There are no easy answers when it comes to what Igaiga is doing and Tonbo (though it’s tempting to look for them). What matters is that Ooi! Tonbo isn’t pretending there are. It’s too much to say it’s symbolic of the entire collapse of rural Japanese society – I can’t assume the mangaka is going …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to continue traveling beyond the journey’s end, catching up with Frieren and maybe learning something about human nature or nostalgia in the process. Frieren’s first episode demonstrated a refreshingly meditative approach to fantasy drama, focusing not on some big arbitrary external threat, …
Ah, Dungeon Meshi. It occurs to me not for the first time that this series is as much as anything a chronicle of a social experiment. What would happen if five weirdos were thrown together in a dungeon and forced to rely on each other to survive? At heart that’s what this series is as …
Spike Chunsoft have recently announced that they will release The Quintessential Quintuplets – Memories of a Quintessential Summer and The Quintessential Quintuplets – Five Memories Spent With You digitally onto the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC (via Steam) on 23rd May 2024. A double pack containing both games will also be available. Each …
Kaiju No. 08 initial review What’s the one thing cooler or scarier than giant monsters? Getting to fight giant monsters, that’s what! For decades now, Japan has been enamored by the idea of giant monsters, or Kaiju. From the early days of Godzilla and Gamera to Attack on Titan, Kaiju has been a big part of …
I still don’t know why a guy named Chen with a Singaporean father and a Japanese mother looks like he wandered out of a cornfield in Nebraska. But be that as it may Kelvin Chen is back in the spotlight here and it would be pointless to dwell on it. I think the trend with …
