Blood on the Tracks, Vols. 1-5
One part Mommie Dearest, one part Kids, Blood on the Tracks is an unsettling depiction of the toxic parent-child relationship between Seiko, an overbearing mother,…
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Happiness, Vols. 4-7
This review contains a few spoilers for later volumes of Happiness, and discusses one character’s efforts to cope with PTSD after a violent attack. Proceed…
The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 2
Do you remember the first time you tried to impress someone on a date? I do: I was fifteen, and thrilled that an older boy…
Drifting Net Cafe, Vol. 1
It takes nerve — nay, stones — to update Kazuo Umezu’s bat-shit classic The Drifting Classroom. That’s exactly what Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil)…
The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 1
If you grew up in a small town, you probably knew someone like Takao Kasuga, the nebbish-hero of The Flowers of Evil. Kasuga is a…