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Jan 2, 2025
STORY: 6

Meet Youko Kojiri, a screenwriter on the run from the disaster that was her last broadcast show. As she rides a kitsch cruise boat crossing the lake that leads back to her parents home, her encounter with a gorgeous captain starts the beginning of a lot of boat rides around the lake.
Add a few colorful characters, some over-the-top twists (terrorism, natural disasters..) over the welcome length of just two volumes, and you have an entertaining little manga.


ART: 6

Nothing breathtaking here, but there is a nice variety in styles depending on the mood of the characters. Sometimes, faces give off an unexpected Rei Mikamoto (the ...
Dec 26, 2024
Jagaaaaaan (Manga) add
STORY: 4

Meet Jagasaki, an average manga hero, who gets to lead a fight against humans that turn into monsters because of their overwhelming desires. Here's a series that starts strong.. and then quite suddenly turns mediocre with a plot that becomes boring and predictable.

This is a seinen (for adults) title with horror and sex, but what spoils the manga is that the storyline follows a very cliched shonen progression: hero gets stronger along with the enemies, each battle to the death has the characters have a conversation like if they were sitting having some coffee, and of course power-ups appear when the fight seems over. ...
Dec 3, 2024
STORY: 8

Meet Hyaku, an angry girl searching for her identity. Follow her crashing with a politically unstable world divided between Humans and Creechs.
Creechs are synthetic creatures whose place in society is uncertain, but no spoilers here. The story is actually Atsushi Kaneko’s modern take on the manga Dororo by Osamu Tezuka.

Swift and nervous with 3 volumes, there is zero feeling of the usual pressures or annoyances of weekly publication. Instead, we are completely taken for a movie-like experience that is perfectly executed. Did you know that the author Atsushi Kaneko actually does have directing experience?


ART: 9

Clean, bold, framed like cinema. The rock aesthetics and ...
Nov 3, 2024
STORY: 4

Meet Eita and Kaoki, a couple in their first relationship at 19 years old. Eita, the boyfriend, is an average bland university student. Kaoki, his girlfriend, has a frail body and she has to live in an hospital, potentially most of her life. She is sadly stuck in a room while people her age enjoy the “peak of youth”. Now, guess who is the story going to focus on and empathize with?
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Right! Eita!
And guess what is the main problem in that story?
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The right of Eita’s weewee to access a vagina! Oh my god you must be clairvoyant!


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Sep 7, 2024
Batuque (Manga) add
Mixed Feelings
STORY: 5

Meet Sanjou Ichiri, a young girl with a lot of questions about her past and the meaning of freedom. Her ordinary existence is suddenly gone as she encounters Capoeira at the local public park, the martial art from the far away Brazil!
Growth, self identity and realistic fights? Not really and not only!
Once you realize that the author is the man behind the hysterical (but not great) manga Usogui, you can imagine Batuque is not going to be just martial arts and you are right. Colorful (or just psychotic) extra characters, ridiculous brawls (sometimes so dumb it's funny) and wtf developments ...
Aug 19, 2023
Usogui (Manga) add
FunnyFunny
STORY: 4

Meet Usogui the king of gamblers! He has an agenda and he is willing to bet his life to succeed. Along with his companions, his fate will cross a LOT of very colorful (read mostly psychotic) characters along Kakerou, a mysterious organization of game referees (and at the same time assassins because why not) that operates in the shadows of Japan.

The story is a succession of high-stake 'games' that Usogui takes on to conquer power. Call the right number and immediately 30 guys in black suits show up to insure the game goes as it should. Each game is anything-goes as long as ...
May 19, 2023
FunnyFunny
STORY: 4

Kurokawa is an average worker who feels he has not accomplished anything in his life. He is grumpy, awkward, envious and shy. His story is a succession of painful moments as he fails at being respected, attracting women or making friends. And the rest is frustration as he keeps comparing himself to others or his idea a what a great man is.
That is, until the moment he gets to use violence!

The whole story supports the character's new-found use of violence to 'take your fate into your own hands' and celebrates his 'putting your life on the line' to the point of kitsch.
The story ...
May 17, 2023
Sun-Ken Rock (Manga) add
'Nice babes, big cars and real men!', patriarchy is loving it!

STORY: 4

A school kid goes to Korea, becomes head of the local mafia and solves all his problem through violence, 80's testosterone style. The rest is just a series of fights and women bodies. Characters' evolution is poorly executed and interest is quickly lost due to the outrageous sexism through the series. Maybe the most consistent parts are the food scenes.

ART: 5 (average between 8 and 2)

Boichi, the author, is a great artist and a master of anatomy for male bodies. His body lines are flexible and look great whether its comedy time with some ...
Feb 22, 2023
FunnyFunny
Trigger warning for basically everything that comes with toxic masculinity.

STORY: 6

A heavy story focusing on the relationships of a female school teacher and the persons around her. The focus is on woman/man interactions and for once dynamics of power (aka sexism) are at the center of the story.

ART: 6

Akane Torikai's art is pleasant but clearly not the focus here.

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Feb 13, 2023
STORY: 7

Let's enjoy a solid story where technology is about to turn the flow of information into a new form of consciousness, written before mass cellphones and social media! Not everything is clear, the pace is sometimes strange but cybernetics, geek sci-fi, political embroilment, police action, this manga does it all quite right.

ART: 9

Fantastic work that helped defined the style of mangas from the 90s, reading it 30 years later everything still looks great. Even the use of computerized textures (in 1990!) still serves the graphics although it should be dated by now!

POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 6

The big picture politics that the section 9 (where ...


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