLAMP. First...
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Review: XXXHOLIC REI
I always like to end CLAMP month with one of my favorites, but there's just one problem: I already reviewed my favorite of their works, xxxHolic. Thankfully, in recent years the ladies of CLAMP...
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Review: MILLENNIUM PRIME MINISTER
Once again, it's February, which means that it's time for another round of bad romance manga, a celebration of all the ways that love can turn strange and wrong. We're starting off with a doozy of a...
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Review: BROTHER
It's hard to find a boys' love manga that stood out enough to work for this month. After all, we're dealing with a genre where rape is so common that it's a trope. Thus, it takes a lot more for your...
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Review: LOVE PISTOLS
Actually, I take back what I said last time. There IS something that's even weirder and more off-putting than Brother. It's not quite about bestiality, and it's not quite about furries, but it is one...
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Review: THE SECRET SAKURA SHARES
Of course, just because a manga deals in some taboo subjects or tropes doesn't necessarily mean that it is automatically terrible. Every once in a great while you find one that takes a sketchy premise...
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Review: STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
This month we're shaking up things a little and doing a little bit of spring cleaning when it comes to the themes. That's why I'm dusting off an old theme for this month:Now, for the sake of easiness...
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Review: EL HAZARD
This one is kind of personal for me. El Hazard: The Magnificent World was an OVA I watched fairly early in my days of being an anime fan. I enjoyed it then and still consider it a favorite now....
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Review: TIGER AND BUNNY
Maybe I've been picking too much on older adaptations. Maybe in the intervening decade and a half (give or take) the manga world has figured out how to properly adapt a TV show to a manga. At the...
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Review: STAR WARS: EPISODE ONE - THE PHANTOM MENACE
I started with a Star Wars manga, so naturally I had to end with one. You see, it rhymes. It's like poetry.STAR WARS EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE, adapted from the film by Kia Asamiya. First...
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Review: MERMAN IN MY TUB
It's April, so in honor of the fourth month of the year let's take a look at some 4-koma manga! Now I could start out with the obvious choice here, but instead I was going to look at a more modern...
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Review: LUCKY STAR
4-koma have long struggled to get any sort of foothold in the US. It's easy to see why when so many of them were derivative and dull like today's selection.LUCKY STAR (Raki Suta), by Kagami Yoshimizu....
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Review: SHOULDER-A-COFFIN KURO
4-koma is a format that generally sticks to one genre: comedy. That's not to say that no one else has tried using it for more serious fare, or that they haven't made it work for them and not against...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: FAKE
It's slightly late due to the fact that I was out of town on a trip, but it's May once again which means that we've reached Year Four of this little review blog. That normally means a full month of...
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Merry Month of Manga Review: DEEPLY LOVING A MANIAC
I've been dying to post this review for a while. There's a lot of bad BL out there, but it takes a real hack to create something that's so odd and ugly that it stands out from the crowd. You...
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