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Reader’s Corner: I Want to End This Love Game (Vol. 2), Drifting Dragons (Vol. 9), and Sakura, Saku (Vol. 3)

This week on Reader’s Corner, we feature the first volume of the Elaina the Wandering Witch spin-off, volume nine of both Helck and Drifting Dragons, an expectedly disappointing…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl (Vol. 4), No Longer Heroine (Vol. 6), and Itaewon Class (Vol. 1)

Happy Release Tuesday, everyone! This week, we’re serving up reviews of fantasy series and modern-day high school romance, which have become par for the course in today’s manga…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: Dandadan (Vol. 7), Kimi ni Todoke Soulmate (Vol. 1), and Mr. Villain’s Day Off (Vol. 3)

A blend of old and new releases, and first volumes and those more toward the middle fill our selections in this week’s column. As usual, love stories are…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: Honey Lemon Soda (Vol. 5), The Remarried Empress (Vol. 6), and The Uncanny Counter (Vol. 1)

It’s a big day for manga, manhwa light novel releases, and we’ve got reviews for you of a number of those hitting shelves today! Romance, slice-of-life, fantasy, and…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: WcDonald’s (Ch. 1), Villains Are Destined to Die (Vol. 6), Mint Chocolate (Vol. 1), and God Bless the Mistaken (Vol. 1)

February may be a short month, but it was still packed to the brim with new releases! We cover a bunch in our reviews below (and a few…

Beneath the Tangles

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Reader’s Corner: I Want to End This Love Game (Vol. 1), Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (Vol. 3), and Usotoki Rhetoric (Vol. 5)

Every manga and light novel publishing house has its sweet spot, the areas in which they excel or that they have a heavier focus on than other companies.…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime Like Delicious in Dungeon

After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage…

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Reader’s Corner: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Vol. 1), My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 4)

Need recommendations for manga and manhwa to gift this Christmas season? No need to worry—we’ve got you covered this week with new and recent series that would make…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime Like Ragna Crimson

Regardless, both series follow dragon hunters doing their job. Drifting Dragons isn't so much of a fast-paced action anime like Ragna Crimson. Instead, it

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Reader’s Corner: The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement, and Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle

I love the numbers reflected in our reviews this week: 1, as in the initial volumes of four series we review this week. 5, as in the volume…

Beneath the Tangles

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Japan Top Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: November 6 – November 12, 2023

There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. It is thanks to the amazing…

Erzat

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TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: November 6 – November 12, 2023

There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…

Erzat

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Anime Like Kaina of the Great Snow Sea

With the world covered by a great snow sea, drinking water becoming scare, and livable land located at the feet of a few deteriorating orbital trees that

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Best of 2022 Manga

As manga continues to become more and more accessible through legal means, English-reading audiences are being exposed to the wide variety of series (and one-shots) being created. While…

Beneath the Tangles

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Which Art Style is “Better”: Stylised or Realistic?

Quite often online, especially within the twitter space, I'll see a tweet asking "Which manga has the best art?". It's more a question that can be answered based…

lines in motion

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Anime Series Like Sakugan

The Labyrinth is an expansive space underground where humans live in colonies and many places remain unexplored. Due to the harsh conditions outside the colonies and the presence…

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The Speakeasy #126: Thus Spoke Rohan, Dragon Pilot, Dorohedoro, Beautiful Dreamer

We talk about various shows we’ve been catching up on: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Thus Spoke Rohan OVA Drifting Dragons Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan Voltes V Dorohedoro Urusei…

Reverse Thieves

Pick of the Week: Medalists and Househusbands

SEAN: There’s several titles I’m interested in… a new “Peggy Sue Villainess” story, a new We’re New at This sex comedy story, and (of course) a new Urusei…

Manga Bookshelf

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Some Personal Anime Favourites From 2020

It is sometimes good to be able to watch anime that have been vetted already.  A check on Wikipedia shows that 158 anime series aired last y...

Tokyo Excess

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Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2020

In an exceptionally hellish year, good anime managed to provide some brief moments of reprieve. Here are the staff's 2020 favorites!

Anime Feminist

Anime Series Like Deca-Dence

Driven to the point of extinction by creatures known as the Gadoll, humanity now lives out of a large mobile fortress known as Deca-Dence. Inside, the residents are…

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Pick of the Week: Space Waves

SEAN: A lot of my ‘mid-tier’ series are out this week, so its hard to have a pick. I guess I’ll go with Fiancée of the Wizard, because…

Manga Bookshelf

Manga the Week of 8/26/20

SEAN: The end of August, a time when most people think back on the good things about summer. Like manga! ASH: At least some things were good! SEAN:…

Manga Bookshelf

Drifting Dragons – Episode 1

Drifting Dragons is a strange series to review. It’s a Polygon Pictures production, the first one that actually uses bright colors instead of a pallet roughly similar to…

Anime Feminist

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Year 1 Issue 11

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 11   March 11 - 17, 2020 Welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet, folks, how're you all holding…

Arcadia Dragnet

Drifting Dragons: Pretty Yet Problematic

…not that that’s a question anyone would ever ask, but here’s the answer anyway. Drifting Dragons has an anime being held back by Netflix (apparently it won’t drop…

The Animanga Spellbook

Pick of the Week: As Expected

SEAN: A lot of diverse choices this week. The “prestige” title is clearly Downfall, but let’s face it it’s far too bleak for me. Instead, to no one’s…

Manga Bookshelf

Kuutei Dragons Review

"Kuutei Dragons is consistently stunning"

SpaceWhales Anime Blog

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Year 1 Issue 6

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 6   February 5 - 11, 2020 Hello and welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet.…

Arcadia Dragnet

281 – One Shot 26 – The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network

This week Darfox is back to talk about Weather with You and dakazu gets a behind-the-scenes look at Yoshihiro Togashi in Sensei Hakusho! Then we review our very…

Manga Machinations

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Year 1 Issue 5

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 5 January 29 - February 4, 2020 Happy February! One month and 5 issues in, Arcadia…

Arcadia Dragnet

Year 1 Issue 4

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 4 January 22-28 2020 I have finally decided that in order to be…

Arcadia Dragnet

Year 1 Issue 3

Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 3 January 15-21 2020 As I continue to figure out how to make Arcadia Dragnet most comprehensive and usef...

Arcadia Dragnet

Winter 2020 Season Preview

Hello folks, and welcome back to… what the fuck, does that actually say 2020 at the top of the post? As in, the beginning of an entire new…

Wrong Every Time

Fruits Basket and Drifting Dragons

The White Sox win at Wrigley Field behind Eloy Jimenez’s two-run home run in the top of...

Taiiku Podcast

Fruits Basket and Drifting Dragons

The White Sox win at Wrigley Field behind Eloy Jimenez’s two-run home run in the top of the ninth, and that’s all I’m really thinking about right now.…

Taiiku Podcast

OSMcast! Show #149: Mob Psycho 100

Happy Monday, everybody! Let's kick off the week with something wholesome. And you can't spell "wholesome" without "Mob Psycho 100," the anime by Bones adapted from the manga…

OSMcast! Anime, Games, Interviews, & More!