If ever there was a need to reit­er­ate it: suc­cess­ful com­edy hinges on the deliv­ery. Sei­tokai Yak­uin­domo some­how doesn’t under­stand this and after cram­ming joke after staid joke into an epis­ode, it still comes across as bland and unin­spired. All the con­stitu­ent parts are there: the all-girls school recently turned co-ed, the […]

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There’s def­in­itely a space between “High” and “School” so why High School of the Dead dropped it for the canon­ical abbre­vi­ation H.O.T.D. is unknown but this is just one of many oddit­ies the first three epis­odes of the zombies-invade-Japan series con­tains. It plun­ders recent genre movies with gay aban­don but still feels […]

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Play­ing fast and loose with fairy tales, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamata­chi is a sur­pris­ing com­edy that straddles the line between famil­iar and fresh, whim­sic­ally mash­ing up ele­ments pluck from its con­tem­por­ar­ies. Cer­tainly the protagonist’s hair col­our and demean­our could have been lif­ted whole­sale from Tor­adora, her pugil­istic atti­tude and devi­ant sidekick […]

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Amagami SS parades hol­low, vacu­ous sim­pletons around in a grot­esque approx­im­a­tion of a romance plot; cret­ins drawn with all the grace of a gor­illa with a crayon shoved up its nose, splattered whole­sale into a story that is as if the plot of a romance novel were faxed to the writers but […]

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Com­ing from the hus­band and wife team that includes Brian Ash­craft of Kotaku and WIRED fame, Japan­ese School­girl Con­fid­en­tial charts the rise of school­girls in Japan from back­ground to brand, explor­ing the details and influ­ences that sur­round them. Prin­ted in a stubby, eas­ily held format, the book is littered with pho­to­graphs and illus­tra­tions that support […]

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