August 7th - 13th
Stuff i read this week
If I could reach you Vol. 6
It’s the “Kaoru’s fucking depressed” arc- which is the wild surprise follow-up to the first 5 volumes (which is the 'Uta’s fucking depressed' arc, obviously. Dang these poor poor women)
Mostly the whole story boils down to this - even when he’s trying to be a goodie, Reiichi absolutely, 5000%ly, incredibly, in no uncertain terms, just overwhelmingly sucks ass. dude sucks so much. He is a deeply flawed character who only seems to be able to hurt everyone around him. He just sucks. I hate him. HE SUCKS SO MUCH. Dump his ass.
Death March To The Parallel World Rhapsody Vol. 3 - 4
This one’s for genre perverts only. As you know, I’m a big isekai fan so it is MADE FOR ME. I am that genre pervert. anyways, why the heck do the dweebs that write these books think that slavery is poggers and cool and fun actually? Messed up fuckers for sure
Volume 3 was okay, but volume 4 was pretty boring. If you’ve seen the anime, Vol 4 covers the elf artificial world tree dungeon battle arc thing… and it’s just kinda dull. Actually, every volume of this which has been covering dungeon battles has been dull. The characters may be paper thin but their interactions are the actual fun part! Oh well!
My coworker has a secret Vol. 1
“Dweebnerd woman gets a normal ass boyfriend” is a real good heterosexual romance manga subgenre, and this is a pretty good implementation of it. There’s also a pretty good cross-dressing guy in it who really owned all the pages he showed up on- it’s just a light amusing romcom and I’m deffo going to get more.
Also- this is good anti-landlord propaganda. Landlords suck
Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I woke up piloting the strongest starship! Vol. 3
a bit of a slow volume plot-wise... not a lot happens. There’s a bit of world building, we are treated to a good chapter about how good is made (with a factory tour!). Thats the best kind of thing to worldbuild IMO. but it’s mostly just establishing the whole research colony disaster arc. Did a pretty good job of it! It might have been slow, but this book is such a breeze to read through? Enjoying it a lot. 10/10.
Crossplay love otaku x punk Vol. 4
The idiots are at it again and heck it’s only getting stupider and more messy. 10/10
Hi, I'm a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion Vol. 1 - 2
Incredible line work- this mangaka can DRAW! Anyways, its a fun slow romance with some interesting magic system stuff. If you like shoujo fantasy it’s highly recommended.
There’s deffo a cool genre trend here with stories about young lonely women who are super super smart, world-leading in their craft witches living isolated in forests being discovered by hot Nobel boys - I’m pretty sure more of that exact girly fantasy trope has ended up on my pile lately than other sub-genres (like villainess, for example) I guess it’s a real smart way to merge your shoujo romance into a fantasy setting so you don't have to write about a dang school. I’m a noted genre pervert so I’m glad manga publishes have found a new one to mine for translation content
Bonus: Audiobooks
The Rising of the Shield Hero Vol. 6
That dang spirit turtle arc is sp dull how many more volumes of this?
stuff in the pile for next week
Did i read Citrus? No. Same old same old. uhh... i wanna try and read it this week... will i be too lazy to get it from the bottom of my to-read pile? Probably. Will Lotte EVER reread Citrus? find out next week (copy pasted from last week again like.. I REALLY WANT TO READ CITRUS)
Books read this year: 266
Last weeks post
https://cohost.org/LotteMakesStuff/post/2393036-july-31st-august-6/