Currently on Vol 19 of Golden Kamuy and I'm about ready to crown it my favorite manga. It has EVERYTHING. I'm trying to convince my friend In Japan to go to a showing of the new live-action film and grab some merch to put into a care package for me lol Have the entire Soloist manga being delivered to me today. Sounds like I won't be let down.

Finally someone that shares my opinion about Anti-Romance! The characters had no chemistry at all, I didn’t get the feeling of them being childhood friends in love with each other at all. They even felt like strangers at times. As someone who also bought all of Children of the Whales based on a few volumes (only 1 in my case) your review scared me. I hope our opinion differs on that one, or else I’ve wasted a lot of money lol :)

Wow! I'm surprised you read so little last month!! YAY for indie manga though! I felt A LOT of emotional whiplash going from Orange Future and Orange to you dear one! I LOVE Orange Future and always sob reading that one so I struggled a little bit going into To You Dear One, but I did enjoy it overall! I ended up sending the series to a friend who loves the series a lot more then I do! It's interesting to hear you share about Children of the Whales! Great video!

Yayayayay I loved GC and the ending a lot! I did not know anything and was reading ti completely blind from vol 1-to the end. Lets say it was very hinna hinna.

I haven't read my copy of Panorama of Hell yet but I have read a decent amount of Hino stuff and your discussion of it makes me think you will enjoy his other stuff quite a bit. The talking to the reader and mixing of comedy and gore is prevalent in most of his work. Starfruit released The Town of Pigs last year which is great and then The Red Snake is due by them this summer (which means most likely it will come out in 2025 based on their previous release history). Too bad about Children of the Whales I plan on giving it a shot sometime in the next few months to see how I feel about it.

I was not a big fan of Children of the Whales either. I really wanted to like it! I LOVE Shouji/Josei fantasy and the serious undertone with this artstyle looked perfect. I also did not like the fantasy names, but that is often the case for Japanese fantasy manga and most of the time I can neglect it and still enjoy the story. (For example these "German" city names in European style villainess stories. As a German, I cringe a lot because they sound German, but are not and just feel really weird for my brain. But German is hard and why should Japanese authors have use it - it's fantasy.) When the story/characters do not grasp my attention enough and you focus only on these words, then it becomes really painful. I think I just did not like the characters enough and when the "catastrophy" starts, I did not want to read further. With hard/depressing stories like that, I really need to like the characters to be able to get through the rough scenes. I stopped after Vol.2 and have sold my copies already. Everytime someone talks about Golden Kamuy, I tell myself to check it out. It sounds incredibely good with great characters. I've recently started my Seinen journey, and maybe that's the next series I need to pick up. Thank you so much for your thoughts!

DNFing and unhauling is a good thing!! I started a re-read of Fushigi Yugi in February and I got 3 volumes in and DNFed it. It just doesn’t hold up.

Love all your stats!!!

I'm harsher than you, then! 😅 I didn't much like Soloist in a Cage, and my niece hated the ending of Orange so I didn't continue reading it. 😂 Glad you enjoyed it though.

No surprise there, that a Shoujo junkie like yourself would have romance and contemporary slice of life as the second most read in January.....😏 hehehe (Sorry, couldn't help myself lol) Does this mean February's Shoujo craze wasn't the best ever?😶 Mind blown! 😆 Oooo, Ive been wanting to try Soloist in a Cage. Unique premise for a manga.....wait, did you say....there's cults?😯 Based 😎 I'm so damn jealous of your Panorama of Hell. Ive looked but I could not find, in my area😞 Noooo, poor Children of the Whales taking the hits.😭 But on a positive note, at least the covers are pretty enough you should be able to pass them on for someone to buy🤷🏻‍♀️,lol. As for myself, Id be interested in hearing about any horror novels you've enjoyed. I love horror which doesn't bode well for my manga collecting, seeing as it's not a popular genre for that medium. feel free to recommend any of those on your Instagram