In the real world the hero Mato is being force-fed macarons by the creepy villain Kagari and generally trying to save all her classmates from their traumatic personal problems. Meanwhile,…
Hang onto your valuables, this time we’re delving into the car, treasure and girl chasing world of Lupin III. Or are we?
Direct: Nakama Britannica 14: The Podcast Called Fujiko Mine
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We Aten’t Dead!
Nakama Britannica 13 – “I went to Purgatory, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt” By popular request (maybe), we assemble to discuss popular ecumenical…
By special request of Otaku-san, we take time out from our usual diet of blood, guts and carnage to discuss popular visual novel adaptation, Clannad. Along with the original series we’ll also …
00.00 – Intro – Yakitori (Yoko Kanno)
02.44 – “Journey to the West”: 1993-2007 – Jubei (Kaoru Wada)
In the concluding part of our retrospective, we tie some monofilament wire…
This review covers all volumes of Princess Knight.
Tezuka was not afraid to try anything. Alongside shounen, seinen, gekiga, political works, psychological, medical dramas, fantasy, and …
This review covers all eight volumes of Pluto.
I imagine Naoki Urasawa suffered butterflies the first time it truly dawned on him that he was about to adapt Osamu Tezuka’s flagship work,…
Presumably, Kyoto Animation had some spare change gathering fluff in their back pockets. It is the only possible explanation for this aimless bundle of whimsy. Only extremely dedicated fans…
When The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya begins on the 16th of December, it appears to be just another episode: Kyon bemoans Haruhi’s now-permanent intrusion into his life, Haruhi voraciously…
Through happy coincidence, I ended up watching Redline the same week as I did Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. Both are adamantly hand-drawn throwbacks defying the computer-oriented…
My first thought upon turning the last pages of Domu was that the manga has magnificent action. The second was that it doesn’t have much else. I point especially to the first act, which, comprising…
Space has become the new battlefield for old wars. This disappointing fact of the future underscores the two distinct episodes of TO: 2001 Nights. They posit that despite advancing technologically…
Instead of gore or monsters, The Drifting Classroom derives horror from the fall of humanity; it intends not so much to induce vomit as to shake us to our souls. The first four volumes describe the…
A child’s world is one of reliable laws that define what is meaningful and worthless, success and failure, black and white. In comparison, the adult world, often viewed in youth as the ultimate…
In seven short stories spanning just two volumes, Hiroki Endo’s Tanpenshu manages to weave a sprawling tapestry of human experience. After one story leaves us stewing in an emotional …
Miyamoto Musashi, the peerless swordsman who famously turned up late for duels and invented the two-sword style Niten Ichi-ryu, has inspired much Japanese popular culture (see the Vagabond…
Who is Astro Boy for? Osamu Tezuka, in his day, would have straightforwardly replied ‘for children’. But Dark Horse Comics’ edition, running to a monumental twenty-three…
At least the animation delivers splendid hyperrealist backgrounds we can gawp at. And I suppose we can happily nod along to the rousing main themes, Leah’s ‘Invisible’ and…
