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IM: Great Priest Imhotep Volume 1 (Manga Review)
4 years ago

IM: Great Priest Imhotep Volume 1 (Manga Review)

Imhotep

Impersonating Egyptian deities, the demonic Magai intend to plague Earth, but find that Great Priest Imhotep has arrived from the past to thwart their plans. Less a revision of …
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The Hero is Overpowered and Overly Cautious Volume 1 (Manga Review)
4 years ago

The Hero is Overpowered and Overly Cautious Volume 1 (Manga Review)

Overpowered

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a goddess summons a taciturn young man from our world to a fantasy world styled not off of Tolkien, but off of …
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Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five (Manga Review, Spoilers)

dungeon volume five

Whereas volumes one through four covered the quest for Falin, Delicious in Dungeon Volume Five begins a new arc which not only pits several adventuring groups against each other, but …
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Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four (Manga Review, Spoilers)

dungeon volume four

While faux dungeon delicacies were presented as the hook for this manga, by Delicious in Dungeon Volume Four, it has matured into a love letter to fantasy-themed role-playing games, with …
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Star Wars Lost Stars Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Star Wars Lost Stars Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

star wars lost stars

Joining the expanded Star Wars universe is the manga adaptation of Star Wars Lost Stars, a bildungsroman about Imperial cadets. Lost Stars possesses not only appealing line art, but the Star …
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Sacrificial Princess and The King of The Beasts Volume 1 (Review)
6 years ago

Sacrificial Princess and The King of The Beasts Volume 1 (Review)

Sacrificial Princess

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts is a unique reversal on the Beauty and the Beast myth–rather than a man cursed to be a beast, the King of Beasts …
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Tales of Wedding Rings Volume 1 Manga Review
6 years ago

Tales of Wedding Rings Volume 1 Manga Review

wedding rings

In Tales of Wedding Rings, when Sato loves Hime–not only the girl next door, but the princess next world–he pursues her through a magical portal to a homeworld bubbling with …
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Monster Tamer Girls Volume 1 (Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Monster Tamer Girls Volume 1 (Review, Spoilers)

monster tamer girls

Monster Tamer Girls: in a world subjected to new waves of kaiju, Ion Hidaka and Sora Misumaru are part of the freshest crop of monster tamers, a special girls’ school …
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Delicious in Dungeon Volume 3 (Manga Review)
6 years ago

Delicious in Dungeon Volume 3 (Manga Review)

Dungeon Volume 3

While Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon Volume 3 maintains its ironclad premise of RPG murderhobos that turn their adventures into a gourmet tour, the tale nonetheless continues to evolve, with this …
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Oh, My Sweet Alien! Omnibus OGN (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Oh, My Sweet Alien! Omnibus OGN (Manga Review, Spoilers)

sweet alien

While Oh, My Sweet Alien! might have started as a science fiction horror comedy, rooted as it is in an alien abductee’s courtship with his abductor, the manga starts in …
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Baccano! Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

Baccano! Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

Baccano!

Though mob and crime fiction isn’t my favorite genre–even when supplemented with an undisclosed urban fantasy element that might be vampires and might be Highlander–I’ve enjoyed my handful of mafia …
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So I’m A Spider, So What? Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)
6 years ago

So I’m A Spider, So What? Volume 1 (Manga Review, Spoilers)

Spider

I’m A Spider, So What? is like a disgusting inversion of The Wizard of Oz, in which an otaku high-schooler descends by daydream into a nightmarish fantasy landscape, morphing into …
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