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Holiday Review #21: TRILLION GAME
What happens when you combine the writer of Dr. Stone and the artist of Crying Freeman ? You get this, although I'd have to ask why anyone...
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 21
You know it's a momentous episode when you get an eleven-"bababa" exclamation as we did this week.
Trillion Game
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Holiday Review #21 INNOCENT
Y'all know I love historical manga a lot, and I've always had a fascination with the French Revolution and the time period around it, so th...
Holiday Review #21 INNOCENT
Y'all know I love historical manga a lot, and I've always had a fascination with the French Revolution and the time period around it, so th...
Trillion Game, Vol. 1
By all rights, Trillion Game should be a blast. Creators Riichiro Inagaki and Ryoichi Ikegami have more than a dozen hit series to their names—including Eyeshield 21, Dr.…
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Haru and Gaku are two school friends who start a business, with the goal of making a trillion dollars. What their business does is not important: making money…
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I’ll give this to Trillion Game: it holds fast to the cosmic truth that no one ethically gets that much money. But I think it's expecting me to…
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We may be spoiled for choice when it comes to series about adults and working this season, but that doesn't mean they aren't individually welcome.
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First Impression: Trillion Game
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Holiday Review #21: NO LONGER HEROINE
This next one won't be for everyone, but I appreciate the way to tries to interject some weirdness and awfulness into the standard shojo ro...
Holiday Review #21: NO LONGER HEROINE
This next one won't be for everyone, but I appreciate the way to tries to interject some weirdness and awfulness into the standard shojo ro...
First (and Second) Impressions – Trillion Game
I guess I shouldn't ask where the foam weights came from.
Pick of the Week: Trillion Game
SEAN: There are a pile of titles that I'm interested in this week, including some shoujo stuff that sounds old school (as I joked in manga the Week…
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 17
This return is really long overdue.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 24
Seriously, this guy is the nitrogen of Japanese actors.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 23
This is Haru time, make no mistake.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 19
I kind of knew pretty early on that I should never have dropped Trillion Game.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 22
Trillion Game has a secret weapon - Haru and his balls of steel.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 18
Some things are just destined be be niche, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 20
Not for the first time I think Trillion Game is a pretty un-Japanese story in many ways.
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Episode 21 The Isekai Game
Hey there Light Novel Podcast listeners! We’ve been doing this podcast thing for over a year now, so on this episode we decided to do something totally different!…
Episode 21 The Isekai Game
Hey there Light Novel Podcast listeners! We’ve been doing this podcast thing for over a year now, so on this episode we decided to do something totally different!…
Episode 21 The Isekai Game
Hey there Light Novel Podcast listeners! We’ve been doing this podcast thing for over a year now, so on this episode we decided to do something totally different!…
Episode 21 The Isekai Game
Hey there Light Novel Podcast listeners! We’ve been doing this podcast thing for over a year now, so on this episode we decided to do something totally different!…
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…
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This year saw the announcement of a lot of new titles from established creators. Unfortunately, that included Hiroya Oku. GIGANT ( Giganto ...
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...
Guyabano Holiday Review
A lot of manga will catch your attention, but you would be doing yourself a disservice if you can't make time to check Guyabano Holiday out.
Holiday Review #5: GOKURAKUGAI
Even shonen manga is not immune to the horror vibes, even if it mostly takes the form of demon fighters like this one. GOKURAKUGAI, by Yuto ...
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As we head into another December, it's time once more for another round of Holiday Reviews at The Manga Test Drive. That means 25 days of...
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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: 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 #5 - OROCHI
Viz has been the biggest beneficiary of the Junji Ito horror manga craze, but it wasn't until this year that they were willing to capitalize...
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...
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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...
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For those who wanted horror manga that was a little more recent and gruesome, there were also releases like this one. GANNIBAL ( Gannibaru )...
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: ENIALE & DEWIELA
Speaking of making great art this year, there are few mangaka making art as great as Witch Hat Atelier creator Kamome Shirahama. This year...
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