Review: The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch vol. 1
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Review: The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

I love a long-titled manga as much as the next person, but just giving your manga a long title doesn’t make it good. There is a concept introduced in the first story segment of this volume that is interesting. The gist is that an extremely attractive and hard-working salaryman moonlights as an assistant to a mangaka author that is his childhood friend. Why? Well read that exceedingly long title and you will understand.

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Review: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister vol. 1
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Review: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

I will never understand how three people from the same family can have three different hair colors and look different from each other, but that’s manga/anime in a nutshell. The story behind Amagami Sisters is easy to sum up. An orphan by the name of Uryu Kamihate has aged out of the orphanage he lives in. The caretaker of a shire has agreed to take him in, but when he gets there… there’s a catch. He must marry one of his granddaughters and take over running the shrine.

Now this wouldn’t be much of a story if all parties were onboard with the plan. Kamihate has turned his back on the gods due to his mother dying of an illness when he was a child. It’s alluded to that he did a lot of shrine visits, folded a lot of cranes and basically did all the things the “gods” said to do in order to save his mother. Now he only believes in medicine, especially since his surrogate mother is a doctor that raised him.

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Review: Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms vol. 1
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Review: Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms vol. 1

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.

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Review: Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku vol. 1
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Review: Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku vol. 1

By Thea Srinivasan

At this point, I have written too many reviews on romance manga. There is certainly nothing wrong with that as romance manga are my guilty pleasure, but I am worried that I’m seeing life through rose-tinted glasses due to all of the shoujo-style happy endings. Luckily, the following manga doesn’t have any additional shoujo gunk to clog up anyone’s mind.

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Kodansha Comics July Digital-First Debuts
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Kodansha Comics July Digital-First Debuts

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Kodansha Comics continues its campaign to launch at least one new “digital-first”manga series every week and has just announced it will kick off 5 new manga series in July, with a shonen actioner in the hot “RPG manga” genre, different looks at romance in a trio of shojo/josei titles, and even a Tokyo neighborhood guide in manga form!

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Review: Moteki Vol. #1
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Review: Moteki Vol. #1

By Thea Srinivasan

The definition of the word “Moteki” is a period in which a person gains popularity. This popularity only comes once in a lifetime, and it only works when someone becomes popular with the opposite sex. While this phenomenon is not meant to be for everyone, I wonder how many people would actually use this period to attempt to change their relationship status. I suppose that is the plot to the following manga. 

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Kodansha Comics June digital-first debuts
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Kodansha Comics June digital-first debuts

By Dustin Cabeal

None of these titles really grabbed my attention and I doubt we'll see review copies so you're on your own on whether to read these or not. If you do, come back here and let us know in the comments. Believe me, I'll check... okay actually my email will tell me, but same thing.

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Kodansha Comics May digital-first debuts
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Kodansha Comics May digital-first debuts

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Continuing to launch at least one new “digital-first” manga series every week—Kodansha Comics just announced it will kick off 5 new manga series in May, with a diverse offering for the month. 

Kodansha Comics’s digital-first manga releases are part of an exciting new initiative begun last year to put a greater diversity of manga series into the market. Starting with Yuji Onda’s mean step-sibling drama Beware the Kamiki Brothers! on May 1, this month’s series debuts will be available at all of Kodansha Comics’s partner digital platforms:

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Crunchyroll to add 8 new Kodansha Comics simulpubs
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Crunchyroll to add 8 new Kodansha Comics simulpubs

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Kodansha Comics announced today it has added 8 new series to the Crunchyroll Manga simulpub streaming platform starting March 1, bringing the leading manga publisher’s total on the service to 18. Subscribers to Crunchyroll can now read the latest chapters at the same time they’re published in Japan from even more Kodansha Comics manga series than ever before.

New additions  available for the first time on Crunchyroll Manga include A Silent Voicecreator Yoshotoki Oima’s follow-up to her smash hit, To Your Eternity, and Netflix OriginalKnights of Sidonia creator Tsutomu Nihei’s latest, APOSIMZ.

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Kodansha Comics to debut a new digital manga series every week, starting with apocalyptic 90s cult classic Dragon Head February 27
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Kodansha Comics to debut a new digital manga series every week, starting with apocalyptic 90s cult classic Dragon Head February 27

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Kodansha Comics announced today it is bringing back Minetaro Mochizuki’s 1990s manga cult classic Dragon Head as a digital release, with the entire tightly wound ten-volume run dropping February 27 at all major digital book platforms. In addition—for one week only—Volume 1 of Dragon Head will be available for 99-cents on all platforms.

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Kodansha Comics announces Fairy Tail Final Volume Celebration
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Kodansha Comics announces Fairy Tail Final Volume Celebration

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The iconic manga series Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima, one of North America’s—and the world’s— all-time best-selling comics, will be releasing its final volume—Volume 63—on January 23. To mark the eventFairy Tailpublisher Kodansha Comics will commence an interactive online countdown starting January 18, followed by #FairyTailDay celebrations at participating bookstores across the country onJanuary 27.

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New manga by Ema Toyama and Robico + more shojo manga coming soon in May
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New manga by Ema Toyama and Robico + more shojo manga coming soon in May

Kodansha Comics announced today a trio of new shojo manga series—including brand-new works by the creators of past hitKodansha Comics announced today a trio of new shojo manga series—including brand-new works by the creators of past hit series—to add to its growing list of digital-first manga releases. series—to add to its growing list of digital-first manga releases.

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Kodansha Comics keeps digital-first manga rolling in April: GTO Paradise Lost and Domestic Girlfriend debut April 11
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Kodansha Comics keeps digital-first manga rolling in April: GTO Paradise Lost and Domestic Girlfriend debut April 11

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Kodansha Comics announced today it is continuing to expand its growing list of well-received digital-first manga titles with the series debuts of GTO Paradise Lost, Toru Fujisawa’s sequel to his beloved manga classic Great Teacher Onizuka, and Domestic Girlfriend (Japanese title Domestic na kanojo), Kei Sasuga’s love-triangle romancer that’s a top requested title by Western fans—and a bestseller in Japan. Volume 1s of both titles go on sale today April 11 on all of Kodansha’s digital retail channels.

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Review: Attack on Titan E.026 – “Beast Titan”
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Review: Attack on Titan E.026 – “Beast Titan”

By Dustin Cabeal

Let me clear something up before we jump into this review. I’m not a diehard, all or nothing Titan fan. The characters aren’t deep; the main character is an insensitive dick that only cares about his revenge, and everyone cries a lot. Not that I can blame them on that last one since the idea of living in this world is enough of a reason to eat a gun. Hell, I didn’t even like this show until Eren turned into a fucking Titan.

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Tsutomu Nihei's APOSIMZ Gets Simulpub

Kodansha Comics’s newest digital simulpub manga to debut on Kindle and comiXology is APOSIMZ, science-fiction manga masterTsutomu Nihei’s follow-up to his cult hit Knights of Sidonia (which was adapted into a Netflix Original series). Nihei is also the creator of the manga classic (and recently reissued) BLAME!

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Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura, Chihayafuru, and A Springtime with Ninjas launching on Valentine’s Day
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Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura, Chihayafuru, and A Springtime with Ninjas launching on Valentine’s Day

Kodansha Comics continues its ramp-up of digital manga debuts for 2017 on February 14th with Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Akiko Higashimura’s hilarious follow-up to her best-selling Princess Jellyfish. Along with being one of the most requested titles in Kodansha Comics’s history, Princess Jellyfish was a regular on The New York Times Manga Best Seller list and was named by the New York Public Library as one of its “50 Best Books for Teens” and by Amazon as one of the “Best Comics and Graphic Novels of 2016.”

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Kodansha Comics Ramps Up Digital Debuts
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Kodansha Comics Ramps Up Digital Debuts

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Kodansha Comics kicks off 2017 with the digital debut on January 24th of Yoshitoki Oima’s newest manga serial, the spiritual fantasy To Your Eternity. Following the critically acclaimed A Silent Voice—which was nominated for an Eisner and named one of 2016’s “Great Graphic Novels for Teens” by the American Library Association—Oima goes in a completely new direction with this compelling tale of an abandoned native boy journeying alone in the frozen north with only a mysterious wolf for a companion.

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