Flowers aren’t all that’s blossoming this season. Love is in the air as well! But to bloom, challenges must be overcome, like all those involved with imitating your twin sister at school or with getting through your familiar’s thick skull that you like him or just a simple lack of confidence. Some difficulties, though, may be too much to overcome—and maybe shouldn’t be, like a decades-long age gap or a dystopian society that has replaced your former self with your new self. That latter one is a long story, but an amazing one, as are a number of others this week, though there are a few duds in the group as well. Read on to see what we recommend you pick up and which volumes you’re better off skipping!
After the Rain (Vol. 1) • Cinderella Closet (Vol. 1) • Evergreen (Vol. 3) • I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too (Vol. 2) • Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 6) • Kowloon Generic Romance (Vol. 3) • My Sister, the Cat (Vol. 2) • Sugar Apple Fairy Tale (Vol. 1) • Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 1) • Witch Watch (Vol. 5)
A black-and-white drawing of two cargo ships in a body of water. One is labelled "forward" while the other is labelled "given", representing the Ever Forward and Ever Given, two Ever Green ships. There is a heart between them and the text "love wins <3" above.
Reader’s Corner: Boss Bride Days, Enough with This Slow Life, and Marmalade Boy
We feature some classic romance titles this week (My Little Monster, Marmalade Boy) to join more modern ones in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, which we’ll be reviewing through to its current release, and Boss Bride Days. Our writers also review a number of other works, including one that was almost universally panned by an author who is otherwise celebrated (and who we’ll profile in tomorrow’s International Women’s Day post)—can you guess what manga that is?
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (Vol. 2) • Boss Bride Days (Vol. 2) • Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored (Vol. 1) • Evergreen (Vol. 1) • Marmalade Boy: Collector’s Edition (Vol. 1) • Miss Miyazen Would Love to Get Closer to You (Vol. 3) • My Little Monster (Vol. 1) • Tomb Raider King (Vol. 1) • Villains Are Destined to Die (Vol. 2)
reblog this and tag with a food you no longer have access to (closed restaurant, state you moved away from, ex’s mom’s cooking, etc) that will haunt you until your dying day, mine are the spicy chicken sandwich on the employee menu at the fine dining restaurant I was a prep cook at, and the onion bagel from the kosher place down the street from my house when I lived in the city
the great irony of early one piece antagonists believing zoro was the actual captain and using luffy as a puppet ... oda really threw us a bone and curb-stomped it right in our faces. yes, zoro could be a captain in his own right. yes, zoro could match luffy in strength. yes, zoro knows this perfectly well. and you know what? he chose luffy two years ago, and he will continue to choose luffy again and again. roronoa zoro, the pirate hunter, who followed a wannabe pirate with a nonexistent crew on a whim because luffy brought him his swords and made a half-assed attempt at a bargain. zoro, who made a vow to never lose again on both his and luffy's honor. zoro, who told luffy he'd make him commit harakiri if he got in the way of zoro's goal, only to turn around and be willing to sacrifice his dream if it means that luffy reaches his. zoro, who stood in place and took luffy's pain and told a warlord to take his head instead of luffy's, who got down on his knees before his supposed rival and begged mihawk to mentor him so that he could return strong enough to protect his captain. zoro, who has conqueror's haki- a natural born leader- but chooses to stay at the right hand of a man he has deemed greater than himself.
and the thing that luffy fears most? being alone. being rejected. being left behind. and what should have been his foil- the pirate hunter to his pirate king, the nonbeliever to his divine, the king of hell to his sun god- instead becomes his first and most devout follower; the one who demands to follow him to hell and back. oughhhggg i'm sick to my stomach