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Manga Chapter of the Week: Ace of the Diamond 115 (Self-Awareness)
I’ve talked about Ace of the Diamond before. It’s my second-favorite baseball manga of all time*, and it is so because it a) is not about a team of scrappy underdogs, which allows for b) one of the...
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First Reactions: Devil Survivor 2 Episode 12
Early on in this episode, it seemed like Hibiki was inching a bit closer towards the position of “win by default” protagonist – one whose ideals are upheld because he happens to be the one not to die...
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Manga Olympics for Bloggers (Shonen/Seinen Round 1c): Mid-Major Manga and the...
I’ve been writing about shonen for the past 2 weeks of this competition, and Keima only knows if I’ll make it out of the first round, so I might as well use the freedom I’ve got to coin a term that’s...
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Manga Chapter of the Week: Touch Chapter 15 (The Rumors Are Just Rumors)
Recently, I’ve been taking on a major item that’s been on my checklist of must-read manga, Adachi Mitsuru’s Touch.* Though it’s not as popular in the States, it’s widely regarded as a classic in Japan....
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Manga Chapter of the Week: Touch Chapter 64 (The Pitcher, Kuroki-kun)
I’m going to belabor this point, but Touch is an amazing, timeless classic manga. It’s also wildly unpopular in the states, something I kind of knew, but became much, much more obvious in my marathon...
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Manga Chapter of the Week: One Outs Chapter 141 (Fissure)
Shinobu Kaitani’s One Outs, the story of ace player/owner of the Saitama Lycaons, Tokuchi Toua, is without question the best in an increasingly long list of baseball series I have read to date. It’s...
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