Tag: Azuki

April 11, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. To escape the stress of city life, high school, and her overbearing mother, Mizuki runs away from home to spend spring break with her aunt. But her future is looming and she still has no idea what she’s interested in… until she crosses paths with Akira, a high school trumpet player who […]

February 12, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Ichi and Tae are a pair of those perennial manga clichés, “childhood friends.” And, this being the self-aware, post-modern 2020s, Ichi has read enough manga to know what that means. Now that they are teenagers, they are sure to find themselves struggling with their feelings for each other – can they still […]

January 16, 2023 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. There’s something not quite right about Natsume Shiranui. Sometimes he stands too close to people. Sometimes he doesn’t quite read the room right. He’s troubled by social anxieties, doesn’t seem to have got a lot of the memos that many of us take for granted about what is and isn’t socially acceptable […]

January 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Teenager Tom is determined to impress Harmony, the queen of the class at his school, and the only way he can do so is by beating her at chess… which he first has to learn how to play. What could possibly go wrong? So begins Blitz, a light-hearted manga introduction to the […]

November 17, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The clickbaity title of Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer suggests the reader might be letting themselves in for some sort of mystery or police procedural, but the opening pages soon dispel that notion. The titular “seatmate killer” is not some creep with an ice pick and a Boris Johnson mask, […]