Category: recommended
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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…