Cat + Gamer
(To the tune of the Goldfinger Theme) Cat Gamer!
It turns out the + in the title is important as this is not about a Cat who is a Gamer (boo!) but instead a Gamer Office Lady who adopts a kitten. (yay!)
Catch These Hands
“Catch These Hands” is a series I want to like so much yet each volume manages to gently disappoint.
Elliot's "I'm Right" Look at Manga in 2019
Interspecies Reviewers
Volume 1
Monster Girl manga as a proud standalone genre has come a long way. From the dark old times of a few furtive and often re-posted single-page doujin comics, to Monster Musume catching the attention of message board dopes, to (seemingly) becoming the financial backbone of Seven Seas, manga about demi-humans has arrived. With this arrival, the scope and breadth of the titles legally available has also blossomed.
Viz Shounen Jump Sale Recommendations (July 2018)
Viz have put titles in their Shonen Jump imprint up for a blanket 50% off sale on Comixology and so much like my previous post on Kodansha titles here are my recommendations.
Digitising Manga
The Dream
AKA: A proposal for an idealised digital manga service.
Discussions about digital manga often gravitate towards talking about disliked or inconvenient parts of the services that are currently available. This typically gives way to talking about a better system, and a hypothesised ideal provision for reading digital manga legally that ensures a fair deal for readers and producers alike.
If any amount of attention is paid to this conversation it then normally runs smack-dab into people offering counterpoints, disagreements, and generally bringing the whole thing back down to earth with a bump.
Peach Mermaid
Volume 1
Synopsis: Boy meets Girl. Girl likes Boy. Boy accidentally makes a deep impression on Girl. Girl grows up and chases after Boy. Girl is also a Mermaid whose leg fin reappears at awkward times. Hijinks ensue.
Ouran High School Host Club
Volumes 1 to 4
Synopsis: Ouran High School is a prestigious academy in Tokyo, attended by the very richest in Japanese society. The sons and daughters of politicians and industry heads come here to learn, but also to indulge in leisure. Available to provide a distraction for an interested subset of the student body is the Host Club, a cadre of handsome (if slightly generic) boys who woo and entertain visitors. Into this walks freshmen student Haruhi Fujioka, a rarity on campus - a scholarship student who comes from far more mundane beginnings. They manage to blunder into the Host Club, break an expensive vase, and are made the club’s indentured servant. But there is more to Haruhi than meets the eye…
Legit Digital Manga for Cheap
This is a post-sized version of my convention panel with the same general thrust (PDF), and meditating on it I realised that perhaps not everyone wants to survive an 84 page PDF to get some pointers on how to read Digital Manga for cheap.