365 – One Shot 44 – Gogo Monster
October Extravaganza continues with Night 3 as we do a One Shot on Taiyo Matsumoto’s Gogo Monster! dakazu also read the end of Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, watched Ranking of Kings, talks about Kamen Rider with Tojima Tanzaburo wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai, and rants about Spotted Flower and Shimoku Kio!!!
Continue readingHashikko Ensemble
A manga about a boy with a low voice that’s invited to start a chorus at his vocational high school.
Shimoku Kio is most known for his successful Genshiken series but as someone who teaches people how to sing I was EXTREMELY skeptical of how Kio would be addressing this subject. After following this series since it began I can now say that some of the facts he says about singing are correct and others are wrong enough to be cringeworthy.
It’s disappointing to me because I’ve always wondered how a manga would address the topic of choral singing but currently I’m reading this series with my hand over my forehead just waiting for the next awful falsehood about singing to appear on the page.
~dakazu