Manga Madness: City Hunter (1993)
Beginning its serialisation way back in 1985 and ending in the early nineties, Tsukasa Hojo’s City Hunter is a classic manga that hasn’t entirely aged well.
Read More Manga Madness: City Hunter (1993)Beginning its serialisation way back in 1985 and ending in the early nineties, Tsukasa Hojo’s City Hunter is a classic manga that hasn’t entirely aged well.
Read More Manga Madness: City Hunter (1993)Yes, it’s time to talk about the one true heavy-hitter of manga adaptations, Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy.
Read More Manga Madness: Oldboy (2003)Set in the world of illegal Japanese street racing, Initial D tells the story of young driver Takumi Fujiwara (played here by Jay Chou), who unwittingly becomes a legend amongst the racers of his local Akina mountain pass for the skill he demonstrates delivering tofu from his father’s shop.
Read More Manga Madness: Initial D (2005)Originally published in underground manga anthology Ax in 1999, Yusaku Hanamura’s one-volume Tokyo Zombie is undoubtedly, and unashamedly, a cult manga.
Read More Manga Madness: Tokyo Zombie (2005)If there was ever a live-action manga adaptation that actually looked promising, Mushishi is it.
Read More Manga Madness: Mushishi (2006)Let’s just start with the obvious: Death Note is a mess.
Read More Manga Madness: Death Note (2017)“It’s not like there aren’t any East Asian actors who could have done a good job as the Major.” This was me, to my dad, during the height of the Ghost in the Shell whitewashing scandal.
Read More Manga Madness: Ghost in the Shell (2017)With a manga as world-conquering as Death Note, it hardly comes as a surprise that the series would make the transition into live-action.
Read More Manga Madness: Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name (2006)In the golden days before mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki experienced his undeservedly brief fall from grace in 2017, the phrase Rurouni Kenshin only conjured thoughts of exciting samurai action…
Read More Manga Madness: Rurouni Kenshin Trilogy (2012-2014)Okay, so, Attack on Titan… isn’t great.
Read More Manga Madness: Attack on Titan Parts I & II (2015)