Classic Review: Paranoia Agent
by Nick Creamer, Jul 13th 2015Around The Web
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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Novel 3
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The third novel in the series that spawned the hit anime (and the boob string) is important reading for franchise fans, but feels a little light on content.
― Whereas the anime version of DanMachi spent three episodes each adapting the first two of the original novels, it only devotes two episodes (7 and 8) to the third novel. Given the story and character development territory that this novel covers...
Interview: Kodansha Advanced Media on the Future of Manga
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Several top-level executives from the largest Japanese publishing house discuss the future of the manga industry, simulpublishing, fighting scanlation piracy and more in this wide-ranging, eye-opening interview.
― In early August 2015, several top executives from Kodansha, one of Japan's largest publishing companies came to Northern California to celebrate the opening of the Kodansha Advanced Media o...
Answerman - Whatever Happened To Manga Entertainment?
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Justin recounts the fascinating tale of Manga Entertainment, once the biggest name in anime in the US, but now a shadow of its former self. PLUS: the Answerman column is turning 15 years old!
― I was chatting with Zac last week when the two of us came to a major realization: In just a few short months, the "Answerman" column on Anime News Network turns FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. Think about that for a secon...
Shelf Life - Captain SNAFU
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This week's new releases, including the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist on bluray. Plus: reviews of Captain Earth part 2 and SNAFU in HD!
― Well, folks, it's my second appearance as the new Shelf Life guy, and that can only mean one thing: I've managed to go a whole week without causing the column to burst into flames! Go me! Really, though, thank you for your support and continued readership. Let's jump r...
Love Live! The School Idol Movie
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Fresh from an incredible run in Japanese theaters, the Love Live movie hit American theaters like an extinction-level meteor made of cute girls and catchy pop music this weekend. Nick Creamer survived the experience... but was the movie any good?
― Love Live! has never been the most emotionally scouring or thematically challenging production. It's grasped at drama, with both of its seasons attempting...
Alice in Murderland GN 1
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Kaori Yuki's take on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland owes as much to American McGee as Lewis Carroll, but if you're not sick of Alice manga, it's worth checking out.
― The world's collective obsession with Lewis Carroll's 1864 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland does not look to be dying out any time soon, and Japan's manga industry is one of the more interesting producers of Alice ret...
The List - 7 Dessert-Obsessed Manga
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These seven dangerously sweet manga insist you eat dessert before your dinner.
― Elegant tea houses, delicately decorated cakes, and equally gorgeous chefs populate this week's sister list to "7 Manga To Improve Your Cooking." These manga focus on finding sweet love or using a little magic to become the next great patissier. Life is short, eat dessert first. 7. Yumeiro Pâtissière A children's manga,...
A Silent Voice GN 2
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A Silent Voice moves towards a more conventional dramatic structure while maintaining the nuanced character writing that makes it great.
― A Silent Voice's first volume told a heavy and largely self-contained story of childhood bullying, establishing the sad circumstances of Shoya and Shoko before eventually ending on the slightest note of hope. Fortunately, volume two doesn't try to repeat this tric...
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
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Seven heroes when there can only be six. Check out all seven characters and see if you can figure out who the traitor is.
― One of the hottest shows this season is Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, a gorgeously-animated adventure that goes old-school with a team of heroes who must put aside their differences to battle a great evil and save their world! When darkness rises in the west to consume the w...