Trash Reads – Manga I Hate to Love – Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

Isekai manga and anime have always been on shaky ground for me. There are admittedly a lot of very good series that I love, but also a lot of very bad ones that tend to use the same concepts over and over again. I love seeing new ideas and innovative ways to use the isekai … More Trash Reads – Manga I Hate to Love – Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

How Love and Lies Remains a Shallow Romance Despite its Premise

Love and Lies is an anime that I was relatively interested in when it first came out at the beginning of last season. The first episode caught my attention with its backstory based on a very real problem facing Japan today: the declining birthrate and subsequent aging population. … More How Love and Lies Remains a Shallow Romance Despite its Premise