Austin Price, Author at Unwinnable

Two anime girls sit across from one another on a beach, looking shyly at each other.

Witch Is Not To Say – Flying Witch Vol. 4

By Austin Price • January 24th, 2018

The pleasures in observation are not in merely watching but rather in the opportunities to attune our eyes to a finer appreciation of character.

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A blue girl with tears streaming down her face stairs into a speckled white abyss.

Trauma Entertainment – Happiness Vol. 6

By Austin Price • January 17th, 2018

“The real horror of trauma is that it is immortal.”

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A young illustrated girl, her hair in a white bob, has a speech bubble to the side that reads "You're Going too fast"

“Second Skin” – The Girl from the Other Side, Vol. 3

By Austin Price • January 10th, 2018

The Girl from the Other Side has showcased an immaculate understanding of atmosphere, of tone, of theme, of art, and it’s third volume is no exception.

A woman with a silver bob and a black dress stands facing a giant mech. This is a still from NieR Automata

You’re Gonna Carry that Weight – NieR:Automata

By Austin Price • January 3rd, 2018

NieR: Automata, is, in a word, expansive.

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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.

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A brown giant mech standing in front of a bronze sky. This is an image from Mobile Suit Gundam Vol 5.

Gundam It – Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Vol. 5

By Austin Price • November 29th, 2017

Gundam Thunderbolt’s fifth volume is split between two contradictory halves.

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A black haired girl reading on her back, another woman behind her.

Be Witched – Flying Witch Vol. 3

By Austin Price • November 22nd, 2017

The stillness of Flying Witch Vol. 3 comes to me as small, almost zen escape. What’s magical here is nothing loud, nothing that demands attention constantly.

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A black and white still from the manga Trigun, showing a dark night sky with high cliffs meeting the horizon.

A Softer West Part 2 – Trigun

By Austin Price • October 11th, 2017

Part two in a two-part essay explore the themes and style of Yaushiro Nightow’s wildly popular western manga.

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Two dudes slouched together on a couch, one in a dark suit and the other in a light colored coat. This is a still from the manga Trigun.

A Softer West Part 1 – Trigun

By Austin Price • October 4th, 2017

Few settings lend themselves so well to explorations of violence as the Western.

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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.