Title: Ayako Artist/Author: Osamu Tezuka ISBN-10: 1935654780 First Impressions: Holy crap! This book is thick! It’s starts off as a super cool spy story with horrible artwork and then turns into some hillbilly incest train wreck of the likes of the worst reality television show. There is way too much incest in this manga… ugh… why???? The super spy
Read moreTitle: Voice Over! Seiyu AcademyArtist/Author: Maki MinamiPublisher: Viz (Shoujo Beat)ISBN: 9781421559704 Purchase: Amazon / Barnes & Noble (Also Available Digitally) Initial Impressions:I approached this skeptically because I’m tired of reading “I wanna become an idol” manga. I only picked it up because Holanio and Sora from Tumblr seemed to be really excited about it. The first chapter was lackluster, but
Read moreTitle: Dictatorial Gimoire — CinderellaMangaka: Ayumi KanouISBN: 978-1-937867-93-5Purchase: Amazon/ Barnes & Noble Initial Impressions —Oh, I remember this from Comic Gene. I was looking into making this an OS project, until I started to translate it and got bored within the first 10 pages. Maybe in English, since I don’t have to fight the Japanese, it’ll be better. The artwork
Read moreInitial Impressions: This is upsetting me. There’s no heart or morality in this manga. This is just a snuff manga. There’s no need for me to read past the first chapter. Breakdown —Artwork: A — It’s nice and clean. The action, violence, and emotions are very well expressed. Obviously my disgust wouldn’t be so palpable if the artwork wasn’t so
Read moreTitle: Utsubora — The Story of a NovelistArtist/Author: Asumino NakamuraISBN: 978-1935654766Purchase: Amazon/ BN My Initial Impressions: FAIL Whut? Whut, whut?!!! Oh crap… another crappy Vertical translation. For $15, I expect some editing. If I wanted to read crap like this, I’d read a free scanlation. What’s bad is that the first error I pointed out is CRUCIAL to
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