Oishinbo, A La Carte is a seinen, comedy manga series, written by Tetsu Kariya and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki, that revolves around food culture in Japan, and specifically how some of the dishes came be a marker of Japanese identity through time. There are seven English volumes in the series collectively, and in Japan there…
Yona of the Dawn (Akatsuki no Yona) by Mizuho Kusanagi is one of my favourite manga serials of all-time. It’s a shōjo, historical fiction, fantasy series that revolves around a princess named Yona who is exiled from her kingdom in the wake of terrible deception. She flees with her close comrade and bodyguard to avoid…
Happy Saturday, everyone! I recently recorded a BookTube video where I chatted about some of my bad reading habits. You can check that out here if you so wish! In that video, I mentioned that one of my biggest unhealthy habits is stress-book-shopping. As I prepare for my return to university, I have been feeling…
Good morning, otaku, and bookish mates everywhere. Today, I wanted to share with you my five most-anticipated anime titles for the upcoming Spring 2018 season. These are not all the anime that I plan on checking out, just the ones that have caught my interest with most-enthusiasm. After taking an hour or so yesterday to…
Brave 10 is a historical fiction, fantasy manga series written by Kairi Shimotsuki. I originally read the first volume back in 2014, shortly after watching the anime. The premise intrigued me enough to see if the manga called for my attention. I do remember not being impressed with it at all and decided to drop…
Death Note is one of the most popular manga (and anime) serials that I have come across in my past 15+ years of being an otaku. A few years ago, during a holiday sale, I finally found and bought all six volumes of the beautifully remastered Black Editions of the manga. However, the continued hype…
Happy Sunday morning to you all! I am very excited to announce that a few weeks ago I was nominated for the Unique Blogger Award by Moyatorium, which is an amazing blog to read well-written and thoughtful anime related posts. If you haven’t do so already, please check her out! I’ve shared a couple of…
Good morning and happy Friday to you all! With the weekend upon us, I decided to catalogue all of the books that I received during the holidays so that Sir Betrothed and I can spend the entire weekend marathoning video games. We began doing this to celebrate the end of 2017, and it’s been so…
In celebrating all of the things that made 2017 awesome this week, today I’m going to share with you all my top seven manga serials that I absolutely loved and will always recommend to anyone in search of amazing stories in the graphic novel medium. Each one of these completely blew me away by either…
For my 30th birthday this year, I received the complete manga series of Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire written and illustrated by Naoki Serizawa, with the original concept produced by Capcom. When I first learned of the series back in April, I was ecstatic, and it ended up becoming one of my most-anticipated manga serials…
Blade of the Immortal is a seinen, chanbara (media about/involving samurai), jidaigeki (period drama) manga series with supernatural elements. It’s a series that has been credited with redefining the jidaigeki genre with its near-flawless execution. Dark Horse Manga picked up the series and has been releasing them in breathtaking (yet very heavy) omnibus editions where…
Happy Friday to all! I hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead. For today’s post, I’m going to briefly share with you all of the books that I shall be reading over Saturday and Sunday, and more than likely through the following week. Thus far, I have been liking all the titles I’m going…
Planetes is a seinen, science-fiction manga series that is written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura (Vinland Saga). It follows a small group of astronauts who are tasked with keeping near-Earth’s orbit clean of debris. In the four volumes of the series, or two omnibus editions, we get familiarised with the individuals who are doing the…
One of my bookish goals for the year 2017 was to purchase more manga volumes in an effort to expand my manga library, as well as to motivate me to read more from the serials that I physically own. While it has been a couple of months since I’ve bought so many manga within a…
This manga series has been on my To-Be-Read list for a very long time (about two years or so). I bought them in omnibus editions, which are pretty hefty, and because of their vast size, they were a bit intimidating to me. But one of my book goals for the 2017 year is to read…
