Tag: psychology

  • Review: Sensei’s Pious Lie

    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…

  • Review: Usogui

    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…

  • Review: Gunjou

    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…