By Dustin Cabeal

I will be up front, the reason I wanted to read this book was the title. There is probably not a single circumstance in which if someone were to yell “catch these hands” that I wouldn’t laugh or show interest. What made it better were the two seemingly average women with scowls on their faces on the cover. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew someone was going to catch these hands… and I needed to be there.

The story is about an aging delinquent that finds herself the only woman from her group of friends that is unmarried, without child and without a steady job. After yet another friend lost to marriage, she decides to get her life together and stop being a delinquent. The first step in her mind is to go clothes shopping. It’s sound logic, you need to stop looking like a delinquent to first stop being one. The clerk at the store pleads with her to stay after nearly chasing her away. She agrees to help her find whatever clothes she likes, but that’s when our main character Takebe notices the clerks name tag… Kirara Soramori. Suddenly the name is familiar. It turns out that Soramori is an old rival of Takebe’s from high school.

By Dustin Cabeal

After asking the question of “Is my brother a zombie?” for thirty-five pages, the story answers the question in two short pages. Leaving me the review to wonder if we really needed thirty-five pages to answer that question. I’m of the opinion of no… no we didn’t.

By Dustin Cabeal

Little Herc is back with a new movie that got fucked over on it's release mostly due to it's cast... which all deliver great performances. For the most part, for the most part. Anyway, we're going to spoil the shit out of this movie so if you have any interest in watching it do so beforehand. Stay to the end for a mini-conversation about Halo and Moon Knight!

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By Dustin Cabeal

Spring is in the anime! We're doing our Watch or Pass episode for all the new spring shows we can bear to make it through. While it's not everything, it's a lot. No list this time, just check it out and let us know on social media what shows you're watching or passing on.

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By Dustin Cabeal

Much of what I am going to say about Ghost Cage is going to be unpopular. Artist/Co-Writer Nick Dragotta is very beloved from his successful Johnathan Hickman comics also from Image Comics. There will be a lot of people rooting for his success as he strikes out as a writer/artist, very few will offer criticism for him and Caleb Goellner to grow as creators. Such is fandom in its current form.

Its that time once again to wrap the shows we've been watching and struggling to finish this winter season. Not our favorite cour by any means. The standout shows really stood out, while the rest was just a struggle at times to finish. If you want surprises stop reading now because we're going to cover: Akebi's Sailor Uniform, The Case Study of Vanitas, The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, I'm Kodama Kawashiri, Love of Kill, Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department, My Dress-Up Darling, Police in a Pod, Salaryman's Club, The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest and World's End Harem. Please, tell us what you watched and enjoyed or what you hate watched from this past season on social media!

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By Dustin Cabeal

Manga and anime as a result have popular themes that run through them. You cannot compare it to American television because there’s always genres that succeed. You can count on their being a place for dramas and half hour comedies because they are always successful. The same is true of manga and anime, but you can peak at generations of work and figure out exactly what was popular in any given time. Currently there is a rising wave of singularly focused romcoms. No longer do we have the love story infused harem comedies in which one obvious character is pursued by every beautiful woman in the school. Instead, we have two characters simply unfamiliar with each other developing a realistic relationship while facing whatever quirky adventure into which they are thrust.

Oh the plans we had for this episode. Originally we were going to start wrapping winter shows, but there wasn't enough wrapped... to wrap. We then pivoted to Attack on Titan for some Titan Talk, but discovered that wasn't finished yet either, but it presented us a chance to save the final episode for our wrap episode next week. That and it gave us the chance to talk about My Dress Up Darlings eleventh episode... get some clean underwear on.

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Let's finish the home trilogy... at home! That's right, no matter how many times Kevin says he's done with superhero movies, Dustin will be able to talk him into just one more. What else do you need for this description? It's Spider-Man... the biggest movie of the pandemic. We're not even covering it our usual way... Spider-Man! Thwip!

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By Dustin Cabeal

While I do not foresee reviewing or even reading too many single issues, this one caught my attention because it was from Si Spurrier. I am not so delusional to say he can “do no wrong,” but he is a writer I am always willing to check out. His focus on story and how the reader digests a comic is a rarity in this current age of comics that seek commercial success in other mediums. Spurrier is also never afraid to let the art tell the story more than his written words.