The mood's pretty rotten in Tomozaki's class. Konno's crush has hooked up with one of the main heroines, and she's taking her anger out on the petite but mighty Hanabi Natsubayashi, or Tama, whose take-no-prisoners attitude isn't winning her supporters, despite Konno's daily bullying. She expresses a desire to change herself for the better, similar … Continue reading Flash Review – Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Vol. 5)
Kinjiro Sakamachi is a tough cookie and needs to be. His little sister wakes him in the mornings by dropping an elbow on him, and his mother would do the same if she weren't traveling the world wrestling bears. A bad case of upset tummy one day leads to him discovering the secret of Subaru … Continue reading Flash Review – Mayo Chiki!
Summer vacation is tragically over for the students of the Advanced Nurturing High School, and already they're pitted against one another in fierce competition, this time athleticism being put to the test for the school-wide sports festival. However, scheming and plotting is afoot as another of the classes guns for gutting Class D alive, and … Continue reading Flash Review – Classroom of the Elite (Vol. 5)
The transition of Howl's Moving Castle from novel to film is interesting. The lot of the differences come from two sources: the adaptation process itself and the director who helmed the production, Hayao Miyazaki, who put his thumbprint on the flick. Each medium has its share of characters unique to that form, so when I … Continue reading What’s the Difference? Howl’s Moving Castle
Life's been hectic for Kazuya since he fished Mizuhara into his life, and just as he's thinking to cut the line on her, he saves her from drowning, which makes it a tad awkward to just throw up a wave and remark, “It's been real.” And what doesn't seem real is that his chum, who's … Continue reading Flash Review – Rent-A-Girlfriend (Vol. 3-4)
Inari Fushimi has a crush on a cute boy but can't summon the courage to make a move on him. Worse yet, another girl in class seems to be putting the moves on him. When a goddess grants her one wish for saving her furry friend, she wishes she was her rival in love, bestowing … Continue reading Flash Review – Inari Konkon
As a person, Nobuku Tanaka is unassuming and unremarkable, and her quiet demeanor has her sinking into the background. In other terms, she's a side character in life. But even side characters need a lil' loving, so, with a little help from her coworkers, she steels herself for that scariest of introvert problems: getting close … Continue reading Flash Review – A Side Character’s Love Story (Vol. 1-7)
It's summer vacation, which means hardly a soul of the student body has any obligations to schoolwork, so, with so much free time, the cast run about doing the things this collection of short stories tells. The Plainness: These being short stories, there's a limit to how mesmerizing any of the chapters can be, and … Continue reading Flash Review – Classroom of the Elite (Vol. 4.5)
Human beings are extraordinarily horny creatures. You have to search the animal kingdom far and wide to find another species which likes to bang as much as humans do. Because of this extreme level of horniess practically unique to Homo sapiens, sex tends to slip into our media, which is very much the case with … Continue reading Writing Sex the Not-Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Way
The Immortal Dragon used to be the baddest of the bad in the Yakuza. Rumor has it he once put down ten gang factions in a single night single-handedly. But now he's washed his hands of that life and now lives the most honest career a man can have—he's a househusband. The Gangsta Talk: You … Continue reading Flash Review – The Way of the Househusband (Vol. 1-4)
