Tag: Denpa

November 23, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Masakazu Ishiguro’s Heavenly Delusion is a sprawling saga through the urban wastelands of a post-apocalyptic Japan, as we follow a teenager named Maru looking for “heaven”, alongside a girl who shares his face. Kiruko accompanies him as a hired bodyguard by their bond soon grows deeper and more complicated than that.

November 14, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Inside Mari begins with a seemingly simple bodyswap where Isao Komori, a depressed shut-in and college dropout wakes up in the body of Mari Yoshizaki, the teenage girl he has been pining after. But instead of silly misunderstandings and even sillier shenanigans that that premise implies — Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name or […]

August 16, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. So many things came to mind when I saw the title of Asumiko Nakamura’s Maiden Railways manga for the first time. And I thought, well, it’s probably a thing about girls who are trains, or trains who are girls, or a bunch of witches who moonlight as train conductors, but no. It’s […]

August 10, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Masakazu Ishiguro’s manga Heavenly Delusion begins with super double-bluff opening chapter, in which a bunch of gormless school-children, tutored by a robot, complain about an unexpected maths test. It’s only when one of them tries to come up with a word for it, unaware that the term “pop quiz” even exists already, […]

May 2, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Amane Mizuno is utterly, giddily, deliriously in love with Mitsuhide Katou. She sits next to him in class and despite a debilitating case of Resting Bitch Face and chronic shyness, she is managing to eke out the occasional morning greeting. Despite her titular “sanpaku eyes” (literally, three whites) and an absolutely roller-coaster […]