Sleep Is For the Weak

Spain just won the FIFA World Cup, making every city (including mine) extremely loud and annoying as everyone tries to pretend they were rooting for Spain all along. Also, this FIFA has been more obnoxious than almost anything on earth…or Middle-Earth.
But in my desperation to fill my head with positive sports thoughts and thus not […]

Dammit. Why is there so much crappy josei in the West? It’s not like there are a lot of titles to choose from, and when 75% of them stink…gah, it’s so frustrating.
On that note, NotHayama wrote a mini review of Ristorante Paradiso. It’s not particularly positive.
In other news, Togainu no Chi is getting animated (trailer […]

There’s only one proper way to say that word.
I wrote a combined Mini-Review-type-thing for three excellent manga with bio/chem themes: Moyashimon, Apothecarius Argentum, and The Tyrant Falls in Love. Didn’t someone recently say we don’t review enough genres? There - a seinen, a shoujo, and a yaoi in one review. Efficiency is the paintbrush with […]

I liked Bad Jew’s last update. It was very…real. And by “real” I mean it existed, which was exciting for this place and its awful, awful updating schedule of once every when-we-get-off-our-asses (aka four months).
But you’ll like this update better, because it has STUFF. A mini review of Kami no Shizuku by Bad Jew and […]

I decided to try and explain/review Starry Sky. It’s really girly. Like, seriously. Most people probably couldn’t care less about it. It also took me months of research to untangle it, considering my Japanese is pretty crappy. More months wasted! That should be the official motto of our website.
Sleep is for the Weak: Proof of […]

In honor of the release of a big ol’ Nana anime boxset in the West, we updated our Nana not-that-Mini Review, since NotHayama left it somewhat open-ended last time and our contributor Orange Skirt wanted to add her opinion (and cover the non-manga versions of the franchise). The review is now significantly more robust, although […]

Or not so silently, in this case, since Bad Jew and I got back to our non-Canadian roots and wrote two mini reviews that basically accuse every person of being an idiot or a sexist asshole if s/he’s not on board. Yes, this is how we return from a many-week hiatus. Sleep is for the […]

The FUNimation release of Romeo x Juliet finally hit Western shores, like, this week, and guess what we have for it? A full review of the series by Orange Skirt. That’s right - an actual review that actually matches an actual release. Note that it took a recurring contributor sending me that review a month […]

Today we have something a little different on Sleep is for the Weak…something thoughtful, something almost academic. Bad Jew wrote an article on comics from North Korea. I was thinking of maybe just posting a review of some terrible yaoi or even just a picture of stick figures making obscene gestures at each other, but […]

First, on the update front: I posted a Mini Review of Kuroshitsuji/The Black Butler anime, since I watched pretty much the entire series on Saturday during my exhaustion-spurred protest against Getting Off the Couch. I also updated the Reviews and Mini Reviews archives because that was super overdue.
Second, come to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival […]