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Friends Recommends #2: Emotional Balance and Post-Rock Catharsis
Our guest writers here to recommend you great new drops of classic rock, indie rock and emo
Akira Toriyama’s 4 Million Yen Model Kit
In 1985, Akira Toriyama partnered with a fledgling model kit company to produce an injection molded plastic kit based on an original design.
Akira Toriyama’s 4 Million Yen Model Kit
In 1985, Akira Toriyama partnered with a fledgling model kit company to produce an injection molded plastic kit based on an original design.
Friends Recommends #3: Emergency Calls and a Grand Sense of Hope
Our guest writers highlight the year's new drops of battle weary rock, epic chamber pop, ska-inflected punk-pop and friendship R&B
Million Live Theater Days Closet, Round 2
Just want to talk about the now-ongoing voting for the next round of outfit SR cards for Theater Days. Happy Christmas, New Years, and cheers to another day…
100 Worst Anime Openings! – K and Friends Rate “Bad” Anime OPs
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Brand New Theatre Days: The Idolmaster, Million Live, and Passing the Baton
Shimmering meetings, sparkling worlds. Our brand new theatre life. Those harbouring a penchant for otaku-fuelled ideations of the late noughties will possess an uncannily intimate familiarity with myriad…
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Gushing over Magical Girls – 03 – Bad Friends Forever
Venalita takes Utena to a dark dimension where Enormita HQ is located, and its imposing geometric form is sufficiently cool for the bad guys’ lair. There she meets her…
Two Men Arrested for Stealing 4.98 Million Yen Yu-Gi-Oh Card
Two men in Tokyo were arrested on March 22nd for allegedly having stolen a Yu-Gi-Oh card (Blue Eyes White Dragon) value at 4.98 million yen from an Akihabara
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Shonen Flop Recommends #1: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Let’s say that after listening to our episode on Dark Mage, you still (for some reason) don’t want to read it, but the theme of eastern-magic-vs-western-magic or the…
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Shonen Flop Recommends #1: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Let’s say that after listening to our episode on Dark Mage, you still (for some reason) don’t want to read it, but the theme of eastern-magic-vs-western-magic or the…
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Bad Characters and BAD Characters
Just because an anime character is bad doesn't mean that they're BAD!
What bad anime do you love inflicting on friends?
What’s the line between so-bad-it’s-good and just agonizingly bad? What title is the best for rewatching? Do you actively seek out this kind of series or just stumble…
Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days and 7 More Yen Press Titles Coming January 2025
Yen Press announced their upcoming releases of 8 new titles, including Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days, coming January 2025.
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Platinum Star Leisure, the Failed Million Live Theater Days Experiment
I’ll try to write this in an all-audience accessible manner. Also, watch me fail at this. The mobile game IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE: Theater Days (MLTD) is enjoying its…
90 Million Yen Settlement for “Women’s Trouble” continues with Nakai Masahiro Losing His Shows
By Tori H. Tale In the December 19th edition of Josei Seven, it was reported that 90 million yen was paid by Nakai Masahiro in a settlement awarded…
Days 19-20: Fire Emblem Engage
The Story Thus Far On Thursday I continued to play the new DLC paralogues, and on Friday I finished the last paralogue. On Thursday I played Hector’s paralogue,…
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Million Tag
This is interesting. In 2021, Shonen JUMP did a reality TV show in Japan which was a contest where they paired aspiring and talented manga artists with senior…
Million Tag
This is interesting. In 2021, Shonen JUMP did a reality TV show in Japan which was a contest where they paired aspiring and talented manga artists with senior…
Tokyo Babylon 2021 studio GoHands sues King Records for 450 million yen over cancelled anime
Japanese media is reporting that animation studio GoHands has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court on August 3rd against the entertainment company King Records, a Kodansha-affiliated…
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I Bought This Anime For 1 Yen
Serious candidate for worst anime of all time. I only spent 1 yen on this & I still feel ripped off. There's bad anime, & then there's terrible…
Internet Censorship, Hachette, and Yen Press
Are you a US citizen? Have you taken the time to contact your congressional representative, and urge them not to vote for a destructive internet censorship bill that…
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His and Her Circumstances – 20/21 [14 Days, Part 2/14 Days, Part 3] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome everyone, to another (late) week of His and Her Circumstances! There’s a fair amount to talk about this week, most of it concerning, but worth the time…
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Rokudo’s Bad Girls – Episode 1
There are glimmers of interesting thought here, but not enough to keep the show from collapsing under the burden of its own premise.
Magistellus Bad Trip, Vol. 1
By Kazuma Kamachi and Mahaya. Released in Japan by DENGEKI no Shin Bungei. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Jake Humphrey. This is another one…
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12 Days of Something VI: A Very Bad Idea
Picking up from last year, Aeroblip and I have continued our quest to drink through every good ecchi and/or harem anime that has ever been made. Highlights from…
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I’m Standing on a Million Lives – Episode 1
I cannot tell you how refreshing it is just to come across a video game isekai that’s willing to let its newbie heroes suck at their job rather…
12 Days of Something VI: Making Friends With Similar Interests
Last week, I spent a bunch of time basically lying in bed for entire days because strep throat and sinus infection. So to kill some time I would…
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12 Days 2020, Day 2: Nagasarete Airanto – Rainy Day Friends
One recurring theme of this year’s dive into forgotten series of the 2000s has been series which,. while I could definitely see their strengths, didn’t quite click for…
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Level 1 Overlord #10 — Friends Forever!
I detest everything about this 'arc.' Impressions: It's incredible that this show's writing is somehow managing to go from bad to worse. Or maybe not since this…
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Favourite Ecchi Anime (30 Days of Anime – Years 1 to 5) – Day 20
It’s no secret that I enjoy ecchi anime. I love the humour, the outrageousness of it, and yes, the girls! So, it’s time for the category everyone has…
Tattoos and Books of Friends
I have been thinking about getting a tattoo and I just want to blabber on about it with you guys!
Shonen Flop Recommends #9: Inuyasha
So, last episode we covered Bone Collection, which is absolute trash. However, aspects of the manga (the constant gags, the romance plot, a boy and a girl as…
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Shonen Flop Recommends #9: Inuyasha
So, last episode we covered Bone Collection, which is absolute trash. However, aspects of the manga (the constant gags, the romance plot, a boy and a girl as…
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Mayonaka Punch – Episode 2 – Masakichi and Live’s Quest to Gain 1 Million Subscribers
Episode impressions of Mayonaka Punch Episode 2 as a drunk Masakichi who just got kicked out of Hyped-Up Sisters made a promise with Live. Yes, she can have…
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Helena and Mr. Big Bad Wolf Volume 1 Manga Review
Despite its title, this series has less in common with fairy tales and more with classic children’s literature, complete with plucky orphans, gruff-but-kind adults, and alarmingly tragic backstories.
Sakamoto Days, Vol. 1
The opening pages of Sakamoto Days unfold with the ruthless efficiency of a master assassin at work: in just a handful of panels, author Yuto Suzuki shows us…
Sakamoto Days GN 1
A retired assassin finds domestic bliss and opens a convenience store, but the crime world isn't ready to let Sakamoto go.
Rainbow Days GN 1
If the anime failed to hold your attention, you'll want to check out the source material for a much more entertaining read.
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Sakamoto Days – Episode 1
It's not hard to see how the manga became popular, but this adaptation doesn't seem to be putting the best foot forward.
DAYS OADs 1-2
While there have been quite a few notable football series since the turn of the decade (Blue Lock, Ao Ashi, and Farewell, My Dear Cramer), the decade before…
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Natsume’s Book of Friends Season 7: Episodes 1 and 2 Reviews
I’ve been following this anime for a long time, and it certainly has its charms. As long as you have time to spare, watching this series is enjoyable…
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Hirohiko Araki Recommends “Love, Revenge, and Such” by Michiki Hiroi
Hirohiko Araki recommends Volume 1 of "Love, Revenge, and Such" by Michiki Hiroi, praising it for being an interesting body swapping manga.
Bad Boys, Happy Home, Vol. 1
I really loved this volume , going in, I wasn’t expecting too much, but it turned out to be a fun spin on BL. I love how the…
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Sonny Boy: Friends Convenient and True
A Tower of Babel in episode seven of Sonny Boy—that I expected. What I didn’t expect was a tearful goodbye scene. Near the end of this episode, after…
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Shonen Flop Recommends #5: Cowboy Bebop
It feels kind of redundant to write an article recommending Cowboy Bebop. It’s the perennial “anime for people who don’t like anime” because it’s so damn cool that…
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Shonen Flop Recommends #8: Shaman King
In our upcoming episode, we will be discussing Bone Collection. Not to spoil the episode but we don’t like it. It’s a shame because the concept of supernatural…
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Shonen Flop Recommends #8: Shaman King
In our upcoming episode, we will be discussing Bone Collection. Not to spoil the episode but we don’t like it. It’s a shame because the concept of supernatural…
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