Anime/Manga
Collectibles
Celebrating Music through Vinyl Day
It seems that the love for vinyl and record players is making its way back to the populace; it is interesting to note that despite this day and age of illegally downloading songs online or to the more acceptable paid str...
Anime Reviews
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno DVD Review
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno is the second installment to the trilogy of the movie adaptation of the manga and anime series by Nobuhiro Watsuki’s which features the wandering Samurai Kenshin Himura. Kyoto Infer...
Anime / TV Series
Beyond Gunpla and Bishounens
A.D. 1999- While most girls of my age would declare their love for Tamahome, Hotohori, or any of Miaka’s Suzaku no Senshi, my friends and I spent our afternoons geeking about the pilots and mobile suits of Gundam Wing. Fo...
Anime/Manga
ASTRO BOY returns in OMNIBUS form!
The saga of the beloved creation of Osamu Tezuka will be re-released in omnibus form, as a perfect opportunity for long-time fans to rekindle their affinity for Astro Boy, and as an introductory read for younger generations. As...
Comic Reviews
MANGA REVIEW: One Outs – Baseball and gambling mix well
Sports seinen manga, or those that have been adapted into an anime series like Major or Kuroko no Basket, [mostly] ridicules readers in advertently giving the central athletes and the team false powers fueled by friendship, hea...
Anime/Manga
Winners of the 2014 KODANSHA MANGA AWARDS
On May 9, 2014, manga publisher Kodansha announced the winners of its 38th annual Manga Awards. They were Noriyuki Konishi’s Yo-kai Watch for the children’s category, Baby Steps by Hikaru Katsuki for the shounen (bo...
Comic Reviews
MANGA REVIEW: Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 14 – An Anticlimatic End?
The end is finally here! After twenty years or so, Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto has finally come to a satisfying end in the last volume, number 14. Truth of the matter, I actually thought that its thirteenth vo...
Comic Reviews
MANGA REVIEW: Shinya Shokudou
If you have time, pull up a chair and take a seat. Eat. And listen.
Anime/Manga
Winners of the 59th Shogakukan Awards
2014 was a great year for five manga titles when they were chosen as the winners at the 59th Shogakukan Manga Awards. They are Zekkyō Gakkyū by Emi Ishikawa (children’s category), Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Shinobu O...
Anime/Manga
7th International Manga Award Winners
Out of 256 entries from 53 different countries, 15 works were declared winners of the 7th International Manga Awards on February 14, 2014. Established in 2007 by former Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō and organized by the Mini...
