421 – Shojo Showdown 4 – MARS, Midnight Secretary, Ouran High School Host Club
On this episode Morgana leads the charge for another Shojo Showdown! We examine the first volumes of MARS, Midnight Secretary, and Ouran High School Host Club! We also discuss Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, SPY X FAMILY, Tongari Boushi no Kitchen, The Gamestars, and more!!!
Continue readingMujina
A manga about young ninja Mujina who pretends to be useless so he can take revenge against the ninja clan leader who has taken advantage of his family.
I really enjoy Koji Aihara‘s manga but it’s a bit difficult to explain his appeal. Aihara is known for his low brow comedy and his simple character designs. When you combine that with what is essentially a parody of Kamui Den, you get Mujina. This book is very bloody and Aihara’s simple characters actually make the gore more effective. This is a manga for adults that doesn’t shy away from sex or violence.
~dakazu
Katteni Shirokuma
A manga about a polar bear cub being raised by in a family of brown bears.
A pretty interesting series. I’ve read other works by Koji Aihara and between his distinct art style and really low-brow sense of humor, it makes his manga different than other mainstream titles. And I’m not joking about his comedy sense. There’s a lot of jokes about defecating and sexual reproduction with the forest animals. It comes off as juvenile humor for adults.
Fun fact. The same polar bear shows up in Aihara’s Shin Ishu Kakutou Taisen as one of the animals battling in a tournament for supremacy of the animal kingdom.
~dakazu