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Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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  • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    I have managed to mostly clear out my backlog this past week (mostly…). There has also been some sad news this past week with the announcement of the coming end of Nagatoro as well as Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu, two series that I enjoy a lot. There are a couple series I wanted to highlight this week:

    • Hanging Out with a Gamer Girl - This series is back from a couple months break. The SL group tends to let it build up and then release a batch of chapters at a time. The main ship in this series is now officially setting sail, so it is an exciting time! (And also probably signals the looming end of the series…)
    • Obokoi Majo wa Majiwaritai! - I found this series from this community this past week and quickly binged what was available. Despite the lewd premise of the opening chapters, this has actually shaped up to be an incredibly wholesome and cute romance. Another nice thing about this series is that the main pair is dating from near the beginning, so there are very few will they/won’t they shenanigans that happen.
    • Futoku no Guild - I saw an update posted for this series a little while back and remembered that it had an anime adaptation. So, at the time I added it to my list and just got around to checking it out this week. Long story short, I got a couple chapters in and I don’t think I will be continuing with it. I don’t particularly mind some pretty explicit content in my media, but the fan service in this series is so forward and serves basically no purpose that it just felt like everything else takes a back seat. At that point, just make it hentai…why bother trying to have a story at all? Anyway, moving on…
    • Tsuitenai Game Jikkyousha wa Akogare no Hito ni Kakinsareru - Found this series this past week from the recent updates page on MD and I have enjoyed it. It is a romcom set in college that features characters that are like the opposite of Shikimori. The female lead is incredibly unlucky, clumsy, etc. but is able to use that “power” to create entertaining livestream content. The male lead is calm and cool, or at least he seems that way to others. In reality he is apathetic and morose, only finding joy recently from watching a certain livestreamer. There are 6 chapters so far and it has been good fun.
    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I’m seldom disappointed by a good series ending these days. There’s so much to read that it’s not like I’ll run out, and too often series go into a kind of limbo when they run too long, where it feels like they just narratively tread water.

      Nagatoro got to that point for me, so I stopped keeping up with it, but now that I know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, I’m actually more interested in picking it back up.