Sleep Is For the Weak

Wow. Six years. 114 reviews and mini-reviews. Since we started this site, we’ve gone from sending blank VHS tapes to random people on the Internet in hopes that they’d send us the latest fan subs of Kare Kano to downloading the bittorrents off the slipstream. Since we started the site, the main writers have gotten [...]

Welcome to part two of our spectacular three-part 6th anniversary update. Six reviews in three days may not seem that spectacular, but when you think about our updating track record as a whole over the past six years…anyway, the less said about that, the better. Moving on! Yesterday’s reviews showed an unprecedented level of positivity [...]

We’ve decided to split our Anniversary Special into a Three-Day Update Extravaganztastic. You guys are getting two reviews a day, three times in a row. Oh my God, the excitement. Today it begins: a mini review of Cowa! by NotHayama, and a mini review of The Gorgeous Life of Strawberry-chan by me. Tomorrow I’ll start [...]

I wrote a little something for today – a Mini Review of Kamichama Karin Chu – but it’s only to tide everyone over. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but our website is coming upon its six-year anniversary soon. Our site is practically common-law married to the Internet now. Since I can’t remember our exact [...]

It’s ninja week at Sleep is for the Weak, since I wrote an unnecessarily long Mini Review of Teru Teru x Shonen. And if anyone can pinpoint where the ninja quote for the post’s title is from, you win…my respect, I guess? But that’s not all for today. I’ve been finishing a lot of manga [...]

I reviewed a seinen for today, but I cheated – it’s the unlicensed What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Fumi Yoshinaga’s current serial in Morning magazine. I’m a cheater – what can I say? I also updated the Reviews and Mini Reviews archives to reflect the last several months worth of updates. Also, in TOTALLY AWESOME [...]

As a long-time freelancer for Tokyopop, the last two weeks have been completely surreal. I lost almost every one of my editors in the big lay-off last week, which sucks really hard because I consider all of them my friends. I’m in mourning right now. I’ve been told that the series I’m working on (Fruits [...]

It took forever for me to get to it, but here you go: Orange Skirt‘s incredibly well-researched full review of Ouran High School Host Club. I thought I was the only one on earth who listened to the Ouran Drama CDs and bought the Japanese game. Apparently we nerdy girls like to waste our time [...]

NotHayama and I are working Anime North for the next three days, specifically for the best comic store in North America. I’ll be trying to sell full sets of The Young Magician to everyone who passes by. NotHayama has some elaborate plan involving Basara, since the final volume of that (27) just came out last [...]

I updated the Staff page, since the old one was six years old. It also includes Orange Skirt now, since she writes stuff for us these days and it’s only fair I give her the same poor treatment as the rest of the staff. But I also bring content: a Mini Review of Candy Boy. [...]