Nikolas Freeman, aka Y Ruler of Time, is a man of many interests, but the one he indulges in the most is reading and talking about manga. Whether it's in his video series Read Right to Left or the Weekly Manga Recap podcast he co-hosts with Rollo T, you can always count on him to indulge in his otakudom.
This is how the series ends. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a chorus of fans crying out in anger. Part 2 of 2.
The end of Bleach is coming, so Y takes a look back to try to understand where it all went wrong. Part 1 of 2.
Y Ruler of Time discusses Shamo, a manga that goes as dark and edgy as possible without being a parody of itself.
Y brings in the new year by recapping every series to debut in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2011.
In the introduction to a new video series, Y Ruler of Time talks about Hollywood's recent interest in adapting manga into movies.
It's a backwards world, where humans are animals, men can be mothers, and rape is romance. Yaoi is weird, man.
What are Nintendo's flagship characters like when they make the jump between media?
What does it take for a manga to become successful? More than what this one had.
Sooner or later, they're bound to come up, but every author has their own take on training arcs. So what can we learn from them?
Because we like to hear ourselves talk.