The Isolator is a complete story on its own but it does set up an ongoing series.
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For this week’s Why It Works piece, I wrote a response to To Your Eternity’s phenomenal first episode. I haven’t been cross-posting my Why It Works pieces, since I link them all on Twitter anyway, but [...]
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It’s time for the new season start! We’ve dinosaurs, radio hosts and more! Plus the final episodes of Pet and My Hero Academia. The post Let’s Go! #147 – Let’s Dino-solate appeared first on DYNAMITE [...]
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One of Fruits Basket’s biggest personalities in Souma Ayame pays a visit to Shigure’s house. He comes with fresh peaches and invites Yuki and Tooru to visit his shop. Despite how annoying he finds his [...]
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive 02 プリンセスコネクト！Re:Dive episode 02 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: At an inn, Kokkoro gets up to wake up Yuuki, only to find him up and training in the courtyard. Kokkoro and Yuuki [...]
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By Reki Kawahara and Shimeji. Released in Japan by ASCII Mediaworks. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Jenny McKeon. Last time I said it might be 2020 before we see the next book in [...]
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These are rather hard times for a lot of people, to put it mildly. I am very lucky in many ways. I can and do work from home, even if I didn’t I’m financially secure and have no debt. For now me and [...]
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Isola #10 Image Comics Writer: Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl Artist: Karl Kerschl and MSassyK I get tired of saying it, but it feels like an extraordinarily long time since I’ve read Isola. I’m [...]
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[VMAX Rising]Duraludon, Cursola and Sonia cards have been revealed. The expansion set will release on February 7, 2020.
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Isola #9 Image Comics Writer: Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl Artist: Karl Kerschl and MSassyK Isola returns for its #9 this month, but fans can’t help but feel a wee-bit detached from a comic with [...]
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Leading up through Easter Sunday, Beneath the Tangles will be running a series of posts based on a theme with the hopes that it will lead our readers to consider the meaning of this week and [...]
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By Yoshiki Tanaka. Released in Japan as “Ginga Eiyū Densetsu” by Tokuma Shoten. Released in North America by Haikasoru. Translated by Matt Treyvaud. Before we discuss the events of the second half of [...]
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The inherent paradox in making connections with people in order to sever your connection with the world is not lost on the characters either, though I will point out the overall lack of subtlety about [...]
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By Reki Kawahara and Shimeji. Released in Japan by ASCII Mediaworks. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Jenny McKeon. This is the first time we’ve had a villain as the cover girl of [...]
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It’s hard to trust people when everyone is only trying to fit into a collective. If people change when they are around others, how is anyone supposed to know who anyone else really is? Because of [...]
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Annoying dialogue and poor characters are very much an issue in the manga adaptation of Reki Kawahara's The Isolator.Title: The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude Genre: Sci-Fi, Action [...]
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We are no stranger with this kind of world in anime: an isolated, conservative world that cut-off from outside communication and ultimately stay behind its times, slowing back 10, 20 even hundred [...]
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Reki Kawahara is well known for Sword Art Online and Accel World, but if you ask me, his best work is The Isolator, a sci-fi thriller and psychological drama series that only gets a new volume once a [...]
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By Reki Kawahara and Shimeji. Released in Japan by ASCII Mediaworks. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by ZephyrRz. It is rather startling how little time the main events of The Isolator [...]
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