Would highly recommend reading Flying Witch for anyone looking for a fun and comfy series🤗👌

Manga creator: ladies don’t need torsos, right?

First Gabriel Dropout and now Uzaki is finishing. It's like an era is coming to an end.

By the time I managed to catch up with the updates mentioned last night I had another dozen or so new chapters landing on my lap. I'm not gonna complain about getting more reading material but that also means I'm back to catching up again.

I should cherish this while I can since this doesn't happen particularly often these days.

Dandadan has another great week, a return of a fan favorite. I really want the current mini arc to end.

MARRIAGETOXIN has been really dragging the last couple of chapters and now they're adding a backstory for a "character" that only just got introduced and probably will be gone in a couple of chapters again, for a sideplot that came out of nowhere. Really feels like padding.

My feed was flooded with updates, reaching around 30 new chapters since last week - an event I've never seen before honestly, not on this scale. As you can guess, I've been slowly going through that, and will continue to do so for the next few days (maybe the whole week depending on how much time I have).

Can't say I'm opposed to having this kind of trouble.

immortal-xmen-2022⸿1 had me wheezing🤣.
it was excellently paneled&executed

It's pretty great, have fun!

This looks really fucking cute!! ☺️ excited to sit down and give it a read

I just binged, straight through with only a break for sleep, an amazing manhwa - See You in My 19th Life.

Jieum Ban has an extraordinary ability: she can remember the memories of all her past lives. After her previous life is cut short by a tragic accident, she sets out to reconnect with the people of her past life in her current one. Will memories of her 18th life sabotage romance in her 19th? Or will love endure across different lives?

The thing is that that's the bulk of the story for 30-some chapters, then it suddenly pulls together some little bits and pieces that have been scattered here and there and opens up to reveal an entirely new, additional plot line. And that's not the last time it does that - IIRC, there are at least three different points throughout the story where it peels back one layer of story and reveals an entirely new one hidden underneath. It's just very well done.

Additionally, the characters are well-written and there's a lot of satisfying growth through the course of the story. And that's done in much the same way - a character might be introduced and come off as very shallow and one-dimensional, then it slowly peels back the layers so you can see deeper and deeper into them and discover that it's not that they're one-dimensional - not even close. It's that they (like virtually all of us) have significant parts of their selves hidden away or guarded by walls. There's much more there - they just don't let most people see it.

And it's a complete and satisfying story, and I strongly recommend it.

Few weeks ago I wrote about Gun-Jou, a short series about high-school relay racing. I'm about halfway through and so far it turned out to be way more of a drama than sports story. I know these two tend to linked together quite often but in this case it seems like sports is more of a background excuse for the plot rather than an active plot point. I'll put some examples in a spoiler to show what I mean.

Not that it makes the story less interesting, let alone bad, but I won't be surprised if the second point from the spoiler ends up as a closure in the final chapter rather than a starting point towards something more. It's a pretty enjoyable story so far so I don't mind, just a little surprised.

As for the drama elements, they are realistic and make sense within the story so I'm curious about how things will turn out going forward. I'll report back once I'm done with the whole thing.

I actually wrote a review of it for MAL (the first review I've ever written) just because it's so completely unlike anything else.

The thing that amazes and impresses me is that it somehow manages to be sweet and wholesome underneath all of that. In a way, it's not even raunchy. I mean, it is, and very much so, but at the same time, they're so open and straightforward and honest about it all that it doesn't seem that way. They're just sweet, wide-eyed innocents, falling in love and building a relationship, regardless of whether the topic at hand is sharing an umbrella in the rain or having sex 30 times in a night.

And it makes me laugh regularly, just because, just like this chapter, it'll go along for a while, being normal and sweet and simple and wholesome, then BAM! - it drops something just astonishingly depraved right in the middle of it all. And it's just that much funnier because Ino and Rintarou never break character - again, they're just normal and sweet and simple and wholesome, even though it turns out that they're talking about something astonishingly depraved instead of any of the things one might expect in the same situation in any other manga.

It's like those two families are perfectly ordinary... non-humans. As if unbeknownst to everyone, they're descended directly from the Greek gods or something, so all of the normal human rules just don't apply to them and their appetite for everything, including sex, is insatiable. But other than that, they're just ordinary people, going through all the same things everyone else goes through. Sort of. Though not really. But still sort of...

This kind of really raunchy series isn't usually my cup of tea, but I find this series weirdly compelling. I wrote some initial impressions a little while back and have continued going through this series. I am a couple chapters behind, but I will try to catch up.

Suddenly diverting in the middle of her crisis to notice the sock, then immediately going back to the crisis, was both funny and a bit too familiar. As a lot of this manga has been...

I think his fingers-on-head deduction pose was a reference to Furuhata Ninzaburo, which makes sense for him to reference. Almost the entire series is on archive.org for free, so you can check that out for yourself if you like.

If nobody picks up this series and we have to wait for official releases to get to this point, this will be a hell of a chapter to wait on. I don't expect this series to let a misunderstanding like this drag on too long as is too often the case in other series. However, it would suck to have it drag on forever from our perspective until we get a resolution.

I loved that page of her curled up under her bed. When my brain is spiraling from something, it often is easily distracted in the middle...like noticing a missing sock.

Well...Dad is pretty quick at assessing things. I practically expected him to make some Phoenix Wright or Conan references in that chapter.

...Dad probably knew about Miko's ability all along, eh?

It makes sense given that he's the same.

That was very sweet.

Nice to see a chapter focused on Himemiya - most of what we've seen of her so far has just been innuendo about her... um... predatory approach to men. Which we still saw here, but with some interesting and touching context.

The look on her face in the last panel just breaks my heart.

I know it's a cliche, but I still laugh at that bit when the male lead is made to look embarrassing in a room full of girls, then the next panel is just the "click, click, click, click..." of pictures being taken.

I decided to try migrating some of my library again since there are a few series I still can't find new sources for after the old ones died. The only title I managed to find alternative for was The Big Bees though there weren't any new chapters to catch up on. I miss these fluffy dorks.

Maybe her eyes just don't feel right if they don't get their regular hit of chlorine.