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Spooky times at school

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun vol.9 by Aidalro

October 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Spooky month is here, and I’ve found a level of spooky that’s so far been my speed. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun is a manga that is a ghost story about Nene, a girl in middle school who gets drawn into the supernatural world and shenanigans of the titular ghost who haunts the girls bathroom in spite of being a boy and being able to effectively rule the school supernatural side of the world. There’s the friend who turns out to be an exorcist, and the mysterious figure […]

All kind of washed out

RWBY The Official Manga vol 3 by Bunta Kinami

June 27, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m pretty sure I may have reviewed a previous volume of this manga adaptation of an animated series elsewhere, but I don’t remember. So my bad if I’m repeating myself a whole bunch here. RWBY: The Official Manga vol. 3 is more of a retelling of the animated series than anything else. So these 4 main characters (Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang- odd how the color/name thing isn’t explained here, although it is in the animation) are all students at a school for Hunters/Huntresses, where the […]

The last Food War is more about the people than the food, and it turned out well

Food Wars! vo. 36 by Yuto Tsukuda, Shun Saeki, Yuki Marisaki

January 23, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I tend to turn to graphic novels and manga for comfort reads; I’ve needed that a bit more lately. I wanted something I could trust not to be too much with the feels and end happily. I took a chance with the final volume of Food Wars! (#36) and thankfully there were no major surprises of those sorts. The basic premise has always been kind of entertaining to me: a bunch of students at a culinary high school and their hijinks. Naturally there’s the rebel […]

The Real Not Real High School Years

Azumanga Daioh Omnibus by Kiyohiko Azuma

October 8, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo Review 24: Nostalgia I was a teen from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. I have also had a book on my TBR shelf, the first part of which was published in 2000, both my last bit of high school and first bit of college, that covered a group of girls during their high school years. Thus it seemed fitting to look at Azumanga Daioh Omnibus for the Nostalgia square. As with many comics and manga, it was originally published as a series of […]

The Harry Potter Marvel crossover I never knew I’d love

February 18, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

So far I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Drew Hayes, including Forging Hephaestus, NPCs, and the series following Fred the vampire accountant. I figured the time was right to try his other series, Super Powereds. After reading Year 1, my conclusion is only to wonder why I waited so long. I do have to day though, I can totally see the author of Forging Hepheastus in this, and a little NPCs, although I do realize Super Powereds Year 1 came out before either of those […]

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