Fred Gallagher

I get fans creating things like this for themselves, for fun, but I don't get people reading them. Are they aware there is real anime in the world? And if they like bad anime, there is real bad anime? And if they want everyone to be like a suburban American teen, there is clearly also that? I guess the answer is they want to believe Japanese teens have all that martial arts robot hot body cat girl nonsense, but are also just like them. So this is just ... neoliberalism at work? The show more narcissism of no differences? show less

A great continuation of the first volume. As the story has become a bit more cohesive at this point, fewer notes are needed to explain what's going on. I do like the separation of Dead Piro Days, Shirt Guy Dom days, and filler sketches into their own groupings.

I'm still trying to figure out how real the zombies are.

Best volume so far, it is obvious that Gallagher is really striving to push himself to become a better artist and a deeper writer (if only he felt the need to do so faster!). Anyway, the series has always been one that I admired, and I have to say that Largo/Erika is one of my all time favorite relationships. My only criticism is that in some of the more climactic scenes it was sometimes all too easy to mix up some of the female characters; especially Erika and Kimiko.

Piro and Largo, two American gamers, go to Japan on a whim, and get stranded there. Mischief and mayhem ensues as they attempt to make enough money to return home.

This volume is the first compilation of strips from the long-running webcomic series. I first saw a few of these years ago when I first became interested in Japan and anime/video game nerddom. The art is rough, but it gets better with time. It perfectly encapsulates what every new Japanophile imagines their first adventure in Japan show more will be like--cons, cosplayers and video games everywhere. There's not much plot, but it is entertaining. show less