Enrollment at Food Wars!'s Totsuki Academy is about as difficult as juggling chainsaws, and staying enrolled is about as difficult as juggling chainsaws which are on fire while your annoying cousin tickles your armpits. That's because the academy has strict standards for prospective students and an educational philosophy of shaping budding chefs into diamonds and … Continue reading Food Wars!’s Education Method is Terrible, Too
The haunted house is a staple in the horror genre. Few things are as unsettling as realizing the place you live in is out for your throat. Yachiho Takahara learns the hard way that the traditional Japanese abode she started bunking at is filled with all manner of creepy and frightful. The Atmospheric First Chapter: … Continue reading Flash Review – Ghostly Things (Vol. 1-2)
Fuuta Okeya is just your average, unassuming middle schooler. So average and unassuming it's hard to believe the new transfer student Kouko Ishigami wants him dead for atrocities he committed in a past life. The Past Lives: Since they often pull the e-brake on pacing, I tend to cringe when a flashback wedges itself into … Continue reading Flash Review – Spirit Circle
I'm in the bad habit of beginning my reviews with a line along the lines of “Life is hard because [blank],” but this is the first time a series title has done that summation for me. Anyway, love is hard for an otaku, because nobody wants to date an adult who watches Japanese cartoons. But … Continue reading Flash Review – Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (Vol. 1-3)
Summer vacation is over, meaning Tomozaki is back at school to continue his education and life training with Hinami. The return to school brings with it the school sports festival, which sounds fun enough, except Tomozaki's given the momentous task of getting the apathetic class queen, Erika Konno, excited for the sports festival. The Psychological … Continue reading Flash Review – Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Vol. 4)
Stories can have a powerful effect on a person. You can watch A Place Further than the Universe and feel inspired to take a trip around the world or watch I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and realize your lack of fulfilling relationships has left you as a husk gathering dust in the corner. I'm … Continue reading You Oughta Read Vinland Saga
The romantic life of Kazuya Kinoshita isn't the most enviable of romantic lives. He has yet to enjoy the naked company of a woman at the age of twenty, and his first girlfriend breaks up with him after a month of dating to go bang some other guy. Emotionally distraught, Kazuya orders himself one Chizuru … Continue reading Flash Review – Rent-A-Girlfriend (Vol. 1-2)
Worldbuilding is a tricky bronco for some writers to tame. When proclaiming yourself god of a new world, a lot of questions will demand to be stewed. This might not be as much of an issue if you're writing a Japanese romance set in a Japanese high school with Japanese customs and Japanese culture because … Continue reading Worldbuilding Using Danmachi’s Building Block Worldbuilding
Humans are horny. This fact is one Renta Ota is painfully aware of, being a thirty-five-year-old virgin whose nightly activities include and are limited to sticking his hand down his pants. Then one night, a homeless college girl, Saki Michino, collapses outside his apartment in hunger, so he feeds her and lets her bunk for … Continue reading Flash Review – Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight (Vol. 1-3)
There's nothing Kazuki Hoshino wants more in life than normality, and there's nothing irony wants more than raining on people's parades. A mysterious entity calling itself O offers him a genie lamp known titularly as a Box, and despite taking a pass on it, he and his friends get sucked into a number of messes … Continue reading Flash Review – The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria
