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Mar 20, 2025
As of writing, this has no official English translation, but it has been released in French by Bamboo Édition under the Doki-Doki label as Tetsu & Doberman. This is how I read it and I will refer to it as such from here on out.

If you've read a shōnen before, you've read Tetsu & Doberman. Not sure why MAL lists it as seinen, as this is pure shōnen. There's not a shred of originality in this 3-volume story, and it's one of the most clichéd-ridden things I've read in a long time. Sure, humans fight alongside anthropomorphic bloodhounds that are also sleuths (there's a pun ...
Sep 2, 2023
B'T X (Manga) add
Mixed Feelings
If you're familiar with Kurumada's storytelling, i.e. deus ex machina galore (see: Saint Seiya), well... B'T X is pretty much exactly the same. It is the epitome of the classic 90's shōnen manga -- for the most part (*more on that later). Kurumada said he had never drawn a story with robots before, thus was born B'T X. A B'T is a large mechanical being often based on a mythical creature that is loyal to their blood donor... forever linked until death. X is the name of the B'T of this story's hero, Teppei. The author will explain in the story what the "B" stands ...
Aug 13, 2023
Ahhhh, Ninkū. Always been a fan, even if I can't really recommend the original series. This sequel, however, which is actually a prequel... but a sequel to volumes 7-8-9 of the original Ninkū (lol), is much, much, much better. It also lasted 12 volumes instead of 9, which is an indicator of the quality of this sequel/prequel.

First, you see the drawings are much improved as soon as you open the first page of volume 1... night and day with the original Ninkū. Sure, Fūsuke still looks like a frog because that's what he's supposed to look like, but everything else is much cleaner, much more ...
Aug 6, 2023
Ninku (Manga) add
It's hard to recommend the original Ninkū.

Let me start by saying that the manga has NOTHING to do with the anime. Only a few chapters were reprised for the anime, which was made by studio Pierrot.

Ninkū had a first run of 9 volumes. The first six volumes (later dubbed ~First Stage~) take place with an older Fūsuke (older as in 12 years old), our main character who can control the wind. He mostly goes through adventures alongside his friends Tōji (who controls the earth) and Aichō (who can fly), as they are all part of the Ninkū elite group of combatants, of which there are ...


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