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12 Days of Anime: That One Show With The Hamster Girl That Everybody Wouldn’t Shut Up About

12 Days of Anime: That One Show With The Hamster Girl That Everybody Wouldn’t Shut Up About

Every year there is that one weird slice of life comedy show that becomes inexplicably popular for a half dozen or so weeks before being immediately discarded with yesterday’s trash. You know the kind. Series like Watamote, Sabage-bu, and the granddaddy of them all, Lucky Star. And in the summer of 2015, suddenly my twitter feed was filled with .gifs of a moe blob wearing a gerbil costume and drooling like a maniac. Himouto Umaru-Chan had arrived. This is a…

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12 Days of Anime: Backstroke of the Westia

12 Days of Anime: Backstroke of the Westia

Welcome one and all, to the 12 Days of Anime. 2015 was a spastic year for us fans, but we persevered. And we witnessed things you wouldn’t believe… Hey, remember Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Because I barely do. On the top of my mind, I can recall an albino boy brushing his teeth, and something about this one girl who carried a giant sack around her. I also remember it taking so…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 43

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 43

Bakuman is back! Kind of. Sorta of. Two prequel chapters will be run in this issue and the next, focusing on the two leads’ lives in middle school, before the start of the series. I’ll save my thoughts on it for it’s section proper, but I have to say, it’s nice to see Ohba and Obata collaborating again. As it is knowing that they’ll soon be working on a new ongoing series again for the first time since Bakuman ended…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 42

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 42

Guess who’s back! Sorry for the long absence and the missed reviews. I’ve had a lot on my plate these last couple of weeks, from finishing up work on an internship to going back to school, among a slew of other minor inconveniences. But I’m ready and raring to go again! Hopefully I have these up on time for the remainder of the year, though I can’t keep any promises. It’s a bummer I missed the last couple of issues,…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 37/38

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 37/38

I was not surprised by this announcement. Yu-Gi-Oh! has been a permanent fixture of the english Shonen Jump since the very beginning. Viz replacing ZeXal with Arc-V was a foregone conclusion. It’s the fact that we’re getting it before a Straighten Up! or Best Blue announcement, much less Assassination Classroom, that rather irks me. Sure, it isn’t like Arc-V is taking up a weekly spot; it’s only taking over ZeXal’s former place as a monthly series. But I really want…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 36

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 36

Last week I quipped that I might shank someone if they added D. Gray-Man into Jump. And take a wild guess at what happened this week?! …No, I wasn’t arrested for shanking someone. I didn’t shank anyone. That was a joke. But yeah, D. Gray-Man is this month’s Jump Back. I don’t really have anything against early D. Gray-Man; I didn’t start to particularly dislike it until after the Noah’s Ark arc when the series just started becoming convoluted and…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 35

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 35

Can I just say that I was so bummed that we didn’t get a Assassination Classroom or Straighten Up! announcement at the end of the issue? With both a Jump Start and Jump Back ending in this issue, it would have been the perfect time to debut a new series in the next. Assassination Classroom has become one of Viz’s most successful manga in sales this year, and next week’s chapter is the 150th; it would have been the perfect…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 34

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 34

Contrary to what I had said previously, in terms of actual page count this issue wasn’t really that much longer than last week’s. However, the return of Nisekoi and World Trigger has upped the series count to ten, and these are all fairly substantial, so I still had to write a lot more. I certainly don’t mind, as this was a surprising issue in more ways than one. Though that also made it more time-consuming to talk about, which is…

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Crowds-Sourcing Enzai II: Creature Comforts

Crowds-Sourcing Enzai II: Creature Comforts

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Yeah….I know… I’m late. Fucking Clusterfuck taken up all my free time, I’m tellin ya. Whelp, back to Crowds. Last time on Crowds…nothing happened (sur-prise, sur-priiiiiiiiise). This time on Crowds… Something happened!…but not much. Introducing our new villain, Rizumu Suzuki, a medical student who also received the CROWDS note from presumably Berg-Katze (don’t rule out Gelsadra just yet) but didn’t use it fearing its awesome potential if abused. But then Rui proceeded to do so for the benefit…

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After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 33

After the Jump: 2015, Issue No. 33

It feels like a long, long time since we’ve had an issue that didn’t go over 200 pages, but here we are. Because of various circumstances, neither World Trigger, Nisekoi, or One-Punch Man were in this week’s issue, leaving the total series count to be below double digits for the first time in ages. If there wasn’t a Jump Start debuting or a Jump Back being run, this issue would have only been 6 series full and less than 130…

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