Of Contests and Clichés
Lots of creators and researchers say that every story has been told. And, depending on how broadly you classify plots, they're certainly right. Star-crossed...
Boomerang and Crunchyroll Are Not Comparable
On May 11, 2017, The New York Times posted an article in their "Streaming" column titled "Boomerang and Crunchyroll: Of Old Cartoons and Fresh...
Cosplayers on Reading Complex Age, A Cosplay Manga
Complex Age, by Yui Sakuma, is a manga that revolves around Nagisa Kataura, a 26 year old temp-worker that is also a cosplayer,...
Seiya in Hollywood
We are in the midst of a live action boom. Whether involving village maidens and prince-turned-monsters or a team of teenagers fighting against giants,...
Turn the B(&N) Around
Barnes & Noble has been on a steady decline overall, and the upcoming financial year-end report is not likely to be very different from...
All About Japan: Igort on The Mystery of Japan
A couple of weeks ago, Chronicle Books released Japanese Notebooks by one of the most well known Italian artists, Igort. From his personal experiences...
To Share or Not to Share
In the last month or so, the game Persona 5 has caused quite a controversy. Upon release, Atlus posted a list of rules about...
When The Lady with the Lamp Meets The Man in Grey
There's rarely a subject manga refuses to tackle, so a manga about Florence Nightingale's encounter with the Man in Grey is totally doable. But...
Thoughts on MangaBox, or What’s Left of The English App
MangaBox is the free manga service that...has not managed to make any progress since it debuted in 2014.
Back then, a high number of titles...
Taisho x Alice x Disaster
Otome games have been on the rise recently. Visual novels have been exploding in the west thanks to games like Ace Attorney and Zero...