The swirling nothingness: Shuzo Oshimi’s vampire manga Happiness
Shuzo Oshimi’s Happiness is a beautiful clusterfuck that I can’t get enough of, but let’s get one thing clear: there’s absolutely nothin...
Category: Manga
Existential sci-fi manga! Identity & control in Toward the Terra
Set in the infinite blackness of space, where single lives are like grains of sand thrown to the wind, Keiko Takemiya's Toward the Terra unfolds.
All ends with beginnings; Naruto's swansong
Naruto is making me cry with each chapter it releases. The rebloggables are suddenly through the charts on my tumblr dashboard. Open Facebook or Twitter on a Ju...
Rin's labyrinth
“If you were stronger, I don’t know how this would have ended. But I know one thing. That woman would be dead. Those who gain power must pay a price, some...
And Punpun is just fine, today.
I spent two days reading up to the latest releases of Oyasumi Punpun. I spent two days kicking myself for not reading Inio Asano’s longest-running work so...
The shrinking of Attack on Titan
Back in 2011, I wrote two posts about the manga series Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) and since then, it’s only grown in popularity, and in addition to a ...
Japanese punk
Lately, I’ve felt a little empty. Waiting for something to spark a little inspiration in me. So, as I often do, I ended-up on YouTube, listening to music, when ...
The Flowers of Evil
First, imagine an alternate version of FLCL, where Naoto hooks up with the loose-canon Mamimi and revels in her pyromania, falling ever deeper into her psychosi...
Say I love you or they won't want you; sexual capital in Sukitte Ii Na Yo
I read quite a bit of shoujo manga. As such, I was quite pleased to see that Sukitte Ii Na Yo received an anime adaption this fall. It’s an inter...
Wanderlust girls: The manga of Tsuruta Kenji
Have you ever travelled, my friends? Have you ever packed your bags, left home, returning months later? Or not at all? With a nervousness that travels from the ...