Tatsuki Fujimoto is the mangaka who wrote Chainsaw Man, a series that undoubtedly gave him wider recognition given the relatively recent anime adaptation and popularity. Before that, he had written Fire Punch, another fantastic story that portrays a gritty dystopian world (it is a series that would deserve a separate article). It comes as a…
Category: Animation & Comics
Goldberg…I mean Grimm variations
Have you ever wondered how the story would have turned out if Cinderella would have been a manipulative demon-spawn that actually gaslighted her two big sisters into becoming hated by the entire family? No? Yeah, me neither…but someone did. The Grimm Variations is an anime that takes several of the Grimm stories and re-envisions them…
The Horizons of Shangri-La
Given that I already discussed several of the deconstructions and strong suits of Shangri-La Frontier, now that season 2 has finished airing, I decided to revisit what I said, explore some new tropes that were used as well and make a comparison with a sort of a classic – Log Horizon. In other words, we…
Komi-san can finally communicate… more or less
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…
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…
My star pupil
These will be just a few fast taught on an anime series that recently had its second season, Oshi no Ko – My Star. The reason I wanted to write something about it and why I find it interesting enough to do so is because the anime manages to combine the murder mystery genre with…
…but they can do so together
Jellyfish can’t Swim in the Night is an original animated production made by Doga Kobo to celebrate their 50th year anniversary. It features a group of young high school girls, each with their own dreams and problems, who band up together to produce music and animated videos. The series partially explores the difficulties that arise…
The Nirvana of gaming anime
This series goes out for all the gamers out there that are also into anime. Shangri-La Frontier recently finished airing the first season and I must admit it was, well, pretty good for its genre. For anyone who wants to comment on the fact that it feels like a Sword Art Online wannabe, I will…
Webtoons – No party, more XP
With the first season of Solo Leveling in full throttle, I wanted to share a little insight on some themes that it touches and possibly explain why it became so popular. Some Technical Details Solo Leveling is a web-novel or webtoon/webcomic written by Chugong and illustrated by Jang Sung-rak, serialized between 2016 and 2018….
Night, the time of freedom
Call of the Night is a manga written and illustrated by Kotoyama; it premiered in 2019 and just recently, at the end of January, ended after 200 chapters. It is a peculiar piece of work and in my opinion, it is hard to confine to a single genre: it is much about growth as it…