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[silvermoon424]

My manga collection (October 2023)

I did a post detailing my manga collection back in 2021, but it's grown a lot since then so I figured I'd make a new post! It was also a good time to do so because we're repainting my room and while there's usually a ton of anime merch in front of the books on my shelves, now it's all been packed up. So there's a clear look at the books without me having to move anything, lol.

Anyway, without further adieu, here we go! My manga collection is largely shoujo (specifically magical girls) and horror manga.

Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino

Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo by Matsuri Akino

The Clique by Yishan Li

Frozen II manga by Arina Tanemura

Dark Metro by Tokyo Calen and Yoshiken

Yokai Rental Shop by Shin Mashiba

Confidential Confessions by Reiko Momochi

Pichi Pichi Pitch (aka Mermaid Melody) by Michiko Yokote and Pink Hanamori

Magical Girl Site by Kentaro Sato

Reiko the Zombie Shop by Rei Mikamoto

Les Miserables (manga adaptation) by TszMei Lee

Nightmares for Sale by Kaoru Ohashi

Presents by Kanako Inuki

Mail by Housui Yamazaki

Dark Water by Meimu

Tale of a White Night by Tooko Miyagi

Goth by Otsuichi and Kendi Oiwa

Beautiful People by Mitsukazu Mihara

Attack on Titan: No Regrets by Gun Snark and Hikaru Suruga

In Clothes Called Fat by Moyoco Anno

A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano

Bride of Deimos by Etsuko Ikeda and Yuuho Ashibe

Limit by Keiko Suenobu

Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki

Dolls omnibus (in Japanese) by Yumiko Kawahara

Ibitsu by Haruto Ryo

A God Somewhere (Western comic) by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg

Beauty (Western comic) by Hubert and Kerascoët

Ah! My Goddess by Kōsuke Fujishima

Only One Wish by Mia Ikumi

Higurashi When They Cry: Festival Accompanying Arc by Karin Suzuragi

Chronicles of the Grim Peddler by Lee Jeoun-A

PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama

Elfen Lied by Lynn Okamoto

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit by Motoro Mase

Happy Sugar Life by Tomiyaki Kagisora

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood by Hirohiko Araki

An Ojamajo Doremi artbook (in Japanese)

Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi

Dolls by Yumiko Kawahara

Maid-sama by Hiro Fujiwara

Franken Fran by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

Hell Girl by Miyuki Eto

Gurren Lagann by Kotaro Mori

Doll by Mitsukazu Mihara

Mantis Woman by Senno Knife

Various Sailor Moon artbooks from the anime, manga illustrations by Naoko Takeuchi, and fan artbooks

Sailor Moon Eternal Edition by Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor V Eternal Edition by Naoko Takeuchi

Puella Magi Madoka Magica by Hanokage

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story by Hanokage

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Wraith Arc by Hanokage

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Rebellion Story by Hanokage

Puella Magi Oriko Magica by Kuroe Mura

Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Sadness Prayer by Kuroe Mura

Puella Magi Tart Magica by Golden Pe Done

Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story by Fuji Fujino

Assorted PMMM and Magia Record artbooks

Pokemon Adventures (aka Pokemon Special) by Hidenori Kusaka and Mato/Satoshi Yamamoto. I own the complete set of the RBG, Yellow, GSC, FRLG, Emerald and HGSS arcs as well as a few volumes from the RS, DP, and Black/White arcs.

Various Pokemon 4koma (in Japanese)

Pokemon: I Choose You by Ryo Takamisaki

Phantom Thief Pokemon 7 by Miho Asada

The Rise of Darkrai by Ryo Takamisaki

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure by Shigekatsu Ihara

The Electric Tale of Pikachu by Toshihiro Ono

The Art of Pokemon Adventures by Satoshi Yamamoto (both English and Japanese versions)

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team by Makoto Mizobuchi

Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea by Makoto Mizobuchi

Various Junji Ito Manga:

Dissolving Classroom

Fragments of Horror

The Liminal Zone

Sensor

Black Paradox

Gyo

Uzumaki

Tomie

Deserter

Tombs

Lovesickness

Smashed

Shiver

Frankenstein

Remina

Venus in the Blind Spot

No Longer Human

Twisted Visions (artbook)

Uzumaki coloring book

Uzumaki (original printing) by Junji Ito

Museum of Terror by Junji Ito

Soichi by Junji Ito

The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency by Hirohiko Araki

Orochi by Kazuo Umezu

Be Very Afraid of Kanoko Inuki! by Kanoko Inuki

Wonderland by Yugo Ishikawa

Shadows House by Somato

I Had That Sane Dream Again by Yoru Sumino

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki

Nightmare Inspector by Shin Mashiba

The Ring by Misao Inagaki

Wonder House of Horrors by Miyako Cojima

Puella Magi Suzune Magica by GAN

Puella Magi Kazumi Magica by Masaki Hiramatsu and Takashi Tensugi

Magia Record: Another Story by U35

I also have some manga in storage like Inuyasha and Kitchen Princess, but that's about it!

#my collection #manga collection #manga collector #manga

[burlveneer-music]

VA - J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981 - a new entry in BBE Music's excellent comp series

With J Jazz volume 4, the BBE J Jazz Bullet Train continues its journey traversing the expansive landscape of modern Japanese jazz. Volume 4 is the latest in the universally praised compilation series exploring the best, rarest and most innovative jazz to emerge from the Far East. Please take your seats for a first-class ticket to J Jazz central. This latest station stop off is with the famed Nippon Columbia label, one of the biggest labels in Japan, whose jazz output embraces every possible style imaginable. Focussing on the key years 1968-1981, J Jazz volume 4 sees compilers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden dig even deeper into their record collections and pull-out tracks that span styles ranging from solo to big band, jazz classical interpretations and heavy jazz rock, to febrile post-bop, white hot samba fusion, and modal psychedelic wig-outs. J Jazz volume 4 features icons such as drum master Takeo Moriyama, keyboard magi Hiromasa Suzuki, Fumio Itabashi, and Masahiko Satoh, and guitar wizards Kazumi Watanabe and Kiyoshi Sugimoto, alongside big band maestros and innovators Nobuo Hara and his Sharps and Flats, and Toshiyuki Miyama’s New Herd. Thunderous basslines nestle alongside glistening runs of electric piano, bubbling synths and air-tight drumming as the heavy psychedelic modal blues of Jiro Inagaki flows with the infectious samba grooves of Takashi Mizuhashi featuring Herbie Hancock; Shigeharu Mukai’s fusion funk epics take the music to another level and Mikio Masuda’s driving keyboard rhythms brings the heat to an incendiary dancefloor zone. With 7,000 words of extensive sleeve notes, J Jazz vol 4 comes in a triple 180g vinyl set inside a deluxe gatefold sleeve with obi strip plus a 4 page insert. The double CD features two bonus tracks not on the vinyl edition. Mastered at the Grammy-nominated Carvery Studio by Frank Merritt, this latest collection is a worthy successor to the preceding three volumes that have set the bar so high. J Jazz is curated for BBE Music by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden. 

#jazz #various artists #compilation #bbe music #japan #fusion #70s #Bandcamp

[unlovableoniwitch]

Finished Puella Magi Madoka Magica volume 3. The story got better and better and while I can't say it's my favourite magical girl story or anything, I definitely get why people like it even without experiencing it in animated form like most people have. Some of the light sci-fi elements kind of reminded me of Qualia the Purple, though not as good nor as interesting, though to be fair they weren't as much of a focal point nor focus of the plot. I can also see better how some works have been influenced by it. The yuri was fairly light in the story in comparison to how often it's emphasized in my opinion as someone who's read much more blatantly yuri works. Also in hindsight, I'm not sure where the accusations of the story being pedoy comes from and I have a feeling it might just be people getting uppity about magical girl transformations in the anime (though they weren't really present in the manga) and being racist about anime and japanese people in general and jumping to conclusions about a story that's even vaguely dark for your average magical girl anime show at the time. I will admit that I used to believe this too without having watched or read the story because other people have said it back when I was a teen if I recall correctly, and clearly I as well as they were very wrong (though again to be fair I've only read the manga and seen screencaps and gifs of the anime). I will again say that this manga did not at all come off as a "deconstruction" of magical girls even if it was a bit different at the time. Overall it's pretty good even without the pretty animation backing it up, though it may feel like it needs a bit of time for the story to pick up.

#puella magi madoka magica #pmmm #mahou shoujo

[tsukiyadori]

Reading (+Watching) Log 2023.09-11 - September to November

Trying this out, not sure if a continuation is feasible, this took a bit to collect...

Reading languages: German, English, Japanese, not listing which was what

Titles are as I've read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads

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SEPTEMBER

Tried starting reading some of that little stack of doujins and failed to continue right after the first

Still in the middle of an Anime watching slump, but there's an actual tiny titbit watched. Somehow it was only now that I realized Puella Magi Madoka Magica apparently gets counted as a GL?

Anime:

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising Trailer

Doujinshi:

Gusari (Natsuki Kizu) - Kuroko no Basketball Fanbook 2: Ashita no Tenki

Light Novel:

By the Grace of the Gods V2-5

Manga:

Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai ch38-39 Ane no Shinyuu, Watashi no Koibito ch20-21.1 Boku no Diamond Star ch11-12.2 Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch29 By the Grace of the Gods Ch35.3-4 Cinderella Closet v6ch24 Deep Scar v2ch14 Die rachsüchtige weiße Katze und der Drachenkönig ch1Leseprobe Eikyuukei ch5 Girl Crush Ch46-52 Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch7.2-8.1 I'm a Maid, but I've Pulled Out the Holy Sword?! Ch21-24 Juuban-sama no Enmusubi: Kamiari Hanayome Kitan ch2.2-3 Kakegurui Ch103 Kemutai Hanashi ch7-10 Kimi ni wa Todokanai ch40.1 Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata bangai-wink Komorebi Shoutengai no Changing Wonder ch14 Leaving Our Truths to the Shooting Star ch1-4.3 Love is an Illusion - The Queen Intro ch1 Midnight Clubbing Sex V1 Midnight Delivery Sex v1 Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku ch13.3-4 Moteki v1-3ch15 Motokare ga Fudanshi ni natte Orimashite v2 Mr. Mallow Blue ch27 My Regret ch9final.2 Noragami ch106.2-107.2 Oshi no Ko interlude 1-4 Oshi no Ko ch126 Phantom Seer v1 Prinz Freya v2-v6ch18 Promise Cinderella Ch119 Re:Zero the Mansion v1ch4 Seraph of the End ch117-129 Shuumatsu Touring ch32 Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch55-56 Taberare Usa ch67-70 Tenmaku Cinema Ch1-21 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Masago Nasu Part 2-3 The Devil is a Part-Timer! v18ch90-94 The Villainess's Guide to (Not) Falling in Love Ch7-12.1 Unnamed Memory ch30.1-2 Verliebt in die Nacht v5-9 Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch32.1-3 What did you eat yesterday? v20 Yoshios Jugend ch1?

Notes:

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata - Excellent as usual, but only a special there

What did you eat yesterday? - Excellent as usual, but it was a wee bit weaker than the last one or two volumes

Oshi no Ko - I keep going back every week

Seraph of the End - What are they even doing now. This smelled like something inbetween queerplatonic to the edge of romance (? - albeit a not exactly healthy one) for a helluva long stretch, but then it just has to come around the corner of, hey, look, they weren't even humans. Well, ok, they weren't really all that "human" right of the beginning. But anyway, can we go back to having some more Mahiro? Thanks.

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OCTOBER:

End of the month, at the same 27th October it was supposed to be a Jeweler Richard day as both the new English and Japanese volume were coming out. Things that went wrong: Seven Seas botched up v6's English release by leaving out the second half the Sinhalite extra case and the afterword. I also went out of my way to take a few days off to read the 13th's volume in Japanese in any sense of a safely time planed healthy manner right upon release, but entirely forgot, that ebooks have a delay in release date, so that one came out a week later. I was positively furious about my own stupidity and misplanning.

Light Novel:

Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki-kun v6.5 By the Grace of the Gods LN v6-9 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Masago Nasu Part 4 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v2.Garnet Reread The Case Files of Jeweler Richard きらきら星たちのパーティ

Manga:

100-nengo ni Tenseishita Watashi, Zense no Juukishi ni Kyuukonsaremashita: Heika wa Watashi ga Moto Oujo da to Okizukidenai you desu ch12.1-2 Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai ch40-41 Ane no Shinyuu, Watashi no Koibito ch21.2 Ane no Shinyuu, Watashi no Koibito tokubetsuhen.1-2 Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch11-12.1 Arte v13ch64-v16ch79 BL Game no Shujinkou no Otouto de aru Koto ni Ki ga Tsukimashita ch17 Boruto: Two Blue Vortex ch2-3 Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch30.1 By the Grace of the Gods c36 Dead Company v1-3 Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu ch100 Deliquent Daddy & Tender Teacher v1 Detektiv Conan v101 Flüster mir ein Liebeslied v1 Girl Crush Ch53-55 Harebare Biyori ch20.2 Hatsu * Haru v1ch4, v3-6 I've become an Omega Today v1 Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch12.2-14.1 Kemutai Hanashi ch11 Kimi ni wa Todokanai ch40.2 Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata Ch71-72 Kuni Watari no Renkinjutsushi: Ouji ni Damasare Oukyuu wo Oidasareta Watashi wa, Aru Tabi no Ichidan to Deaimashita ch6.3-7.2 Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch26-27 Love is an Illusion - The Queen ch2 Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku ch13.5-14.3-4 Motokare ga Fudanshi ni natte Orimashite v2-v3ch18 My Dear Agent v1ch4 My Regret ch9final.3 Noragami ch108 Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru node Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch20-21.4 Oshi no Ko ch127-130 Rental Girlfriend v17-v18ch157 Seraph of the End ch130 Shinde Miro to Iwareta no de Shinimashita. ch5.1-2 Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch57-58 Taberare Usa Ch74-75 Motokare ga Fudanshi ni natte Orimashite v3ch17 The Lady Likes a Nerd over Princes Ch1-7 The Saint's Magic Power is Omipotent ch36-37.2 The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent: The Other Saint ch1-4.4, ch21.1-4 The Valiant Must Fall v1-v2ch18 Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch33.1 Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi ch6-7.1 Your Tears are Mine Ch1-25 今日からここで暮らシマす!? ch1

Notes:

Arte turned into out to be surprisingly good after all. Both characterization and artstyle (especially on Arte herself) have gone quite a long way compared to the beginning. Irene is posively an awesome character and the covet yet devoted and subtly beautiful one sided GL-side plot was a surprise addition I hadn't expected at all.

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex - Sarada your earrings are actually pretty, but do you know some space time jutsu to freeze your coat in space like that without ever falling off despite all sorts of moves and jumps?

By the Grace of the Gods - The MC is technically this super overpowered character stereotype that is quite prevalent, but there's something about this character just going methodically step by step and just conquering everything that somehow never makes him come off as boringly OP. Also it has quite some iyashikei effect properties to it. It kinda feels... healthy. (Well it is a story about healing.)

Dead Company - This was kinda trash that had me confused if I missed out on some prequel (I didn't, there's only Doubt and Judge otherwise), and while it goes and explains the foundation mechanics of those two, it effectively is just a short version of Btooom.

Deliquent Daddy & Tender Teacher - Soft cheese, it kinda is predictable, but there is nothing offensive about it and propagates a healthy relationship, so worth a mention especially in the BL department. Obligatory spicy extra chapters remain cursed, but this was at least inerweaved with the characters and their relationship progression.

Girl Crush - This series has been excellent before, but with chapter 54 it has become a marvel that positively floored me. The climax of that chapter was nothing short of awesome. It's also such a great culmation of the main character's, Tenka's, character development progression in a nutshell. She was that character, which she is employed to depict in a music video, she met someone, showered her with irritation and jealousy, couldn't stand herself so resolved to leave it all behind and pursue getting that one thing she was so jealous of by going into the same career. But she also can't have in the same way, so grinds to the place in her own meticulous way. Gets this acting job where she's playing a role very like her past self and she pulls it out with this beautiful scene reel while thinking of what she almost became and then throws the papers for the scene but also at her past self. It's such a picturesque showing of how you can still be ashamed of what you were and did in the past, but still look back at it and use the experience to forward yourself instead of just desperately trying to bury it. I'm cursing and crying: Why does this series not have a print version. Neither in English nor Japanese or anywhere. 😭

Hatsu * Haru - I've read some vols of Yuzuki-san Chi no Yon Kyoudai from the author and that one was pretty good, but this this one is a patience wrecking piece of Highschool-Shoujo-Cheese. It does have some fairly interesting paneling here and there. But darn it, it's just exhausting.

I've become an Omega Today - Certainly wins a price in the "if you only talked (but then we'd have no plot)" category. Noteworthy tho for especially being Omegaaverse and not abusive or dubiously coercive. (How sad that this is something noteworthy.) Also interestingly this is the third in the set now that shares the same visual character design and personality template as I Hear the Sunspot and Summer with You.

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita - Cute, nice dresses and just gimme those hairdoes, too.

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata - Very good as usual, this now has a sort of Aishiteru Game wo Owasetai arc atm, but it's a helluva better one.

Speaking of Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai, sigh, I'm really not liking how it introduces some kinks, depicts the courage it needs to confess to it to your crush, only for the narrative to keep using it for gags that ultimately imo are based on shaming on it.

Motokare ga Fudanshi ni natte Orimashite - I previously had read the first few free chapters and then the end of the series on pixiv as it ran. I thought they were all just kind dense adorkable adults or a bit of late bloomers, but then it turns out that of the four main characters 3 are looking very demi aro/ace, and furthermore it gets revealed that two of them are about as officially aroace as you can possibly be without using the label.

My Regret - Finished. Excellent series that I had started at around the same time as My Diamond Star which both had me confused if it was supposed to be BL or not. The latter turned out to be one, this one pleasantly did not and was just about two very different people, whose lives get connected though an old man dying and leaving behind a legacy of grief, self reflection and self betterment. The climax would have been a perfect stopping point, but then it throws in the epilogue that comes along with a complete curveball of looking like something that smells queerplatonic and seems even more interesting. Which makes the series now just mean for stopping right there. D:

Taberare Usa - Flashback arc, so there is a break of the buns-as-sweets doom main plot. Instead lots, lots of bun cheese.

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Masago Nasu - I wrote about that one a bit before. But Seigi, Seigi, what are you doing with just hanging up on Richard after splurting off something like that?

The Valiant Must Fall: I thought Gunslinger Girl was a pretty good series. But this series from the same author is kinda on the nose about how much it has researched the history of that epoch. Sadly this is also the only thing really interesting about it. There's a few pages of essays by a historian at the end of the volumes and probably I may stick to it simply for those.

Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi - This guy totally is gonna live in the end, while the girl dies, it just screams that trope. And woe and behold: Surprise surprise there is actually a possibility of an operation for this terminal death doomed heart disease teen. (And silly boy refuses to do it as of yet, are you serious?)

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NOVEMBER:

I noticed Comikey's "free" and "free with ads" per day isn't globally counted (like Manga Up! for example), rather than per title.

That caused a reading spree there, which saw the advent of a good bunch of webtoons.

There was a regular classic novel read inbetween (gasp)

Reading actually good series remains a health hazard of reading everything too quick with too little breaks and sleep (Unnamed Memory, Goddess of Healing)

I still have not even started Jeweler Richard v13 and don't dare to for health and stamina safety reasons...

Light Novels:

By the Grace of the Gods V9-V11 Unnamed Memory v3-6

Novels:

The Old Man in the Corner

Manga:

A Side Character's Love Story Ch1-14 After God Ch1-27 Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai ch40-41 Alabaster Ch1-4 Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch12.2 Arte Ch81-83 Asobi Asobase Ch1-20 Barbara Ch1-14 Beauty as the Beast Ch1-15 Brutal ch1-8.1 Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro ch30.1-4 By the Grace of the Gods Ch34-V8Ch40.3-4 Color of Happiness v9-v11 Crime and Punishment ch1-4 Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu ch100 Dienerin des verfluchten Kindes v6ch29-ch38 Eikyuukei ch7 Fesseln der Liebe v6 Girl Crush ch56-57 Grimoire Heilkunde magischer Wesen v4-5 Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch8.2 I'm cute enough to get away with it Ch1-19 Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch14.2-ch14.4 Kakan no Oukoku no Hanagirai Hime ch7.1-8.2-3 Kemutai Hanashi ch12 Killer in Love Ch1-30 Kimi ni wa Todokanai ch41 Kindergarten Wars ch1-25 Knitter's High ch23-24.3 Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch73-74 Komorebi Shoutengai no Changing Wonder ch15 Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch26-27 Lost Youth Ch1-2.2 Mein geliebter Gaming-Freund ist mein fieser Boss?! v1ch20 Miryou no Otome to Katabutsu Hittou Majutsushi no Hatsukoi Kiroku ch15.1-2 Monster 8 ch70-97 Mr. Mallow Blue ch28 Noragami ch108.2 Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru node Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch22.1-2 Oshi no Ko ch131-132 Phantom Seer v2-v3ch25 Repeating Your End Together ch1-5.1 Shibatarian Ch2-16 The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins ch1-48 The Lady Likes a Nerd over Princes Ch8-16 Together Forever Ch1-16 Unnamed Memory ch31.1-32.2 Verliebt in mehr als dein Gesicht v1-4 Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi ch33.1-3 Witch Enforcer ch1-3 Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi ch7.2-8.1-2 Your Tears are Mine Ch26-31 Zombie 100 v7-9ch34

Webtoons:

A Royal Princess With Black Hair ch1-47 A Spoonful of your Love ch1-20 Blind Passion Ch1-3 Breed my Dear Enemy Ch1-43 Conspiracy of Love Ch1-9 Corridor of Mirs Ch1-19 Dawn the Teen Witch Ch1-65 Fall in the Night with you Ch0-40 Flowers for the Outcast ch1-23 Flowers in the Secret Place Ch0-2 For Stella Ch1-33 If Future Ch1-49 Night Crying Crow v4ch35 Phoenix in the Imperial Palace ch1-7 Sand Castle ch1-35 She Had You at Hello ch1-7 She is also cute today ch0-47 Spirit of Peach Blossom Ch1-27 Taberare Usa ch75-79 The Blue Snake and the Red Moon Ch0-32 The Giantess wants Love Ch0-60.5 The Goddess of Healing Ch0-159 The Mermaid Wears a Dress ch1-25 To be Winner Ch0-49 To be or not to be Ch5-11 Scroll of the White Silk Cloud ch4-31.4

Notes:

By the Grace of the Gods - Things are progressing more actual plot wise and it has had a few twists in there. The healing bit of this tale has even more strongly become a center piece and it just works. Does that count as an iyashikei? I'm inclined to count it. Also gimme some of these slimes. They seem like such a life enrichment.

Unnamed Memory - Positively excellent series, tho the ending had me a bit "somehow this is too easy, why didn't they just do this from the start". Anyway, it's not actually the end there, but Yen Press still has no announcement for the After the End sequel. Booo.

The Old Man in the Corner - read because it was mentioned in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard v5. *cough*. Granted it is very good classic orthodox mystery.

After God - This is weird and trashy, and sometimes just, uuuh, okay.... but also some of these monsters' designs and drawings are quite the eyecatcher.

Barbara - Read because Tezuka and being one of his gekigas. Same boat as MW. It was rather "what the...."

Beauty as the Beast - I've read Arcana from the author before. There is something sad about knowing how the art looked like in classic print b/w-style and then to see how it looks after moving on to webtoon, and this one is one that clearly downgraded, especially on the backgrounds and coloring. The narrative is still starting off straight forward and moving on to become about as convoluted and confusing as Arcana was. Funny also the main character is called Ines yet again.

Color of Happiness - I think I do not like that ending at all. It feels a bit like it took the easiest way to dodge the a cheese-cheese route (which would have come off as questionable given she is so young) and took the only one that was going to be safe from even any implications. And the way it went about it is a bit too deus ex machina convenient, while making hardly any sense. Do think it's kinda too bad, that it also ruins the side plot about the mother and grandmother, that wasn't so uninteresting about how toxicity gets inherited. How to break the chain could have been a nice focal theme and it's also kinda there, but completely drowned by that nonsense pulled, which ultimately renders the mother right with her telling Sachi it wasn't "going to go her way" after all.

Kemutai Hanashi - Chapter 12 is absolutely great, a generally important conversation to be had and breathtakingly beautifully depicted. I exploded in word count and basically translating most of the whole thing over here.

Killer in Love - I'm not sure what this is, it looks very toxic, but also seems to be a bit of.... I don't know why something about these two's relationship reminds me a little bit of Azure & Claude. Maybe it's this flair of this is absolutely going to be doomed, they are definitely doomed bit?

Kimi ni wa Todokanai - After a long detour from going from a shoujo-style that happens to be a BL to feeling very BL-genre BL, I finally got some shoujo feels back from it. Specifically it reminded me of A Condition Called Love, as far as I read that one. As in that talk about a sort of desperate to obsessive desire vs. someone who is on track of developing desires, but not quite so quick vs. boundaries. Considering that the talk about that in v4 was something I thought was great, if it comes back to what happens between v5-7 with all the bad dubCon glory and discussed that, maybe I'll come to like those bits in hindsight or when revisiting, too. (Personally I am inclined to suspect the drama adaption may have had a hand in this detour of tonal style.)

Kindergarten Wars - This was surprisingly way better than expected, too bad, that the art is a little bit unpolished. (Imagine that, but with, like, Spy x Family levels of art? Actually they have kinda similar vibes, just no Anya there.)

Shibatarian - It is creepy, it is horror, it's doing it's job right, but it is also just so creepy. The scenes in the aquarium were definitely quite a beautiful mood. Despite or maybe right because of all the snarling creepiness looming.

The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins - Does its mystery box mystery very well, especially in the first half, but can't say I really have re-read urges. If there is, it probably would be about the art in the beginning - It is a bit on the cruder side of things, but manages to cement it right as its own signature style (kinda Shin Chan-wise), but then also has these panels and double spreads with an absurd amount of detail levels. Unfortunately all that experimental bit about the art vanishes after a while. (Would not surprise me, if it just was to taxing to draw.)

Together Forever - I think the girl is actually pretty creepy. But this is essentially a female Seme character and the older guy is a sort of uke. Female Semes are ludicrously rare, so I'm somehow still on it...

Witch Enforcer - This has some really good looking art, especially in the color pages.

Your Tears are Mine - Starts decently enough with centering around a little kink of the protagonist girl and goes steady with that and the relationship. Unfortunately just feels axed by the end.

A Royal Princess With Black Hair - The main is a strong female lead and perfectly cool and entertaining to follow. Also consistently solid art despite being a full color webtoon.

Blind Passion - The art is pretty good looking, also historic setting GL, Arte kinda appetized me a bit on that. Will probably take a good while until the free bonus coins on Leizhin will have collected it up.

Breed my Dear Enemy - The title is eyebrow raising as is the premise that has an isekai into a book, where the main doesn't even read the book, but just gets to have it magically downloaded into her brain, while isekai'd. But anyhow, some very digital looking, but still pretty art, especially in terms of the customes of that historic china epoch. And the female lead is a strong and wry one, that's always good.

Dawn the Teen Witch - Cute and good looking art and colors and actually shadings and all, also solid characters and good worldbuilding and weavings of a intruiguing wide spanning mystery plot next to a coming of age + romance plot. And then it just ends. Feels very like an axed series, and while it kinda ends with a finish line, it feels more like just a season end than anything else.

The Goddess of Healing - The complete suprise hit of the month out of blue nowhere. Very pretty dawings. Lots, lots of hairdoes, hair ornaments and jewelery, a huge wide wardrobe of outfits from that ~16h century China epoch. A huge display of varied pouts. The female lead is great. The whole plot is a multi layered mystery/thriller plot. It has a little bit of plot armor, but then it's also a reincarnation story with tinges of fate implied, so kinda excused. The lead is very determined and just so badass, clever, determined, who can stand her own ground, but also knows how to rely to compensate her own weaknesses. Her romance with the male lead is build over mostly intellectual attraction. There's even a little side romance of another pair, adult, mature, cute and chiefly over emotional attraction. Both have integrity at their foundational centerpiece. I quite like all of that.

(3h 50m: 1.5h of which data extraction)

#ramblings #reading log #watching log #statistics #manga #light novel #anime #girl crush #kemutai hanashi #motokare wa fudanshi ni natte orimashite #by the grace of the gods #my regret #koisuru otome no tsukurikata #unnamed memory #the goddess of healing #owari no seraph #seraph of the end #arte #boruto two blue vortex #dead company #delinquent daddy and tender teacher #I've become an omega today #aishiteru game wo owasetai #taberare usa #the case files of jeweler richard #housekishou richard shi no nazo kantei #the valiant must fall #yomei ichinen to senkokusareta boku ga yomei hantoshi no kimi to deatta hanashi #the old man in the corner #after god

[lgbtqmanga]

New Releases June 21, 2022

If I Could Reach You vol. 7 by tMnR

An urgent SOS flashes on Uta’s phone screen. It’s from Kaoru. Despite some time and distance away, she’s the one Kaoru called... She runs to meet Kaoru. At last, Uta hears what Kaoru has been keeping bottled up, and Kaoru resolves to take the next step.

FINAL VOLUME

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Wraith Arc vol. 3 by Magica Quartet, Hanokage

In a world infested not by witches but by wraiths, Homura is captivated by one wraith in the shape of Madoka, and Mami and Kyouko throw themselves into battle to save the world. What fate lies in store for them in this final volume?!

To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda

Chiaki Ogawa has never doubted who he is, although the rest of the world hasn’t been as kind. Bound by his mother’s dying wish, Chiaki tries to be a good daughter to his ailing father. But when the burden becomes too great, Chiaki sets out to remake himself in his own image and discovers more than just personal freedom in his transition—he finds understanding from the people who matter most.

Until I Meet My Husband (Essay Novel) by Ryousuke Nanasaki

The memoir of gay activist Ryousuke Nanasaki on the road to his historic marriage. (Manga adaptation also available from Seven Seas.)

Ryousuke Nanasaki married his husband in 2016 in the first religiously recognized same-sex wedding in Japanese history. This collection of essays follows Ryousuke’s search for love on the journey to his extraordinary marriage. From unrequited junior high crushes to awkward dating sites to finally finding a community, Ryousuke’s heartfelt reflections on his coming-of-age as a young gay man in Hokkaido will touch readers all over the world.

Until I Meet My Husband (manga) by Ryousuke Nanasaki, Yoshi Tsukizuki

The memoir of gay activist Ryousuke Nanasaki and the first religiously recognized same-sex marriage in Japan. (Original novel of essays also available from Seven Seas.)

From school crushes to awkward dating sites to finding a community, this collection of stories recounts the author’s “firsts” as a young gay man searching for love. Dating is never ever easy, but that goes doubly so for Ryousuke, whose journey is full of unrequited loves and many speed bumps. But perseverance and time heals all wounds, even those of the heart.

This moving memoir by gay activist Ryousuke Nanasaki, following his historic life story, was originally released in Japan as a novel of collected essays. They are compiled here beautifully in a manga format.

#new releases #lgbt manga #queer manga #manga #if i could reach you #Tatoe Todokanu Ito da to Shite mo #tmnr #to strip the flesh #Tooda Oto Tanpenshuu: Niku wo Hagu #niku wo hagu #oto tooda #until i meet my husband #ryousuke nanasaki #gay #transgender #trans #yuri

[writer-and-artist27]

Tag game: 8 shows to get to know me

Tagged by: @windwardstar. Thankie, Osie (hugs tight)

Rules: There weren't any defined in Osie's original post, so like them, I'll be going off the 8 most common things that end up on my YouTube/Watch History through various platforms, because the only time I use the TV is for Netflix or playing DVDs/Blurays I have at home when biking on the trainer.

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family - my first entry into Fate and the most tame in terms of death and drama - as in nonexistent. (Shoutout to Fate/Apocrypha here too for Type Moon stuff despite more characters and death, if only because it was the first Fate anime I finished on my own without much pushing from friends with how bad I am at personally binging shows. Fate/Zero is the next one.)

Avatar the Last Airbender. Also the 2003 version of Teen Titans. And the sub version of Megaman NT Warrior - specifically Rockman EXE. Can't beat the childhood favorites.

The sub version of Yu-Gi-Oh GX (honorary shoutout to the sub of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds too, since both taught me the beginnings of speaking Japanese when middle school me kept finding the raw episodes on YouTube)

Any Miscellaneous Myths from Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube. Since it helps remind me of how to write sarcasm (and Kei when looking back at S&S related stuff specifically).

Komi Can't Communicate. Because reading the manga, collecting it, and watching the anime helped me cope with constructive discharge and work emotional abuse alike.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Cardcaptor Sakura

RWBY. Because even if RoosterTeeth isn't a good company to work at and the current seasons has the common crowd caught between RWDE and not-so-RWDE, I still appreciate what Volumes 1-6 did for me with their music when I was in a bad time with COVID and first family deaths. So, in my own way, I'm still trying to support it where I can in the small gestures through all the new bad times. Even if it means I can't talk freely about it anymore.

Tagging: @partialdignity, @lovingempress, and anyone else who wants to try? No pressure, though. This is just for fun.

#tag games #vy says something #get to know better #friend things #windwardstar #thankie osie #long post #vy rambles a bit #tired vy says something

[kyogre-blue]

Today’s bookstore excursion. 

First, my purchases: 

Vol 2-5 of Eminence in Shadow

Vol 2-3 of I’m a Villainess, so I’m keeping the Last Boss

Vol 3 of Mortalis:Stella

Vol 1 of Returner’s Magic

I need to check up to where Eminence and Last Boss go, but I know I like them. This is just for collection purposes. Same for Returner’s Magic. 

I did read through v3 of Mortalis Stella, which wraps up Orleans. I’m not fond of Turas Realta’s style, and the game version is rather... you know, so it’s nice seeing Orleans told in a more fleshed out way. You can really see how many parallels there are, between Marie and Jeanne, Jeanne and Eli, etc, but also it’s interesting seeing Mash being so blank and unsure. 

Read continuations for these. Kaiju No 8 continues to be great, and they sure don’t beat around the bush. 

Solo Levelling is..... man. I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be feeling because it seems to be just fights, fights, fights. I didn’t really understand why any of them were even happening. 

Tried out these: 

Edens Zero is not as bad as I expected, but I also just did not care for how they introduced the driving mysteries, and I do not have any faith in Mashima’s storytelling anymore. The pace and characters also feel rather meh, while the fanservice is distracting when it pops up at random. 

Orient is... I stopped after a chapter or two. I love Ohtaka’s work, and it’s very on brand, but it also feels like a big step back compared to Magi. However, that might be because I just did not care for the overall concept. It leans SUPER heavily into a very Japanese spirit and mythos, lots of stuff about samurai that just does not resonate with me at all. I might try to quickly skim further later, since Sumomo only picks up like four volumes in, and Magi didn’t have an amazing start either. 

Now, Witch Hat Atelier... This is good stuff. It’s VERY good. Totally recommending. 

It has a lovely art style, and the story has a very good pace with engaging worldbuilding and characters. The main heroine is the kind of plucky that just takes me back to shojos of yore. The deeper future plot is 4shadowed in a great way too. (I don’t know what the future plot is, just that they are building toward it.) 

One other thing I noticed is how much manhwa there is now. I don’t think we’re on 50/50 split yet, but that’s mostly by virtue of the super long shounens. For stuff like isekais, it feels like we’re approaching parity with manga. 

Anyway, bookstores are great. 

#reading manga #reading manhwa

[aparticularbandit]

Top 5 Japanese Series? Anime, Manga, etc.?

Ask Me My "Top 5" Anything....

MUAHAHA!

Fruits Basket. Hands down. Fruits Basket has had such a huge impact on my writing, especially how I write characters, and it was one of the first things I remember being in a group of people where we each went by different characters who closely matched us, and it reintroduced me to manga and anime (after I was originally introduced to it by Inu-Yasha, which will not be on this list). This is the only manga that I own in full (although I mention one later that I really should buy the last volume of), and I'm planning to own the full three season anime (and hopefully the movie, too). I can also recommend the newest anime (2019?), which was extremely faithful to the manga for the vast majority of the series (with the exception of the third season, which was half as long and cut out...some stuff). I have not seen the movie that adapted some of the stuff that was cut from that series, but I expect that was also faithful, considering the care they gave it. Also also Laura Bailey is Tohru. Like. Laura Bailey! (Akito is my favorite. I love Akito. I identify strongly with Akito. I cry at the a certain point pretty much every time. Like. FRUITS BASKET.)

Noir! Which was also on my top 5 shows of all time and is second here only because Fruits Basket. So a longer explanation is there!

Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Also a repeat BUT I want to make a specific comment on The Different Story, which is a short three manga series that focuses primarily on the relationship between Mami and Kyoko and is the primary reason that Mami sometimes fights with Homura for my favorite character in the series. (I just identify so strongly with Homura that she usually squeaks through just a bit.) It's just so good and is one of the few manga that I actually own (albeit I'm missing the last one). Also I made a very spiffy photo manip for this once so like. You've probably seen that account, actually; it was my header for the Nanowrimo/writing account I had? The one that had the poetry on it, I think? This one!

Anohana. WHICH GETS A SPECIAL MENTION BECAUSE I HAVE USED MENMA AS MY PRIMARY FACE CLAIM FOR YEARS. THIS GIRL PICTURED AT THE VERY TOP. THAT'S MENMA I LOVE HER SHE ROCKS. But also, like, there are a handful of anime that are known for being tearjerkers and just ripping your heart out and holding it beating in your hand - Anohana is one of those (the other two are Angel Beats! and Clannad/Clannad: After Story (both of them. BOTH OF THEM HURT)) - so be warned! YOU WILL CRY. IT WILL HURT. BUT IT IS SUCH A GOOD SHOW.

Yuri! On Ice! Look, I only actually own a handful of anime because anime is SO EXPENSIVE (except for Noir, which is relatively not and no one should judge me for owning it twice over, nope, you shouldn't (actually, come to think of it, I own everything on this list in part or in full)) BUT I OWN THIS ONE. (It was a Christmas present!) It is one of my comfort anime, I love it, I actually found a shirt for it at a garage sale once and got it, and it's just. It's so good about teaching its viewers about ice skating competitions in a way that doesn't feel overwhelming, the character development is beautiful, the music is fantastic, I actually! own the music from this, too! (...that's a common theme on this list, actually, I have the theme from this (and would love to actually buy one of the other songs), and then the music from Madoka and from Noir, and there's music I would love to buy from Anohana but it isn't available as mp3 download and anime soundtracks are also expensive) BUT. YEAH. YURI! ON ICE!

#musings #bandit answers questions #meme response #fic recs #chrysalis the butterfly

[ljf613]

I started reading Orient, the latest brainchild of Shinobu Ohtaka (creator of Magi: Labyrinth of Magic).

Y'all, it is wild.

The worldbuilding in particular is bizarre.

It's supposed to be set in some alternative version of the Japanese Edo Period. But some of the characters have motorcycles? All swords are called katana, including the ones that look more like western broadswords.

The clothing is vaguely oriental, but a bunch of the guys just wear these weird v-neck shirts that serve no purpose other than to show off their abs. There's a guy who dresses like a Christian priest, while his buddy looks like an old-school Shintoist and carries a monk's staff. (Another guy smokes very modern-looking cigarettes.)

There are demons, and also demon lords. There is some distinction between the two which isn't quite clear-- I think the lords are just bigger and scarier and more powerful? There were several hundred lords when the demons showed up 150 years ago, but who knows how many were killed since then?

Demons eat ore, and maybe also people? Or maybe they just like torturing humans for their own amusement?

Most people think the Demon Lords are all powerful gods, which they are not. But there are also gods out there? Or at least a goddess?

There are wandering bands of samurai who travel around the country-- in magical moving castles-- slaying demon lords in an attempt to bring about some kind of utopia-inducing magic ritual that has not really been explained.

Demon Lords can be located by lokking through some kind of magical crystal kaleidescope?

Demons can only be killed with weapons made from Demon Metal, which you get by killling demons. (But then how did they kill the first one?) These weapons have all kinds of bizarre powers-- one guy used his to flip a mountain upside down and make it hover in the air.

Demon Metal weapons test their owners before letting themselves be used. Once a weapon chooses you, it's bound to you forever (and if you die your spirit possess it or something? Still waiting for an explanation there).

That being said, basically everyone passes these tests. And when you get tested, the color of your soul is revealed. There are five different colors, and I don't really know why it matters which one you are. Oh, and also black. Black souls can't use demon weapons. (Unclear just how rare black souls are. So far we've met two, but one of them is probably lying.)

(Also, while I understand the translator's decision to use "band of samurai" in place of the more obscure "bushi," the wording does get a little unweildy. Particularly when it results in phrasing like "a band of samurai castle.")

And that's not even touching the pacing.

One main character goes from prodigy miner (yes, that's a thing) to would-be demon-slaying samurai in two pages. (Apparently his pick-axe is his katana? I told you, they'll call anything a katana as long as it has a handle and a pointy edge.)

A band of dozens or hundreds of samurai show up in the second or third chapter, and then vanish just as quickly a few chapters lately.

A cruel samurai who tries to force little old ladies to fight demons appears just a few volumes in.

A love triangle betwen the three main characters is teased, and then openly aknowledged, and then deconstructed and tossed out the window-- all in one chapter.

A sword-nerd tries to show one character how to handle Demon Metal in a show of friendly camaraderie-- and a few chapters later he's actively trying to murder this same character and all of his friends.

It's crazy.

But fun crazy. And the art is gorgeous and the characters are fascinating. 6/10, recommend to anyone who enjoys nutty shonen action-adventure type stories.

#orient #shinobu ohtaka #thoughts #it's insane but i like it #this is all in the first four or five books btw #hopefully as i continue reading it will all start making more sense #maybe #all queued up

[ugo-the-nerd]

Magi Volume 37 - Cover Scans

Last scan of Magi Volumes, i already feel unemployed!

Enjoy! °˖ ✧◝(○ ヮ ○)◜✧˖ °

And a full Scan of the whole Front Covers, just cause i wanted to!

#magi #magi the labyrinth of magic #magi volumes #magi japanese volumes #morgiana #alibaba #aladdin #and the whole magi cast which im not gonna list xD #sinbad #sexy human drakon #own scans #im gonna miss scanning these

[mangacover-collection]

~Im - (1/?)~

Im  English: IM: The Great Priest Imhotep Japanese: Im～イム～

The great priest Imhotep from ancient Egypt came back to life to find and defeat the Magai, beings that imitate Gods and their only goal is to bring destruction to the world.

Author: Makoto Morishita (Story & Art) Genres: Action, Comedy, Historical, Shounen Volumes: 9 Chapters: 19 Status: Ongoing

Tell me what’s your favourite cover, ships and favourite character if you’d like :D

Manga Series - Masterlist

#Im～イム～ #im the great priest imhotep #makoto morishita #action #comedy #historical #egypt #shounen #manga #cover #japanese cover #collection #description #volumes #chapters #kinda reminds me of magi the labyrinth of magic #imhotep #harugo misora #hinome hawakate #anubis #prince djoser

[silvermoon424]

I started Tart Magica I few days ago, and it’s such a fascinating alternate telling of Joan of Arc’s life! While I only have a real base level knowledge of the real historical figure, I’m absolutely loving the choices made here, such as the army being so happy and gung ho about their Puella Magi leader. They might not be able to fight the magical battles, but they’ll show their support to the end. I also really enjoy how Tart is a glass cannon, incredibly strong but puts so much energy into her attacks that it leaves her susceptible to corruption. (Her referring to Kyubey as “Monsieur Angel” is also hilarious)

Is there somewhere online to read the remaining volumes? Mangadex only has the chapters in Spanish, which I’m not fluent in

First of all, you can read the rest of Tart Magica here!

Secondly, I'm so glad to see more appreciation for Tart Magica!! Imo it's the best standalone PMMM spinoff and one of the best spinoffs period. I've always been fascinated by Joan of Arc, so reading a series about her as a magical girl was a guaranteed win for me! Even for people who don't like historical fiction (and honestly, I'm one of them) Tart Magica manages to be so action-packed and also full of heartwarming moments that it's an amazing read.

Aside from being a funny moment that displays Tart's optimism and naiveté, it's also an interesting moment of cultural dissonance. The vast majority of magical girls we've seen so far are modern-day Japanese girls, whereas Tart is a medieval French Catholic. Japanese spirituality holds that the body and soul are interlinked and indistinguishable, and the soul is generally interpreted as a part of a whole with the body.; Kyubey even says as much in his monologue in episode 6 of the main series when he explains how Soul Gems are formed. Meanwhile, Catholics (and Christians in general) believe that the soul is the true, eternal whole of a person, and the body is just a container for it.

#tart magica #puella magi tart magica #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica

[bismuthwisdom]

My Manga/Anime Collection

Because I had to rearrange my shelves a bit, I decided why not show my small collection of manga/anime DVDs I had procurred over the years. It isn't much, but it's honest work.

I didn't bother labelling the volumes, so you will just get the series names. Also, all are in German, unless otherwise stated.

Legend:

🟧 - Want to complete

🟥 - Don't want to complete (physically)

🟩 - Complete

◾️Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

◾️Eden of the East

◾️Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion

◾️Anime Promo Material

◾️My Neighbor Totoro

◾️Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

◾️Tales from Earthsea

🟩Another

🟧Chobits

🟧The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún

🟩The Miniature Garden of Twindle

🟥Hetalia World Stars

🟥Hetalia Axis Powers

🟩Kuro

🟧Go With the Clouds, North-by-Northwest

🟥How to Treat Magical Beasts: Mine and Master's Medical Journal

🟩Clover

🟧Arte

🟧Laid-back Camp

◾️Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Croatian)

◾️D-Frag! (Japanese)

◾️Man of Many Faces (English)

🟧Beastars

🟥Skip Beat

🟩Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki

🟥Love x Wanko

🟥Grimms Manga

🟧Hyouka

🟥Ludwig Kakumei

🟩I.O.N

🟩Boku to Senpai no Tekken Kousai

🟧orange

🟥Inuyasha

🟧Sailor Moon

🟥Dream Saga

🟥DearS

🟥Chi's Sweet Home

🟧The Royal Tutor

🟧Oshi no Ko

🟩Crayon Days: Daikirai na Aitsu

🟧Negima! Magister Negi Magi

🟧Assassination Classroom

🟥Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning

🟩Vitamin

🟩Recast (Manhwa)

🟩Lost Ctrl(Manhwa)

🟥Pandora Hearts

🟩Sailor V

🟥To Love Ru: Darkness

🟥Fate/stay Night

🟥Shiro Ali

🟥Aldnoah.Zero Season One

🟥Romantica Clock

🟥Alice in the Country of Hearts

🟥Nana-iro Kakumei

🟥Yumekui Merry

◾️Hetalia Arte Stella Artbook

◾️Various manga drawing books

🟥Please Save my Earth

🟩Angel/Dust

◾️Mirai (Movie Guide)

(I guess my impulsive past self has gathered a lot of manga just because they look pretty. Which might partially explain the red prevalence 😂)

#anime collection #manga collection #hetalia #assassination classroom #sailor moon #tagging only my prevalent interests

[yurimultiship]

Qualia The Purple

In this 3 volumes manga adaptation of a Japanese SF novel, we follow the lives of Hatou Manabu as she desperately tries through space and time to save her friend Marii Yukari, a girl who has the pecularity of seeing people as robots, amongst other powers.

The first volume starts with an accidental kiss meet-cute and develops the budding friendship between those two, making us discover Yukari’s powers alongside Manabu.

The second disrupts the statu quo with Yukari’s disappearance and the introduction of some quantum physics through Manabu gaining a power of her own, that lets her interact with parallel universes, giving her the capacity to search for a safe future for Yukari. The third volume further develops that idea, to some really impressive and surprising lengths, before concluding the story.

Whether their relationship at the end is romantic stays a bit ambiguous but it can certainly be read through such a lense, especially given what happens in other timelines and the fact Manabu canonically has relationships with both men and women.

Her realizing her possible bisexuality happens when another self contacts her to say she’s in love with another important female character in the story. It comes with some internalised homophobia in a comedic tone that bugged me a bit (her getting ‘comedically’ angry and repeatedly calling the other a “deviant”), however I did like that the other self made her question the nature of her relationships with the three other main female characters of the story. It brought the possibility of her getting into relationships with any of them and she has pretty interesting interactions with them all so that’s pretty nice to open that door!

Alice is the character we see getting explicitly into relationships with Manabu in different timelines and those can get pretty messed-up. With Alice being a younger genius who is very much linked to the separation between the two protagonists, the reason Manabu gets close to her isn’t always out of pure love but often to use her for the benefit of her goal.

The power that Manabu gains really twists her perspective and lead her to do some horrible things all for the purpose of saving Yukari, as she becomes over-fixated on it. This evolution is really interesting (and creepy!) to follow.

Comparison has been made with Madoka and Homura’s relationship in Puella Magi Madoka Magica and it’s a pretty fitting one, with the “time travel” and obsession in saving someone that seems destined by fate to always perish. Though Qualia obviously goes at it in a very different way and within a different genre, as well as the characters not having the same personality at all.

I found the conclusion pretty satisfying.

While we’re pretty focused on Manabu’s perspective, the relationships between the other characters also get enough context that I think they can easily be shipped. Alice and Yukari get very close, as two geniuses who see the world pretty differently from everyone, and Yukari’s fraught relationship with her first friend, Nanami, is also very interesting.

#series talk #qualia the purple #manabu x yukari #alice x manabu #manga

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Dont die of boredom please ❤ ...I have a question, what other animes do you watch other than Ynm? Any of the major animes like Naruto, Bleach Death Note, One piece, Attack on titan, Black butler, demon slayer? It's simple I know, but I'm curious.

I dislike Naruto and haven’t seen most of it

Haven’t seen Bleach and no interest in changing this

Actually haven’t seen the Death Note anime, but I do own every volume of the manga because it was popular when I was the age it’s targeted at. I have a couple t-shirts around, too, and the L.A. BB Murder Cases novel. I watched one of the Japanese live action movies in college with a friend. I think we made it through the whole thing?

I do not like One Piece and have thusly seen very little of it

Attack on Titan is fascist garbage (but I saw the first season in anime club in college)

The Black Butler anime was fun, but haven’t read the manga

I keep not getting around to Demon Slayer but it’s on my theoretical list

I have been...lazy about keeping up with anything currently running because Executive Dysfunction. The only anime I’m actively keeping up on right now is YuuMori, oops? I just can’t be bothered to pick anything else up right now, and I only picked up YuuMori because a friend said they thought I’d like it after episode three. And then I started binge-reading the manga.

So think of this list less as a “present tense” thing than “anime I like a lot.” Which is not even a full list of everything I’ve seen because I don’t keep a MAL profile. Most of these are over! But then, so were some of the things you sent. Death Note’s been over for an age.

Also, popular, long-running shonen series are usually kind of enhhhhhhh to me. My taste in media frequently runs a bit more obscure than not, although not always.

The Case Files of Richard the Jeweler

Tiger & Bunny

Noragami

Gurren Lagann

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (This one is messy as hell and I can’t really rec it, but I adored it)

YoI

Kyo Kara Maoh! (I know this is really, really old, lemme alone)

Eden of the East

I think the most recent thing besides YuuMori and JR I’ve watched was Sk8? Which I’m done with, and it was fine. I watched BFish when it was airing.

Well. Now I just want to go sit down with the Funi app and Crunchyroll and watch some more stuff.

[haruatori]

Common list of misconceptions

Had great fun learning about these, maybe now I will remember it better:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Fortune cookies, despite being associated with Chinese cuisine in the United States, were invented in Japan and introduced to the US by the Japanese.[11] The cookies are extremely rare in China, where they are seen as symbols of American cuisine.[12]

The United States does not require police officers to identify themselves as police in the case of a sting or other undercover work, and police officers may lie when engaged in such work.[25] Claiming entrapment as a defense instead focuses on whether the defendant was induced by undue pressure (such as threats) or deception from law enforcement to commit crimes they would not have otherwise committed.[26]

Parody singer "Weird Al" Yankovic did not write or perform most of the songs and comedy sketches attributed to him or "Weird Al Yankovich" on the Internet.[48]

The forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is never identified as an apple,[51] a misconception widely depicted in Western art.The original Hebrew texts mention only tree and fruit. Early Latin translations use the word mali, which can mean either "evil" or "apple" depending on if the A is short or long respectively, although the difference in vowel length had already vanished from speech in Latin at the time. In early Germanic languages the word "apple" and its cognates usually simply meant "fruit". German and French artists commonly depict the fruit as an apple from the 12th century onwards, and John Milton's Areopagitica from 1644 explicitly mentions the fruit as an apple.[52] Jewish scholars have suggested that the fruit could have been a grape, a fig, an apricot, or an etrog.[53]

The Bible does not say that exactly three magi came to visit the baby Jesus, nor that they were kings, or rode on camels, or that their names were Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar, nor what color their skin was. Three magi are inferred because three gifts are described, but we only know that they were plural (at least 2); there could have been many more and probably an entourage accompanied them on their journey. The artistic depictions of the nativity have almost always depicted three magi since the 3rd century.[57] The Bible only specifies an upper limit of 2 years for the interval between the birth and the visit (Matthew 2:16), and artistic depictions and the closeness of the traditional dates of December 25 and January 6 encourage the popular assumption that the visit took place in the same season as the birth, but later traditions varied, with the visit taken as occurring up to two years later. The association of magi with kings comes from efforts to tie the visit to prophecies in the Book of Isaiah.[58]

No Biblical or historical evidence supports Mary Magdalene having been a prostitute.[59]

The idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute before she met Jesus is not found in the Bible or in any of the other earliest Christian writings. The misconception likely arose due to a conflation between Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (who anoints Jesus's feet in John 11:1–12), and the unnamed "sinful woman" who anoints Jesus's feet in Luke 7:36–50.[59]

The Quran does not promise martyrs 72 virgins in heaven. It does mention companions, houri, to all people—martyr or not—in heaven, but no number is specified. The source for the 72 virgins is a hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhi by Imam Tirmidhi.[74][75] Hadiths are sayings and acts of the prophet Muhammad as reported by others, and as such they are not part of the Quran itself. Muslims are not meant to necessarily believe all hadiths, and that applies particularly to those hadiths that are weakly sourced, such as this one.[76] Furthermore, the correct translation of this particular hadith is a matter of debate.[74] In the same collection of Sunni hadiths, however, the following is judged strong (hasan sahih): "There are six things with Allah for the martyr. He is forgiven with the first flow of blood (he suffers), he is shown his place in Paradise, he is protected from punishment in the grave, secured from the greatest terror, the crown of dignity is placed upon his head—and its gems are better than the world and what is in it—he is married to seventy two wives among wide-eyed houris (Al-Huril-'Ayn) of Paradise, and he may intercede for seventy of his close relatives."[77]

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were originally painted bright colors; they only appear white today because the original pigments have deteriorated. Some well-preserved statues still bear traces of their original coloration.[127][128]

The accused at the Salem witch trials in North America were not burned at the stake; about 15 died in prison, 19 were hanged and one was pressed to death.[172]

Marie Antoinette did not say "let them eat cake" when she heard that the French peasantry were starving due to a shortage of bread. The phrase was first published in Rousseau's Confessions when Marie was only nine years old and most scholars believe that Rousseau coined it himself, or that it was said by Maria Theresa, the wife of Louis XIV. Even Rousseau (or Maria Theresa) did not use the exact words but actually Qu'ils mangent de la brioche, meaning "Let them eat brioche" (a rich type of bread). Marie Antoinette was a target of attacks from radical jacobins; therefore, political activists attributed the phrase "let them eat cake" to her, to promulgate an image of her as disconnected from her subjects.[173]

Napoleon Bonaparte was not short. He was actually slightly taller than the average Frenchman of his time.[180] After his death in 1821, the French emperor's height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet, which in English measurements is 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m).[181] He was actually nicknamed le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal) as a term of endearment.[182] Napoleon was often accompanied by his imperial guard, who were selected for their height[183]—this may have contributed to a perception that he was comparatively short.

There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Only a very small share of the radio audience was even listening to it, and isolated reports of scattered incidents and increased call volume to emergency services were played up the next day by newspapers, eager to discredit radio as a competitor for advertising. Both Welles and CBS, which had initially reacted apologetically, later came to realize that the myth benefited them and actively embraced it in later years.[200]

Rosa Parks was not sitting in the front ("white") section of the bus during the event that made her famous and incited the Montgomery bus boycott. Rather, she was sitting in the front of the back ("colored") section of the bus, where African Americans were expected to sit, but refused to give up her seat to a white man who asked for it (which was also the expected action of African Americans at the time).

Although popularly known as the "red telephone", the Moscow–Washington hotline was never a telephone line, nor were red phones used. The first implementation of the hotline used teletype equipment, which was replaced by facsimile (fax) machines in 1988. Since 2008, the hotline has been a secure computer link over which the two countries exchange emails.[220] Moreover, the hotline links the Kremlin to the Pentagon, not the White House.[221]

Bulls are not enraged by the color red, used in capes by professional matadors. Cattle are dichromats, so red does not stand out as a bright color. It is not the color of the cape, but the perceived threat by the matador that incites it to charge.[238]

Dogs do not sweat by salivating[239] Dogs actually do have sweat glands and not only on their tongues; they sweat mainly through their footpads. However, dogs do primarily regulate their body temperature through panting.[240] (See also: Dog anatomy).

Bats are not blind. While about 70 percent of bat species, mainly in the microbat family, use echolocation to navigate, all bat species have eyes and are capable of sight. In addition, almost all bats in the megabat or fruit bat family cannot echolocate and have excellent night vision.[244]

The notion that goldfish have a memory span of just a few seconds is false.[250][251] It is much longer, counted in months.

There is no such thing as an "alpha" in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate more like human families: there is no defined sense of rank, parents are in charge until the young grow up and start their own families, younger wolves do not overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader, and social dominance fights are situational.[254][255]

Mice do not have a special appetite for cheese, and will eat it only for lack of better options. Mice actually favor sweet, sugary foods. It is unclear where the myth came from.[260]

Sunflowers do not always point to the sun. Flowering sunflowers face a fixed direction (often east) all day long, but not necessarily the sun.[287] However, in an earlier developmental stage, before the appearance of flower heads, the immature buds do track the sun (a phenomenon called phototropism) and the fixed alignment of the mature flowers toward a certain direction is often the result.[288]

Petroleum does not originate from dinosaurs but rather bacteria and algae.[308]

No human genome (nor any mammalian genome for that matter) has ever been completely sequenced. As of 2017, by some estimates, between 4% to 9% of the human genome had not been sequenced.[311]

Trickle-down theory of economics does not work.[325]

Waking sleepwalkers does not harm them. While it is true that a person may be confused or disoriented for a short time after awakening, this does not cause them further harm. In contrast, sleepwalkers may injure themselves if they trip over objects or lose their balance while sleepwalking.[332]

Stretching before or after exercise does not reduce muscle soreness.[338]

Exercise-induced muscle soreness is not caused by lactic acid buildup.[339] Muscular lactic acid levels during and after exercise do not correlate with soreness;[340] exercise-induced muscle soreness is thought to be due to microtrauma from an unaccustomed or strenuous exercise, against which the body adapts with repeated bouts of the same exercise.[341]

Shaving does not cause terminal hair to grow back thicker (more dense) or darker. This belief is due to hair that has never been cut having a tapered end, whereas, after cutting, the edge is blunt and therefore thicker than the tapered ends; the sharper, unworn edges make the cut hair appear thicker and feel coarser. That short hairs are less flexible than longer hairs also contributes to this effect.[355]

A person's hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death. Rather, the skin dries and shrinks away from the bases of hairs and nails, giving the appearance of growth.[356]

Acne is mostly caused by genetics, rather than lack of hygiene, eating fatty food, or other personal habits.[360]

The order in which different types of alcoholic beverages are consumed ("Grape or grain but never the twain" and "Beer before liquor never sicker; liquor before beer in the clear") does not affect intoxication or create adverse side effects.[381]

Hand size does not predict human penis size,[385] but finger length ratio may.[386]

There is no physiological basis for the belief that having sex in the days leading up to a sporting event or contest is detrimental to performance.[390] In fact it has been suggested that sex prior to sports activity can elevate male testosterone level, which could potentially enhance performance.[391]

Glass does not flow at room temperature as a high-viscosity liquid.[442] Although glass shares some molecular properties found in liquids, glass at room temperature is an amorphous solid that only begins to flow above the glass transition temperature,[443] though the exact nature of the glass transition is not considered settled among scientists.[444] Panes of stained glass windows are often thicker at the bottom than at the top, and this has been cited as an example of the slow flow of glass over centuries. However, this unevenness is due to the window manufacturing processes used at the time.[443][444] No such distortion is observed in other glass objects, such as sculptures or optical instruments, that are of similar or even greater age.[443][444][445]

Most diamonds are not formed from highly compressed coal. More than 99 percent of diamonds ever mined have formed in the conditions of extreme heat and pressure about 140 kilometers (87 mi) below the earth's surface. Coal is formed from prehistoric plants buried much closer to the surface, and is unlikely to migrate below 3.2 kilometers (2.0 mi) through common geological processes. Most diamonds that have been dated are older than the first land plants, and are therefore older than coal. It is possible that diamonds can form from coal in subduction zones and in meteoroid impacts, but diamonds formed in this way are rare and the carbon source is more likely carbonate rocks and organic carbon in sediments, rather than coal.[446]

Although the Greek philosopher Pythagoras is most famous today for his alleged mathematical discoveries,[452][453] classical historians dispute whether he himself ever actually made any significant contributions to the field.[450][451] He cannot have been the first to discover his famous theorem, because it was known and used by the Babylonians and Indians centuries before Pythagoras,[454][455][456][457] but it is possible that he may have been the first one to introduce it to the Greeks.[458][456]

There is no scientific evidence for the existence of "photographic" memory in adults (the ability to remember images with so high a precision as to mimic a camera),[478] but some young children have eidetic memory.[479] Many people have claimed to have a photographic memory, but those people have been shown to have good memories as a result of mnemonic devices rather than a natural capacity for detailed memory encoding.[480] There are rare cases of individuals with exceptional memory, but none of them has a memory that mimics that of a camera.