Beastrings Manga Review A popular thing for aspiring manga artists to do is get on Twitter-X and/or Pixiv, and start self-publishing their work. That’s how I was introduced to YAMAMOTO Shikaku-sensei’s artwork. I talked about that in a post in early 2018. Then when Yamamoto-sensei managed to get his work published in book form in
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Back to the Vaults: Azumanga Daioh (Manga Review)


Back to the Vaults: Azumanga Daioh (Manga Review) あずまんが大王 Back in my early days of anime fandom, Azumanga Daioh was an anime title that I was steered to. I loved it and bought the ADV box set. However, I lamented the fact that the source manga material was never properly adapted. That changed in 2009

Yotsuba&! Volume 14 Manga Review


よつばと! Yotsuba&! Volume 14 Review –> Buy Yotsuba&! Volume 14 from Amazon.com! I literally have mounds of unread manga volumes collecting dust on my bookshelves. However, I was informed that the next volume for Yotsuba&! is coming out in September, so I thought I’d find my copy of Yotsuba&! Volume 14 and actually read it.

Yotsuba&! Volume 13 Manga Review (Grandma visit goodness.)


よつばと! Yotsuba&! Volume 13 Review *SPOILERS* After what seemed like forever, we finally get Yotsuba&! volume 13 released to us in English. As I’ve stated, this is the one manga I look forward to most, simply to escape from a world of stupidity all around me to one of innocence. Getting things started, Yotsuba visits

Fruits Basket Manga Is Back


Fruits Basket Manga Is Back Hey gang! I’m a big fan of the Fruits Basket manga, and I like the anime (hate the ending though). I’m told this was TokyoPop’s biggest title, and when TokyoPop went under, I could not understand why no one license-rescued it. Now, at long last, the Fruits Basket manga has

K-ON! High School Manga Review


K-ON! High School Manga Review けいおん!high school Manga Review ***MILD SPOILERS*** With our musical, female quartet of Mio, Tsumugi, Ritsu, and Yui having graduated, Kakifly-sensei decided to not only do a sequel featuring those girls in college, but also to do a sequel to show what happened to Azusa-chan in her 3rd and final year

K-ON! College Manga Review


K-ON! College Manga Review けいおん!college Manga Review ***MILD SPOILERS*** With our musical, female quartet having graduated, it makes sense to have a sequel to the K-ON! manga show our girls in college. Thus we have K-ON! College as one of the two sequels to that original manga series. As with K-ON!, K-ON! College is mostly

K-ON! Manga Review


K-ON! Manga Review けいおん!Manga Review ***MILD SPOILERS*** As a long time anime and manga fan, I’m often made aware of a lot of titles to watch and read. I don’t remember if K-ON was recommended to me or not, but I used to see a ton of images for it while cruising anime websites (Japanese