Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Like everyone else who followed the Berserk saga for over a decade or so (for some people it is even longer than that), I wondered what was going to happen after the sudden and untimely death of Kentaro Miura. And…
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The manga world is still crying for Kentaro Miura’s death, but there are some rumours about the future of one of the most-loved series ever. And a tweet from Hideki Sugimoto, Miura’s assistant, seems to suggest various possibilities. But a…
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It is yesterday (20 May 2021) news that Kentaro Miura, the mangaka who singlehanded wrote one of the most famous and revered manga ever, Berserk, passed away at 54. It was not Covid, in case you wonder. But the news…
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Yes, it is official. The Leap Year this time not only brought us Iphone 12, as Apple’s ads informed us a few days ago; it also got in store yet another Berserk episode before the end of the year and…
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September has just ended, but the books I had on my table were over long before. I am already at an advanced stage in my October reading list. Which looks like this: In the Name of the Family: A Novel…
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Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is infamous not only for its content (the analogy with GoT is only up to a point: the manga is definitively worse when violence and bleakness of the worldbuilding are about) but also for the long periods…
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You will remember I have done a quick survey a few weeks ago about some regular content to add to this blog. First of all, thank you to everybody who replied, either by comments, by Twitter, or by email. Much…
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If there’s something I really look forward to is to watch the OVA rendition of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN (機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN), a series created by Sunrise based on the volumes V to VII of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s manga. This…
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As a long-time manga/anime lover, I have many times wondered why some series -very popular in Japan -are almost unknown in Europe, no matter if overall the fandom base has been growing everywhere since the 1970s. Without having lived in…
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I’ve spent my Easter holidays in East Asia, most of them in the magnificent city of Tokyo – and, as every time I am in the area, I have paid a visit to Akihabara, the historical otaku district. Even though now the…
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