253 – Anime Interlude 11 – Sarazanmai
This week our buddy CrossXhunteR joins us as we talk about Sarazanmai and other anime from the 2019 spring season along with new series from the 2019 summer season like Vinland Saga!!!
Continue reading244 – Manga in Motion 37 – Tekkonkinkreet
We follow up our last episode by checking out the 2006 anime film adaptation of Tekkonkinkreet! We compare the anime to Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga and talk about why it looks like so much like a Masaaki Yuasa film!
Continue readingKiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl
A manga about different girls at Sairen All Girls school and their relationships.
Finally got around to checking out this series after Seamus talked about it so much. I was surprised to see that the story really doesn’t focus on one couple and keeps jumping around to follow the romance between other characters. The stories are pretty sweet and I enjoyed them. My only complaint is that Canno doesn’t differentiate in her artwork for character faces so it was hard to keep track of all the different girls who kept appearing.
Available from Yen Press.
~dakazu
241 – One Shot 19 – Maiden Railways
This week we read about relationships that meet and travel at trains and train stations in Asumiko Nakamura’s Maiden Railways!
Continue reading156 – Manga in Motion 21 – Brave Story
This week Seamus reads another volume of Kiss and White Lily for my Dearest Girl, dakazu finishes Steve Jobs and Magical Girl Apocalypse, he questions the motivation of making an Amish girl the protagonist in Dare ga Kenja wo Koroshita ka?(Who Killed the Sage?), and we discuss if sharing stories of real people is exploitative in Uhyo! Tokyo-to Kita-ku Akabane! Then we talk about our main topic, Brave Story! We examine the novel it’s based on and compare it to the manga adaptation Brave Story: Shinsetsu!!!
Continue reading145 – I am a Hero part 3
On this episode we answer an email about In Clothes Called Fat, Seamus finds more shiritori in Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, darfox is rewatching Eureka Seven, dakazu finds two bad manga in Rock Me Amadeus and Otogibanashi Battle Royal(Fairy Tale Battle Royale) but loves the world of RAFNAS by WOMBS creator Yumiko Shirai! Then we discuss the new trailer for the Netflix Death Note movie, rejoice in the announcement of the Junji Ito Collection anime, and explain why Welcome to the Ballroom is streaming on Twitch. Finally, we continue our retrospective review of I am a Hero by wrapping up the Gotemba Outlet Mall arc and diving into the Kurusu arc next!!!(covers chapters 82-117)
Continue reading138 – 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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