Narutaru Ch. 51 – 56 — In the Sack

Narutaru,

Ch. 51 Summary: Shiina’s parents find Norio’s head attached to a doll and Shiina’s corpse brought home in a bag.

Ch. 52 Summary: Shiina shows up at her grandparents’ house. She has her first period.

Ch. 53 Summary: Akira and Sudou visit the guy Shiina killed a long time ago. Sudou pressures Akira to join him.

Ch. 54 Summary: Tsurumaru cries.

Ch. 55 Summary: Tsurumaru kills some gangsters.

Ch. 56 Summary: Mamiko and Tsurumaru’s girlfriend visit Tsurumaru’s house and are raped by the gangsters. Then Mamiko massacres them.

Back in a Bag

Part of what I love about Kitoh is his sheer brutality. No one else comes close. Other manga will kill off characters (sometimes), but who else has the balls to have the remaining bits of the main character’s corpse brought home in a bag to show to her parents. My God. Oh, right, and that’s nothing compared to what happened to another main character a few pages before.

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Yup. Holy crap. Who else would even be able to imagine this kind of shit. Continue reading Narutaru Ch. 51 – 56 — In the Sack →

A Seasonal Review — Winter 2023

Seasonal Review,

Seasonal Impressions

Didn’t Watch: Blue Lock, Buddy Daddies, By the Grace of the Gods 2, Cardfight!! Vanguard, D4DJ All Mix, Don’t Toy with Me Miss Nagatoro, Eternal Boys, Farming Life in Another World, Flaglia, The Fruit of Evolution, High Card, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, iDolish 7, Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, Malevolent Spirits Monogatari, My Hero Academia, Revenger, Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, The Tale of Outcasts, Technoroid Overmind, Tokyo Revengers S2, Trigun Stampede, Tsurune, UniteUp!, Urusei Yatsura, The Vampire Dies in No Time, Yowamushi Pedal

Suspended: Ayakashi Triangle, Misfit of Demon King Academy, NieR Automata

30. Spy Classroom — F
The light novel fans have been telling us how great this was for years and daaaamn it sucked. I’m almost tempted to read the light novel because it can’t actually be this bad can it?

29. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel- Northern War — F
Why bother making this? It was sooo bad.

28. My Life as Inukai-san’s Dog — D-
Ok the premise of trash but if you ignore that it’s pretty good. Hard to ignore though.

27. Giant Beasts of Ars — D
Just like Fractale! Continue reading A Seasonal Review — Winter 2023 →