Welcome back to another edition of RTO, where things will get a little racier with a quite smutty Digital Spotlight, some kind of explicit imagery in a recently released older manga, and some questionable answers to reader inquiries in Inu X Boku SS 3!
Ten years have passed since the creation of the Lightless Realm, and the city of Kukujicho becomes more desolate as people's fears increase. Akashi Saginuma, an elite student attending Kukunochi Academy, gets called out by his teacher along with his amiable friend, Iwato Namito. There, they are informed of a "pilot training course" that only the most outstanding of students become selected for.
Child of Light is about overcoming, and growing, and having things taken from you, but also about recognizing that you have something to give, even when it feels like you have nothing left.
If you're already a fan of Fumi Yoshinaga, you're already planning to pick up this book. If you haven't discovered her yet this is an excellent moment to discover why she is so highly regarded.
This “what if?” story, the first of a three-parter, takes an alternative perspective and relationship pairing to the original story. The result is an ironic but hardly necessary work likely intended to be a further deconstruction of the magical girl genre.
Golden Time's first half was a battle between the series' emotional writing and its perfunctory direction. Its second half is where the writing tears through the direction like a tank through infantry lines.