#27: Takemitsu Zamurai
Sometimes, it takes a well-paced story and some mad swishes of a brush to make me feel excited over an age old feudal tale. Eifuku Issei and Taiyou Matsumoto’s has a masterpiece with Takemitsu Zamurai.
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#26: Sex Nanka Kyoumi Nai
In this age where sex has lost its magic, Sex Nanka Kyoumi Nai highlights our disillusion, our entertainment, and our ongoing love and hate affair with sex.
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History MMF: #24 – Ooku no Ko by Bikke
Tudors England is quite tricky — especially when you have a king who’s been hacking off his wives’ heads. One can only imagine the level of distrust in a royal court filled with intrigue and political turmoil. Ooku no K0, Child of the Kingdom, by Bikke rides on this atmosphere as Henry faces his last…
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#21 – Beck by Harold Sakuishi
Beck by Harold Sakuishi Serialized in Monthly Shounen Magazine Published by Kodansha and Tokyopop If there’s a manga can transmit sound, then Beck‘s that title. You don’t even need to hear the music itself. The panels alone can cause a riot. For a good long while, a lot of its readers were mute to the…
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#20 – Breathe Deeply by Yamaaki Doton
Breathe Deeply by Yamaaki Doton Published by One Peace Books Given a choice to defy all laws of humanity and saving your loved one, what would you do? Loaded questions like this often make me uneasy. It’s different when you read it in shounen titles. It makes sense to break human logic in fantastic worlds…
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#18 – No Longer Human vol. 1 by Usamaru Furuya
No Longer Human vol. 1 by Usamaru Furuya Serialized in Shukan Comic Bunch Published by Shinchosha Publishing and Vertical Inc. “I found a word to express my feelings. Right now… I feel forlorn.” – Yozo Oba, No Longer Human. When I first wrote about my personal excitement over Vertical’s licenses early this year,  of the…
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Natsume Ono’s Nigeru Otoko on Sale
I was reading through my feeds this morning and caught on Manga Erotics F announcement on the sale of Natsume Ono’s Nigeru Otoko. It’s a title that started last year and for the release of its first volume, it seems that they will hold an exhibit for Nigeru Otoko. 18 fabulous illustrations from the comic…
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#15 – Sundome by Kazuto Okada
Sundome by Kazuto Okada Serialized in Young Champion Published by Akita Shoten and Yen press I read into Sundome after having heard quite an interesting podcast from Melinda of Manga Bookshelf and Ed from Comics Worth Reading. Their review was a thoughtful assessment on the relationship between a youthful vigorous boy named Hideo and the…
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If this is awesome, what can get more awesome than this?
I’ve been trying…. TRYING to restrain myself from oggling a little too much but I honestly can’t. Americans you guys are lucky folks for having Hagio Moto during Comic Con and I think the world is blessed to have more of her stories FINALLY printed in English. And since the news said that it won’t…
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#14 – Historie by Iwaaki Hitoshi
Historie by Iwaaki Hitoshi Serialized in Afternoon Published by Kodansha Life has its strange ways of twisting fate. It can take you to the deepest trench of fandom only to fish you out and show you something your heart has always longed for. In this case, it took a simple reminder of Parasyte and its…
