I’m Canadian, of Course I’ve Read the Hit Ice Hockey Manga From Weekly Young Jump, and It’s Excellent
Being a Canadian born in the Maritime province of New Brunswick and raised on the edge of rural Ontario, hockey was an inescapable, all-consuming passion seemingly anywhere I went. But as a nerdy child who drifted towardanimeand manga, I was outside the gravitational pull of my nation’s favorite pastime, content instead with reading about everything from Go players toseinen dark fantasy. WithDogsred’ssurprising introduction, I finally got to embrace the best of both worlds, with the manga speaking to me on a near-spiritual level as a Canadian, seeing hockey through the eyes of Satoru Noda....