Tag: manga
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Boy’s Abyss – Tragicomedy
Content Warning: Domestic abuse, suicide, bullying Boy’s Abyss by Ryo Minenami is a manga that fascinates me with how far what it wants to be is separated from what it actually is. Minenami is clearly trying to craft a serious narrative with high stakes and drama about very dark subject matter, but the execution is…
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A Revolving Library: Why I Sell Most Manga
Do you know what Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!, and Yuu Someya’s Pleasure and Corruption all have in common? They are all manga that I purchased volume-by-volume, then sold as a collection once I finished reading them. It wasn’t because I didn’t like them, Monster is great and Blame! is still Nihei’s best work,…
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Looking Back on WSJ – 2022
I just want you to know that the entire reason this article exists is because I was getting very annoyed trying to find the answer to a simple question. All I wanted to know is what series started in Weekly Shounen Jump in 2022, and it was a whole thing trying to find that. I…
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Images That Haunt Me: Kyoko Okazaki’s Helter Skelter
I have, conservatively, written this essay no less than 30 times. Who knows how many re-writes the version you are now reading has gone through before I published it. I stopped counting a few days ago. Yet I am compelled to write this because the only cure for a haunting is an exorcism. This essay…