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What OtakuAnthony bought this week August 26th
Peach Girl: Change of Heart GN 8-10
Plot Synopsis (from volume 8 ): “To everyone’s surprise, Momo shows up with Toji instead of Kiley on the first day of school. Kiley pretends to be cool about everything while Toji plays the ultimate ‘understanding boyfriend’role to the hilt.
But it’ll be a fight to the finish with between Kiley and Toji for Momo’s love. On the other hand, karma is in full force when Momo’s friendly foe Sae finds out she’s pregnant and Ryo is the father!”
I had most volumes of the manga for Peach Girl in my collection but I need the last three volumes to complete my collection.
Manga Review: Samurai Deeper Kyo
Each one of us has read that one manga that just went on for too damned long. The longer a story drags on, the more opportunity it has to falter and develop weak spots, and many people are too busy or just don’t have the attention span to keep up. So, could there possibly be a manga that defies this unfortunate pattern? Well, if you’re willing to buckle down for a long haul, then the answer is “yes,” and it comes to us in the form of Samurai Deeper Kyo.
Four years after the famous Battle of Sekigahara, a simple medicine man named Kyoshiro Mibu is wandering the land trying to find someone to heal so he can make enough money to eat. He comes upon a woman named Yuya Shiina, a bounty hunter who intends on turning Kyoshiro in for skipping out on a restaurant bill. When the two are attacked by a demon, Yuya discovers that within Kyoshiro lies the soul of a man famous for the slaughter of a thousand men, Demon Eyes Kyo. Kyo has lost his original body and blames Kyoshiro for hiding it away from him, and decides to take over Kyoshiro’s body until he finds his original one. Yuya insists on tagging along so she can turn Kyo in since he has the highest bounty in the area, but that will be the least of their problems as their journey delves into their pasts and into shocking events that threaten to tailspin the country into war once again.
Manga Review: Mobile Fighter G Gundam
The Gundam series is known for being a truly epic series, spanning the length of many, many anime series. So, would this historic mecha brand do as well in manga form? I think it’s very possible, but unfortunately Mobile Fighter G Gundam slightly misses the mark with one potentially fatal flaw.
In the universe of G Gundam, Earth has become an almost uninhabitable battlefield and people now mostly live in space colonies. In order to keep peace, every four years there is a tournament held, where each country picks one Gundam fighter to represent them and fight. The winning country then gets to rule over the other space colonies and Earth until the next tournament comes around.
The main character, Domon, is the fighter for Neo-Japan. He isn’t fighting for the pride of his country, however; the government is holding his father in a cryogenic sleep for a crime he didn’t commit, and so Domon is using the Gundam fights to hunt down the man truly responsible while fighting to win the tournament and his father’s freedom. The story is about his quest for the truth and the government conspiracies that are uncovered along the way.
If you have heard of G Gundam before reading this review, you probably know it best for being a very eccentric story, to say the least. Each Gundam is based off a fairly blatant stereotype of its home country, which can make it hard to take the story seriously at times (Don’t believe me? Go check out Neo-Holland’s Windmill Gundam or Neo-Mexico’s Tequila Gundam!). It doesn’t help that the ending is pretty cheesy for a Gundam story (It’s still very satisfying, though!).
Manga Review: Welcome to the NHK (Complete Series)
Welcome to the NHK is a haunting and chilling story, but in a good way. It takes risks that most stories never would, but question is, do those risks pay off? Well, for the most part, yes.
The story of Welcome to the NHK revolves around Sato, a hikikomori. He dropped out of school, has no job, and lives in his apartment by himself, too depressed and afraid of the world to go outside because he is convinced that the NHK, a popular Japanese television broadcasting company, is one big conspiracy to turn people into hikikomori just like him. One day, a religious missionary comes to his door trying to spread the word of God. Sato passes it off as a simple annoyance and tries to pretend that he’s just fine on his own, but the missionary’s niece Misaki sees right through Sato’s act, and goes on a quest to cure him of his hikikomori ways and integrate him back into society. However, Misaki has her own personal reasons for doing this, and as more and more people get pulled into her tenuous relationship with Sato, truths are revealed that will change these people’s lives forever.
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