Manga of the Month: Ad Astra Per Aspera

Ad Astra Per Aspera (アド アストラ ペル アスペラ)
by Kenjiro Hata

hisui_icon_4040 Look. Lets just get this out-of-the-way. Kenjiro Hata is writing a new manga. It involves giant robots in a space opera. It was going to wind up here in Manga of the Month. It was pretty much its destiny. It would take something like a manga about table top RPGs written by Kinoko Nasu and drawn by Rumiko Takahasi to knock this series out of this spot. I mostly was just waiting for a few chapters to come out before I wrote it up. So if you want a totally objective recommendation free of prejudice that simply beaks down why this series deserves to be counted as a Manga of the Month that is not going to happen.

  1. Because your never really going to get that anywhere. You’re just going to get someone who tries to divorce themselves from their feelings despite the fact that columns like this always exist as a subjective opinion.
  2. This blog has never been that coldly analytical.
  3. This is a Kenjiro Hata manga, and I am me, so that probably never happen even if it were the tone of the blog.

So if you want to hear me gush about a comedy manga here you go. Otherwise just chalk it up to me just actually liking Japanese comedy manga.

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The December 2015 Line-Up

 

narutaki_icon_4040 Not too little and not too much to end the year.

hisui_icon_4040 Just because it is December does not mean the licensing ever stops.

The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of new anime, manga, light novel, artbook licenses, streaming/broadcasting announcements, crowdfunding projects, anime/manga projects, and live-action anime/manga adaptions.

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YOU VS. The Best of 2015: Results

As is traditional, we should ring in the new year by looking back on the one that came before it.

This year we invited our readers to answer the yearly questions we ask ourselves: What was the best anime of the year? Who were the stand-out characters? Who was TEH HOT? And various other questions. Some of their answers match our own and sometimes they are wildly different. Thank you to those who joined us in this merry exercise! We hope to bring it back again in 2016.

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