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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.

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A panel from the comic My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. In the middle of the two pieces of the panel it says "Some Differences." On the left hand side it has a picture of a woman concealing her breasts and wearing a pair of small underwear, the text "female body" underneath. The character is clearly excited over this image and she says "Fukken saved." On the right it has a more confused version of the character looking at a picture of a man posing in his underwear with the text "He's totally naked huh"

Unemotional Investments – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By Austin Price • August 30th, 2017

As unsparing as she is in presenting the minutiae of her feelings, Nabi has also constructed a formal shell that prevents her and reader both from actually engaging with the rawest elements of her story.

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Witch Way To Go – Flying Witch Vol. 2

By Austin Price • August 23rd, 2017

“It’s insubstantial, lighter than air, colorless, the pleasure of a cool breeze on a summer day two degrees right of ‘too hot.'”

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Still from Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Vol. 4

About Gundam Time – Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Vol. 4

By Austin Price • August 16th, 2017

“Better still, Ohtagaki’s newfound self-awareness has brought with it a welcome sense of the absurd impossible in the heady, edgy days of earlier volumes, and through this sense an expansion rather than a shrinking of dramatic possibilities.”

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Five women standing near each other, their faces mostly concealed. This is a slip from the cover of Happiness Volume 5.

Vampire Lessons – Happiness Vol. 5

By Austin Price • August 9th, 2017

Happiness has worked until now because even in the trapping of the urban vampire-thriller it finds new ways to show the horrors of the mundane reality of growing older.

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