Currently reading Boy’s Abyss and it’s quite the peak soap opera drama. Side effect: feels like you’re losing brain cells while reading
I have started re-reading my Junji Ito books.
Forgot how creepy and weird his stories and art are.
I’ve been reading chainsaw man as the chapters come out. I’m not sure how to feel about this latest arc though. The next season of the anime is going to be great though.
Reading Chainsaw Man as it’s coming out too. I’m enjoying it, but it doesn’t have the impact the first part had, feel like there’s a reveal/twist that needs to happen to put a lot of things in context.
Yeah I agree. I’m assuming there’s some buildup that’s happening where it will fall into place. There’s some dynamics at play that could be interesting. I’m hoping it pays off at least!
Do light novels count? I’m absolutely devouring Tearmoon Empire for the time being cause it is a great stress reliever!
I’d say they do, only been pushed to read 2 through their anime though, Overlord and Ascendance of a Bookworm
Ooh I hope so! I’ve been reading Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka? for a while now
I’d been following the manga for that and I heard it diverges significantly from the LN (like, cutting out the entire human half of the story). Watching the show was an… interesting experience.
It does, you don’t have to get very far into it to start seeing where it diverges. The anime was hilarious to me, dunno if it’s for everyone though
Birdie Wings: Golf Girls Story
It’s an anime about–golf. No, I am not kidding, trust me it’s good, and and it’s very well made considering the sport lol. It’s about two girls who are golf geniuses, and they play golf for the fun of it, but life keeps on getting in the way for our main character Eve. I liked it, and it’s a good comfort anime to watch.
Yeah, it’s amazing. It gets a little less over-the-top in the school arc (and I need to catch up) but even for someone like me who loathes golf irl this is a fun watch __
Knocked out all of onimai since that one skipped my radar, been slogging through watamote, its been on my reading list for over a decade and i just wanna get it done and over with. Probably gonna do school zone next, my list is far too long and id rather read than doomscroll…
Onimai slipped under my radar too since it had a censored/uncensored version. Thought it was just gross loli stuff but it actually addresses the subject seriously and was pleasantly surprised at the lack of ecchi in it.
Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko-senpai ni Koishiteru. It’s a Yuri about two office workers who crush on each other, but both of them think the other one is straight
That series took an interesting turn that has me way more invested in it than I thought I would be.
Waiting patiently for the next chapter of Berserk.
The wait is real bros.
I just finished this season’s Rokudo no Onna-tachi, which was criminally slept on because its premise sounds like it could get squicky (it never does). I also watched uh, Yuusha ga Shinda, Mashle (great but not slept on), and also kamikatsu which I plan on never ever telling anyone in real life I watched.
I’m also watching Bleach for the first time in 2023. People baited me into thinking it’d be bad but the soul society arc slapped. We’ll see how the Arrancar arc holds up.
I had a few problems with it, but I thought the Arrancar arc was pretty decent. I won’t say anything else so that I don’t spoil anything for you.
Trying to decide if I should watch the Thousand-Year Blood War arc or not.
Got a bunch of shows I need to finish, including Oshi no Ko (a number episodes behind on that). Witch from Mercury was the most recent thing I watched.
It’s been harder keeping up with anime once I got into manga.
There were so many to watch last season that Oshi no Ko got thrown into my “binge at the end of the season” bin. looking forward to it with all the attention it got.
This season I’m watching Mushoku Tensei season 2, which is absolutely peak, and Jujutsu Kaisen season 2, which I’m VERY excited for. I don’t know what else is coming out this season to look out for? Would love recommendations of upcoming shows to keep an eye on
Mushoku Tensei hype is real, the OG Isekei is getting an amazing adaption
Mushoku Tensei is so interesting to me just because like, it’s a gross show about a gross person in a cruel world but like, the way it’s rendered just feels correct for that kind of drama for the show? Like rudeus is AWFUL and it’s interesting seeing him thrust into this awful world that he thinks is a dream, and watching him sort of implicitly realize that he’s not going to get much out of a second chance to be someone he’s proud of unless he seizes it. It’s not a show I can recommend really easily but I think that it’s so brilliantly written and I’m always excited for more
Mushoku Tensei is amazing. Can’t wait to get more of the story.
Helck’s manga gets RIDONKULOUSLY good, but IDK if the anime will get to the good parts of it. Its kind of a bait and switch fantasy comedy > fantasy action/drama type deal.
Watching the second season of Assassination Classroom. It’s a surprisingly wholesome meditation on teaching wrapped up in a shounen high school story.
Reading: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
It’s so wholesome, I love it
Most recent one I watched was Devils’ Line and before that was Black Butler. Watched it right in time for them to announce the new season lol
I’m more than halfway through Dororo at the moment and finding it hard going TBH. Last time an Anime made me feel like this was the latter half of Born in Abyss :-/
EDIT: forgot to mention that I’m also slowly reading the manga of Bakuon, which has a lot of little bits that didn’t make it into the anime.
