Kaiju No. 8

trapezium Anime Film Review Based on the novel by former Nogizaka46 member Kazumi Takayama, trapezium asks its audience to follow one girl who will use anything, and anyone, to achieve her dream. ― Trapezium is a strange movie, to say the least. On the surface, it’s a rather simple movie that explores youth, their dreams,

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Anime to Watch if You Liked Shogun

© 1993/1995 Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Mad House/JVC/Toho Co. Ltd/Movic Inc. For the past couple of months, it’s been hard to ignore the loud promotion of Disney+/Hulu‘s mega-budget Shogun. Based on James Clavell’s feted 1975 novel, it’s a compelling and glossy historical drama following a large cast of fictionalized characters who are renamed versions of real people. Protagonist

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Sound! Euphonium 3

trapezium Anime Film Review Based on the novel by former Nogizaka46 member Kazumi Takayama, trapezium asks its audience to follow one girl who will use anything, and anyone, to achieve her dream. ― Trapezium is a strange movie, to say the least. On the surface, it’s a rather simple movie that explores youth, their dreams,

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Toronto Comic Arts Festival Hosts Witch Hat Atelier Manga Creator Kamome Shirahama on May 11-12

Shirahama returns to do live-drawing session, panel, signings © Kamome Shirahama, Kodansha The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is again hosting Kamome Shirahama, creator of the Witch Hat Atelier manga, at this year’s event on Saturday and Sunday. Shirahama will participate in a live-drawing session, panel, and autograph signings. Shirahama launched the Witch Hat Atelier

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Manhwa and Manga: Similar but Different Art Forms

The door to English-translated manga opened in the 1980s, and despite some fits and starts, essentially never looked back. Manhwa, or Korean comics, have had a much more troubled journey to popular visibility in English. Around 2006, manhwa began to make itself known to manga readers, but as those of you who were around and

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Ikigami: Sairin Manga Reaches 5th Season Climax

Image via Amazon © Motoro Mase, Shogakukan This year’s 10th issue of Shogakukan‘s Big Comic magazine revealed on Friday that Motoro Mase‘s Ikigami: Sairin (Ikigami: The Return), the new series for his Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit manga, is reaching the climax for its fifth season in the magazine’s next issue on May 24. Mase debuted

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