Yuri is a branch of manga that deals with girl romance. The genre was originally targeted toward girls, but there is a male-targeted branch as well. Yuri (which literally translates to “lily”) encompasses everything from hardcore sex to school girl crushes where hand-holding is as far as it goes. The genre traces its roots to…
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Kimi no Iru Machi: A Town Where You Live
Kimi no Iru Machi is a shonen slice of life manga wrote by Seo Kouji. To be honest, I thought it was a shojo from the way it read. The series follows Haruto Kirishima, Yuzuki Eba, Akari Kaga, and other friends as they grow up. The story centers around Haruto and Yuzuki’s turbulent romance. Yuzuki…
Windows 8 Manga Reader Apps in Review
The Surface Manga Reader app landscape had changed a little since I wrote this review of Manga Flow and Manga Tree. My top pick in the original article, Manga Flow, is no longer available. However, there are several new contenders. This review looks at Manga Tree, Manga Gate, Manga Z, and Manga Bird (Gee, I see…
Nisekoi
Nisekoi is a romantic comedy manga wrote by Naoshi Komi. The name literally means “Fake Love.” The manga follows the romantic misadventures of Raku Ichijou and Chitoge Kirisaki. Raku is the son of the yakuza faction Shuei-Gumi. Chitoge is the daughter of a rival gang called Beehive. The two are forced to “fake date” for…
Dragonball Z
As regular readers might know, I have my own corner of this site dedicated to Japanese Horror. Don’t get me wrong I like anime, just not as much as my brother does. Some of them are cool, and some have decent stories and memorable characters as well. Many of them though have a lot of…