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What year is it, you might ask as you look over the listings for local movies. “The Crow?” You say, beleaguered and weary. The dust of sleep making you sound like Kermit the Frog while recovering from laryngitis. You should seek out those stalwart reviewers of manga to steady your nerves. Perhaps a good discussion of a pair of manga by a pair of hosts will settle your time vertigo.
Tim has The Last Doctors Think of You Whenever They Look up to Cherry Blossoms. So imagine there’s a hospital and, get this, there are doctors. One of them, we will call the positive Polly. He wants to treat everyone with all the drugs, surgeries, and stem cells you can find. There there’s Dr Dermatologist who tells patients that you don’t always have to do everything when you’re terminal. It’s depressing as you would imagine and the chapter titles kind of spoil the ending of the volume. It gets a Borders.
Weltall revisits Freezing. To recap a little, there’s a school for people with magical powers. Girls have the big flashy powers and combat abilities. Boys have abilities to freeze things like their opponents. For a manga that premises itself on being about war with inter-dimensional beings, they sure don’t make an appearance. We get stuck with watching students battle with each other because this is just another super school manga. It goes down to a Burn It.
