Tag: manga
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Freiren review and chika: delayed and misplaced grief
(yes may spoilers, i read the manga and updated po sa anime) Freiren reminds me of an indie ttrpg game I played that invites you to look at a civilization through the passage of eons, cornering you into this omniscient perspective, witnessing, storying these larger forces (war, calamity, technology) instead of an often exclusive singular…
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A Fragile and Most Tender Heart: Windbreaker AniManga in the Shonen Genre
Windbreaker is a shonen animanga the way you expect it except it’s not. It has the reliable plot beats that the shonen genre often serves: cool ragged characters wanting to better themselves and finding friends, family and community. Epic fight scenes. Tropes around fighting, strength, mentors, admiration that often shape the allegorical boyhood full of…
maria mison: integrated awakenings 