Happiness

Happiness

A manga about a boy who’s world turns upside down after he’s bit by an ancient vampire.

This series starts kind of slow but once you get to the part with the protagonist looking up at the sky that looks just like Van Gogh’s Starry Night you’ll be hooked.

Shuzo Oshimi takes his art to a whole different level in this on-going series. Story-wise it goes into some truly twisted places but that shouldn’t any surprise to fans of Oshimi’s work.

Highly recommended and also available in English through Kondasha Comics!

~dakazu

209 – Seamus on Seinen 1 – Happiness

209 – Seamus on Seinen 1 – Happiness

Darfox is out this week so we’ve picked a wide array of seinen titles for Seamus to check out!

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179 – Princess Jellyfish part 7

179 – Princess Jellyfish part 7

This week we enter the Singapore arc of Princess Jellyfish. Only two more episodes of our retrospective to go til we finish Akiko Higashimura’s romantic comedy!

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138 – Triple Dip 21 – BEASTARS, Moteki, Ichi the Killer

138 – Triple Dip 21 – BEASTARS, Moteki, Ichi the Killer

This week Seamus likes the secondary couple in the yuri manga Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, the other shoe finally drops in Chi no Wadachi, darfox and dakazu compare their reading styles, darfox shares his thoughts on the newest arc of Happiness, dakazu comes across the most bizarre and blatant health scam in X-POWER~4th Dimensional Body Enhancement~, and he takes a look at the new Tsutomu Nihei series APOSIMZ(Ningyou no Kuni). Then for our Triple Dip, we discuss BEASTARS, Moteki, and Ichi the Killer!!!

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082 – Anime Interlude 3 – Miss Hokusai

082 – Anime Interlude 3 – Miss Hokusai

On this week’s mega sized episode Seamus tries reading Happiness, dakazu forces himself to read the gore porn Elfen Lied and lite novel fluff Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? but rejoices in the return of Hunter x Hunter and Beet the Vandel Buster! Special guest and resident anime expert Kenzo talks about Gintama, Bleach, Boku Girl, and Tomo-chan is a Girl!(Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!). Then we run through the new shows of the Spring 2016 season, discuss some news about upcoming anime adaptations, and rant about shows that just wrapped up like Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans and Mr. Osomatsu(Osomatsu-san)! Finally we discuss the anime movie Miss Hokusai!!!

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053 – Manga in Motion 1 – Tokyo Godfathers

053 – Manga in Motion 1 – Tokyo Godfathers

The week we start out new segment Manga in Motion, where we discuss anime films. Our first pick is Tokyo Godfathers by Satoshi Kon! Also, darfox talks about vampires in Happiness, Seamus catches up on Hi Score Girl, we discuss the struggle of manga artist Shuho Sato vs. his publishers, and we see if Boob Morning returns in volume 2 of I am a Hero!

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