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Review: GIANT SPIDER & ME: A POST-APOCALYPTIC TALE
Never has a post-apocalyptic story been so fluffy. GIANT SPIDER & ME: A POST-APOCALYPTIC TALE ( Owari Nochi, Asanagi Kurashi ), by Kikori M...
Review: SHORT SUNZEN
The Tokyopop library is riddled with manga like this - no-name titles with a few interesting ideas that were unceremoniously dropped because...
Review: AWKWARD SILENCE
No mangaka, however great they may be, can churn out hits forever. Sometimes they're going to miss, or in the case make something that is d...
Review: RUMIC THEATER
Finally, a Rumiko Takahashi manga with all the quality of her best-known works but doesn't require committing an entire shelf to it! RUMIC T...
Review: ARIA
Oh god, I'm totally going to get cancelled for not liking this iyashikei classic. ARIA, by Kozue Amano. First published in 2002 and first ...
Review: QWASER OF STIGMATA
You have to try really hard to make an ecchi manga that stands out, particularly if you were making one in the time before monster girls. T...
Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, The Qwaser of Stigmata
Review: WALKIN' BUTTERFLY
There's a lot of great josei that got completely overlooked in the 2000s, and few were as overlooked as this title. WALKIN' BUTTERFLY ( U-ok...
Review: SEIMADEN
SEIMADEN, by You Higuri. First published in 1993 and first published in North America in 2005. PLOT: Hildegarde is a beautiful, graceful da...
Review: MARIONETTE GENERATION
Sometimes a character designer can successfully make the leap from animation to manga. Today is an example of a beloved old-school designer...
Review: A CENTAUR'S LIFE
I want to state for the record that I am NOT anti-monster girl. I'm just very particular about the kinds of monster girl manga that I like....
Review: WANTED
I was hoping that this book could provide some summer fun in shojo manga form. What I got couldn't be more different. WANTED, by Matsuri Hi...
Review: HINADORI GIRL
Nothing hurts like getting your hopes up only to be disappointed, even by obscurities like this. HINADORI GIRL, by Mari Matsuzawa. First p...
Chobits, Inukami!, Love Hina, Recently, My Sister Is Unusual
Review: HIGH SCHOOL PRODIGIES HAVE IT EASY, EVEN IN ANOTHER WORLD!
Of course, I can't do nothing but review stone-cold classics that are both old and new. That would just get dull after a while. This mont...
Review: DICK FIGHT ISLAND
Look, I'm not above cashing in on social media trends around here, especially if it means righting a wrong from last year's Holiday Reviews...
Review: PEEPO CHOO
I can hardly believe it, but this month marks the tenth anniversary of this humble little review blog. What started out as a mere hobby bl...
Review: SHIRLEY
This month has mostly been full of duds, so thank god that there's still one good maid manga out there that I hadn't talked about yet. SHIR...
Review: MAID SHOKUN
I was hoping to find a shojo maid manga when I picked this one up. What I got was...certainly something else. MAID SHOKUN , written by Nank...
Review: ENMUSU
More often than not, maids are used as fetish fuel in manga, and today's review is one of the more unfortunate examples of such. ENMUSU ( Re...
Review: MOE USA
It's time for a spring cleaning before our big TENTH ANNIVERSARY, so let's do a month of maid manga! Sadly, I reviewed the best maid manga ...
Review: REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA - AFTER THE REVOLUTION
Despite the date on this review, this is no trick - it's not only a sequel manga to my favorite anime (and its rather underrated manga adapt...
Review: SARAZANMAI - REO & MABU
Let's take a look at a much more recent manga prequel to the latest outing from one of anime's critical darlings. SARAZANMAI: REO & MABU ( R...
Review: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING: BATTLEFIELD OF PACIFISTS
There are LOADS of Gundam manga spinoffs to pick from for this month, and that's doubly true for Gundam Wing manga. MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING:...
Review: SWORD ART ONLINE PROGRESSIVE
It's been too long since we've done a round-up of some of the many manga sequels, prequels, and spinoffs out there around here. Let's rect...
Review: HAPPY LESSON
Of course, I couldn't let the month pass without talking about a bad harem manga, but this one is both different from the rest and yet not a...
Review: THE YOUNG MASTER'S REVENGE
Shojo manga is full of bad relationships, but what happens when you combine that with one of shojo manga's fluffiest creators? THE YOUNG MA...
Review: FINDER
We are rested and ready to return with a month's worth of bad romance manga! Let's begin with...well, "classic" would be too strong for th...
2021 In the Rear View Mirror (and Holiday Giveaway Winner!)
First of all, let's announce this year's Holiday Giveaway winner: A Sea of Reads , with some very diverse selections: Two of my favourite n...
Holiday Review: LIL' LEO
Sadly, a lot of Denpa's releases for this year got caught up in Covid-related delays. Thankfully, we did eventually get this charming littl...
Holiday Review: I THINK OUR SON IS GAY
After another awful year, we could all use a good laugh. Thankfully, Square Enix provided us with a fine comedy about family, understanding...
Holiday Review: MAGICAL ANGEL CREAMY MAMI AND THE SPOILED PRINCESS
Speaking of child-like imagination, one of my personal favorites of the year was this modern take on a classic 80s magical girl anime. MAGI...
Holiday Review: HANA-CHAN AND THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD
Christmas is a time of childish wonder and imagination, which is fitting considering that's the focus of the book we're reviewing today. HAN...
Holiday Review: BOYS RUN THE RIOT
Today's title was not just a powerful story about a trans teen, but also one of the most anticipated and critically acclaimed titles of the ...
Holiday Review: A WHITE ROSE IN BLOOM
I could have done an entire month's worth of reviews just of yuri manga just from 2021 - that's how popular the genre has become. I've got ...
Holiday Review: BAD BOYS, HAPPY HOME
BL manga came back in a major way over 2021. I could have picked all sort of examples, but I decided to go with this interesting debut from...
Bad Boys, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, Tokyo Revengers
Holiday Review: I'M IN LOVE WITH THE VILLAINNESS
Thanks to the runaway success of My Next Life as a Villainess , otome-based isekai stories are more popular than ever. Eventually, creators...
Holiday Review: UNCLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
I can't believe it took this long into the isekai manga trend for someone to think "what would happen if one of these doofus actually came ...
Holiday Review: DUNGEON TOILET
That being said, we got A LOT of isekai manga this year. For every year this trend drags on, it seems the stories only get stranger, more s...
Holiday Review: FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY'S END
Fantasy stories continue to dominate the modern manga market, although today's review is one of the latest and most atypical of this year's ...
Holiday Review: DAI DARK
Of course, you can work with horrific ideas and make them fun and charming. Just look at this series, for example. DAI DARK ( Dai Daku ), b...
Holiday Review: SACHI'S MONSTROUS APPETITE
Horror manga can take all sorts of forms. Take today's review, where we look at a series that mixes horror, food and romance into an uneas...
Holiday Review: SENSOR
Horror manga has taken off in a big way, and the man at the forefront of this trend has been Junji Ito. It's been too long since we've…
Holiday Review: THE ENGAGEMENT OF MARIELLE CLARAC
J-Novel Club spent this year churning out another steady stream of iseskai light novels and manga. Most of the time their titles don't cap...
Holiday Review: A SIGN OF AFFECTION
Nonetheless, of the few shojo series to get any hype, this was by far the one with the most acclaim (and it's easy to see why). A SIGN…
Holiday Review: SEX ED 120%
I don't want y'all to think I'm a prude, though. There was a perfectly good (and educational!) manga from this year that's literally all a...
Holiday Review: BITE MAKER: THE KING'S OMEGA
As the American shojo market slowly but surely embraces its hornier side, it becomes more susceptible to trends from outside of the manga wo...
Holiday Review: YAKUZA LOVER
Even Shojo Beat was willing to get a little raunchier than usual this year with titles like this one. YAKUZA LOVER ( Koi to Dangan ), by No...
Holiday Review: PENGUIN GENTLEMEN
Fanservice can take all sorts of shapes, though. Often it's attached to round, bouncy girls, but sometimes it's indulging in a fantasy wher...
Holiday Review: SUPER HXEROES
There were also plenty of titles trading in pure unadulterated fanservice, although most of them were not quite as literal about this as thi...
Holiday Review: MEDALIST
Sports manga continue to thrive and I'm really glad it has because otherwise we might not have gotten a title like this one, even if it's di...
Holiday Review: BURN THE WITCH
Weekly Shonen Jump manga continue to dominate the American manga market, although most of the really successful ones were titles that were c...