Well, it might have gotten off to a slow start, but it's January, which means it's time for yet another CLAMP Month. This one is going to ...
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Anime Like Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds
After losing his father in a volcanic eruption that nearly destroyed the Ayaka Islands, Yukito Yanagi has been living with foster families on the mainland.
Noragami, Onmyoji, Tokyo Ravens, Twin Star Exorcists, Beyond the Boundary
Anime Like Mix: Meisei Story
It has been almost 30 years since the legend of Tatsuya Uesugi and the Meisei Academy High School Team was born in the National High School Baseball
BATTERY the animation, Big Windup!, Cross Game, Giant Killing, TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls
Anime Like My Love Story
With his tall stature, bulky muscles, and mean face, Takeo Gouda is not exactly a hit with the ladies. Men and women alike find him terrifying, but he…
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Lovely Complex, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, My Senpai is Annoying, Ojisan and Marshmallow
Anime Series Like The Heike Story
The Taira Clan, also known as the Heike, have developed authority in Japan. When a young girl disrespect a representative of the clan, her father pays the price…
Kurozuka, ONIHEI, Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, The Heike Story
A Bride’s Story Volume 13 Review
A Bride's Story has been mostly about everyday life in this region in the late 1800s, but now the tension is rising.
Story of a Nymphomaniac (1975) review
“While it does nothing to take the genre further, Ekimoto still delivers an enjoyable narrative.”
A Bride’s Story Volume 12 Review
TheOASG reviews volume 12 of Kaoru Mori’s silk road manga A Bride's Story, where we jump back and forth between characters we've seen before.
Anime Like Butareba – The Story of a Man Who Turned into a Pig
After eating raw pig liver, an otaku wakes up in another world in the body of a pig. He discovers that while his pig body was unconscious, a…
Anime Like Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story
Known at the Rainbow Bullet, Eve is infamous among those that bet on underground golf. She has soundly beat every opponent with only just three clubs in her
Kakegurui, Kandagawa Jet Girls, KENGAN ASHURA Part I, Megalobox, One Outs
BORUTO - A New Fan's Perspective (Story Review)
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A Story Written With Water (1965) review
An exquisitely layered psychological drama that unveils how a subject’s fixation on a phantasmatic image disrupts his ability to commit himself romantically to the female other
A Bride’s Story
A historical manga that follows a young woman and her new younger husband in late 19th century Central Asia. Continue reading →
The Manga Review: Out Like a Lamb
The final week of March may not have brought warm weather or flowers to your neck of the woods, but it did yield a few licensing announcements from…
Like Two Peas in a Pod Review
Gorou Kanbe is quickly becoming one of my favourite BL manga creators. Both, Don’t Call Me Dirty and Don’t Call Me Daddy contain touching and powerful stories that…
Like a Butterfly volume 4 (manga review)
Review of manga Like a Butterfly volume 4 (vol. 4) by Suu Morishita published by Shojo Beat
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Game Review
A strong contender for one of the best games in the series, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is most enjoyed not blitzing toward its credits but basking in…
Suki Suki Wan Wan! – The fluffiest drama of the season
I actually did watch the first episode back in January, got in my previous slump, came back to it the day before it finished airing, marathon-ed episodes two…
A Side Character’s Love Story Volume 1 Review
Title: A Side Character’s Love Story (Mobuko no Koi)Genre: Romance, Slice of LifePublisher: North Stars Pictures (JP), Media Do International (US)Creator: Akane TamuraSerialized in: Monthly Comic ZENONLocalization Staff:…
A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991) [Film Review]
A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991); or, Heavenly Dilemma Why are you telling me your name? I won't be visiting you, and you won't be …
A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) [Film Review]
A Chinese Ghost Story II; or, To Hell and Back Again Mortals are forgetful. Good deeds fade like the wind. No matter what you've done, ...
Hokenshitsu no Otaku Oneesan wa Suki desu ka? (Do You Like the Nerdy Nurse)
This manga is very bizarre, but not in an interesting way. It completely lacks any direction whatsoever. It’s about Momoyama, the nurse at a middle school who is…
living in a story
Millennium Actress is a great anime movie to watch by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika). Similar to Kon’s other films, Millennium Actress blurs the border between fiction and…
Yasuke (2021) Review – A Mediocre Story About A Really Cool Dude
I went into Yasuke a bit weary but excited. I liked the last Netflix Original, DOTA: Blood of the Dragon despite its flaws, and was hoping Yasuke would…
Manga Review | A Strange & Mystifying Story by Tsuta Suzuki
Aki’s family is cursed, specifically on his mother’s side. Unfortunately, the curse isn’t limited to his mother’s side. His father, who married in, suffered from the same af…
Tamako Love Story Review
This is review number four hundred forty five and A HALF, because I don’t give full numbers to movies. They lost that right after they stopped being made…
Review: Like the Clouds, Like The Wind
Ginga is a young girl from a country province in 17th-century China. Headstrong, curious, and rude to her higher-ups, she decides on a whim to accept a challenge…
Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
Kawaii Onnanoko ni Kouryaku sareru no wa Suki desu ka? (Do You Like to Be Captured By a Cute Girl?)
Reading the description, it may feel like there are a lot of interesting elements to this light novel series, but in terms of execution very little of them…
Like a Dragon: Ishin
My wife and I order the same meal from the same restaurant every Friday. We share an order of fajitas from our favorite Mexican restaurant. It's part of...
Learn Like a Baby
I’ve been studying Japanese on and off for a while. I wouldn’t say that I was an expert or fluent, but I have picked up a thing or…
“Make it like a Hollywood Movie” - The Story of Macross Frontier Films' Official English Subtitles
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress and The Wings of Farewell have had official English subtitles for nearly a decade. Here's the story of a trio of fans and…
Macross Frontier, Macross Frontier: The False Songstress, Macross
Wataoshi 01 – Claire Francois suki
Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou. – or Wataoshi – is about a woman called Oohashi Rei whos hobby is otome games. At the very least, she really…
The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Episode 11 Review – He’s Like A Dad?
Komura needs to be more confident in himself!
Pool review: Swim like a hero in Taito Ward
On July 21, one of my favorite Tokyo pools opened for the summer. The Taito Riverside Sports Center’s outdoor pool – barely visible through the trees in this…
Butareba -The Story of a Man Who Turned into a Pig- Review
Butareba is exactly what the subtitle says: A story of a Man who turned into a pig. Oh, and it's an isekai, so there's that.
The Story of a Door
I’ve always believed that if a story is able to center around one large theme, and representing it through a simple object, it can achieve wonders. Suzume no…
HARM - A Mecha Short Story
HARM This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people...
Ep. 20: A Bride’s Story
This week the gang reads Kaoru Mori’s beloved historical fiction manga A Bride’s Story. Deb picks and hosts this week, wanting to give a little gift of great…
What Makes a Story Good?
We all have preferences and opinions on our favorite films, TV shows, anime, books and more. However, oftentimes, we will come across a divide. There are times when…
A Very Anime Christmas Story!
Growing up, every Christmas Eve my family would watch the movie A Christmas Story together while eating holiday cookies. It was a very happy tradition that, unfortunately at…
Summit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #08 — A Cinderella Story
Of sorts. Impressions: At the start, it seemed like it was going to be a parody of The Office, but then they completely ignored that except for…
Devilman Crybaby: Resurrecting a Story
Devilman is one of the most influential manga ever written. You cannot understate the impact that Go Nagai’s initially simple story of a boy forced to house a…
The Soul of a Story
How do we deal with “products of their time,” stories we love, with their problematic elements that can teach us the wrong message, even when we just want…
Kaiju Knocking — A Short Story
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A Story to Die For
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A Fate/Grand Order Movie With A Good Story? | A Review of Wandering; Agateram
The only thing more annoying than stupidly long light novel titles is unnecessarily wordy Fate titles. I bet it’s half the reason this franchise seems so alienating to…
A Story of Reasons: My 2019 Anime Year in Review
There will be a few confessions made, and some resolutions declared. It’s the end of the year after all! It’s time to look forward, even as we reflect…
With the Bad comes the Good (A Brave Story Review)
That was beautiful, one of the (rare?) moments where Gonzo did not screw up. This has been on my ‘must-watch’ list ever since I saw the trailer subbed…
A Story of Monsters, Feelings, and Wordplay – Bakemonogatari Spoiler Review
So, Bakemonogatari is arguably the starting entry of the Monogatari series. As a series it’s long, storied, a little strange, and somewhat confusing. Which, I suppose is fair…
Holiday Review #25: NEIGHBORHOOD STORY
We started this year's reviews with a long-awaited license, so it's only fitting to end it with one as well. As much as I might complain a...