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 lovers, an epic journey home, revenge... that...
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 Anime". Quite frankly, I found the whole...
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, and how she handles pressure from society...
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, both the East and the West seem...
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 the previous years'. Just recently, they named...
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 in Japan to the many memories and...
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 sharing content from the PlayStation4 RPG in...
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 to read about her history from the...
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 were available to read on the service....
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 Escape, but it's only been a few...