In modern Japan Anzu is a somewhat anti-social (neurodivergent maybe?) teen who is completely content with her life of a happy little family, plenty of video games to play, and plenty of chocolate to eat. Until a “love cupid”/wizard named Riri appears in her life. Riri lives in an alternate universe that is built on […]
Category: manga/anime
***Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.*** Manga Classics: Dracula by Bram Stoker, adapted by Stacy King, art by Virginia Nitouhei Manga Classics, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781947808058 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Buy: Amazon.com Manga Classics brings us a manga version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. By now most readers are familiar with the vampire classic’s general story. Jonathan Harker, a young […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2016 ISBN: 9781421590561 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com Femme fatale Tomie Kawakami, with long dark hair, hypnotic eyes, and a signature mole under her left eye, makes men love her, regardless of their age. She drives them to madness […]
Anime Review: Castlevania: Nocturne
April 8, 2024A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (DanMachi is the Japanese language short title) is a light romantic/adventure series centered on a world were the gods of humanity have given up most of their magic in order to live more adventurous lives among humans. This has led to them gathering […]
Webcomic Review: Love Me to Death
September 15, 2022Love Me to Death is an online serial manga on Webtoons with chapters available weekly for free (and the three most recent chapters are paid.) It centers on Victor, a necromancer, who lives in a South American flavored town, part of an empire controlled by the Church of the God of Life. Necromancy is outlawed […]
Graphic Novel Review: Dusk Vol. 1 by David Doub
March 3, 2022**Cross posted from the ML Archives** David Doub, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-578-01436-4 Available: New Dusk is David Doub’s first graphic novel. The book has four chapters. The first chapter jumps into the story without providing much background, but the reader easily picks up that Eve is the willing servant to Vampire Lord Ash, and that the two […]
Vault Review: Zombie Powder #4 story & art by Tite Kubo
February 19, 2020**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Viz Media, 2007 ISBN: 978-1421511221 Available: New & Used, ComiXology The final volume in […]
Vault Review: Zombie Powder #3 story & art by Tite Kubo
February 12, 2020**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Viz Media, 2007 ISBN: 1421511215 Available: New & Used Not that the concept isn’t […]
Vault Review: Zombie Powder #2 story & art by Tite Kubo
February 5, 2020**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Viz Media/Shonen Jump, 2006 ISBN: 1421501538 Available: New Gamma is an S-Class criminal […]