After almost ten years, Komi’s story reached its conclusion, clocking out at 500 chapters. I will say that at the time the anime adaptation was pretty well made, which in turn had given me the curiosity to binge read the manga; now, after about a year and a half since, I returned to finish reading…
Year: 2025
The Pirate Groom
The Princess Bride is a 1987 iconic fantasy film, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright (honourable mentions are obviously due to Mandy Patinkin and André the Giant, two of the most charismatics rogues-turned-coprotagonists ever). It is the simple story of two lovers, how they faced the evils of a corrupted ruler…
The devil you’d want to know
We are in the romantic month after all, and considering that last year, for the ‘movie of the month’ column, I skipped it entirely in favour for a return to childhood theme, this time I have three more or less romantic suggestions. So now that you have a clue for the recommendations for March and…
Dan-Da-What?
How do you recommend to someone a series that is so preposterous, so over-the-top, so absurd that it will make you go ‘wut’ at every scene? A series that in the very first episode has aliens wanting the human’s ‘banana organ’ and a malevolent spirit called turbo-granny saying that she will let the protagonist ‘suckle…
Billy
Let me kick off the new year with a movie that that just reached its 25th anniversary; The Kid was directed by Jon Turteltaub and starred Bruce Willis and Emily Mortimer. The premise puts the main character, a successful, arrogant and stressed image consultant, to confront his past; the past in question, as such, is…