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IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAINTAIN A BLOG
Before I say anything else, there are parts to this conversation that I dread having. I hate it. And I can only hope that some of my online…
MANTA REVIEWERS CLUB — I’M NOT AFRAID OF WOLVES! REVIEW
Mei Inukai works as a receptionist at a company, but the things that she's most passionate about are, you guessed it from her last name, dogs! Despite working…
FRAGMENTS OF MY TRANSPARENT MIND — A LOVE LETTER TO HAYAKAWA NOJIKO AND ALL THAT IS ASKEW
I’ve written a few love letters this year, haven’t I? It’s a shame I can only share them with you digitally. Then again, imagine receiving a handwritten review…
FAREWELL TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF BL
Yesterday, Manga Planet announced that they will be focuing on print releases from now on and are terminating their digital service. There’s a lot to say about it,…
LET’S GO BASICS! — MUSINGS ON LET’S GO KARAOKE’S “PARTING WAYS”
I wanted to focus on episode three, "Parting Ways", where Satomi basically takes his frustration that Wada fueled at school out on Kyouji. Kyouji's throat isn't in great…
TAKARA’S TREASURE AND NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO WITH LOVE
A chance encounter compels Taishin to hold onto a thin thread desperately. During a time when he felt miserable, he was comforted by a stranger, and Taishin hasn't…
MANTA REVIEWERS CLUB — WILLIAM OF THE WARDROBE REVIEW
Original Story: YOOPAULHEEWriter: DokjinIllustration: MinujuLocalization: Manta ComicsRating: 16+Platform: MantaRelease Date: Feb 07, 2025 Hey friends! I’ve been away from my blog for some time and have only been…
SINCE I COULD DIE TOMORROW—FINITUDE IN PRESENCE OF LIFE
This is a post I previously published for a very short period of time and then deleted. I decided to publish it permanently after thinking about vulnerability and…
MIDNIGHT RAIN & ONE ROOM ANGEL—IN PRAISE OF PATHETIC (FICTIONAL) MEN
As some of you may have seen on my Twitter, I felt the pull to reread CTK‘s Midnight Rain and wanted to follow that with Harada‘s One Room…
ON BEGINNINGS AND MILESTONES
Hi friends! Hope you’re healthy and happy. I wanted to celebrate two things with you today. First is something I got a notification of but completely forgot to…
BOYS LOVE AS A GENRE — HOW DO WE DECIDE WHO GETS TO SIT WITH US AT THE TABLE
This is a cross-post from a recent, short something I wrote the other day for Tumblr. I intentionally didn’t touch upon publishers & their marketing strategies, the role publishers…
ANTI-ROMANCE AND THE BARELY TAPPED POTENTIAL OF THE BOYS’ LOVE GENRE
One can come up with many labels defining Suou and Ryou, and their relationship. One, a hair stylist, the other, a copywriter. Childhood friends. Classmates in high school.…
A LOOK BACK ON 2024
Hello friends! I was supposed to finish the recap I mentioned last Friday yesterday, but oh well. I wanted to reflect on the partly tumultuous but mostly whatever…
FRIDAY BL — PRAISE ME WHEN I’M A GOOD BOY
Watanabe has achieved the perfect façade: a high school teacher loved by the students and his colleagues, with good looks and better income. He was even engaged to…
FRIDAY BL — LETHAL DOSE OF LOVE
Some might say Ryousuke is living the life, moving to Tokyo for university, but he has a reason behind his choice of city. It’s a very slim chance,…
HOME OFFICE ROMANCE MANGA REVIEW
When the whole world came to a halt with COVID-19 many found themselves having to adjust to a new work environment: home. Nokoru is one of them, and…
YOUR LETTER WEBTOON REVIEW
“It was a completely normal day.” The birds were chirping, the school bell was ringing, and Sori Lee’s classmates were bullying Jimin, a girl they’d chosen as their…
A SMART AND COURAGEOUS CHILD, AND DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM OTHERS’ SUFFERING
A Smart and Courageous Child tells the story of a young heterosexual couple, Sara and Kouta, who decide to have a baby. They are a harmonious and supportive…
I SEE YOUR FACE, TURNED AWAY VOLUME 1 MANGA REVIEW
Writer and Artist: Rumi IchinohePublisher: KodanshaTranslator: Irene NakanoEditor: Maggie LeLettering: Dietrich PremierPublication Date: May 07, 2024 Hi peeps! Yours truly is back by unpopular dema…
PUPPOSITES ATTRACT VOLUME 1 REVIEW
Writer and Artist: Hono NatsunaPublisher: KodanshaTranslator: Matt TreyvaudEditor: Julia MurphyLettering: Sara LinsleyPublication Date: August 06, 2024 Hi friends! I hope the brand-new week treats …
GIGA TOWN: THE GUIDE TO MANGA ICONOGRAPHY REVIEW
Writer and Artist: Fumiyo KounoPublisher: Udon Entertainment in assoc. with Mangasplaining ExtraPublication Date: September 03, 2024 Hi friends! As always, I’m back after a long period of rad…
5 BL TITLES THAT’LL MAKE YOU FEEL THINGS ON VALENTINE’S DAY
Hi friends! Here’s a hastily put together list post. I know most of the titles are stuff that I have recommended before or talked about here or there,…
FRIDAY BL — OUROBOROS REVIEW
Greetings friends! This week I was preoccupied with in-real-life stuff so this is technically Saturday BL (lol) but I didn’t want to put it off for another week…
FRIDAY BL — MY ULTRAMARINE SKY REVIEW
Hi friends! I had left my Friday BL writing to Thursday last week, but due to some unforeseen health issues, I wasn’t able to write anything. But the good news…
MONTHLY IN THE GARDEN WITH MY LANDLORD MANGA REVIEW
Hello! Here with another manga review. I promise I’ll review anime soon! I plan on talking about Overtake! and The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons now that the season has …
HOW I MET MY SOULMATE MANGA REVIEW
Hi everyone! Hope the week ahead will be kind to you and will go by in a flash so you can enjoy your downtime over the weekend. I’ve…
FRIDAY BL — YUMINARI
Hi, and welcome to yet another post where we retreat to the beautiful haven of hunky hunks smooching, butting heads, and holding hands, a.k.a BL. Who cares about…
UNDEAD MURDER FARCE IS A BANQUET OF THE UNCANNY
This review was first published on The Beat in October, 2023. Undead Murder Farce, adapted into a manga from Yuugo Aosaki’s novel series and now available as a…
FRIDAY BL — BREATHLESS MOMENTUM
Hello friends, I’ve gone and done it… One of those horribly beautiful cases of having access to adult money. There was a coin-back event on Bookwalker, and in…
TOP 5 MUSICIANS I DISCOVERED THROUGH ANIME
Yay, a top 5 post to start the week! The new season will be upon us soon and it means, you guessed right, new opening and ending themes!…
FRIDAY BL — MY MATE IS A FELINE GENTLEMAN
A bittersweet Omegaverse Boys Love volume between a human servant and a diplomat beast folk.
REVISITING KOIMONOGATARI AND THE WAYS WE CAN ENGAGE WITH FICTION
Some time ago, I have received a question about one of my super old posts on Tumblr. It was a post I’ve been meaning ro revisit for reasons…
NASU: A MIGRATORY BIRD WITH SUITCASE REVIEW — EGGPLANTS THAT FLY
Hello everyone. As I have been mainly reading manga for some time and have opted out of weekly reviews, I haven’t been reviewing anime much. It’s not a…
SOME RAMBLING ON VASH & KNIVES IN TRIGUN STAMPEDE
Hello friends. This is another cross-post of a short Twitter thread I wrote last night after watching this week’s new episode of TRIGUN STAMPEDE and I wanted it…
TOP 5 SEMES IN BL THAT ARE THE GREENEST FLAGS
Hello friends. It’s been a little over one month ever since the major earthquake, and due to this enormous crisis, there’s new dirt or shortcoming of the ruling…
2ND UPDATE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY
Hi everyone. Here to let you know that me and my immediate family are safe (I live in the northwest region and my family is on the west…
UPDATE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY
As I have written on Monday, a major earthquake hit Turkey and largely affected Syria. Shortly after in the same day, another earthquake followed, magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5…
No post for today
I will be taking today (and maybe tomorrow) off as Turkey is hit with a major earthquake and I don’t find it in me to be reviewing anime…
REBORN TO MASTER THE BLADE: FROM HERO-KING TO EXTRAORDINARY SQUIRE — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hi everyone, the evening post is here as promised! This series has really tested my patience because I wanted to take lots of screenshots but wasn’t able to.…
MALEVOLENT SPIRITS: MONONOGATARI — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hello everyone, as I have mentioned yesterday, I’m having a technical crisis of not being able to take screenshots, and hence, this post will be another boring, imageless…
KAINA OF THE GREAT SNOW SEA — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
NOTE: I recently switched from Mozilla back to Chrome, and today I suddenly can’t take screenshots anymore. This is something I experienced before, and I don’t remember how…
CHILLIN’ IN MY 30S AFTER GETTING FIRED FROM THE DEMON KING’S ARMY — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hello! Looking at my list, I see that I have 10 titles left to review except today’s, and that means I’ll be finished next week. Whew! Writing first…
CAMPFIRE COOKING IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH MY ABSURD SKILLS — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hi friends! Here to serve you your daily isekai intake because I bet you’re already showing withdrawal symptoms. Today’s premiere is a rather quiet or uneventful one compared…
THE LEGEND OF HEROES: TRAILS OF GOLD STEEL – NORTHERN WAR — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hi friends! I totally forgot how hard it was to write about shows that are boring or uninteresting ever since I stopped blindly reviewing manga. Especially when it’s…
FRIDAY BL — QUEERBAITING AND BOYS LOVE
Hello friends. Today, I don’t have a new review for you. I automatically let Wordpress post links to my new blog posts onto my Tumblr account, and occasionally,…
AYAKASHI TRIANGLE — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hi peeps! Actually, it was recently announced that today’s series is on indefinite hiatus due to COVID’s effect on the production process. After the release of the 4th episode,…
REVENGER — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hello friends, how are you today? I personally have some adulting to do today so I’m not exactly enthusiastic, but you gotta do what you gotta do, right?…
THE REINCARNATION OF THE STRONGEST EXORCIST IN ANOTHER WORLD — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hello friends. Although it’s been an exceptionally warm winter so far, the gloomy weather and the sky shrouded with clouds dampen my already-low mood. It’s no fun! Grateful…
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a —FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Hello everyone, I hope Monday is kind to you and you’re ready to take on the week ahead. I revised my seasonal anime list to review yesterday, and…
SUGAR APPLE FAIRY TALE — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Guys… I literally forgot yesterday was Saturday… Anyways apologies for forgetting to write, and I should also let you know that I’ve watched the second episode in the…