Mangakissa – TOKYOPOP
Many of us are in the midst of mourning/celebrating TOKYOPOP, which closed up shop in the United States last month. The fate of many ongoing series is undetermined (and Amazon is unable to fulfill orders for them), but as we wait and wonder at their fate, we can go back and catch up on or [...]
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[C] and AnoHana first episodes reviewed: Otaku Trauma
This edition of Otaku Trauma, I’ll be reviewing the first two episodes for the animes with some of the longest names of the season. That’s right, it’s time for [C] and AnoHana! Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai “We still don’t know the name of the flower we saw that [...]
Level E and .hack//Quantum Endings, First few Spring Animes: Otaku Trauma
The second two series I watched this past anime season, Level E and .hack//Quantum, are finished and watched and digested. I was rather pleased with how both turned out, though there was a storyline I wish they could have shown in Level E from the manga. Plus my thoughts on X-Men the anime and Steins;Gate episodes [...]
Kimi ni Todoke Live Action Movie review: Otaku Trauma
Let me tell you all a secret–Blu-rays in Japan are the same regional coding as America. Meaning if there’s a movie you’re quite desperate to see, but can’t make it to Japan for nor can you afford to have several different DVD region players…buy the Blu-ray. This one was heck of a lot of money ($71 on [...]
Mangakissa – Toriko, Kobato, and Amnesia Labyrinth
Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Toriko is part man, part demon, and one hundred percent aggression. When the Hotel Gourmet wants to impress important guests at a function, Igo, the chef, decides on a meal of garara gator, the most prized alligator meat in the world. His representative, Komastu, is sent to approach Toriko to ask [...]
Fractale and Freezing Endings, Spring Anime Beginnings: Otaku Trauma
Of the four animes I watched regularly from this Winter season, I was the happiest with Level E (no surprises there) and shocked by Freezing the most (waaaay more fanservice than the manhwa, let me tell you). In the coming installments of Otaku Trauma, I’ll be reviewing those four series in completion. Plus a bit [...]
Ciel in Wonderland review: Otaku Trauma
Today on Otaku Trauma I’m reviewing Ciel in Wonderland, because, lord knows, the creator and fandom loves putting Ciel into dresses. Also news for your [otaku] life! There are some animes you watch because they are intellectually involving. Some you watch because they are gorgeously animated. Some for the over the top humor or violence. [...]
Gate 7 review: Otaku Trauma
Today on Otaku Trauma I’ll be reviewing Gate 7, the newest manga from powerhouse CLAMP. Plus news for your every day [otaku] life! Gate 7 is CLAMP’s newest manga. Originally intended as a one-shot, it expanded in true CLAMP fashion. CLAMP doesn’t do short. It’s not in their artistic nature. They don’t even do “minor” [...]
Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 3
Volume One of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku: The Inner Chambers posed a question of both its world and ours. That question was why there is such a thing as gender inequality when gender inequality is so manifestly absurd. Yoshinaga asks this question by having her characters delve into the past of a fictional Edo-period Japan in [...]
Mangakissa – Alien Nine and MeruPuri
My daughter’s elementary school has a tradition involving the sixth graders; in the morning and afternoon, they take turns as crossing guards at the drop-off/pick-up line, holding bright neon flags and keeping their eyes on the smaller children as they walk from or to their parents’ cars. In Hitoshi Tomizawa’s Alien Nine, sixth grade students are chosen to [...]
Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 1 (2009)
By Jonathan McCalmont 0. A Statement of Subject and Method Fumi Yoshinaga’s Eisner Award-nominated and James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning series Ooku: The Inner Chambers is a multi-volume manga series set in an alternative version of Medieval Edo Period Japan in which a terrifying plague has wiped out 75% of the male population. Using this fictional [...]
Level E’s Alien Prince Stupid, Is This a Zombie?, Feb Releases: Otaku Trauma
In this edition of Otaku Trauma, I’m going to talk about the first episodes of Level E and Kore wa Zombie desu Ka?, plus some quick news bites for your everyday [otaku] life. o.o Seriously. The basic plot outline of an alien landing and making life miserable for a high school baseball player is still [...]
