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Review: BOMBA!
Let's take a look at one of the most recent retro releases from this year - a new selection from the vast library of Osamu Tezuka. BOMBA!…
Spiraken Manga Review Ep 480: Osamu Tezuka’s Bomba!
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Review: BASTARD!!
Let's escape the stress of the everyday world (if just for a bit) with some fantasy manga. We could all probably use the break. To begin,...
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“Were this another anime, they might call his deterministic attitude and rigidity to his opinions a good thing, but anybody in the real world knows these aren’t typically…
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I thought that reading a vampire manga by a more modern horror mangaka would be a good plan, but after reading this one I'm not entirely sur...
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Kakushigoto – Review
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Konosuba Review
It may be easy to be fooled by Konosuba’s uneven animation and superficial reliance on tropes, but with its colourful and memorable cast of characters, unapologetic goofiness and…
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