Tag: Shelley Pallis

December 12, 2018 · 1 comment

By Shelley Pallis. Thirteen-year-old Yoshio Kobayashi has an odd reaction when he is accused of murdering his creepy teacher. Instead of whining that it wasn’t him (it wasn’t), he throws himself with gusto into solving the case, realising in the protest that crime investigation is about to become his lifelong vocation. He is so enthusiastic […]

October 25, 2018 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Girls at the single-sex Seikain school are raised to be perfect young ladies, cut off from the perils of the modern world, hot-housed in an environment that supposedly shields them from bullying, online distractions, and everything else that supposedly ruins the characters of today’s teens. Unfortunately, this has rather backfired, producing a […]

October 13, 2018 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Killy is climbing. He is walking up the stairs. He is heading outward, ever outward towards the edge of a seemingly infinite city, having already crossed six thousand levels. Killy, as the manga series and movie Blame! eventually reveals, is just one inhabitant of an ever-growing metropolis – a sentient city designed […]

October 8, 2018 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The Royal Investigation Service calls in their top man, Keith Flick, to investigate a crime with a difference. A murderer is on the loose, targeting only the worst of criminals. But even criminals are under the protection of the law, and Flick is tasked with assembling the paltry evidence: the letter “B”, […]

June 14, 2017 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Yato is a god. But Yato is such a minor god that he doesn’t even have a shrine to his name. He supposedly rules over Calamity, but hardly anyone has even heard of him. Even his Regalia, the magical artefact that contains the essence of his powers, has taken to arguing with […]