Tag: SliceofLife
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Review: Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess
Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess (Eve: Koi wo Kagaku suru Uruwashiki Megami, The Love Science Story, イヴ 恋を科学する麗しき女神), 2008-2009, Nabeshima, Masaharu (Story), Hanakouji, Yumi (Art), Manga Sunday STORY: 6 Meet Dr. Maria Eve, a brilliant professor in behavioral studies. She is gorgeous, has an IQ of 183, an assistant with big breasts (which is reminded to…
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Review: Chi no Wadachi
Chi no Wadachi (Blood on the Tracks, A Trail of Blood, 血の轍), 2017-2023, Oshimi, Shuuzou, Big Comic Superior Warning for realistic family trauma and abuse. STORY: 8 Meet Seiichi Osabe, a boy on the path to teenage-hood: new experiences, more freedom, new feelings, independence! Except that.. Seiichi has a mother, Seiko, who is taking a…
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Review: Batuque
Batuque (バトゥーキ), 2018-2024, Sako, Toshio, Tonari no Young Jump STORY: 5 Meet Sanjou Ichiri, a young girl with a lot of questions about her past and the meaning of freedom. Her ordinary existence is suddenly gone as she encounters Capoeira at the local public park, the martial art from the far away Brazil! Growth, self…
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Review: The Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa
The Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa (最強伝説黒沢), 2003-2006, Fukumoto, Nobuyuki, Big Comic Original STORY: 4 Meet Kurosawa, an average construction worker who feels he has not accomplished anything in his life. He is grumpy, awkward, envious and immature. We are following his routine of painful moments, as he fails at being respected, attracting women,…
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Review: Sakuranbo Syndrome
Sakuranbo Syndrome (Cupid’s Prank II: Cherry Syndrome, Cupid no Itazura II, さくらんぼシンドローム クピドの悪戯II), 2006-2009, Kitazaki, Taku, Young Sunday (Weekly) STORY: 2 Meet Munenori Agawa, your everyday manga office worker. His life takes an ‘exciting’ turn when, for the sake of altruism, he has to french kiss a kid everyday! Here is how I imagine the…
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Review: Iguana Girl
Iguana Girl (Daughter of Iguana, Iguana no Musume, イグアナの娘), 1991, Hagio, Moto, Petit Flower STORY: 6 Meet a handful of people, going on with their own situations and trying to understand each others. Iguana Girl is a collection of five short stories with slices of life and a topping of surrealism. Nothing epic, just some adequate…
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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: 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…