For those of you who can’t get enough of Persona 4 even now, nearly seven years after its original launch and after numerous spin-offs, this news is for you. This summer doesn’t just bring Persona 4:Dancing All Night to the Persona universe. UDON Entertainment announced this week that it would…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first volume of 20th Century Boys was a well-crafted opening chapter to a manga that was clearly going to need more time to develop. Back when I reviewed that volume I suggested that we’d have a better idea of whether it would be compelling over…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first volume of Pluto, which Madman Entertainment is currently in the process of re-releasing at the rate of one volume each month, affected me deeply. Racism is something that upsets me quite unlike anything else, so far a manga author to explore the theme to…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. When Konami first unveiled the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s anime back in 2008, it was promptly met by detractors with giggling, condescension, and thorough mockery. The franchise had gone from depicting the story of an ancient pharaoh regaining his memories in modern times to high school students studying…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Naoki Urasawa‘s Monster is rarely out of print, and for good reason; if anyone needs proof that the manga form has artistic legitimacy, it is this landmark example of crime fiction. But in the off chance that you haven’t had the chance to check Monster out…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the Shonen Jump manga for the older audience, Seraph of the End has a very weak start in Volume 1, but offers just enough of an incentive to look forward to future volumes. Following some kind of cataclysm, humanity finds itself beset by powerful…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Forget The Hunger Games. Battle Royale has always been the most powerful story about a corrupt government forcing school kids forced to fight one another to the death. Both in terms of theme and vision, Battle Royale, which in the tradition of fine irony in the…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. If you happen to fancy hundreds of pages of high-quality artwork, boy does Udon Entertainment have your back. In an announcement at Comic Con International’s official Udon 2014 panel over the weekend, the company revealed it would be licensing a whole slew of art books from…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. One Week Friends (Isshukan Friends) was one of our favourite shows from the spring anime season this year. For better or worse though, Matcha Hazuki’s manga that spawned said television series will be concluding very soon. It was revealed via One Week Friends’ sixth volume that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I don’t know how Naoki Urasawa manages to keep having me literally race through the pages of his mangas in order to find out what happened next. I don’t know how he manages to keep leaving me feeling deflated when I reach the end of a…
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