Category Archives: manga

So I tried Reading the K-On! Manga…

I got nothing out of it. Nothing. The character designs look crude, making the characters less cute. The illustrations aren’t much to look at. There’s barely any detail at all. And even the biggest fans of the anime will tell you (I’m one of them) – the gags aren’t the gold here, but they count [...]

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Twelve Thingies: That’s us, man.

Part of the 12 Moments in Anime 2009, and probably the only one of mine that gets this personal. Solanin covers the same post-college years as Honey & Clover II that I sometimes get nostalgic for (I call them the “adulthood isn’t really gonna be so bad after all” years). It’s the time when you’re [...]

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Yen+ Issue 1

Take a step back in time to the future Sometime before the advent of translucent cels photographed in a sequence to give the illusion of motion, some folks in a country not far from anime’s homeland invented a revolutionary device that allowed stories to be told, stored, and possibly fansubbed. It was called paper. Somewhere [...]

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