Drama
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the drama genre.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Everyone enjoys a “be careful what you wish for” time-traveling tale, and ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ understands why. (read more)
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
‘El Camino’ is a dressed-up but empty continuation of ‘Breaking Bad’s’ lesser material. Unwilling to change the canon, the suspense falls flat. (read more)
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Drifting Net Café
While Shūzō Oshimi normally handles sexual content with tact, ‘Drifting Net Café’ is possibly his most exploitative work. How much does it drag the work down? (Warning: Review is currently only unedited notes.) (read more)
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No Longer Human
Junji Ito adapts ‘No Longer Human,’ one of the most famous Japanese novels. Can the supernatural horror author handle a psychological drama? (read more)
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Happiness
Shūzō Oshimi returns to supernatural horror elements with the vampiric manga, ‘Happiness.’ (read more)
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Infected Island
A pandemic threatens all of Japan in ‘Infected Island,’ a mediocre medical thriller written by Masasumi Kakizaki, author of ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Green Blood.’ (read more)
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Drifters
Seemingly not content with only ‘Fate/Zero’ wasting the concept of a war between historical legends, the author of ‘Hellsing’ attempts the same with ‘Drifters’ and does only marginally better. (Includes OVA) (read more)
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Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness
The sequel movie to mecha parody series ‘Martian Successor Nadesico’ flirts with tragedy, but only succeeds insofar as being a tragic misunderstanding of what made the original series so effective. (read more)
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Shino Can’t Say Her Name
One of Shūzō Oshimi’s finest works, this modest, one-volume manga covers the high school life of a girl with a debilitating stutter. Heartfelt and sincere, it appropriately wastes no words. (read more)
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Waltz
Shūzō Oshimi’s ‘Waltz’ is a 40-page one-shot about genderfluidity and two teenagers searching for individuality and self-actualization. (read more)