The Manga Taishou is probably the most prestigious award in manga. It’s also a pretty reliable indicator of a future anime adaptation. With two premieres and a sequel coming up in 2026, Samu and I decided to take a look at all the winners – and some of the runners-up – from the decade so …
Hoo boy. Impressions: Let’s start with ANYTHING but the middle segment, because good god. I guess the ghost story bit was at least topical for being near Halloween, but it was also very half-assed. The ghost story that made him scream was literally sitting in a brightly lit room saying “What if someone knocked …
Closest thing to a joke in the episode. Impressions: This… certainly was an episode. Oh, so she’s cooking. So she’s good at it? No, not really. So she’s bad at it? No, not really. He’s drawing. He’s good at it? Dunno. He’s bad at it? Dunno. Great. This has been a fantastic use of …
I continue to find this season of To Your Eternity better on the whole than I expected. It’s just an odd sock in every way, this show. The pacing never seems to conform to recognizable norms, the tone is all over the place, and a good many of the characters are frankly unlikeable. Yet somehow …
War is Hell. Forgive me for stating the obvious but yeah, no matter how exciting and even occasionally funny a series like Kingdom makes it out to be, battle is awful. It’s death, and everything else is just a side dish. Unfortunately for much of human history it was the only way a lot of …
Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun (Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota) – 05 I would make your protestations if you said my love for this series is based on subjective fit. But I do love it – it makes me laugh and makes me smile with impressive regularity. Am I a sucker …
