Author: mipblog
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Review: The Ghost in the Shell
The Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊), 1989-1991, Shirow Masamune, Young Magazine Kaizokuban STORY: 7 Meet Motoko Kusanagi, your everyday special-operation-cyborg-elite in a future that massively inspired cyber-punk culture. Take a seat, and enjoy a solid story where technology is about to turn the flow of information into a new form of consciousness, written before mass…
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Review: The Last Cruise
The Last Cruise (The last pleasure boat, 最後の遊覧船, Saigo no Yuuransen), 2020, Sugimura, Shinichi, Big Comic Superior STORY: 6 Meet Youko Kojiri, a screenwriter on the run from the disaster that was her last broadcast show. As she rides a kitsch cruise boat, crossing the lake that leads back to her parents home, her encounter…
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Review: Sundome
Sundome (すんドめ), 2006-2009, Okada, Kazuto, Young Champion Content warning: weird kinks. STORY: 3 Meet Hideo Aiba, a boy madly in love with the frail classmate that took an interest in him. The supposed power of their unique and intense relationship fails to see characters change and progress decently and the dramatic ending falls short all…
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Review: Sensei’s Pious Lie
Sensei’s Pious Lie (Teacher’s White Lie, Sensei no Shiroi Uso, 先生の白い嘘), 2013-2017, Torikai, Akane, Morning Two Trigger warning for basically everything that comes with toxic masculinity (almost all at once). STORY: 6 Meet Misuzu Hara, a high school teacher with a lot of trauma. This heavy story focuses on her relationships and on the people…
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Review: Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho
Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Two Shots, 幽☆遊☆白書), 1990-1994, Togashi, Yoshihiro, Shounen Jump (Weekly) STORY: 4 Meet Yusuuke Urameshi, your tough-delinquent-with-a-pure-heart from the 90s, as he embarks with his friends on an adventure that is dated, cliche and inconsistent (from high school delinquents to martial art tournament to demons from hell). One can feel the constant pressure of editors,…
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Review: Drowning Fireworks
Drowning Fireworks (Oboreru Hanabi, 溺れる花火), 2009-2010, Minenami, Ryou, Mobile Man STORY: 4 Meet Eita and Kaoki, a couple in their first relationship at 19 years old. Eita, the boyfriend, is youraverage bland university student. Kaoki, his girlfriend, has a frail body and she has to live in an hospital, potentially most of her life. She…
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Review: Blame!
Blame!, 1997-2003, Nihei, Tsutomu, Afternoon STORY: 6 Meet Killy, a mysterious man with a few words in a future where even the concepts of time and space seem to be lost. His mission is to find a human whose genes have not been altered too much. Those genes are the only way for humans to…
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Review: Jagaaaaaan
Jagaaaaaan (ジャガーン), 2017-2021, Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Nishida, Kensuke (Art), Big Comic Spirits STORY: 4 Meet Jagasaki, an average manga hero, who gets to lead a fight against humans that turn into monsters because of their overwhelming desires. Here’s a series that starts strong.. and then quite suddenly turns mediocre with a plot that becomes boring…
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Review: Search and Destroy
Search and Destroy (サーチアンドデストロイ), 2018-2020, Kaneko, Atsushi, Tezucomi STORY: 8 Meet Hyaku, an angry girl searching for her identity. Follow her clashing with a politically unstable world divided between Humans and Creechs, with the help of a little thief from the city. Creechs are synthetic creatures whose place in society, after being so useful in…
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Review: Usogui
Usogui (The Lie Eater), 2006-2017, Sako, Toshio, Young Jump STORY: 4 Meet Usogui, the king of gamblers! He has an agenda and he is willing to bet his life to succeed. Along with his companions, his fate will cross a LOT of very colorful (read mostly psychotic) characters along Kakerou, a mysterious organization of game…
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Review: Crazy Food Truck
Crazy Food Truck (クレイジーフードトラック), 2020-2021, Ogaki, Rokurou, Comic Bunch STORY: 3 Meet Gordon Goliath, a man driving a food truck around a post-apocalyptic landscape. He encounters the mysterious Arisa, a character defined by constantly being hungry and flashing her naked body. There’s other characters that are, without exception, stereotypes from the most generic manga, and…
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Review: Jigoku no Alice
Jigoku no Alice (Alice from hell), 2010-2014, Matsumoto, Jiro, Grand Jump Premium (Warning: this manga is for mature readers only, way too much sexual violence) STORY: 5 Meet Shuu, a mentally broken teenager trying to survive with his humanoid doll Alice within the ruins of a world that is struggling to recover from chaos. In…
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Review: Gunjou
Gunjou (‘Ultramarine’, 2007-2012), Nakamura, Ching, Ikki magazine STORY: 4 The story revolves around two female protagonists and their relation. The first woman was abused by her husband and the second killed the husband although there is no love to be gained in return. There’s three volumes showing the aftermath of that murder committed in the…