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Bad Buddy – BL Drama (TV) Review

Arden Skye2 years ago2 years ago18 mins

A BL Drama for the Queers and such a fresh breath! Sets the bar high for the industry. Remember my review of KinnPorsche and where I said that that series introduced some good changes for the BL fandom? Jokes on that. Bad Buddy came out half a year earlier than KP and managed to triple…

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Suzume – Anime Movie Review

Arden Skye2 years ago2 years ago15 mins

I’ve heard critics say, “Can Makoto Shinkai write only one movie?”, and I’d say this is pretty much him in a nutshell.

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The front cover of "hairball" – a black cover with the face of a cat in the middle. Orange eyes and a bit of blood on its teeth.
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Hairball – Graphic Novel Review

Arden Skye7 months ago7 months ago03 mins

Plot After a young girl, Anna, gets bitten by her cat, bad things start to happen to her parents, who are constantly fighting and blaming her or the cat for everything that went down in their lives. When Anna tries to get rid of the cat, she discovers there might be a greater terror behind…

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An Easy Introduction to Love Triangles – Manga Review

Arden Skye2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

An easy introduction to love triangles – or in Japanese Goukaku no Tame no! Yasashii Sankaku Kankei Nyuumon (合格のための! やさしい三角関係入門) – is a GL Manga by Canno, exploring polysexuality. Story It revolves around three girls – Mayuki, Rin and Akira –, who know each other, but don’t know that each knows the other:Rin & Akira…

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Two images. The left is the front cover of "Linkage". The right shows the contents of the Manga (chapter titles and symbols/items of each).
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Linkage – short GL manga review

Arden Skye1 year ago1 year ago04 mins

Linkage or in Japanese リンケージ is a GL Manga by Uso Kurata. A collection of 5 stories that have been published in magazines before.  I’ll be reviewing them separately.  Chapter 1: Kusari wa Mou Iranai (鎖はもういらない (No More Need For Chains)) That was cute. Felt a bit off when Aoi was hanging out with the others and didn’t even…

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Hades

Aaron Bird2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

“Despite the amount of time I’ve spent in this game, I’m still not done, with plenty of lore and story still to discover.”

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A book icon with a photo of a silver mermaid fairy figurine out of wire and pearls sitting on a piece of wood. Dark green blurred background. Photo by Michael Starkie from Unplash. A bookmark on the left side of the book, with the Pending Plays logo at the top and "Book Guild" in vertical format below. On the right of the book it says "#12 merfolk" in a caps log font decorated with fish scales.
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Book Guild – May 2025 Challenge

Arden Skye6 months ago6 months ago02 mins

May is also known as MerMay for the art community, so let’s join them! The theme for this Book Guild’s challenge therefore is …

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Bullet Train – (Thriller) Book Review

Arden Skye2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

What a train ride. To quote a line from the book: “It was supposed to be a five-minute train trip, but there he is, over two and a half hours later and five hundred kilometers to the north. And somehow he feels like he’s got nowhere. Sucked into a journey he had no intention of…

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Love in the palm of his hands – Volume 1 Manga Review

Arden Skye1 year ago1 year ago03 mins

Love in the palm of his hands also known as Bloom on Your Sign like a Chameleon. or in Japanese カメレオンはてのひらに恋をする。(Chameleon wa Tenohira ni Koi wo Suru.) is a BL Manga by Rin Teku. It’s about Keito, who is deaf, and Fujinaga, a theatre student who gets to know himself through sign language. (My entry…

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A shape of a book on dark grey background, with 3 round baked breads and 3 grain stalks in the middle on the book cover. A bookmark on the left side of the book saying, "Book Guild", and on the right: "#4 BREAD".
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Book Guild – September 2024 Challenge

Arden Skye1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

This time, the options in the poll in our Discord server were all national celebrations, and we’ve decided that…: Theme: Bread Based on the national whole grains month that is in September. Read and review anything that’s a book – novels, comics, mangas, graphic novels, poem collections, scripts, short stories, zines, etc. (Audiobooks count too,…

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