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Review: FULL MOON O SAGASHITE
Last month required reading a lot of heavy drama, so let's lighten things up by looking at some manga about music and musical performance. Surely I could find something cute and fun to read to kick...
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Review: NODAME CANTABILE
OK, I've been slacking off. Working on a wedding will do that to you. Well, no time like the present then to take a look at one of the most notable titles to be lost in the Del-Ray/Kodansha...
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Review: SENSUAL PHRASE
Oh Mayu Shinjo. We meet again. It's not the first time she's written a manga about musicians, so she was a natural choice for this month. I just wish she didn't have so much of a taste for trashy...
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Review: MAISON IKKOKU
Yeah...it's been a while since I've been back here. Admittedly, I do have what I hope is a reasonable excuse: I got married!Yes, as of June 25th I am a married woman, and two weeks afterwards we got...
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Review: EAGLE
Today's review is just one of those happy coincidences. What could be more perfect for an Old-School Month review in 2016 than an old manga that's all about an American presidential campaign? Lord...
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Review: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST
If you asked most manga fans about Kosuke Fujishima, most of them will admittedly look at you in confusion, offer a quick shrug or "I dunno" and wander away.If they know the name at all, they probably...
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Review: DRAGON KNIGHTS
For a while, I've been hoping that the popularity of 'otaku self-insert gets dumped into (usually digital) fantasy realm' works would lead to a resurgence of fantasy anime and manga in general.As you...
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Review: FIST OF THE NORTH STAR
Sometimes the universe lines up in just the right configuration to drop a little bit of luck in your lap. That's my explanation as for how I managed to stumble across this particular (and not...
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Review: BAMBOO BLADE
Now that I'm totally NOT distracted by replaying Persona 4 Golden, let's take things into a more active and athletic direction. That's right, it's time for sports manga! So of course the first...
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Review: MY HEAVENLY HOCKEY CLUB
There are s suprising number of shoujo series about sports. Few of them could be said to be comedies, though. Fewer still could say that the point of the series is to not play the sport at all.MY...
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Review: SLAM DUNK
Of course, these days when people think of sports manga, they think of the fujo-friendly shonen series of recent years. Y'know, your Frees, your Yowamushi Pedals, your Kurokos. Let us not forget,...
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Review: SUGAR PRINCESS
So like most sensible anime fans, the show I'm looking forward to most is Yuri On Ice. Sayo Yamamoto working with MAPPA on an ice skating show? SOLD. That got me to wondering if there was any...
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Review: ZOMBIE FAIRY
It's October once more, which means it's time to look over some monstrous manga. That is, manga about monsters and hopefully manga that ARE monstrous.Well, hopefully at least.Let's start things off...
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Review: SANKAREA: UNDYING LOVE
Thanks to Monster Musume, the notion of a romance with a monster girl isn't as weird of a notion to manga readers as it was when this series first came out. It's a shame, as today's review is frankly...
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Review: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD
Well, I might as well keep this zombie train rolling with another review. Unfortunately it's not about the recent show that actually did have zombies, trains, and zombie trains. No, instead it has...
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Review: I AM A HERO
Naturally, I saved the best of what few zombie manga are out there for last. It was one of the most coveted unlicensed titles for many years, and its announcement was five years (and an unprecedented...
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Review: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING
Around this time last year I covered all of theEvangelion manga, which was no small undertaking. I figured that it would finally be time to cover the only other mecha manga franchise to rival it:...
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Review: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED
At least Gundam Wing is fairly beloved, at least as far as Gundam series go. Today's selection is an adaptation of one of the most divisive entries in the franchise, and like the last review its...
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Review: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: ECOLE DU CIEL
Of course, there's more to Gundam manga than tossed-off adaptations of the actual shows. There are loads of manga-exclusive spinoffs, although the vast majority of them have not reached our shores....
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Review: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE ORIGIN
Let's be honest, everything this month has been building up to this review. Part of that is because this manga itself is a retelling of the story that started it all. The other part is that this...
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