DRAMAtical Murder
by Gabriella Ekens, Aug 31st 2014Around The Web
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Answerman - What Time Is It, Anyway?
anime
What's up with those wacky age ratings? What does a Director of Photography do, now that there's no more cels and film? Why do things get licensed, and then not released? Plus, anime popping up in unexpected places.
― This has been a week of bizarre struggles. Struggles with my computers, struggles with trying to buy things, struggles with eating too much, and struggles with a grotesque-but-terrible...
Millennium Snow Omnibus and GN 3
manga
Even if Ouran High School Host Club was not your favorite, this is worth reading, because as it turns out, Bisco Hatori is anything but a one-note author.
― If you only know Bisco Hatori from her parody of the reverse harem genre Ouran High School Host Club, be prepared to be surprised. Millennium Snow, her first series, is a beautiful, melancholy romance about a vampire who will live for a thousand ...
House of 1000 Manga - Kimagure Orange Road
manga
1987's hottest shonen romance is finally available in English and Jason just couldn't resist.
― Kimagure Orange Road Summertime in Tokyo, 1984. Green trees and blue sky. A teenage boy is walking up a long steep street along a hillside when a breeze comes and a straw hat, carried by the wind, sails through the air. ("A UFO?" he thinks for a second, seeing the saucer shape.) The boy jumps and grabs th...
Umineko When They Cry Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch Volume 1 GN 7
manga
Alliance of the Golden Witch, the fourth arc in Ryukishi07's Umineko: When They Cry mystery/horror series, is markedly different from its predecessors.
― Warning: If you haven't read the previous volume of Umineko, you will find a major spoiler in this review! Alliance of the Golden Witch, the fourth arc in Ryukishi07's Umineko: When They Cry mystery/horror series, is markedly different from its pred...
The X Button - Bug Hunts
games
"This week we check out moth heroes, horrific outbreaks, and mutant dating! Plus Guilty Gear’s newest face, Dragon Quest’s latest thing, and some Street Fighter suggestions! "
― It was hard to avoid the Gamergate mess last week, and I didn't really want to try. It's the sort of thing I needed to see. The alleged scandal started when game developer Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posted a lengthy diatribe c...
RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Hop, Skip, and a Beat
manga
There's lots of acting in this edition of Right Turn Only with new volumes of Skip Beat and Voice Over, but hopefully there won't be any acting up over Rebecca's ridiculous love for an OFL series that is definitely a little suspicious. All that plus Terra Formars!
― My sister and I recently moved, which means that I've been simultaneously unpacking boxes and starting the new semester, which, as you ...
D-Frag! GN 1
manga
Though reused, the jokes are funny, and the characters are all weird enough to make reading about them amusing.
― When we talk about “de-fragging” a computer, it is generally understood that we are clearing away the clutter of fragmented files in order to make the machine run more efficiently. That is not the case for this manga. D-Frag is the bizarre, tumultuous tale of Kenji Kazama, a spiky- haired...