Monday, January 17, 2022

Manga Pilot: World's End Harem

So I'm doing a new thing here on the ol' blog and I call it "Manga Pilot". As of late, I've been reading a lot of manga here and there and I decided it'd make for decent content here to review a few of the ones I've been reading. Now I call this manga pilot because for the most part I've been mostly interested in volume ones of series and I'm piloting them to see if I like them enough to maybe either continue with the series or check out the anime. Either way, today I'm offering up an interesting one and on this first installment of "Manga Pilot" we're taking a look at "World's End Harem". While Hulu's "Y: The Last Man" (and I hear the graphic novels are quite good, I haven't read'em) struggled with the incoherence of including trans people in a virus that only kills men, "World's End Harem" gets right to the core of the main issue, avoiding extinction and needing men to procreate. Let's not mince words here, yes, "World's End Harem" is an ecchi title and yes, it does appeal to a common male fantasy, BUT and that's a HUGE but, the actual nature of the issue cannot be avoided and stands up logically with the plot. I'll explain after the break.

DEXTER-ity: Dexter: New Blood

Well, well, well, of all the things coming back I never thought I'd see the day our beloved red-headed human hacker Dexter Morgan would make his return. In many ways, I suppose the producers got what they wanted in the god-awful Season 8 which was supposed to be the series's final season, in which they wanted Dexter to live in hopes of a possible return. Well, welcome to possible and Dexter is back. Going into this limited series I feel trepidation because considering how badly the series was handled after 4 and 5 I can't I'm not worried that some old habits will arise, and we'll get to some of those in a bit. But now that this series has concluded and I've had a few days to digest what I just witnessed how did the series go? Well, welcome one and all to my finale Dexterity, a "Dexter" review, and analysis done by yours truly.