Bergamot & Sunny Day Review
Manga Review

Bergamot & Sunny Day Review

Bergamot & Sunny Day Review
Protagonist Riku always ends up being dumped before getting past the three month milestone of any relationship. But is his luck about to change for the better when his boss shows an interest in him...?
• 17th October 2023
The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese Review
Manga Review

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese Review

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese Review
Fed up with facile romance manga, BL or otherwise, that offer a sugar-coated version of real life? Why not try Eisner-nominated Setona Mizushiro's The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (M rated) - complex, believable characters, mingling touches of dry humour and all the feels.
• 26th November 2019
A Strange and Mystifying Story Volume 1 Review
Manga Review

A Strange and Mystifying Story Volume 1 Review

A Strange and Mystifying Story Volume 1 Review
Looking for a well-drawn, appealing urban fantasy BL with believable, relatable characters? Start here with Tsuta Suzuki's A Strange and Mystifying Story. Just don’t expect it to show all its strengths in this first volume; it gets much better later on!
• 17th November 2017
Anime Review

Review of DRAMAtical Murder

Aoba lives with his grandmother Tae and works part-time in a junk shop in the Old Residential District on Midorijima, an island divided in two. An entrepreneur, Toue Konzern, has converted the…

• 8th February 2017
Opinion

Feature: A Guide to the Odagiri Effect

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.” – Alphonse Karr.

It is a question that many anime fans have asked themselves: what is it about high school male sports…

• 5th January 2017
Interview

An interview with Mariko Hihara

Mariko Hihara is an experienced Japanese author who has written over fifty novels, primarily in the boys’ love/yaoi and fantasy genres, as well as scripts for several manga. She has been…

• 11th December 2015