Manga

I'm kind of picky with what manga I'm willing to start, but almost anything I do pick will be something I enjoy. Really appreciate this community (as well as the anime discussion one, if I see an interesting-looking anime I'll probably look up if it has a manga first) for making me aware of a lot more manga I ended up enjoying.

I admit I don't post myself. I have no sense of taste or quality, just "I enjoyed this" and "I did not enjoy this" and am not sure too many of my comments would be constructive. But I do think a general appreciation comment is constructive enough to post, so I am posting this ;)

I usually read light novels but last week I got sucked into a bunch of manga.

-> Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer Very fun adventure about a guy trying to prevent cosmic cataclysm. The MC is typical dense harem protagonist but the adventure is good enough to offset it for me.

-> Honobono Isekai Tensei Days ~Level Counterstop, Item Mochikoshi! Watashi wa Saikyou Youjo Desu First 4 volumes were very fluffy and fun but after that volume 5 and 6 got too serious for my taste and it lost it's charm. The stakes got too high for slice of life. It still could go into interesting direction but that wouldn't be the same story as in the beginning. I wanted something like Slime Life but it didn't live up to my expectations.

-> I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide there was chapter posted in the community and art was breathtaking.

I finally found a new read that I might like. It's called Asako. It's an age gap manga so it might not be for everyone but I've read a few before (My Boy and After the Rain). It has a bit of mystery to it and the plot is non-linear so that makes it more enjoyable for me. Anyway, for those interested, it's about a man who reminisces a woman he met when he was a young boy set in a small coastal town. Her identity is a mystery however. I'm only a few chapters in and I like it so far.

I apologize for the delayed creation of this post, but my workload continues to be a bit insane. Here are some series I wanted to mention this week:

• A Failure as an Idol / Idol Shikkaku

Not sure where this one is going yet. It is about an idol and her biggest fan, but unlike Damedol, everybody is majorly depressed. It has been a slow buildup, but I am willing to stick with this one for a bit to see how it goes after the most recent chapter.

• Will You Marry Me Because I Quit Being an Idol? / Idol Yamerukedo Kekkon Shitekuremasu Ka!?

I hadn't planned on there being an idol theme to my post this week, but I have enjoyed the first couple chapters of this one. It's not really treading new ground in the romcom space, but it is at least an adult romance that has their characters act like adults. They have to do things like plan around a work schedule for instance. It felt quite real when a dramatic thing happened once and the MC was basically like, I can't deal with this now, I have to get to work, let's circle back to it this evening...and then everybody involved did just that.

• [Munching Away] The Exiled Young Lady's Skill of "Becoming Stronger by Eating Monsters" was an Unprecedented Strongest Skill Where she Levels Up with Every Meal. She Became the Strongest in Humanity in Three Days! / [Pakupaku desu wa] Tsuihousareta Ojou-sama no "Monster wo Taberu Hodo Tsuyoku Naru" Skill wa, 1-shoku de 1 Level Up suru Zendaimimon no Saikyou Skill deshita. 3-nichi de Jinrui Saikyou ni narimashita wa~!

Only one chapter translated so far and I enjoyed it. I am hoping for more soon. The raws are currently partway through chapter 18, so there is content out there for our intrepid TL. I think the funniest part of this one to me is how the monsters become these equisitely prepared dishes for her to eat. I am kind of hoping that those nice prepared plates are just in her perception and she is actually just munching down on monster corpses from everybody else's perspective.

I've been a bit busy recently and orbited towards reading random one-shots here and there. Didn't really find anything worth posting unfortunately so I hope you all have a better time with that.

On the other hand, the second to last chapter of Asura’s Dish of the Day came out over the weekend and I'm kind of mixed on it.

I admit I'm mostly nitpicking at this point. The series was canceled and there simply wasn't enough time to tackle those things properly but it's still annoying enough to make me rant, I guess.

I've just picked up The Main Heroines Are Trying to Kill Me.

It's alright. It reminds me of Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim, but is more serious instead of comedic.