Science is baaadass. Take a look around at our modern world and you'll see all the incredible things it's brought us: refrigeration, indoor heating, prescription glasses, cars, airplanes, bicycles, tricycles, the ability to troll some fourteen-year-old on the opposite side of the world, and a way for doctors to pump-start your heart with their bare … Continue reading You Oughta Read Dr. Stone
Life is a shitty game. This is the thesis of Tomozaki's monologue opening the first volume. Take a look around. Notice who people are. The beautiful are beautiful, the rich are rich, the athletic are athletic. Traits are immutable. If you're a grouch, you can't just will yourself into a philanthropist. Who you are is … Continue reading You Oughta Read Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
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
There was a brief period in my life when I tried the craft of manga-making. I was atrocious at it, and it wasn't long before the revelation that I abhor drawing slapped me in the visage, but until that facial walloping, I was looking to the manga professionals for technical guidance. However, the artwork rarely … Continue reading You Oughta Read Akira
Love is one of the sweetest things a person can experience. From the heart palpitations to the gastrointestinal irritability we get whenever we see the apple of our eye, love colors the world opal and can pull a jig out of a guy on the subway. It reminds us that, no matter the mistakes we've … Continue reading You Oughta Read Kaguya-sama
Dreams are wonderful things that give us a reason for getting out of bed when coffee isn't cutting it, and for Moritaka Mashiro, he dreams of drawing a manga that's adapted into an anime, with his junior high crush, Miho Azuki, voicing the heroine. Pairing up with Akito Takagi, who has his own dream of … Continue reading You Oughta Read Bakuman
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
