Title: Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: ActivationArtists/Authors: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate, Kunio OkawaraISBN: 9781935654872Purchase: Amazon US / Barnes and Noble First Impression: This book has been sitting on my shelf for a while. I’ve been avoiding this because I feared the old style artwork would turn me off and I know I have trouble following action in seinen
Read moreI’ve decided to start writing reviews of the Japanese language manga I’ve been reading. I used to write synopsis years ago, but I received some complaints because readers could not read the content in English themselves either because the title was not licensed or scanlated. However, now I feel there are a significant number of readers who are learning Japanese
Read moreTitle: Summer War’s Part 2Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble “Summer Wars” Part 2 was a lot more fun than Part 1. My husband again criticized the series for not faithfully representing the IT profession, to which I reminded him again that no one wants to see a manga about real IT work and workers because they are BORING. Again
Read moreTitle: AnotherStory: Yukito AyatsujiArt: Hiro KiyoharaUS Publisher: Yen PressISBN: 978-0316245913Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble First Impressions: I couldn’t get passed the first few episodes of the anime because it was too slow, but in manga form I can follow it. Wow… does nobody notice the mass psychosis? All right, I’m going to put aside the absurdity of this curse
Read moreIt’s the end of the year, so it’s time to make summary lists! Here’s my list of my 10 favorite anime series of 2013. It’s too hard for me to rank them, so I’ll just put them in alphabetical order. Arpeggio of Blue Steel — I thought this was going to be some brain dead moe harem show, but I
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