Animanga Friday: 91 Days – Review

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There was no Map Madness this week due to WP deciding to eat my draft, and I unfortunately didn’t have time to redo it – so that post will be up next week. However, continuing with the weekly features and bringing back an old feature – the same week I was told that hopefully Project Anime, the anime society at my old university should be going back to in person showings – it’s Animanga Friday.

At the moment, I am currently watching Re-Main which is currently airing and is a sports anime about Water Polo (this is how to get me interested in a sport, make an anime about it) with a protagonist who is suffering from amnesia due to being in a (non-sport related) accident and I’m doing a rewatch of Fairy Tail with some friends. In terms of manga, I currently have these three on my netgalley shelf – and I intend to review them next week.

For this week though I have a review of 91 Days a fantastic prohibition era anime, and with all the kids heading back to school this weeks 3 Recommendations are all school-based anime.

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Mini Reviews

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I have been terrible at keeping up with my reviews for the last few months, returning to work and various other things have left me scrambling to keep up so over the next few days I’ll be posting batches of mini reviews as I catch up.

Disclaimer – I received an e-arc of these books via netgalley in exchange for an honest review, all thoughts are my own.

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Animanga: Book Review – The Witch and the Beast 1 – Kousuke Satake

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For this week’s Animanga Friday and in the spirit of Halloween, I am reviewing ‘The Witch and the Beast 1’ by Kousuke Satake. While tonight in true tradition, I will be watching Kakurenbo as well as the movie for Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil) – and pumpkin carving may be involved at the same time.

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Disclaimer – I received an e-arc via netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

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Book Summary:

A WITCH’S CURSE

Guideau: a feral girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. Ashaf: a soft-spoken man with delicate features and a coffin strapped to his back. This ominous pair appears one day in a town that’s in thrall to a witch, who has convinced the townsfolk she’s their hero. But Ashaf and Guideau know better. They have scores to settle, and they won’t hesitate to remove anyone in their way…

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Animanga: Book Reivew – Blue Period Vol. 1 – Tsubasa Yamaguchi

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Continuing with the Animanga Fridays (complete with new banner), today I am reviewing Blue Period Vol.1. In terms of anime, making the Horror Top 10 List last week has seen me rewatching some old favourites, starting with Black Blood Brothers and I have plans to rewatch Highschool of the Dead this weekend, especially as I am currently quarantining and trying to stop myself climbing the wall!

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Disclaimer – I received an e-arc via netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

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Book Summary:

Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he’s just going through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…


STILL LIFE

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst–and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be…

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Mini Reviews

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Another bunch of smaller reviews today, some are netgalley reads (marked with a disclaimer) and a couple that I’ve picked up elsewhere. I will have another of these up in a couple of days as I catch up with my reviews, and then one on Sunday for my self-published reads. I also have longer reviews coming for the Emaneska series by Ben Galley and Sorcery of a Queen by Brian Naslund.

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