We're half way through the year, and I might have peaked this month. I read the most stuff in June! Let's speed through it.
📚After School Charisma v.1
📚Don’t Call It Mystery v. 1
📚I Guess I Became the Mother of the Great Demon King's 10 Children in Another World v.6-7
📚Is Love the Answer? (complete/oneshot) - reviewed on blog!
📚 Limit vol. 1-4
📚My Secret Affection v.1
📚Prince Freya v.3-8 (caught up with Eng releases)
📚Spy x Family ch.81-82
📚Something's Wrong With Us v.14
📚Star Crossed v.1-4 (complete)
📚The Heiress and the Chauffeur v.1-2 (complete) - reviewed on blog!
📚Titan's Bride v.1
📚To Strip the Flesh (complete/oneshot) - reviewed on blog!
📚 To Your Eternity v. 18 (I think I skipped v. 17, whoops!)
📚Touring After the Apocalypse v.1
So, about 27 volumes and 2 chapters of manga if my math is correct!
Don't Call It Mystery v. 1
So, I finally read the first volume of Don't Call It Mystery, and I really enjoyed it! A smart, college kid with a penchant for curry gets caught up in mystery after mystery. The series is released as an omnibus, and this first book covers 3 cases and leaves us at the beginning of a 4th case. The next volume will come out on August 29. Looking forward to it!
Limit is the 6-volume series by Keiko Suenobu, the same mangaka of Life and the sequel Life 2. Life and Life 2 are presently being released digitally via Kodansha. As of this post, Limit is still physical only through the Vertical imprint.
So, Limit is an old series that I never read. I'm reading it presently through my local library, and I'm enjoying this series thus far. The female main character is part of the school bully group. She boards a bus with the rest of her friends and classmates to go to a remote campsite when the bus crashes. The majority of the class dies leaving behind a handful of girls, mostly the girls she bullied while at school. Ruh-oh. The group struggles to survive. Psychological drama ensues.
Hopefully, Kondasha will re-release the series or make it digital as it's on the older side being released in 2012.
So, I read Prince Freya up to the latest release vol. 8 via my local library, and I enjoyed it so much that I decided to grab a set for myself. I think that's the highest level of praise I can give any manga series. 🤷 Action galore, plot-driven, zero to hero heroine, reverse harem, impersonation and genderswapping shenanigans, enemies unknowingly meet each other, shocking beginning, binge-able series...I can go on. It grabbed me from the get-go, and presently it's keeping me seated. Fair warning: stop at vol. 7 because vol. 8 starts a new arc.
Anime I'm Currently Watching
✅ The Marginal Service ep. 1 - sub
✅ Moriarty the Patriot Season 1 ep. 1 - dub
✅ My Home Hero ep. 9-12 (complete season 1) - sub
✅ Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion ep. 2-8 - sub
The Marginal Service ep 1. (sub)
This is the original anime with the mostly naked dudes teaser. You know, this one. I saw the first episode and eh... It's a sci-fi action show following a cocky cop as he gets his partner killed and fired from the force only to join a secret ragtag government-sanctioned group to kill monsters. Not the most original or well-executed premise. Probably will just skip this one entirely.
Moriarty the Patriot Season 1 ep. 1 (dub)
I know. I'm like the last person to watch this show so stuff it. I put it on the back burner because it was getting greenlit for multiple seasons and I rather spend my time watching the anime that's complete in one season, an original anime, or anime at risk of not getting another season. With that said...
I watched the first episode, and it started off a little weird with the flash forward to 1911 NY only to flashback to 1800s London with no connective tissue in between? Needless to say, the first episode did not grab me, but I'll continue with this one...slowly. Voices were good. I like watching dub too. 🤷 It's 2023. Let people live.
My Home Hero ep. 9-12 (Season 1 complete, sub)
I really enjoyed My Home Hero. The characters were great. The story was great. The animation was... interesting. They tried to make that budget work 2003 style, but I really liked some aspects of it. For example, when Tetsuo was being interrogated with a bag over his head around ep 3, we got the scene from his perspective. The animation was from his perspective. He thought he was outside about to be thrown off the top of a building when in reality he was being thrown off a scaffold in a warehouse. That was cool.
Overall, I enjoyed season 1. I hope there is a season 2 because there is more to this manga. According to MangaUpdates, the anime adapts from volume 1 up to volume 6, chapter 40. If no more seasons are to be had, then at least we're given a full complete arc. We're left with Tetsuo "getting away with his crime." I have no plans to read the manga right now, but maybe later down the road, like way later because my list is full.
If you're in the mood for a psychological thriller drama, then check out My Home Hero!
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion ep. 2-8 (sub)
Weird cgi and background characters aside, still really enjoying this series. Not much to add from my comments last time. They're hot. It's fun. See for yourself. 🤷
Watch are you peeps reading and watching? Let me know!
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