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Review: YONA OF THE DAWN
From harem manga, we move on to reverse harem manga. It's been a while since we've gotten a new one; most of the more prominent shoujo titles have focused either on supernatural romances or more...
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Review: LISELOTTE & WITCH'S FOREST
Yen Press scored a hell of a deal last year. Not only did they rescue Fruits Basket, one of the last remaining gems of the Tokyopop library, but also picked up Natsuki Takaya's two most recent (and up...
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Review: PLEASE TELL ME! GALKO-CHAN
Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't necessarily be putting so much emphasis on bringing over josei works as we should on lady-friendly seinen works. Between Complex Age and today's subject, it seems to...
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Review: EVERYONE'S GETTING MARRIED
This might have been the first year in a long time that we started to see some movement as far as josei licenses. Not only did we finally get Princess Jellyfish in print, but Viz managed to slip a...
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Review: FUKUFUKU: KITTEN TALES
Well, it's time to start wrapping things up with something warm and fuzzy. Naturally, what else could be warmer and fuzzier than a manga about a kitten?FUKUFUKU: KITTEN TALES (FukuFuku Funyan Koneko...
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Review: SWEETNESS & LIGHTNING
Well, it's time to wrap this year's holiday review up, and much like I've done in the past, I end it with a series that's not just one of my favorites to come out this year, but one that's all about...
View Article2016 In the Rear View Mirror & Holiday Giveaway Winner
First of all, let me announce the winner of this year's Annual Holiday Giveaway. The $25 RightStuf gift certificate will be going to...KIM P.!Requiem of the Rose King is my favorite new manga since...
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Review: TSUBASA WORLD CHRONICLE
It's January once more, which means it's time for yet another month of CLAMP works. Let's start things off with one of their most recent works. Like most of those new works, it's a rehash of a...
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Review: WISH
Let's turn from one of CLAMP's newest works to one of the many weird little short stories. This is one was kind of overshadowed by their biggest works from the 90s, but it remains one of their most...
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Review: CLAMP SCHOOL DEFENDERS DUKLYON
Speaking of CLAMP's weirder little short stories, let's return to the world of CLAMP School for yet another exercise in frivolousness. This time it's tokusatsu flavored!CLAMP SCHOOL DEFENDERS DUKLYON...
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Review: X/1999
With the start of a disastrous, fatalistic new presidency, I think it's finally time to take a look at the CLAMP work that best sums up the feelings this new era embodies.At least this version of the...
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The Manga Test Drive Patreon is live!
BIG NEWS FOLKS! I've been debating this for a while now, but after a lot of thought and considering, I finally decided to go forward and create a Patreon to support my work here at The Manga Test...
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Review: SAIKANO
With the return of February comes the return of Bad Romance Month, where we explore just a few of the many, many, MANY messed-up romances found within the pages of manga. Today's review is a bit of an...
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Review: CITRUS
As before, Bad Romance Month is not limited to straight romances alone. That being said, normally yuri was a genre where one could be safe from such things. As much as I might complain about it being...
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Review: MAN'S BEST FRIEND
Of course, I can't let this month pass without covering some strange example of BL manga, and this year I found a doozy. Tokyopop's BL imprint was actually fairly sedate compared to some of its...
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Review: MIDNIGHT SECRETARY
Well, let's wrap things up with a bit of smutty josei. Today's title was one of the first josei titles to sneak its way over here in some time and moderately successful. Too bad that it's also just...
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Review: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST
In honor of the release of the Nintendo Switch, I'm making this a month of video game manga! Video games and manga are not a radical nor recent combination. Indeed, today's review covers a beloved...
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Review: SENRAN KAGURA - SKIRTING SHADOWS
Now we shift from a classic, kid-friendly franchise to a far more recent, far more violent, far more saucy and (surprisingly) far more boring one.SENRAN KAGURA: SKIRTING SHADOWS (Senran Kagura:...
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Review: WORLD WAR BLUE
Even by the standards of most video-game themed manga, today's review is an odd one. It's written by a American woman, drawn by a hentai artist, and is all about anthropomorphizing a console war that...
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Review: PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY
Admittedly, one of the hard parts of picking out titles for this month was finding works that I was familiar enough with the game to judge fairly. Thankfully, that's not a problem with today's review....
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