If there was a “Perfect Manga About Pop Idols Who Are Adults”* award, Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 4 would win, hands down. We’ve already seen Yodokawa…
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Suga Asako finds herself alone quite suddenly when her partner decides their relationship is just not working. But her friend Hato isn’t listening because she’s more upset that…
Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 3 (毎月庭つき大家つき)
Bing! Bing! Bing! We have a winner of the first annual “Adults Having An Important Conversation Like Adults” Award here at Okazu. Asako is living with her landlord,…
Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 5 (毎月庭つき大家つき)
In Volume 4, Asako and Miyako move ever closer. Asako takes Miyako to visit her parents and it’s charming and warm-hearted. The pair address Asako’s issues around her…
Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 2 (毎月庭つき大家つき)
In Volume 1, we met Suga Asako, who was starting a new life after her relationship ended, and her new landlady, former idol Miyako, who lives in her…
Shoplifters / 万引き家族
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters is a revelation, the culmination of years of study on a particular theme, a movie that brings together all of the director’s strengths and, for…
All About My Sisters (家庭錄像, Wang Qiong, 2021)
Wang Qiong’s often raw doc explores the destructive legacies of the One Child Policy and entrenched patriarchy through the lens of her own complicated family
Brief History of a Family (家庭简史, Lin Jianjie, 2024)
Disappointed parents of the One Child Policy turn their attentions to a surrogate son in Lin Jianjie’s intense social drama.
Itsuki Tsuchigami【土上いつき】Sakuga MAD
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwrI-DkXiWQ Itsuki Tsuchigami (alternatively miso) is a favorite animator of mine, and I've planned to make a MAD with his work for a long time. Now that FGO…
The Adventurers (1995) 大冒險家 Director: Ringo Lam
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Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 4 ( 雨夜の月)
Well, wow. A whole lot of story happened in this volume. First, Saki finds Kanon’s former best friend – the one Kanon feel betrayed her – and learns…
Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き, Akihiko Shiota, 1999)
A pair of teenagers find themselves in an accidentally sado-masochistic relationship without the ability to understand what exists between them in Shiota’s unconventional teen romance.
Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, Volume 3
Last spring Frank Hecker left us with these timeless words in his review of Volume 2, regarding any relationship between our principles Miyako and Asako “Okay, it’s happening!”…
Monthly In The Garden With My Landlord, Volume 1
Manga editor Suga Asako comes home to find herself broken up with. She decides to find herself a new place to live – one where she can be…
During the Rains (つゆのあとさき, Shinpei Yamazaki, 2024)
A collection of women discover that the real pandemic is misogyny in Shinpei Yamazaki’s covid-era indie drama.
Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts, Volume 4 (欠けた月とドーナッツ)
Let’s start with the most important thing in Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts, Volume 4 (欠けた月とドーナッツ) – this was the perfect, most exactly correct ending to this series that…
Friends with Consequences: Spotted Flower, Volume 4
Spotted Flower has always been a difficult series to suss out what the story is trying to say, if anything at all. What once began as a thinly…
Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月)
Saki loves piano. Or does she? She loves taking lessons with her teacher, she’s sure of that. But her teacher is leaving… In Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月),…
Thoughts on Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord Volume 3
Miyako decides to be more aggressive in her attempt to woo Asako in the third volume of Yodokawa’s Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord manga. This volume…
Thoughts on Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord Volume 1
Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord is a yuri manga written and illustrated by Yodokawa. It focuses on a manga editor who is looking for a new…
Thoughts on Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord Volume 2
Asako adjusts to living with her landlord, Miyako, in this second volume of Yodokawa’s Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord manga. Said landlord can tend to be…
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A fallen kaiju presents a new problem for the governing authorities in Satoshi Miki’s satirical comedy.
Band Four (4拍4家族, Mo Lai Yan Chi, 2023)
A disparate family is brought back together by a shared love of music even as everything else around them crumbles in Mo Lai Yan Chi’s poignant drama.
The JOJOLands Volume 4 Promoted With New Trailer
A new promotional video advertising The JOJOLands Volume 4 showcases the team's new ally, Charming Man, and their mission involving HOWLER.
Episode 508: Ooya-san wa Kyoshi
That's it folks, Ryo is out of the game. This week on Anime Pulse we learn Red's co-host is leaving, meaning if you've ever wanted to be the…
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I’m in Love with the Villainess Audiobook, Volume 4
We left Rae and Claire in the Nur empire at the end of Volume 3, and in I’m in Love with the Villainess Audiobook, Volume 4 we get…
I’m In Love With The Villainess Manga, Volume 4
It’s already been 5 months since I read the fourth manga volume of Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. This volume is as I said in that review,…
Dekisokonai Hime-tachi, Volume 4 (できそこないの姫君たち)
Fujishiro Nanaki, having been ostracized by her group of fashionable and popular girls, has found acceptance with the “nerd” group, Kurokawa’s friends Izumi and Iroha. Together th…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 2 ( 雨夜の月)
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Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 8 (雨夜の月)
Volume 7 of Kuzushiro’s school life drama, finished up the school festival arc and, while it had its fair share of maid costumes and cat-eared girls, it also…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 6 (雨夜の月)
Do you remember Morinaga Milk’s series Girl Friends? It was an incredibly popular and influential Yuri manga in the early 2010s, so more than a decade ago. The…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月)
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is absolute perfection. It was so good, that the moment I finished it, I started from the beginning and read it again.…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 5 (雨夜の月)
In my fevered anticipation for The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 1 coming from Kodansha next week, I was thrilled to have the newest volume of the…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 3 ( 雨夜の月)
2022 has been an absolute celebration of amazing Yuri manga licenses and releases. Almost everything I wanted to have been licensed has been. Of the two remaining that…
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Yuureitou – Volume 4
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I’m in Love with the Villainess Light Novel, Volume 4
When we left our heroines in Volume 3, they were in the Nur Empire, and we have had any number of massive plot points set up. So, of…
Failed Princesses, Volume 3 & Volume 4
In Volume 1, we met Fujishiro and Kurokawa, girls from completely difference circles in school. In Volume 2, they have started, slowly to figure out who they are…
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by Yodokawa Manga editor Asako Suga decides moving into a new home is just the thing she needs to get over a painful breakup with her toxic ex-girlfriend.…
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Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki, Volume 4 ( くノ一別手組ー五十嵐五月)
The problem with writing alternate history is that you have to figure out where things go, as china has discovered in Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki series. To understand…
Cocoon Entwined, Volume 4
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the role of “Prince” around here. But what we have rarely considered is the role as a burden that is…
Cheerful Amnesia, Volume 4
It was painfully apparent from Volume 1 that I am not the ideal audience for Tamamushi Oku’s Cheerful Amnesia series. As the story progressed, so many handwaves had…
Ayanashi Volume 4 Review
Ayanashi barrels through its final volume, and despite some unresolved plotpoints and awkward character growth is still a solid shounen manga series.
Otherside Picnic, Volume 4
At the end of Volume 3 our protagonists, Sorawo and Toriko have managed to free themselves from the clutches of an Otherside cult centered around the figure of…
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