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
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You Oughta Read Akira
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
You Oughta Read Kaguya-sama
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
You Oughta Read Bakuman
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
You Oughta Read Spy x Family
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