Mizuki just wants to be a normal teenage girl, however, she has one problem. Whenever she gets angry she transforms into a devil! She was born into a family of devils and now it is her mission, along with her partner Sekito, to transform into a devil and fight monsters. What is a girl to do when all she really wants is to be normal!
I had high hopes for Shonen Jump’s latest series, Nura, Rise of the Yokai Clan. Unfortunately, things don’t always go like you want them to. Find out why after the jump!
A surprisingly fun title with great characters and good stories and just the right touch of that magic feeling.
A perfect inversion of Maria+Holic (i.e. a girl in a boys’ school rather than a boy in a girls’ school), with added conspiracies and shenanigans; extremely silly and very funny indeed.
Is it possible to look at a horrible life experience in a completely positive way? Hideo Azumi takes a shot at it, but the result is a varried and oftentimes disturbing autobiography that is mesmerizing. Read my review after the jump!
Mistress Fortune is a light-hearted shojo one-shot that makes for a quick afternoon read.
Russian student Raskolnikov is so fed up and desperate for cash that he resorts to pawning his possessions to a stingy old woman. When she cheats him out of money again and again, Raskolnikov decides that she doesn’t deserve to live and murders her with an axe. He gets away with the crime, but is so wracked with guilt that his manner and outlook on life change, though he never admits to his guilt even when questioned several times by Judge Porfiry. He winds up entangled with his sister’s evil fiancée and the wife and daughter of a poor alcoholic man who dies the same day he met him. By the end of the book, he also finds himself on the wrong side of a revolution, and his guilt has still not left him. Manga by Osamu Tezuka, adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher: The Japan Times Age Rating: n/a Genre: drama Price: 1,000 yen While many fans of Tezuka are familiar with the 6-volume bilingual edition of Princess Knight, I have almost never seen this book discussed. I was worried that the translation would be a little spotty, as it was in Princess Knight, and that a…
A mediocre supernatural shoujo that has the potential to be much more.
What happens if the entire Earth becomes a nature preserve, and humans create a ring around it to habitate? This unusual question is the basis for the quiet and reflective Saturn Apartments.
One of history’s darkest days is foreshadowed in this first autobiographical manga volume written by a Hiroshima survivor.