Sooooo after several months of experiencing Attack on Titan secondhand on Tumblr, I finally decided to read the manga firsthand. I just wanted to get the jokes! I did not expect to get emotionally invested. THE MORE FOOL I.

For anyone who has escaped the phenomenon to date, Attack on Titan is a shonen manga, and, recently, anime series about a ( Read more... )

It turns out that while I have been steadily reading Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys since 2009 (!!!) I haven't actually talked about it much on here since 2011, which clearly makes it time and long past - especially since a.) I just completed a high-speed reread of the whole thing and b.) it remains my favorite Urasawa manga and also one of my ( Read more... )

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I would like to make it clear that it is entirely izilen's fault that I faceplanted straight into Kaze Hikaru as soon as I finished classes.

Kaze Hikaru is a manga about a plucky crossdressing girl in nineteenth-century Japan! Whose family is all killed, so she does the logical thing: shaves off the top of her head and joins up with the troupe of ( Read more... )

So here is the question: if you know the earth is basically about to be destroyed, and you're picking your team to rebuild humanity, who are you gonna call?

If your answer is 'a bunch of diverse and awesome ladies,' then you are not thinking like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (yes, I am still bitter), but you are thinking like Yumi Tamura! SO ( Read more... )

SO FOUR DAYS LATER I have now read everything that is available to read in English of Seven Seeds, and all I have to say is that I feel like I've been punched in the gut forty times over and I keep happily walking into the fist. Yumi Tamura's brain, man. YUMI TAMURA'S BRAIN. I kind of want to spoil everything and gibber about it, but I'M NOT ( Read more... )

I am reading manga online again! As we know this is a dangerous proposition and should probably have been saved for after final papers were due. BUT ANYWAY, I am now about four volumes into the sadly only-available-in-scanlations 7 Seeds, the currently-running manga by Yumi Tamura, the creator of Basara.

7 Seeds is not quite as precisely ( Read more... )

So did I ever mention I had finished Basara? I have finished Basara! It continues to be grade-A ridiculously dramatic crack all the way through.

There was a while there in the middle where I had a private theory that Basara and Angel Sanctuary must have been coming out at the same time; there were a few (hilarious) narrative choices that seemed ( Read more... )

I volunteer once a week at a nonprofit social-enterprise bookstore, which carries the simultaneous dangers and perks of being constantly surrounded by used books for which I have a 50% volunteer discount. Most of the time I stand strong - I live in the city! I have limited space and budget! I DON'T NEED MORE BOOKS no not even for super-cheap ( Read more... )

OKAY GUYS SO CAN WE TALK ABOUT BASARA?!

Seriously I don't even know what Yumi Tamura was on when she was writing this but whatever it is I WANT SOME. I spend every volume with my face caught halfway between :OOOOOOOO and *________*!!!. I am only halfway through and this is already ranking as some of the most AMAZINGLY EPIC CRACK I have ever read ( Read more... )