A quick description of the show for those who missed my review of season one: Crime Scene is a detective variety show where every week, the cast are placed inside a murder scenario as a possible suspect with one true … Continue reading Review: Crime Scene Season 2
Oshimi Shuzo is currently working on a fairly new realization. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you might know the mangaka’s previous work, Aku no Hana that runs from 2009 to 2014 in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. That manga proceeds … Continue reading Commended: Happiness
What do you get when you put a poor and weak male protagonist into an all-female martial arts oriented high school full of strong, beautiful seniors? A cliched harem story about learning martial arts is the most likely answer. Fortunately, … Continue reading Review: Girls of The Wild Season 1
Sometimes all it takes to restore your faith in a certain genre is one exceptional work. In the case of mobile endless runner video game genre, the work would be Alto’s Adventure. The amazing runner is developed by Snowman—who surprisingly … Continue reading Review: Alto’s Adventure
Tokyo Girls Style stopped their 5 years-old idol career last year, choosing instead to continue their musical endeavor as a regular J-Pop group. At the time, the news barely caught my interest; TGS wasn’t a group I paid a close … Continue reading Review: Reflection – TOKYO GIRLS’ STYLE
The Perfect Insider is a 2014 detective drama that follows Emi Takei as Nishinosono Moe, a mystery-loving architecture student and Gou Ayano as Saikawa Sohei, an associate professor that is weirdly adept at solving cases. The 10-episode series airs on … Continue reading Review: The Perfect Insider
Ah, the things DiCaprio would do for the Oscar. Jokes aside, the guy really outdid himself in The Revenant with the sheer amount of things that he went through: getting mowed down by a bear, munching down an animal setting … Continue reading Review: The Revenant
Superhero stories never gets old. Following the superhero craze that hit Hollywood for the last couple of years, a lot of superhero-themed works emerge both in the Japanese manga industry and the Korean webcomic industry. Starting its serialization in 2014, … Continue reading Review: Sidekicks Season 1
After the 6th volume of Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria was published in January 2013, fans were faced with an excruciating wait for the finale of the cult hit. Two and a half years later, the last chapter … Continue reading Review: Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria Vol 7
Detective dramas have always been a defining genre of the Japanese drama industry, much like the romance genre of its Korean counterpart. At least one detective story will pop out each drama season, with their own little twist in the … Continue reading Review: Okitegami Kyouko no Biboroku
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