October 30th - November 5th
Stuff I read this week
Cheerful Amnesia Vol. 1
Top scientists have toiled away for YEARS doing complex lab experiments and they finally did it, the built the ultimate idiot yuri girl. The world’s biggest idiot. She’s so stupid. She is perfect. She has zero thoughts (apart from GIRLFRIEND HOT). I love her.
Anyways, what’s Cheerful Amnesia about? Well our perfect idiot yuri girl wakes up in hospital… with amnesia.. oh no! She can’t remember the last 3 years of her life! But there’s a hot lady in her room?!? Who says she’s her girlfriend?!! “WOW” she thinks to herself - “go past me I picked up a hottie”
And it just gets stupider from there. 10/10
My Stepmother & Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked Vol. 1
You can probably guess what this is like based on the title, but this is the story of a young girl who is the illegitimate child of a noble family moving in with her stepmother and stepsisters after her mother dies. Each chapter is a set-up for some stereotypical ’evil’ stepfamily plot beat, which totally gets inverted in a cute funny way. These step-ladies LOVE their newest family member.
It’s funny how even though you know that the book is going to subvert the genre trope it’s building up to- it STILL somehow still manages to surprise me exactly how, and every dang time I’ll be chuckling like a fool. 10/10 recommended, a great light little read
Everyone’s getting married Vol. 5 - 6
[Notes based on some Line messages I set to @Nex3 whilst reading volume 6 in a cafe]
So it’s a Romance manga published by Shojo Beat, which are normally pretty by the numbers, about a regular office lady who’s dating a celebrity, which is a pretty by the numbers subgenre. Despite having ZERO interest in celebrity culture in real life ohhh heck do I LOVE this genre, cos you always have to have that dynamic where they have to keep the relationship hidden, which is fun right?
Anyways, the main character lady’s brother just found out who she’s dating- and normally in this kinda thing there’s a lot of stupid bullshit like “wow you’re dating them?!? They are famous!” That kinda stuff. In this her brother flat out doesn't recognise the guy or give a single shit - which is an INCREDIBLE twist
The boyfriend is a news presenter. Her brother just does not watch the news. That’s genre innovation right there. I was really impressed lol
I love shit which sticks to genre tropes and all, but this stupid book just keeps inverting expectations over and over and over - with one simple trick! The two characters just talk to each other! Like, A lot? So whenever a genre thing is about to happen - which pretty much always in romance manga things is some kind of miscommunication drama right? Drama happens because they don’t have full information- in this they get to the cusp of that… and then it dosnt happen cos they like, have a nice little chat.
So for this situation to like… her brother just dosnt recognise news broadcasters because who cares about broadcast communications is very funny to me.
Captain Corinth: The galactic navy officer becomes an adventure Vol. 3 - 4
“I’m commandeering this planet” is a stupid line and I’m 100% here for it. Heck yeah!
Hunting in Another World with My Elf Wife Vol. 2 - 3
The cliffhanger from volume 1 was resolved in a nice yet boring way, after that, it was fun to see all the isekai bullshit play out. Big fan of having a hot elf wife tbh.
As with volume 1, the best bits are the extra omake pages at the back, which follow the adventures (?) of the goddess who does that isekai summoning. In these volumes, we learn that she was going to go back to the realm of the gods but instead got hooked on American beer and now lives in Arizona and works at a hunting goods store. It’s very good stuff she should get her own spin off manga.
Perfect World Vol. 9
Well, the climatic event we all knew was going to happen finally happened- they got married. That ended up getting resolved really quickly as well, compared to all the drama that’s happened so far. There are still three volumes left in the series so it will be interesting to see how their relationship develops from here
In/Spectre Vol. 1
Just as interesting as the anime, I like the whole setup between these two, and it was a good cliffhanger spot to end volume one with Kotoko and Saki just meeting up. I wanna buy way more of this t-t
Bonus: Audiobooks
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Vol. 2
UGHHHHH WHYYY do I like this stupid book so much Rudeus's internal monologue is so SLIMY and GROSS I hate him.
stuff in the pile for next week
heck knows... i have to pack all my books up to get ready for the move hecccccck
Books read this year: 359
Last week's post
https://cohost.org/LotteMakesStuff/post/3347146-october-23-29