Manga

Four series I wanted to mention this week. Three that are excellent (so far) and one that is very much not excellent.

• Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord

I picked up this series and have been enjoying it a lot (only ~5 chapters in). It is a pretty chill SOL focusing on a woman that breaks up with her girlfriend and moves out to a new place, but doesn't realize initially that her new landlord actually lives in the new place as a roommate. I absolutely plan on continuing this series. It has finished publishing, but the scanlations are still ongoing.

• Koori no Hime wa Chiisana Hidamari de Tokasaretai / The Ice Princess Wants to Be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight

Discovered this series after it was posted in this community this past week and have immensely enjoyed it. It reminds me a lot of Horimiya, but so far has had a bit more focus on the younger siblings and less on the high school classmates. I fully expect this to be a super sweet series and I don't really want anything else from it.

• Rock is a Lady's Modesty

I also picked up this series during the past week. It only has 4 chapters translated so far, but it has an anime adaptation announced for next year, so I thought I would check it out. I am happy to report that I am a fan and am looking forward to both more chapters as well as the upcoming anime.

• Potion wa 160 km/h de Nageru Mono! ~Item-gakari no Ore ga Bannou Kaifukuyaku wo Touteki suru Koto de Saikyou no Boukensha ni Nariagaru?!~ / Throwing Potions at 160km/h!: I Will Become the Strongest Adventurer by Throwing a Universal Recovery Medicine?!

Yes, that is a hell of a title. And honestly, that is what caught my eye when I saw this series in the recent updates list. In case you're from a non-metric part of the world, 160 km/h is ~100 mph, which is about as fast as a professional baseball pitcher throws fastballs. The part of his skill that is exceptional other than the speed is that he can throw potion bottles with pinpoint precision through the battlefield, directly into the mouths of his allies so that they can consume potions without the use of their hands.

This series is absolutely ridiculous, but not really in an inventive and fun way. Just in a way that you have probably seen any number of times in bad versions of this story before. The MC is kicked out of his party (well, survives attempted murder), starts a new party with the FMC and they are now super OP while the previous party falls apart and turns to crime. If you feel like you have seen a story like that before, you likely have.