'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse—which is poetic except for the fact that the protagonists for this flick are a trio of homeless bums. It's Christmas, and what better gift to bless the holiday than a newborn baby in the trash? Our … Continue reading Flash Review – Tokyo Godfathers
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is interesting in regards to its adaptations. The original novel has no illustrations of its main characters, aside from the zoomed out shot of the leads on a riverside balcony, so the manga and the film took liberties with their character designs. How everybody looks is just scratching the … Continue reading What’s the Difference? I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Publication is Shonen Jump is a merciless entity, but getting in means you're now serialized in Japan's bestselling weekly magazine. But that's just one beast slain, because every week after that is a battle with another scarier beast to stay serialized. Even longrunning series have to keep their wits about them in this never-ending onslaught, … Continue reading Guardian of the Witch Could Be Incredible (But It’s Not)
Spy fiction is so deeply coded into the DNA of western culture that I'm surprised mothers aren't spitting out top-secret agents, yet it's a genre I've never taken the slightest interest in. Infiltrating an enemy base and saving the day and the dame sounds thrilling and all, but I always took more toward those huge, … Continue reading You Oughta Read Spy x Family
Uzaki maintains her daily harassment regime of Sakurai, and that's about all there is to say as far as the synopsis is concerned. No wonder book sellers just copied & pasted the first volume's blurb. There're More Characters Than Uzaki's Breasts? The gravitational pull of Uzaki's breasts was so great that it captured the plot … Continue reading Flash Review – Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out (Vol. 2)
My first brush with fan fiction came during my earliest high school days on the Serebii Forums, back when that had a population greater than a supermarket open for the graveyard shift. A sprite artist on the forum was mortified that Grovyle evolved into Sceptile and so made up their own fakemon alternate evolution and … Continue reading C3 Reads Fan Fiction
It's the end of the world, but life still carries on, even for Willem Kmetsch, who was turned to stone but then revived some five hundred-odd years later. Even when civilization crumbles and survivors have the option of rebuilding society however they please, they still opt in for capitalism, so Willem gets slapped with quite … Continue reading Flash Review – WorldEnd (Vol. 1)
