Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: kodansha

  • Review: Gleipnir vol. 1, by Sun Takeda

    Review: Gleipnir vol. 1, by Sun Takeda

    Let’s be blunt and call it like it is; a lot of the manga published in the United States is really horny. And a lot of comics, especially shonen and seinen manga, are pretty violent. The combination can be particularly egregious at times; such is the case with Gleipnir, a furiously horny comic about a…

  • Thoughts On The Nostalgia in Mag Hsu & Nao Emoto’s Forget Me Not

    Kodansha USA has been publishing some titles that seem like a hybrid between shonen and shojo romance; Your Lie in April, which I reviewed last year, is up to seven volumes now, and a new release, Forget Me Not, is now up to its second volume with a third scheduled to be released in July.…

  • Review: Let’s Dance a Waltz Vol. 1 by Natsumi Ando This week is a week of manga reviews at Sequential State; the next on the pile is Natsumi Ando’s Let’s Dance a Waltz, a 3-volume shojo series originally published in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi manga anthology. Ando is known best in the United States for her titles…

  • Quick Picks #1: New Shojo #1s

    Quick Picks is a new, occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of books I’ve been thinking about over the last two weeks. Say I Love You #1 by Kanae Hazuki After a hurtful betrayal as a small child, main character Mei withdraws from her…