Mild spoiler warning: if you’re worried about spoilers for the first book, I recommend both books and I recommend reading them in order! If you’re not worried about mild spoilers for the first book, read on. – Usually, I can give some sense of the story’s shape by naming a genre or two, some simple …
Welcome to our second Bookling episode, which we actually recorded first because time is weird! This episode we read Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta, a YA novel featuring queer love in a dystopian world of Pacific Rim style mechs. Mech fights and smooches here we come! Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (@OLaddieGirl), …
Sakuta begins dating the ephemeral Mai Sakurajima, but their relationship runs immediately into the trials of Adolescence Syndrome. Sakuta attempts to resolve the psychological issues of the women around him, from a devilish younger student to his brilliant friend Futaba, but the scars on his own heart may be the hardest to heal. Also I …
Sakuta Azusagawa’s life takes a turn for the unexpected when he meets teenage actress Mai Sakurajima, dressed as a bunny girl, wandering through a library and not being noticed by anyone else there. Mai is intrigued that Sakuta is the only one who can see her, as other people are unable to see her, even …
We continue the tale of Takeo Gōda, a teenage monster, and his tiny baking girlfriend Rinko Yamato. Together the young loving couple navigate heart surgeries and pregnancies, wild boars and bush babies, stalkers and competitive pastry chefs. End 2018 with the most luscious of all the lips in the land! You can also fight us …
Takeo Gōda is a tall and muscular student who doesn’t have much luck with women, as every girl he likes ends up falling for his best friend, Makoto Sunakawa, who is charming and good-looking. This all changes when he saves Rinko Yamato, a petite shy girl who, above all other expectations, falls in love with …
The strange tale of Shiro Amada, commander of the 08th Mobile Suit Team, continues. After realising that the pilot of a secret Zeon weapon is Aina, who he met during a fateful encounter in space, Shiro finds himself unable to fight back against the enemy. Shiro is accused (with good reason) of treason by a …
It’s time for more gay dragon slice-of-life anime as we continue and conclude our review of Miss Koabayshi’s Dragon Maid. Tohru and Kobayshi deepen their relationship through rivalry, holidays and alcohol, but it’s not all fun and games – when Tohru’s dickhead dad comes to town to break up her relationship, Tohru’s own fears of …
Kobayashi-san woke up one morning to find that the night before she had accidentally invited an ancient omnipotent dragon to live with her as a maid while black-out drunk. As luck would have it, Tohru is enthusiastic, if a little haphazard, and it’s not long before the two find a comfortable equilibrium in their daily …
Mitsuha is a girl who has dreams of living life as a boy in cosmopolitan Tokyo. Taki is a boy who has dreams of living life as a girl in a tiny rural lake town in the mountains. The two swiftly realise that these are no mere dreams, that several days a week the two …