Stuff i read this week
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die Vol. 1 - 2
What a weird and cool look into an idol fandom community, the books are very silly but a lot of fun, like this is pure idiot character territory with some light yuri themes at the fringes.
It's hard not to notice that a lot of the chapters to chapter dialogue plot beats and driven by misunderstanding, which usually SUPER HYPER annoy me, it's the WORST way to drive a story but I think that it’s actually kinda real neat here? There’s such a disconnect between being an idol and a fan and the way these characters talk past each other captures that really well.
You can’t point at a page here and shout “JUST TALK TO HER ABOUT IT JEEZ” because that’s the entire point. They can't ever talk! well, not for more than a few seconds at a handshake event... if there are enough tickets... Anyways , good book
The Npcs in This Village Sim Game Must Be Real! Vol. 1
World's saddest man finally finds the motivation to live better after talking to chat GPT for literally one day- also sells all his worldly possessions and embraces minimalism to fund his chat GPT micro-transaction addiction. I’m sure he is very mentally well. 8/10
A sign of affection Vol. 6
Still good. For more info see every other time I've ranted about how good it is
My Coworker Has a Secret! Vol. 2 (Final) ((i think?))
It’s still pretty dang good! Our two protagonists are officially dating now, but it’s really funny how Akari keeps telling Kazuma “You make me happy and I love you but obviously, not as much as my one true oshi idol, he’s my true love but you're a close second” - I love scumbag fan girls in manga it’s always refreshing
I Swear I won’t Bother You Again! Vol. 4
Yuri bait arc let’s goooo! (Well, actually it’s Violette makes a female friend arc, but there are some yuri trope references, and I’ll take ‘em. I LOVE WOMEN)
Still a fun villainess book, recommend if you are a genre pervert
The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy Vol. 1
ehhh, magic school battle manga. If you’ve read one, you’ve read like a billion of these. Genre perverts only.
Bonus: Audiobooks
The Dragon's Soulmate is a Mushroom Princess! Vol. 1
real silly shoujo romance - protag-chan is a common-born girl adopted into nobility, and goes through the whole engaged-to-a-royal-prince-but-dennounced-for-a-prettier-gir villainess style intro arc in the first chapter. pretty normal. The twist here is she has some kind of spirit defence magic that makes mushrooms sprout on any man who touches her - which is WEIRD. Luckily for her, a more handsomer and more royaler prince happens to find out post denunciation... HE HAPPENS TO BE A MASSIVE MUSHROOM PERVERT. Pretty cool premise. Theres some fun between chapter breaks where you get little factoids about different types of mushrooms that have featured in the previous chapter as well as uhhh, the mushroom's internal monologues and motivations? That rules. 8/10
stuff in the pile for next week
Now we have finished with Citrus, the next big series I have at the bottom of a pile and desperately want to read is Wotakoi. Let's see if I get around to digging it out... that and i really want to read an isekai. <- this is what i said last week it still applies
Books read this year: 296
Last week's post
https://cohost.org/LotteMakesStuff/post/2738773-august-28th-septem