Read Right To Left - Marmalade Boy

It's been years since I covered a shoujo manga on RRTL. Find out what I have to say about this series from the 90s.

The Legend of Koizumi

After more than three years using my old camera, I finally upgraded to a new camcorder. The entire shooting process changed as a result, and while there are a few kinks I'll have to work out, I think it'll make the entire process a lot more efficient. Anyway, enjoy this video about mahjong death matches.

New Manga From 2012

Read Right To Left - It's Not My Fault That I'm Not Popular!

Read Right To Left - Franken Fran, featuring JewWario

So for Halloween, I decided to do something a little special. Franken Fran is very different from my usual fare, but a certain set of chapters revolve around a group of Kamen Rider parodies, called the Sentinels. And of course, I couldn't in good conscience discuss Kamen Rider without asking the FamiKamen Rider to join me...

Read Right to Left - Let's Make Forbidden Love

This is the very first josei manga I ever read, and it gave me a very poor impression of the manga written for that demographic as a whole. I have since discovered some josei series that are considerably better written, and a few that are at the very least far more memorable.

Read Right To Left - To Love-Ru

To Love-Ru is, if nothing else, comfortable with what it is. It is a compendium of many girls of various body types ranging from petite to buxom in various states of undress, and it goes to great lengths to ensure that they end up in various states of undress as many times as possible. I am sure that the only reason there are certain fetishes that have not been catered to yet in either To Love-Ru or its sequel series, To Love-Ru Darkness, is that Hasemi Saki and Yabuki Kentaro simply are not aware of them yet.

Read Right to Left - Top 5 MANga Badasses

I can't really tell you where the idea for this video came from because it's been lurking in the back of my mind for the better part of a year. In the 'honorable mentions' part of the video you can see that I had enough characters in my mind to maybe even stretch the list to be a Top 10, but I felt that going that far would be kind of reaching, especially since a number of those characters pale in comparison to the "historical" examples that automatically don't qualify. And anyways, the video ended up having a very good running time with its current length.

Read Right to Left - Barrage

There's something that's just innately enjoyable to following something from the beginning and seeing how it develops. I think that's a tremendous part of the appeal of RPG's with a leveling system. You may not remember every little thing that happens along the way, but simply being part of the experience of traveling all the way from start to finish can be deeply satisfying. For as long as I've been reading manga, I've never followed a series from the beginning, and I think that's part of why I want this one to go on for as long as possible - I actually picked it up at chapter one, before chapter two was out. That's never happened for me before, and the sense of attachment I have to Barrage is incredibly disproportionate to the amount of time I've been reading it and thus should feel invested in it. The experience has really taught me that I need to pay closer attention to new manga and check them out as soon as I absolutely can. On an unrelated note, the title card that Eugenia came up with reminded me of a catchy Sesame Street song I heard in my childhood.

The Downfall of Bleach Part 2 - "Deicide 856"

Despite this video being the longest Read Right to Left I've ever done, and nearly twice as long as part 1, I still feel as if I didn't get to talk about every problem that the last few years of Bleach have had. Hence the credits gag. Due to some problems recording parts of the audio, I realized very early in the editing process that the video would NOT be done in two weeks, but the additional week I gave myself to finish the thing really ended up paying dividends, since I had time to alter the script a few more times, and to experiment with adding some background music. Despite having as much time as I did to explain my feelings on the series, I feel it's no substitute to actually sitting down with someone and having a back and forth discussion on it.