Search results

44 results

Ayakashi and the Fairy Tales We Tell Ourselves

By Kosuzu Kobato and Meij. Released in Japan on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website. Released in North America by Cross Infinite World. Translated by Dawson Chen. This is…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for Fall Anime: It’s the Sweet (Potato) Life!Background image for Fall Anime: It’s the Sweet (Potato) Life!

Fall Anime: It’s the Sweet (Potato) Life!

The morning air has become crisp and chilly, with just a hint of frost glinting off the edges of every leaf. The afternoons are sunny and clear, toasting…

Anime Hanabi

Featured image for Anime Like Shoshimin: How to Become OrdinaryBackground image for Anime Like Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

Anime Like Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

Jougorou Kobato has a bad habit of inserting himself into other people's problems, using excellent detective skills to unravel their small mysteries. However,

Recommend Me Anime

Featured image for True Love Fades Away When The Contract EndsBackground image for True Love Fades Away When The Contract Ends

True Love Fades Away When The Contract Ends

Art: Murasaki Shido Story: Kosuzu Kobato Disclaimer:  This review is based on volumes 1 (Chapters: 1-5) Summary:  Fiona Clayburn, a headstrong young noblewoman with a passion for art,…

Underground Anime

Featured image for CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION: Chobits vol. 6 coverBackground image for CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION: Chobits vol. 6 cover

CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION: Chobits vol. 6 cover

The cover of volume 6 of the CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION edition of Chobits has been announced! I guessed it right once more, it’s Chitose! ♡ Chitose is my favorite character…

Chibi Yuuto's CHRoNiCLEs

Featured image for First Impression: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become OrdinaryBackground image for First Impression: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

First Impression: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

Kobato and Osanai have a deal. The socially awkward boy and quiet girl will help one another “become ordinary.” To do so, they will follow a series of…

Beneath the Tangles

Featured image for Brief Thoughts On: CLAMP in WonderlandBackground image for Brief Thoughts On: CLAMP in Wonderland

True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends: One Star in the Night Sky, Vol. 1

By Kosuzu Kobato and Fumi Takamura. Released in Japan as “Unmei no Koibito wa Kigen Tsuki” by Maple Novels. Released in North America by Airship. Translated by Julie…

Manga Bookshelf

Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World, Vol. 3

By Kosuzu Kobato and Yuichi Murakami. Released in Japan as “Mori no Hotori de Jam wo Niru: Isekai de Hajimeru Slow Life” by Kadokawa Books. Released in North…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for BAND-MAID Launches “Bestie” with Mike Einziger of INCUBUSBackground image for BAND-MAID Launches “Bestie” with Mike Einziger of INCUBUS

BAND-MAID Launches “Bestie” with Mike Einziger of INCUBUS

BAND-MAID teams up with Mike Einziger of Incubus for their new single "Bestie," showcasing a unique musical collaboration.

Anime Diet

Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World, Vol. 2

By Kosuzu Kobato and Yuichi Murakami. Released in Japan as “Mori no Hotori de Jam wo Niru: Isekai de Hajimeru Slow Life” by Kadokawa Books. Released in North…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for Anime Without a Home!Background image for Anime Without a Home!

Anime Without a Home!

Though you might not see it on TV, in movie theaters, or in many other modern forms of media, it’s an unfortunate truth of modern society that perhaps…

Anime Hanabi

Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World, Vol. 1

By Kosuzu Kobato and Yuichi Murakami. Released in Japan as “Mori no Hotori de Jam wo Niru: Isekai de Hajimeru Slow Life” by Kadokawa Books. Released in North…

Manga Bookshelf

The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent, Vol. 2

By Kosuzu Kobato and Yasuyuki Syuri. Released in Japan as “Kusushi no Majo Desu ga, Nazeka Fukugyō de Rikon Daikō Shiteimasu” by DRE Novels. Released in North America…

Manga Bookshelf

The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent, Vol. 1

By Kosuzu Kobato and Yasuyuki Syuri. Released in Japan as “Kusushi no Majo Desu ga, Nazeka Fukugyō de Rikon Daikō Shiteimasu” by DRE Novels. Released in North America…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for Kobato: March Manga Madness Day 27Background image for Kobato: March Manga Madness Day 27

Kobato: March Manga Madness Day 27

Day 27 of #MarchMangaMadness: Kobato by CLAMP and published by Yen Press. The two saddest loneliest volumes of manga you’ve…

The Wonder Of Anime

Featured image for 3 Reasons To Skip: KobatoBackground image for 3 Reasons To Skip: Kobato

3 Reasons To Skip: Kobato

It's hard to take the stakes seriously and be invested in the story when the plot will hand Kobato so many freebies.

Reasons to Anime

Featured image for Spotting the Rare Manga of Clamp Island!Background image for Spotting the Rare Manga of Clamp Island!

Spotting the Rare Manga of Clamp Island!

I was recently reading a blog post on Drunken Anime Blog.com and Irina mentioned the lesser known manga by Clamp called Kobato. It had been so long since…

Anime Hanabi

Featured image for Kobato. – A Lesser-Known Clamp ClassicBackground image for Kobato. – A Lesser-Known Clamp Classic

Kobato. – A Lesser-Known Clamp Classic

Kobato. is one of Clamp's less popular manga but why is that? I read it so I can tell you what I thought!

I drink and watch anime

Featured image for Anime to watch for each day of the deadBackground image for Anime to watch for each day of the dead

Anime to watch for each day of the dead

I live on the West coast of the US, and not surprisingly as October comes to a close, we don’t just see Halloween decorations festooned on every doorway…

Anime Hanabi

I’d Rather Have a Cat Than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat Loving Villainess, Vol. 2

By Kosuzu Kobato and Hinano Chano. Released in Japan as “Sonna Koto yori, Neko ga Kaitai ~ Otome Game no Sekai ni Tensei Shimashita ~” on the Shousetsuka…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for At Home Happy System by Kobato Mebaru and Ogura MukuBackground image for At Home Happy System by Kobato Mebaru and Ogura Muku

At Home Happy System by Kobato Mebaru and Ogura Muku

I found this odd-ball little one-shot (actually more of a two-shot) At Home Happy System while noodling around looking for yaoi about robots. SPOILERS . . . .…

MangaKast – A PodCast of All Things Manga

I’d Rather Have a Cat Than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat Loving Villainess, Vol. 1

By Kosuzu Kobato and Hinano Chano. Released in Japan as “Sonna Koto yori, Neko ga Kaitai ~ Otome Game no Sekai ni Tensei Shimashita ~” on the Shousetsuka…

Manga Bookshelf

Featured image for Walking in an Anime Winter Wonderland!Background image for Walking in an Anime Winter Wonderland!

Walking in an Anime Winter Wonderland!

Walking in an anime Winter wonderland! The snow has started to fall and it is well and truly Winter. The air is crisp and little puffs of steam…

Anime Hanabi

Featured image for Anime to re-live 2021!Background image for Anime to re-live 2021!

Anime to re-live 2021!

The year is running out in a hurry! A year can fly by so quickly it can feel like it’s ending before you’ve really had a chance to…

Anime Hanabi

Featured image for Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part IIIBackground image for Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part III

Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part III

12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 9 Last year I pledged myself to blogging through CLAMP’s entire published corpus, and this year I finally succeeded. CLAMP’s 2000s were mostly…

Floating Catacombs

Featured image for Sōseki Natsume’s I Am a Cat The Manga Edition ReviewBackground image for Sōseki Natsume’s I Am a Cat The Manga Edition Review

Sōseki Natsume’s I Am a Cat The Manga Edition Review

Sōseki Natsume's I Am a Cat The Manga Edition doesn't seem to educate or entertain and if it doesn't do either of those things, then what's the point?

TheOASG

Featured image for Zack Davisson Talks Translating Soseki Natsume’s I Am A Cat The Manga EditionBackground image for Zack Davisson Talks Translating Soseki Natsume’s I Am A Cat The Manga Edition

Zack Davisson Talks Translating Soseki Natsume’s I Am A Cat The Manga Edition

Long-time translator Zack Davisson discusses translating Chiroru Kobato's manga version of Sōseki Natsume's I Am A Cat with TheOASG.

TheOASG

Featured image for I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition ReviewBackground image for I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition Review

I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition Review

Soseki Natsume’s I am a Cat is a famous work of classic Japanese literature that follows a wise cat as he observes his fool-hardy master and his bumbling…

Al's Manga Blog

Featured image for Kaitei 3-man MileBackground image for Kaitei 3-man Mile

Kaitei 3-man Mile

Toei Douga pioneered the feature-length theatrical cartoon in Japan, starting with 1958's Hakujaden . Orphan has released several Toei featu...

Collectr's Blog

Dropped – A look at what could have been – Manga Part III

Welcome back to the third installment of the “Dropped”, the manga edition. By now, you guys know the drill and may or may not be curious as to…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Random Manga Review Post 2020

Ariana here. I have not been able to watch any anime at all due to circumstances, but I was able to read quite a bit of manga thanks…

Moeronpan

Gentle pointers from 2D worlds to a happy path

Like colourful candy drops falling from the sky, anime can speak to us in a uniquely unmediated way. The colours, the sound, the movement, the intensity of a…

Tea Time

The Spring Term Special Strawberry Tart Case

米澤穂信 ( Y ONEZAWA Honobu , born 1978) is probably best known outside Japan for a series of everyday life mysteries, starting with 氷菓 (hyouk...

My Japanese bookshelf

OtakuGeneration (Show #394) Sexy Commando

  Shownotes :: (show 394 :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Sexy Commando, recorded live December 23rd, 2012. This week we watched Sexy…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #393) MAGFest

  Shownotes :: (show 393 :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With MAGFest, recorded live December 16th, 2012. This week talked with Nick…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Featured image for OtakuGeneration (Show #392) SlayersBackground image for OtakuGeneration (Show #392) Slayers

OtakuGeneration (Show #392) Slayers

  Shownotes :: (show 392 :: () :: () :: () :: () With Slayers, recorded live December 9th, 2012. This week we (finally) watched Slayers. Join us, for another…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Featured image for OtakuGeneration (Show #391) PhoenixBackground image for OtakuGeneration (Show #391) Phoenix

OtakuGeneration (Show #391) Phoenix

  Shownotes :: (show 391 :: () :: () :: () :: () With Tezuka's Phoenix, recorded live December 1st, 2012. This week we discussed Tezuka's Phoenix. Join us, for…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Featured image for OtakuGeneration (Show #331) Dominion Tank PoliceBackground image for OtakuGeneration (Show #331) Dominion Tank Police

OtakuGeneration (Show #331) Dominion Tank Police

  Shownotes :: (show 331) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Dominion Tank Police, recorded live October 9th, 2011. This week talked about the OVA series Dominion…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Featured image for OtakuGeneration (Show #330) NieA_7Background image for OtakuGeneration (Show #330) NieA_7

OtakuGeneration (Show #330) NieA_7

  Shownotes :: (show 330) :: () :: () :: () :: () With NieA_7, recorded live October 3rd, 2011. This week discussed the anime NieA_7. Plus, feedback and more.…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #322) Summer Preview, Part 3

  Shownotes :: (show 322) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With the Summer Preview (the last chpater), recorded live August 7th, 2011. This…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Featured image for OtakuGeneration (Show #321) OTAKON 2011Background image for OtakuGeneration (Show #321) OTAKON 2011

OtakuGeneration (Show #321) OTAKON 2011

  Shownotes :: (show 321) :: () :: () :: () :: () With the OTAKON 2011, recorded live August 1st, 2011. This week we talked about our highlights at…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Episode 112, "The Stephencast"

On this episode of the One Piece Podcast we have professional translator Stephen Paul who has worked for companies like VIZ, Tokyopop, Del Ray, among others and has…

The One Piece Podcast

Episode 112, "The Stephencast"

On this episode of the One Piece Podcast we have professional translator Stephen Paul who has worked for companies like VIZ, Tokyopop, Del Ray, among others and has…

The One Piece Podcast