As many anime series have shown, the best kind of families are the ones that are built. Whether it’s an office lady housing dragons or a yakuza becoming a father figure to an alien girl, it’s these kinds of family-based
Record of Ragnarok has recently been doing well with balancing the present fights with the characters’ backstories. However, in Volume Sixteen, Hades’s past is revealed, and I can’t help but feel like it causes the wind to be taken out
Awhile back, I covered the premiere volume of Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!, itself an adaptation of Kanata Hoshi’s online novel series. It had some potential, with its cooking mechanics similar to that of Delicious in Dungeon. So I was
When Yaiba: Samurai Legend goes all in on the stupid fun, it showcases its truest strengths. In its second omnibus volume, not only does Gosho Aoyama’s first hit deliver some huge laughs, but it also manages to have some super
Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to spark a friendship with the voice actor of my favorite characters. Sure, I may be Facebook friends with some people in the industry, but it’s not like I’m able to hang out
For the past few years, some of my favorite rom-com anime have involved teasing. Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out, Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, and — of course — Teasing Master Takagi-san have all taken the art of the
If you told my young self that the best-drawn fights I’ll ever see in a manga would be in a story about chickens, he’d laugh straight in your face. And yet, here we are with the eighth volume of Rooster
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and there's no sign of tryptophan overdose here in Duck Amuck in Japan. With the Christmas season now officially begun, King Baby Duck plays the very first holiday song to truly get in the festive
With Momo finally defeated, the Yozakura Family can finally relax, correct? Eh, not so fast! If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading shonen manga, it’s that there’s always a bigger threat waiting around the corner. As the nineteenth volume
As the saying goes, “Third time’s the charm.” In the case of Kill Blue, it’s the third volume that delivers something that can only be described as “peak shonen”. And after reading through Juzo’s latest battle against crazy hitmen, it’s