Happy Halloween to all the readers. Hopefully everyone will have a great time either getting candy or dressing up for parties. Though things have been slow here, we are aware of the times. And for such an occasion, I have decided to do a TOP LIST of seinen manga villains based on all the manga [...]

Title: Gyo
Author & Artist: Junji Itou
Chapters: 1-19 (Completed)
Summary
There’s something in the water… and it reeks. It doesn’t take Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori long to realize the smell is coming from dead fish. But these fish don’t seem to stay dead for you see they are able to walk right out of the sea. A [...]

Title: Elfen Lied
Author & Artist: Lynn Okamoto
Chapters: 1 – 107 (Complete)
Summary
Diclonius are a mutant species with a human type body, but are distinguished by their two horns (which look like rabbit ears) and their “vector” ability, transparent telekinetic arms that manipulate and cut objects within their reach. Lucy is the main diclonius character who was [...]

Sorry for the lack of update, but things became a little slow when I left on vacation. But since I’m back, let’s look into annoying character cliches that really need to stop being created.
Here we will look at the honest to goody-goody, saint/holy man or woman that should be God’s right hand. That is [...]

Title: 07 Ghost
Author: Yuki Amemiya
Artist: Yukino Ichihara
Chapters: 1-50 (Ongoing)
Summary
Teito Klein is an orphan who is a promising student at an elite military academy. This academy trains their students to use a type of magical power called Zaiphon in order to be well-crafted soldiers of the Empire. Casted out by other students for [...]

I was just recently thinking about a canceled show that had a great storyline and concept behind it. That show was My Name is Earl.
The show started with a white trash hick named Earl Hickey who did petty crimes for a living. One day he wins the lottery, one of the scratching ticket types. [...]

Looking through the manga news and found something to debate about. Apparently local schools around Wicomico, in Maryland County, are taking out Dragon Ball Mangas because of nudity and sexual content.

“In cartoon format, it depicts nudity, sexual contact between children and sexual innuendo among adults and children,” Holloway told fellow council members during the comment [...]

Is anime better than American animation? We have continued the discussion from the last post which covered reasons 9 to 5. This post will continue the rebuttal from reasons 4 to 1. For those who want to see the original post that started it all, go over to Mania.com and read. Now without further [...]

Last week there was a post floating around about anime being better than cartoons. While that title brings forth irony, in that anime is a form of cartoons as well, I think what the author meant to say was anime is better than American animation. It sparked many comments from all sides, and I think [...]

Sorry for the three days of postlessness, but school is so demanding sometimes. I only had two one-paged papers to turn in, but found myself overwhelmingly critical of what I wrote. Did it sound scholarly? Are there minor errors I missed? Does the thesis exist? So many damn questions to answer in under one hour [...]