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Anko Uguisu’s Past (Call of the Night) - Finding Peace in the Night
Shonen Sunday titles have gotten a lot of popularity over the past few years and one of its stand-out titles is Kotoyama’s Call of the Night, a comedy-drama…
It’s Hard to Talk About Everything Regarding Suicide
I want to start off by saying that I’m glad Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari’s Oshi no Ko has blown up in popularity. However, as I noted a year…
Chifuyu Matsuno - The First Line of Support
I wanted to give a shoutout to one of my favorite supporting characters over the past couple of years, Chifuyu Matsuno of Tokyo Revengers (who won the 2022…
Cry When It’s Hard
Over the past couple of months, I experienced some personal grief over the loss of relationships. It was somewhat long overdue. I thought I was ready to handle…
HIRAETH - The Middle and The End of It All
Continuing where I left off months ago, it’s time to explore the last two volumes of Yuhki Kamatani’s HIRAETH - The End of the Journey. The ending does…
Chainsaw Man Volume 13 - Justifying Desperation
“I’m gonna get rid of your bullying problem. Don’t come to school tomorrow.” This was a somewhat chilling turn of events. Chainsaw Man Volume 13 continues to pick up…
You Can Get Bored With Manga
About a month ago, I discovered this video on my manga Twitter feed. As much as I love manga, I have started becoming bored with manga at times since…
You Don’t Have to Destroy to Be Great
When I heard that Terrible Tornado, a huge favorite character of ONE’s One-Punch Man, got some good development in the web-comic after the Monster Association storyline, I was…
Manga Over Schooling
I’m sure there’s many of us who really dislike school. We dread going to school for all kinds of reasons. Even though education is important, the social structure…
Fan Stranger, Not Danger
It’s about time for fan convention season and that means fans going out to events once more to celebrate their fandom. Even though COVID still lingers, the convention…
International Women’s Day - Pay Attention to the Magademy Award Female Nominees
I haven’t really talked about this, but last year, a Japanese digital bookstore called BookLive started a cool yearly awards event held in March called the Magademy Awards.…
Staying Humble and Young at Heart as a Manga Fan
So I found out about an event that happened around Anime NYC weekend last year that involved Crunchyroll working with a organization dedicated to teaching manga literacy to…
13 Years
Guess Friday the 13th is good for me today, huh? Today marks 13 years of this blog running, counting the years I was Manga Therapy. I really don’t have much…
This Manga Is For Anyone Who Struggles So Hard With Dating
I got to read Meiko Hiranishi’s The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend and I will say that this was one of the validating manga I’ve ever read…
Wotakoi - Coming Out vs. Concealment for Otaku
When it comes to identifying yourself as a nerd/otaku/geek, there hasn’t been a better time to do so. We’re in the age where geeks have inherited the Earth…
Sensei’s Pious Lie - Volume 4 Omnibus
“Simply having faith in another person’s heart is harder than I imagined. As hard as believing in yourself. But it’s only through that belief that people can prove…
The Coolest Boy Is the Depressed One - You and I Are Polar Opposites
A new romantic-comedy manga focused on total attraction of the opposite kind has gotten the attention of manga fans over the world. Kocha Agasawa’s You and I Are…
What If I Was Born in a Different Time Period?
Around November last year, I hit the big 40. It was a big deal and there were good people who acknowledged my birthday. As an anime/manga fan for…
Sensei’s Pious Lie - Volume 3 Omnibus
“If you’re going to call this feeling something like love, you might as well call it what it is: power. Impossibly foolish, ferocious, an unstoppable juggernaut.” Love just got…
Manga I Enjoyed in 2022
Happy New Year, everyone! I know this is somewhat late, but better late than never. I originally wanted to do this in a video format like I did…
The Danger of Being Myopic - Akane-banashi
“Unless you want to judge her future without seeing what she’s so passionate about...but that would be myopic, wouldn’t it?” In many anime/manga series featuring a high school setting,…
Cool Japan Has No Community
Years before I started blogging about manga, I was somewhat involved in the promotion of Japanese culture in New York City. At the time, anime and manga were…
Post-Anime NYC - What Hard Times Did You Go Through?
As a follow-up to the Anime NYC 2022 post I wrote last week, I want to talk about something that happened at the Denpa/KUMA panel. It happened during…
Anime NYC 2022 - New York Be Back, Y’All~
What a return. What. A. Full-fledged. Return. After last year’s chaotic line mess, Anime NYC returned with a new panel queue system and revamped health check. This year's event…
Off to Anime NYC 2022
I’m back to attending another Anime NYC event this year. This will be the 5th year anniversary of the convention and I’m excited to check out what’s there. For…
How to Find Great Manga to Read
We’re in an awesome time for manga reading in the West. Physical manga volumes are flying off the shelves in a time when digital reading is becoming more…
From Manga to IRL: Found Family
I got a chance to catch the latest Manga in Libraries webinar on YouTube, which was titled Disability Visibility in Manga. It was a really good discussion about…
The Akatsuki as Community
I saw a RDC World skit recently that joked about one of anime/manga’s most famous villain groups, the Akatsuki from Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. The video made light of the…
Chainsaw Man Volume 12 - The Start of a Loneliness Clash
“I wish I’d tried living just a little more selfishly.” “Cuz once my secret’s out! The ladies will be all over me!” One of the craziest manga series in recent…
I’m Happy for Manga (and an Annoucement)
Quote Source: NYCC ‘22: Bright Lights, Big Fandom - Sept. 10, 2022 I will be the first to tell you that I’m not a huge fan of New York Comic-Con.…
Sensei’s Pious Lie - Volume 2 Omnibus
I haven’t seen too much reviews about this volume, but to be fair, Sensei’s Pious Lie is a very hard read and the 2nd volume continues the heavy…
Finding Positivity in Death Via Anime and Manga
Recently, my mother and I had a conversation about a topic a lot of Westerners don’t talk about - death. My mom discussed how she wanted to die…
HIRAETH - The Start of the End
I’ve been waiting for a title like this for the longest time. Yuhki Kamatani has created a raw and blunt series, HIRAETH - The End of the Journey, about death.…
Video Games for Mental Health - AI: The Somnium Files
~Resist, allow your heart to take you! Never let this merciless world erase you! Passing down the light of the torch to guide you, And you shall be bathed in light!~ When…
It’s Definitely OK to Help
From: Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 119 Someone once told me that if being “normal” means being selfish and not caring about the things that are truly important, then…
The Curse of Avoiding Dislike
I’m reading the latest English volume (Volume 10 as of this posting) of Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie and there was a part in this volume that’s absolutely…
“My Brain Is Different” - Personal, To the Point and Much Needed
“These kids aren’t trouble. They’re in trouble and need our help.” I’m so happy that I got a chance to check out Monzusu’s “My Brain Is Different: Stories of ADHD…
Cherry Magic! - A Modern BL Hit on Overcoming Rom-Trauma
“For the first time in my life, there’s someone I want to get to know better. -Male 30 Y/O” A delightfully charming BL manga has caught my attention due…
BLEACH Volume 1, 20 Years Later
“We fear that which we cannot see.” - Strawberry and the Soul Reapers It’s somewhat hard to believe that a series that began in 2001 and ended in 2016…
RuriDragon - Smashing Down Weird Walls
“Lookitthat. A real high school girl.” High school is a trying time for many adolescents. While cliques and gossip are things in elementary and junior high school, they become…
On Depression and Taking Antidepressants
So this post isn’t going to be manga-related, but more about a psychiatry report about the causes of depression that has made a splash among researchers and peers.…
A Community I Wouldn’t Mind Being A Part of
I’ll let the picture speak for itself. I’ll also let you know that there’s a bunch of good people doing things for the common good and will reciprocate kindness…
Sensei’s Pious Lie - Volume 1 Omnibus
I got a chance to sit down and read what’s essentially a must-read. I also got to read a really good newsletter interview by Mangasplaining’s Deb Aoki with…
Frieren - Emotional Support for Everyone
“Children aren’t the only ones who need emotional support.” One of my favorite manga in recent memory has to be Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. It’s a charming medieval fantasy…
What Should We Really Be Learning from Anime and Manga?
Ever since I re-branded myself, there’s something that has been bothering me for a while. It was the promotion of the idea that “hard work can save the world!”,…
Really, Just Listen
This was really cute. The new one-shot by Tatsuki Fujimoto (alongside Oto Toda, a rising manga artist and author of To Strip the Flesh), Just Listen to the Song,…
Shikimori’s Friends Are the Real Cuties
“I’m really glad I’m friends with you guys. You’re all so adorable, so cool...the best friends in the whole world.” I binged all the English volumes of Shikimori’s Not…
Spy for the Answer Within
I know the anime is absolutely hitting it off with fans, but the manga is still brilliant. Chapter 63 of Spy x Family takes a detour from the daily…
Tokyo Revengers - What True Pain Is
I’m in a Tokyo Revengers mood as of late and I still remember when I read this part in Volume 12, this was one of the best arcs…
Manga Unions Are Communities
Some brave souls came out recently to fight for the equivalent of basic worker’s rights in an industry that’s sometimes very guilty of taking advantage of the “passion” of…