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Isaiah Colbert Jul 13, 2021. 3 minute read
NANA Teaches Readers How to Mourn a Friendship
Do you remember the time you met your best friend — that feeling of apprehension initiating conversation wondering just how much of your true self to reveal? Time has a way of undoing things, including friendships. But endings also mark the opportunity for new beginnings. Making friends comes with figuring out…
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Nerium Jun 1, 2021. 3 minute read
To Your Eternity Will Absolutely Fuck You Up, Folks
To paraphrase the first person I ever heard describe To Your Eternity, “It’s like if the thing from John Carpenter’s The Thing met a nice young man instead of some assholes in Antarctica.” I’ve been reading the manga ever since; though I’m not quite caught up with the story so…
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Malindy Hetfeld Mar 18, 2021. 5 minute read
Real Hobbies to Complement Reading Some Extremely Long Manga
Let me make one thing very clear: despite what Gen Z says, I’m not old. I’m not. I do, however, clearly remember buying my first volume of One Piece. Somehow more than 20 years have passed since then? I gave up on One Piece when I began to doubt I would live to see its end, but I get…
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Nerium Feb 25, 2021. 4 minute read
Morning Stack: I Think I’m Starting to Understand Jujutsu Kaisen
About 54 issues into Jujutsu Kaisen, I’m starting to see why everyone is head over heels for it. The manga has a gorgeous, fast-paced anime from the same studio behind Yuri!!! on Ice, Dorohedoro, and the upcoming Chainsaw Man series. Which certainly didn’t hurt its chances at popularity. The connection…
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Kate Sanchez Jan 28, 2021. 4 minute read
The Latest My Hero Academia Twist Is an Important Lesson About Growth
Major spoilers for the My Hero Academia manga, up to Chapter 285, ahead! Katsuki Bakugo is just one of many characters in Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia, but undoubtedly has the most beautiful arc of the bunch. Bakugo is the shonen rival — not a main villain, but an archetype…
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Nerium Jan 28, 2021. 3 minute read
Morning Stack: Why Can’t I Just Pick a Game to Play?
I used to build tree forts at and around my grandparents’ farm on the South Dakota/North Dakota border. It was a very formative experience for me (I bought a lot of goddamn LEGOs and Gundam model kits after that. For whatever reason, though, that interest in architecture didn’t translate into…
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Nerium Jan 5, 2021. 3 minute read
Chainsaw Man Is More High Concept Than Its One Brain Cell Heroes
Chainsaw Man was always too much for Shonen Jump. The frenetic, ultra-violent, often hilarious series doesn’t sit well next to young adult pillars like One Piece — which just celebrated its landmark thousandth issue in the manga magazine at the start of this year. Every other page of its first…
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Sinclair August Aug 12, 2020. 9 minute read
The Best, Worst, and Skeeviest Summer Manga to Shonen Jump Into
A lot of people have been talking about the future of Shonen Jump now that big-name series like Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, and Haikyuu have ended. Fortunately, it seems Shonen Jump has been stocking up for the famine. Sleeper hits like Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family are gaining momentum. And new series have…
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Nerium Jun 18, 2020. 2 minute read
The Story of Sekiro Expands With a Manga About Hanbei the Undying
Despite being (in this writer’s estimation) the best action game From Software has ever made, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice didn’t light the world on fire the way Dark Souls and Bloodborne did in their days. The brutally difficult battle through a fictionalized feudal Japan never received any DLC, either. That’s…
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Andrew McIlvaney Jun 10, 2020. 5 minute read
Nichijou, the Goofy Manga Classic, Drew Inspiration From a Tarantino Flop
Ordinary life gets a bad rap. So much media is specifically designed to gloss over, escape from, or outright ignore the minutiae and marginalia of day-to-day existence that nevertheless make up the vast majority of our experiences. And I guess, in general, thank goodness for that. But credit is due to someone…
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Renzo Adler Jun 1, 2020. 6 minute read
The 5 Best Manga to Chill and Read While Listening to City Pop
City Pop. It’s the sound that’s light, refreshing, and retro (and oft exoticized because thanks to its association with anime and Japan). Emerging during the late 1970s, and running through the 1980s, City Pop as a music genre assimilated aspects of yacht rock, funk, jazz, and pop to create a highly produced, unique sound. And today it’s just about synonymous with Japanese pop…
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Nerium Apr 3, 2020. 2 minute read
Yen Press and Kodansha Comics Delay Manga Series Due to Covid-19
Surprising no one, video games and movies aren’t the only entertainment industries being deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world. Various comic book and manga creators have also seen major issues. That list now includes Yen Press, publisher of Fullmetal Alchemist and Delicious in Dungeon (a Fanbyte favorite)…
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Nerium Mar 23, 2020. 4 minute read
Dungeon Meshi Vol. 8 Review: A Bite in the Dark
Delicious in Dungeon, otherwise known as Dungeon Meshi, continues spiraling into the shadows with Volume 8. The latest English release of the colorful manga keeps things centered on the titular torture chamber this time. And it helps drive home the slowly darkening tone of the series. At the same time,…
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Nerium Dec 9, 2019. 4 minute read
Dorohedoro Is Body Horror With a Heart of Gold
Dorohedoro opens with the most striking premise I’ve ever seen in a manga. One of the lead characters, Caiman, is a massive, leather-bound orderly whose head has been morphed into an iguana’s. In the process, he also lost his memories and his throat became a sort of pocket dimension. A…
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Nerium Dec 2, 2019. 4 minute read
Witch Hat Atelier Is a Delicate Take on the Cost of Magic
You don’t have to go far to find a story like Witch Hat Atelier. A young, timid girl named Coco discovers a world of magic. A kind witch takes her in as his next apprentice. Learning the new ins and outs of this world aren’t always easy, but determination and…
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Nerium Nov 19, 2019. 4 minute read
Dungeon Meshi Vol. 7 Review: Emotions and Politics Run High
Dungeon Meshi, a.k.a. Delicious in Dungeon, immediately gripped readers with a fun gimmick supported by genuinely likable characters. But longtime fans know that’s only where the story began. Dungeon Meshi Volume 7 continues the series’ growing tradition of providing some terrific fantasy world-building you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.…
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