All Points Bulletin: Dinosaur Daydream

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hisui_icon_4040 Alain’s picks:

 narutaki_icon_4040 Kate’s picks

  • Half-Mazinger, Half-Hello Kitty
    This anniversary short has Chogokin Hello Kitty accidentally swapping souls with Mazinger. And ends with a possible sequel of My Melody and Getter Robo having a similar interaction!

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hisui_icon_4040 I think everyone (who is a good person) remembers this scene:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: New Year’s Curry

This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

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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