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The gloves are off now. Read more
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As usual, completely great and almost completely ignored. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 19
What we're seeing on Kingdom right now is just great drama, plain and simple. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 08
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Kingdom 4 – 14
Now that's what I call nation building. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 21
If you look at history as a series of paintings, the role of a series like this really is to frame it. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 06
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Kingdom 4 – 05
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" is not a problem for Zheng. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 03
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Kingdom 4 – 10
This episode is really a study in contrasts between the new and old blood. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 17
Every so often Kingdom - which is really good all the time - has one of those episodes. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 09
Pretty reliably, once or so a season, I go through a cycle of self-doubt with Kingdom. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 12
Everybody meet as Wu’s place. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 04
That was a real audience pleaser of an episode. Both of us... Read more
Kingdom 4 – 07
This should be a good test of Kingdom's plot armor, if nothing else. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 13
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Kingdom 4 – 15
We're about to reach one of the critical nexus points in the story. Read more
Girls Kingdom, Vol. 4
By Nayo and Shio Sakura. Released in Japan by GL Bunko. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Translated by Philip Reuben. Because a series such as Girls…
Kingdom 4 – 24-25
There's no disguising what this dream of Zheng's really is no matter how noble its supposed aim. Read more
Girls Kingdom, Volume 4
When I tell you that Girls Kingdom, Volume 4 is worth reading, please understand that I am 100% aware of what I am saying. The series is, thusfar,…
First Impressions – Kingdom 4
As I am duty-bound to do with each new season of Kingdom, I want to give my thoughts now that we’re five episodes deep into Kingdom 4 –…
Kingdom 4 – 26 (Season Finale)
Kingdom has been an incredibly reliable and superb anime, too easy to take for granted if anything. Read more
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom episode 20
Rating: 3.5 Last episode, I surmised that bringing up the pilfered dragon bones was going to set up an arc where the dragon shown in the opener comes…
Bookshelf Briefs 4/9/20
The Dorm of Love and Secrets, Vol. 2 | By Nikki Asada | Kodansha Comics (digital only) – Five years ago, an elite and a laidback high school…
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Bookshelf Briefs 4/18/20
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Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, Vol. 7 | By Inio Asano | Viz Media – Every time a new volume of this fantastic series comes out I avoid…
How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom ep 4
Note: Click here to skip to the “Other Series I Am Following” part Tomoe and Kazuya Rating (first half of ep 4): 4 (of 5) Rating (second half…
Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
By Shelley Pallis. After a millennium of warfare, the rival kingdoms of Alhamit and Balkari have finally fought each other to a standstill. In a frankly ill-conceived plan…
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The film sticks so closely to the source material tha the nearly two-hour run time is almost a frame-by-frame animated retelling of the single-volume manga.
Manga the Week of 4/8/20
SEAN: April is here, and the shipping list is still fine, mostly. ASH: That’s good to know! SEAN: The mostly is due to Dark Horse, who had two…
Boku no Hero Academia Season 4 – 20
One thing I must say about this arc - it's reminded me how much I love Horie Yui as a seiyuu. Read more The post Boku…
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SEAN: Are you buying manga, or eating the ears off your easter bunnies? ABLAZE Comics has a Collected Edition of the Space Pirate Captain Harlock comics they released…
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SEAN: March is coming in like a lion, unless you mean March Comes in Like a Lion the manga, that’s still unlicensed. But what else do we have?…
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SEAN: The last week of April, and the last week of normal manga releases. Also, I want to go in reverse order. Yen On has a debut light…
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SEAN: Yes, there’s still manga. May is the apocalypse, April is packed. Ghost Ship gives us a 2nd Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight and the 10th Yokai Girls.…
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SEAN: Let’s briefly talk turkey here. I try to do these lists about a week before the books come out. And given what’s going on over the world,…
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SEAN: Mid-April, and manga shipments are still, mostly, normal. ASH: I appreciate some normalcy, these days. MELINDA: God, same. SEAN: J-Novel Club has a debut, and it’s an…
Kingdom of Z (Volume 4) – Zombie Masters of Martial Arts!
Their target, the zombified Takeshi Garou is in the ring waiting for his fight to begin. This might give them a chance to catch him, although there are…
Gacha Girls Corps Volume 4, Coming Friday, January 20
Isekai fans rejoice! Azuki and Kaiten Books are teaming up to bring you another Early Access manga volume: Volume 4 of Gacha Girls Corps. The ebook version goes…
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Kingdom 3 – 12
The odds still seem inexorably stacked against Qin here, and none of these defensive moves seems to have the potential to truly change the dynamic. Read more