Archive for the 'Manga' Category

DeathNote

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Jasmina, who’s the BIGGEST Otaku I’ve ever met in my life pointed me out to this manga series called ‘DeathNote’ The idea alone made me excited to read this. It’s basically about a boy called Kira who gets a book, whereby any name he scribbles down will be killed. He makes it his duty to [...]

Spirit of Wonder

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Few things can make me smile from ear to ear and make me feel good about life in general. I get this feeling whenever I watch a Miyazaki movie. However before I discovered Miyazaki, I was reading ‘Spirit of Wonder’.
This is arguably one of the most beautiful manga’s ever created. This work is far and [...]

Vagabond | Volume 1

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

This is not hyperbole, this isn’t an overstatement, this is fact. The sooner you come to understand it about this book the better the world shall be, honest trust me on this one, I know what I’m talking about. The fact being that Vagabond is one of the most haunting, best crafted, lushously illustrated [...]

Celebrating the artform of sequential storytelling with a spine!