Fair Terms and a Villain’s Mind: Review of Manga Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s epic tale of love and torment. Pretty bishonen elves. Two great tastes that… don’t necessarily go great together?

When It’s Hard to Be a Geek

When there are worse things than being a girl.

Scrolls, Satire and Strangely Large Eyes: The Prehistory of Manga

Let’s do the Time Warp again and go back – WAY back – to the first glimmerings of our favorite Japanese comics.

The Quake in Japan: How Geeks Can Help

Find out how you can help our friends in Japan and keep abreast of how people in and out of the anime industry are doing.

You’re Mythtaken – Top 5 Mixed-Up Mythologies and Religions in Anime

Plenty of anime titles are inspired by religion and myth… if by “inspired” you mean “jumbled and twisted beyond recognition.”

Intro to Yaoi: Because Two Pretty Boys are Better than One

Let M guide you through a dark and perilous (and by “dark and perilous” we mean “sparkly and angsty”) journey into yaoi.

How to Survive An Anime Convention

You will never find a more fetching hive of squee and geekery. M’s here with advice on how to make the most out of your con venture.

Manga Review: Battle Angel Alita Last Order

What happens when a classic manga contracts a heavy dose of sequelitis.

Manga Review: Battle Angel Alita

If you’re looking for smart cyberpunk with a side order of robot Waif Fu, m has just what the doctor ordered.

Dreamgirl Introductions: Meet Z

A bit about Z, the last letter of the dreamgirl alphabet.