Tag: Kafka Asagiri

A sly looking blonde man towering over the heads of there other people, his left hand aloft and dropping a handful of spent casings.

Old Dog, Old Tricks – Bungo Stray Dogs Vol. 5

By Austin Price • December 20th, 2017

Surely there are better ways to hype up the newest group of antagonists than to throw them a humiliating loss at the hands of the world’s most expendable mook.

Spilled Ink

Three Japanese animated figures tumbling amid a falling stream of paper

Chasing Your Own Tail – Bungo Stray Dogs Vol. 4

By Austin Price • September 20th, 2017

The third volume of Bungo Stray Dogs ended with the promise of better things… [but this] this latest installment is so total a bit of backtracking that it’s hard not to feel as if it’s not playing at some greater thematic purpose in the clumsiest manner imaginable.

Spilled Ink

A dark haired man looks to the left, his hair tipped in white. A fair haired boy looks to the right, his nose leading off the page. Behind them is a spat of red, and they are illustrated in a Japanese manga style. This is the cover of Bungo Stray Dogs volume 9.

“Licking Wounds” – Bungo Stray Dogs Vol. 3

By Austin Price • June 28th, 2017

Purpose gives a work direction, it gives it confidence and identity, and so is essential, but it’s no replacement for quality execution.