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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Time to wrap up our school-themed months with one of the most celebrated school-centric shojo titles of the 2000s: Ouran High School Host Club. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

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Review: OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

But if we're talking about school-centric shojo manga, then we have to talk about one of the best-known titles from the 2000s, one I have so...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Failure at God School is the latest story from Apothecary Diaries creator Natsu Hyuuga, but beyond its supernatural trappings it's very much the kind of the school misfit story you've read a million times before. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ICYMI: We've got a brand-new Disaster Report on 2012's Psychic School Wars! Learn how one man turned a classic YA novel about fighting fascism into an over-animated Makoto Shinkai knockoff about how much he hates cell phones. renaissancejosei.blogspot.com/2026/09/disa...

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Disaster Report: PSYCHIC SCHOOL WARS

The last twenty years has been a good time for original anime films. Studio Ghibli has (mostly) relinquished its dominance of the scene, th...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Over at Renaissance Josei, we've got a brand new Disaster Report on 2012's Psychic School Wars! This hyperactive, hollow Makoto Shinkai knockoff failed not just as an adaptation and a romance but also at taking the director's career to the next level. renaissancejosei.blogspot.com/2026/09/disa...

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Disaster Report: PSYCHIC SCHOOL WARS

The last twenty years has been a good time for original anime films. Studio Ghibli has (mostly) relinquished its dominance of the scene, th...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are plenty of manga out there about super-special music schools, but most of them are not as narratively mixed-up as Alice the 101st. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

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Review: ALICE THE 101ST

Of course, there are plenty of shojo titles about schools (and music schools in particular), but few of them are as messy as this one. ALICE...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've got a BRAND NEW Disaster Report going live next weekend, but paid members of my Patreon can read it right now! Won't you chip in and join them? www.patreon.com/MeganD/posts...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're going back to school at The Manga Test Drive and we're starting with Negima! This series isn't strictly a magic school harem title, but it does combine magic, school, and an oversized harem to create an irritating, chaotic, brainlessly horny mess. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Did YOU know there was a manga version of All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku? No? Well, that's probably because there's not much to it despite the involvement of two notable artists. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/08/revi...

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Review: ALL PURPOSE CULTURAL CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU

This is a manga release I suspect most of you didn't even know existed. As we'll see, maybe there's a good reason for that. ALL PURPOSE CUL...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Old School Month returns to the Manga Test Drive, and we begin with a lesser-known bit of post-apocalyptic sci-fi from Katsuhiro Otomo: The Legend of Mother Sarah. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/08/revi...

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Review: THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH

It's time for yet another Old School Month here at the Manga Test Drive, and we're digging deep into the Dark Horse library to dig up a forg...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Over a decade ago, I reviewed Gravitation. Now it's time to look at its sequel, Gravitation EX, to judge what improved about it over time...and what didn't. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...

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Review: GRAVITATION EX

It's time to return to one of the landmarks in millennial BL and see how its sequel fares. GRAVITATION EX, by Maki Murakami. First publis...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We're doing another round of manga sequels, prequels and spinoffs at The Manga Test Drive, starting with a supernatural mystery series set in the world of The Ancient Magus' Bride: mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...

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Review: THE ANCIENT MAGUS' BRIDE: JACK FLASH AND THE FAERIE CASE FILES

Both the summer movie season and the summer anime season is loaded with sequels, so it's as good as a time as any for us to cover some more ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

At Renaissance Josei, I talk about Tokyopop's latest attempt to turn themselves into a multimedia empire by selling shares of themselves. Let me convince you on The Perils of Investing In Tokyopop: renaissancejosei.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

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The Perils of Investing In Tokyopop

I swear, I don't mean to keep picking on Tokyopop. It's just that this company has done so many notably dumb things over the years. It has ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hey folks! Sorry for the extended break, but we've got a brand new piece coming out tomorrow on Renaissance Josei! Meanwhile, our $5+ Patrons can read it right now: www.patreon.com/MeganD/posts...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our month of flowery titles continues with The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom. It's a title that clearly owes a lot to The Apothecary Diaries but doesn't have a lot of original ideas of its own to offer. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/04/revi...

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Review: THE ECCENTRIC DOCTOR OF THE MOON FLOWER KINGDOM

It was inevitable that the success of The Apothecary Diaries would spawn imitators. Those imitators can be enjoyable in their own right, ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

April showers bring flowery titles to The Manga Test Drive, starting with Sakura's Dedication. Dedication to what, you might ask? Why, being the the blandest shojo romance I've read in a while. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/04/revi...

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Review: SAKURA'S DEDICATION

April showers are bringing us a month of manga with flowery titles. It's also the season for sakura blossoms, so naturally we should start ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We're not going to forget the many shojo heroines who have had to pose as boys over the years. Vampire Dormitory is just one of the latest examples...but not one of the better ones. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

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Review: VAMPIRE DORMITORY

Don't think that I'm going to leave the ladies out of this month, though. There's a long tradition of girls posing as boys in shojo manga ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yubisaki Milk Tea seemed to promise something different: a straight teen romance starring a casually cross-dressing lead. Too bad it's mostly focused on awkward fanservice and making excuses for the lead's mixed messages to deliver on that promise. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

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Review: YUBISAKI MILK TEA

Puberty is a time when a lot of people (be they real or fictional) explore their gender presentation. This particular manga is not the best...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This month I'm looking at some the different ways manga plays with gender. Since it's also the time of year when the new school year start in Japan, I thought I'd start with Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy. It takes your standard fluffy girls' school premise and changes only the sexes involved.

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Review: THIGH HIGH: REIWA HANAMARU ACADEMY

This month we'll be looking at some the ways that manga plays with flipping sexes and genders. Since March is also the time for the start o...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Happy Crappy Life is a rare sort of BL that acknowledges the messiness and awkwardness of small-town life, second chances, and butt sex, all while looking gorgeous and being laugh out loud funny to boot. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/02/revi...

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Review: HAPPY CRAPPY LIFE

It takes a lot of talent to write a BL comedy about two messy dudes trying to fix their respective lives and make it work, and this manga is...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's hard enough to find a good sex comedy manga (pun not intended), and mean-spirited, cowardly crap like Peter Grill and the Philsopher's Time isn't helping things. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/02/revi...

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Review: PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S TIME

It's so hard (pun not intended) to find a good sex comedy manga, and crap like this isn't helping things. PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It's another month of Bad Romance manga, and what could be worse than a romance that begins with a demand for divorce? To Sir, Without Love: I'm Divorcing You should be a tawdry bodice-ripper, but it's too cold and unbalanced to be any fun. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/02/revi...

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Review: TO SIR, WITHOUT LOVE: I'M DIVORCING YOU

February means another round of Bad Romance manga here at the Manga Test Drive, and it's only fitting to start with a romance that begins w...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Gate Keepers isn't just a failed sci-fi manga from a forgotten franchise. It's also possibly the most blatant Sakura Wars knockoff I have ever seen. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi...

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Review: GATE KEEPERS

Of course, for every successful sci-fi manga there are far more that fail to find an audience outside of Japan and this is just one of them....

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Suihelibe! is obscure even by CMX standards, the story of a boy and an alien girl trying to capture creatures as part of the school biology club that's too lifeless to be fun. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi...

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Review: SUIHELIBE!

This one is a decidedly more lighthearted take on sci-fi, dug up from the dregs of the CMX library. SUIHELIBE! ( Suieribe! ), by Naomi Azum...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This month we're looking at sci-fi manga, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a more hard sci-fi manga than Planetes. It's the story of working-class space junk collectors from the creator of Vinland Saga. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi...

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Review: PLANETES

This month we're reviewing science-fiction manga, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one that's more "hard" sci-fi than this one. PLANETES (...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Let's wrap things up for The Manga Test Drive this year with our annual look in the Rear View Mirror and announce this year's Holiday Review Giveaway winner: mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

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2025 In the Rear View Mirror

First of all, it's time to announce this year's Holiday Review Giveaway winner! gimmickpunk decided to revisit a shonen classic this year,...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Our final Holiday Review is another miracle manga license: Stop!! Hibari-Kun, an early 80s comedy manga with a trans heroine that has aged way better than you could imagine: mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #25: STOP!! HIBARI-KUN

With so many long-shot older manga releases coming out this year from so many different publishers, it was legitimately hard to pick one to...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We got a lot of older manga licenses this year, and that includes the first-ever English release of Cat's Eye. This classic phantom thief story from WSJ has plenty of style, but it's brought down by its repetitiveness and the dumbest detective ever. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #24: CAT'S EYE

This year also brought us quite a few older manga titles from some surprising sources. Kana took advantage of their French heritage and tha...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This year saw a lot of miracle manga licenses. That includes Viz's release of Kingdom, a long-running shonen spin on China's Warring States period. For me, it was not worth the wait, as I found this first volume DEEPLY underwhelming. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #23: KINGDOM

They say Christmas is a time of miracles, and there certainly were a lot of manga license miracles happening this year, including this long...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Of course, it's also fun to see manga creators take traditional horror creatures like...oh, idk, a vampire, and put them somewhere unexpected for laughs and cozy fish-out-water humor. Maybe someplace like a bathhouse? mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #22: A VAMPIRE IN THE BATHHOUSE

Of course, it's also fun to take figures of horror and put them into wacky situations for the sake of comedy. For example, you could have....

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Mansect is a 1970s horror manga about guys who turn into vaguely insectoid melted monster men, but somehow its gender politics are even scarier than that. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #21: MANSECT

With so many horrors happening in the real world, it's almost a relief to turn to one of Living the Line's latest horror manga releases and...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

2025 was a good year for Apothecary Diaries writer Natsu Hyuuga. You Can't Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister is one of 2 manga adaptations of her work that came out here, a mystery series that will feel familiar...maybe a little too familiar. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #20: YOU CAN'T BLUFF THE SHARP-EYED SISTER

These last few years have been great one for Natsu Hyuuga, mostly due to the incredible success of The Apothecary Diaries . This year we s...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

OK, if you actually want a manga that's soothing, hyperfocused, and genuinely adult, you would do well to check out Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda's Gokura-Chou, an anthology about everyday artisans in historic Edo. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #19: NEIGHBORHOOD CRAFTSMEN - STORIES FROM KANDA'S GOKURA-CHOU

Now this is more of what I was looking for! This is the sort of hyper-focused historical story that you could only ever get from manga (ev...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Ok, we need something to cleanse our palettes after that last book. Wash It Away would serve that purpose nicely...if it weren't so anodyne and obsessed with checking out its heroine. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #18: WASH IT ALL AWAY

Ok, after all that horny nonsense we need a palate cleanser of a manga. I thought this next book would be ideal for that purpose but after ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Of course, not all the yuri manga we got in 2025 was so wholesome. JNC took a break from all that isekai to give us Gushing Over Magical Girls, where one girl discovers the sadist within herself by becoming the villainess to her favorite magical girls. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #17: GUSHING OVER MAGICAL GIRLS

Not all of this year's yuri titles were so sweet and heart-warming, though. This one was particularly notorious, even before it got an anim...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last year we had the Green Yuri. This year we have a Red Yuri in the form of Love Bullet, a manga that's not just a viral success story but a damn good yuri manga in its own right. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #16: LOVE BULLET

It's seasonally fitting that after we got a Green Yuri last year, we get a Red Yuri this year to match it. LOVE BULLET ( Rabu Baretto ), by...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thankfully we don't have to worry if the straights are OK when there was so much good BL manga to choose from in 2025. That includes Haberdashery Ginmokusei, where a handsome young man sweeps in to save an anxious tailor and his failing suit shop. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #14: HABERDASHERY GINMOKUSEI

But that's enough straight romance! There was plenty of fine BL released this year and this series in particular was one of the most hands...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Betrayed By the Hero, I Formed a MILF Party represents some of the lowest of low-effort isekai ecchi manga I've seen in a while. You know things are bad when even its smut is stiff and formulaic! mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #13: BETRAYED BY THE HERO, I FORMED A MILF PARTY WITH HIS MOM!

That last review represented one of the earlier, classier isekai offerings! These days, it seems the only way these creators can distingui...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Of course, the majority of the fantasy manga from 2025 were boring-ass isekai LN adaptations such as Campfire Cooking In Another World. This one seems like a novel combo of isekai and food manga...except it fails at making either of them interesting. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #12: CAMPFIRE COOKING IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH MY ABSURD SKILL

Of course, most of the fantasy manga we got this year was nowhere near so ambitious. Most of it was your bog-standard isekai light-novel a...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

That's not to say there weren't any traditional fantasy manga this year. Indeed, we got Dur-An-Ki, a mythologically inspired tale from the creators of Berserk. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #11: DUR-AN-KI

There was some original fantasy manga to be found in 2025. Fittingly enough, some of it came from the team that helped to craft one of man...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé and Sold To Another Kingdom is ostensibly just another LN adaptation about a magical woman dumped by a bad fiancé only to gain a better one, but its take on sisterly love is far stronger. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #10: THE TOO-PERFECT SAINT: TOSSED ASIDE BY MY FIANCE AND SOLD TO ANOTHER KINGDOM

Of course, a lot of the romance manga these days comes in the form of light-novel adaptations, which are often just as much about the self-i...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Assassin & Cinderella wants to be a spicy, dangerous romance between a spy and her target...except that it's too chaste to be sexy, avoids all the danger, with a heroine too dumb to survive (much less be a proper spy). mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #9: ASSASSIN & CINDERELLA

Of course, there were plenty of spicy romance manga to go around as well. Doesn't necessarily mean they were all good ones, though. ASSASSI...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

There was still plenty of shojo manga to be found in 2025, including a new title from Meca Tanaka. Alas, Teppeki Honeymoon isn't one of their stronger efforts, where a strong but poor is girl forced into a fake marriage with the heir of a security company. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #8: TEPPEKI HONEYMOON

Of course, we got plenty of shojo manga this year as well (even if it continues to be a struggle to get anyone - even the publishers - to ma...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Yet there are still publishers willing to dig into josei's past to find unsung works such as Miss Ruki, a gentle gag strip about a free spirit and her best friend from a ladies' magazine published at the peak of Japan's economic bubble. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #7: MISS RUKI

I continue to be pleased that there are a precious few publishers out there willing to delve further back into josei's past to uncover accl...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Of course, a lot of the josei we got this year were smutty ladicomi romances. Don't Hold Back, Lord Hades is a pretty typical example (in both good and bad ways), albeit with a mythological spin. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #6: DON'T HOLD BACK, LORD HADES

Of course, most of the josei we got this took the form of smutty ladicomi from Seven Seas such as this series, which itself is part of a wi...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

2025 was a shockingly good year for josei manga (even if most of it wasn't marketed as such). I certainly can't complain if it means we got Fumi Yoshinaga's latest work, Tamaki & Amane, which might be her best short story anthology yet. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #5: TAMAKI & AMANE

This was a good year for josei, even if most people didn't realize it because nobody was marketing their josei releases as part of that dem...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Of course, there were also some more recent sports manga released this year. There's Dogsred, a hockey manga that's also the latest from Golden Kamuy creator Satoru Noda. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #4: DOGSRED

There was one more notable shonen sports story from a familiar creator this year, albeit one of more recent fame and a far cooler sport. DOG...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We saw quite a few releases of sports manga from notable creators this year, including Short Game. This anthology from Mitsuru Adachi revolves around relationships and (of course) baseball. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #3: SHORT GAME

Since we're already on the topic of long-awaited releases of sports manga by legendary creators, we might as well talk about one of Denpa's ...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We go from one Itagaki to another, as this year saw the first print release of Keisuke Itagaki's infamous martial arts manga Baki the Grappler. mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #2: BAKI THE GRAPPLER

Now I can switch from talking about Paru Itagaki to her far more infamous father. It's not the first time his best-known manga been release...

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Naturally I had to start this year's Holiday Reviews with Sanda because why wouldn't I start with the manga that's literally about a boy who turns into a buff Santa? mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...

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Holiday Review #1: SANDA

Well obviously I have to start this year's holiday reviews with the manga about Santa Claus! SANDA, by Paru Itagaki. First published in 202...

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