210506 - Kouryakuhon O Kushi Suru Saikyou No Mahoutsukai ~< Meirei Sa Sero > To Wa Iwa Senai Oreryuu Mao Tobatsu Saizen Ruuto - Mangakakalot.com - Another "guy gets kicked out of hero party" story. This guy gets an encyclopedia that lets him do everything super efficiently. He then goes on a quest to defeat the Demon Lord before the Hero party. 210506

221130 - Sure, I'll check it out soon. This is the first MAL entry, above was a bookmark. 221130

210318 - I never wrote how I found this one, or when. I think I randomly stumbled across this one while it was still incomplete and added on a whim. Then I heard it finished and had multiple endings so all the fans were happy. Sounds like this is an alright series so I'm going to read this soon. The multiple endings is interesting to me. Many might see it as a cop-out, but I think it's great in a harem series like this. Regarding order, all I know is that the Uruka ending is first and the sensei one is last. Don't know who any of these people are, but that's what I read. 210318

230410 - I won't get the chance to read this for a while, but I'd like to read it sometime soon, so I added it to reading. 230410

220901 - Another one of those smut series that I had no entry for. I guess I just never bothered adding any of the ero series. Anyway, adding it now even though I checked out about half of this a few months ago. 220901

230206 - Another one of those random finds on r/manga. Or was it an auto-rec at the bottom of one of the other "OP MC is kicked out of ___ for being weak, but is actually amazing" stories I was looking up on MAL. Probably that one about the 30 year old guy who gets kicked out of the demon lord's army, or whatever. Anyway, this one was... neat. It started off AWESOME. MC got recruited by the hero but noped out immediately because he's a D rank adventurer who is lazy. I thought he was actually just a crappy fighter. It was pretty funny when I thought that was the case. Basically, I thought it was going to be an MxO situation where he has to Joestar his way out of fights all the time. Unfortunately, it went typical "MC is the strongest-est best-est person eveeeeerrrrrrr" route. It's still kind of fun though. I got up to 15 and now I get to put it on hold for a while. It just started arc 2. Arc 1 was the bonelord person who turned the town in skeletons and undead, but the MC turned em all back. I'll give this a 7 for now. I want to give it an 8, but I don't think it's that good of a story. Looking forward to reading this again in 3 or so years. Should have a good backlog by then. 230206

231101 - I started reading this a couple days ago on accident. I started the first chapter and just... kept going. I'm going to get up through current before stopping again. 231101

230215 - Found here on this trending page(https://mangadex.org/tag/391b0423-d847-456f-aff0-8b0cfc03066b/action). I'd never seen that before on Mangadex. Anyway, this is a random add. It seemed neat, so I'm adding it. || After the first chapter, I decided to put this on hold. I'll check this out in a year or two. Only up to chapter 19 right now, so I'm going to wait until there's some chance for actual progression between the two. 230215

230410 - Sure, why not? Random add. 230410

23119 - Huh. Apparently this finished 10 days ago. I wanted to see how far along that "luxury liner" WN is compared to the manga so I went to Nyx Translations. Then I saw this one, clicked it, decided to see if it was one I'd already started, came here, and saw that the manga is done. Soooo, I guess I'll go through this next. 231119

220111 - Whoa, 33 chapters? Might take a while. MangaDex only has up to 14... updated 4 years ago. So yeah, not likely to see this one anytime soon. No real reason for the add. It just looked neat based on the cover. No idea if happy end or not. Color palette looks like it may be a bit drama-heavy, but who knows. 220111

220927 - Up through 22 translated now. 220927

230711 - It's done! Time to add it! 230711

*Everything up to 210422 was originally in Not On Mal*
210420 - This looks cool. It's only a 3.88/5 though so it's probably just whatever. I'll still take a look though since there's no drama tag. 210420

210421: Started reading this today. This is so damn cozy. I've only read up to chapter 6 so far, but it's just 2 girls living together in a typical relationship. I really hope it stays this way. Giving this a 9 for now. Might go up later. Then again, it does have a rating of 3.87 so hopefully it doesn't drop in quality later on. We'll see. 210421

210422: ... WHY IS THIS RATED SO LOW? I don't get it. This is great. Like, everything about this is great. There's no ridiculous drama, no over the top antics, just people living their lives. Maybe that's why it's rated low? Or the fact that Elly Sakuma looks kind of odd for a manga. I mean, she DOES look like Frady, which I thought was kind of weird. Anyway, if that's the reason why this is rated low, that's kind of lame. Everything else is cool. I especially like the relationship between Elly's friend and Wako's voice actress friend. They're both in love with other people, but have a relationship with each other anyway. It's really interesting. It's not quite bittersweet, but still a bit sad that they can't be with the people they want. However, they seem happy enough together. I like that I have no idea how their relationship will shake out. I feel like they have no idea either, but they're just going with the flow at the moment. That's honestly it. Other than the relationships, there's not much to this series. That's not a bad thing at all. Especially because this has such a cozy atmosphere. There are times that shake up the cozy vibe (like how those aforementioned friends aren't with the ones they love), but it's still wonderful. I'm giving this an 8. It's got a special something to it that I really like. Something unique that I can't quite put my finger on. It's like it's adult, but not. Mature, but simple. I don't know. Point is, I liked it and I'm looking forward to more. 210422 **

221129 - Seems the translation is done. I'll check this out soon. Can't remember ANYTHING about it so I'll start over (even though I was on 63). 221129

240411 - Read this a week or two ago and had it sitting in my bookmarks. Only 1 chapter so far. I'd love to read more. 240411

220609 - Wow, this actually seems like an interesting story. Not great, but interesting. I got 2 chapters in and decided to hold off for a while. I'm a bit confused on what the MC traded for power. Did he trade his life? Or his soul? I'm not too sure. Anyway, it seems pretty cool so far. I'm going to hold off until it's done though. I'd say it's a solid 7 right now. Currently at 41 chapters. Looking forward to binging it. 220609

240126 - I started reading this again last week. It's a neat story. Turns out, we don't actually know what he gave up to get his power. I'm 50:50 on whether the author even knows what it is and is just stalling for time to try to think of something. Regardless, it's fun at the moment. I'm through 22 of 58 right now. Still going strong. 240126

230224 - Started reading because I didn't want to wait on the manga anymore. Started around chapter 35, I think. When they go to make the 2nd desert base. The main one that can hold 3000 people. This is fuuuuuun. 230224

230322 - Finally got caught up to current. Took quite a few days of constant reading, but I'm caught up. Most recent updates were 2 days ago ending on 328. Wow, I guess I've been reading this for the past month? Seems like it. I didn't give these gold marks on the calendar because it wasn't like I was HUNGRY to read this like with Ascendance or Mushoku Tensei. It was just a lot of fun. Just for future reference, so far they've retaken the country, they staved off an invasion from two neighboring Holy Kingdom-allied countries, thwarted an assassination attempt on Kosuke, and Kosuke is about to go set up pioneer towns throughout the kingdom. I just REALLY hope we get to see Merinard go to war with the Holy Kingdom soon enough. It's crazy. You'd think they'd want to avoid fighting as much as possible, but they keep goading Merinard. They don't return their slaves, they send vassal nations to "sneak-attack" Merinard, they send assassins to kill Merinard royalty. It's nutty. I wish Kosuke would realize his laissez-faire attitude will likely end up killing someone he loves. That would be a wake-up call. Fuck it, kill Sylphy. Use that as your excuse to wipe the Holy Kingdom from the map. I just want to see this enemy reduced to cinders. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? If you get rid of the Holy Kingdom, there's not much of a story anymore is there? I'll check back in after a while. I want to say sometime in 2025, but I know I won't be able to last that long. We'll see. This gets an 8 for now. There were a few "boring" moments where Kosuke is creating things? That doesn't work all that well in text. In manga, it'll be great, but not here. Too bad the manga won't get to this point until the 2030's. 230322

230715 - ... Yeah, I couldn't wait until 2025. Mostly because I was feeling a bit melancholic and needed a pick-me-up. I finished TOTK and was feeling a bit lonely. I know this'll pass, but in the meantime, instead of doing Capstone homework, I want to feel a bit cozy. I was thinking about reading the manga from the beginning, but decided I'd like to read a bit more of the story instead. It's up to 371 now, so from 328 to that is like 43 chapters? That should be good. I'll read that and should hopefully be feeling better tomorrow. Anyway, on to the next chunk.230715

230720 - Caught back up to current. Chapter 373. They're on their way to the Draconis Kingdom. Seems like a decent place to stop as things are about to unfold there. Whether there's action or not, it should be a good time. I'll try and hold off for another few months, I guess. I'm surprised there were so many chapters in only 4 months. Nyx really puts in the hours to translate this stuff. It's great. Too bad I won't see this in the manga for another 10 years. It's cozy. Makes me want to read ahead on the 80,000 gold coin series and check out that parallel world desert kingdom redhead queen series some more. I might check that one out again real soon. 230720

231111 - Heart is breaking. Much sadness. ... I just found out that the LN was axed and the WN is "done". I have no idea how that could be possible since the story was BARELY gotten started. The main assault hasn't even begun, MC in chapter 370 is on his way to the dragon-people kingdom, and we're supposed to be done in... 70 chapters? Big doubt. If we were wrapping up, I'd get it. But there is SO much more to do. Le sigh. Oh well. I'm sad. I may go and reread the one about the dude that gets ported to that desert kingdom in the other world. Or maybe some other isekai to take my mind off things. This one hurts. A lot. I was teetering on giving this a gold mark on my calendar too. It meant that much to me. ... Well, I'm not going to be finishing this today, or even this month. I need to finish up my last OSU class and then I'll have time to read it. Then I'll close the book on this one. Hey, you know what? Maybe the WN finishes well. That's what some people are saying. So I won't get too sad about it. Maybe it'll end in a decent way. I just need to go into it with an open mind. 231111

220517 - Holy crap, this is awesome. I finished the anime and started on part 2, volume 2. Once I got into new territory, I started to get way into it. Right now I've finished the end of part 2. Just incredible. I was feeling so emotional reading about Myne getting separated from her family. It was absolutely heartbreaking. I mean, they built up to how emotionally devastating it would be. She gets separated from her family over the winter and it basically ruins her. Now she can never call them her family ever again? That hurt me.

I am so invested in this story now. I love the world building. I'm going to go back for a bit and look up some stuff in part 1 (leherl vs lehange and stuff like that), then I'm going to start up part 3.This is a 10 right now. Simply for the emotional damage it caused in part 2. It's one of the best stories I've read. 220517

220707 - I was blasting through this for about 4 weeks, then slowed down to a crawl for the past month. Lately, I've only been reading while on the bike. I just finished up the machine translated 5.5 and am about to start 5.6. I decided to start marking down whenever I finish a new one since they'll probably be spaced out quite a bit. It's been a heck of a ride so far. Even with the MT version, this is still a 10 for me. The believable world is masterclass. It's not some dumb BS isekai. The world feels incredibly consistent. Looking forward to reading about how Wilfried takes the news about Rozemyne going to the Sovereignty in a year and breaking off their engagement. Should be interesting! 220707

220903 - Wow! This is great! Dude isekai's into a world VERY similar to his favorite game that he played all the time because he was in a hospital bed his entire life. The plot is REALLY interesting. He's not overpowered. If anything, he's under-powered. I really like the line they're walking between good and evil here too. The MC is the king of an "evil" race, but wants to live in peace. He won't go and attack people, but is fine with his second in command butchering soldiers threatening their forest. It's a nice balance and I'm enthralled. This is a 10 from me so far. 220903

220904 - Soooooo, there's other games in this world. They find out that there is at least one person from an RPG and the witch in the north is someone who keeps reviving (and definitely called it a game). So there are multiple people from multiple game settings in this world. It's just getting more and more interesting by the chapter. Speaking of which, I'm up to 17 and now I'm all caught up. I'm going to see where the translated LN is and maybe read ahead for a bit (I read up through chapter 42). Still a 10 for me right now. 220904

220912 - I was thinking about putting this at high priority, but I really want to forget about this for a while so I can binge a bunch at once. 220912

230209 - I read from 18-20. I had to read more. I needed to see if it had gotten past mama Isla's death scene yet. Not yet. 1 more chapter to go and we should be there. I love this story so much. It's definitely going to get an anime at some point. I am SO looking forward to it. 230209

220722 - Meh, looks like junk food, but it might be fun. Honestly, I got sucked in by the mangakakalot cover art. Better than the art on mangadex, that's for sure. I think there's still about 4 chapters that need to be translated before I check it out (at 21, says 25 total). 220722

231118 - Seems it's done. I'll check it out now. 231118

210127 - Recommended from
https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/

210202 - Cute. Uno Hinako (blonde) is constantly putting on a facade to her friends and coworkers. She is always wearing makeup and a smile so she can get a boyfriend, etc. However, she's never liked any guy before. By chapter 11 she might be falling in love with Satou Asahi (dark hair girl). So far, this is great. It's a slow burn. This is in Yuri Hime, so it'll have monthly updates. I'm going to set aside for a while since it's a slow burn. I want to get a few chapters before reading in bulk. Giving it a 9 for now. I think it's basically a 10 except it hasn't given me that perfect-happiness feeling yet. Still fantastic though. 210202

210420 - Haven't read this in a while, but I think I'm OK putting this On-Hold for a while. It was a slow burn anyway, so I don't think I'll miss anything if I hold off for a while. Maybe I'll check back in 2023. Might be some development by then. 210420

220623 - Barely up to 15 now. 16 months for 4 chapters kind of sucks, but whatever. I might keep waiting for 2023 like I originally planned. 220623

220912 - Oh NOOOOO! It's been done for about 4 months, but no one has translated 16-20 yet! NOOOO! Oh well, I can keep waiting. It's just surprising that this and the Kami eshi JK to OL fujoshi series are both done. I'll read that one now and hope that this gets translated by the end of the year or something. 220912

221129 - ONLY 1 MORE CHAPTER! It's at 19! 221129

230324 - aaaaaaaaaand NOW it's done. Well, 4 months ago. Seems like right after my last entry it finished up. Oh well. TIME TO READ IT! 230324

220901 - Alright, pause. I'm 99% sure I started reading this one before. Dude gets killed on accident. He was going to become a mega-millionaire and have a harem, but was killed early. I'm not sure why I stopped reading it. Either I wanted to put it on-hold (and never wrote an entry?), dropped it before adding it, or my computer restarted and I forgot about it before I could put in an entry. I'll read a bit more and find out. || Yup, definitely read this before. I got through the first 2 chapters. Not sure why I stopped, but I'm going to continue now. 220901

220908 - Here's the deal. I got up through chapter 14 before the power went out (because of the AC unit. That was a few days ago. Ever since, I've been reading other series because I'm reading like a dozen smut series at once. The point being that I forgot I was reading this one. Luckily I saved it in the smut folder. So far, I'm enjoying it. It's your typical no-stress MC has godlike powers story. He kills everything without trouble, bangs multiple women with 0 effort, all women love that he has a harem, etc. Just brainless entertainment... and I love it. Time to keep reading. || Really great. Up to 23 now. Dude never has a problem and never faces any challenge. For a brainless story, I'm all about it. I don't want to have to think here. I just want to see big-number-man punch bad guy and grow harem. I'll put this on hold for a while. It'll probably be done the next time I binge this. 220908

230908 - I restarted this today. I wanted a bit of smut back in my life. It's got about 10 more chapters or so. Should be fun. 230908

231111 - Hmm, seems I haven't added this yet. It just feels familiar (even though it was a random find on mangakakalot). Probably because it's the same cut/paste as every other isekai. Whatevs, I'll check this out soon. 231111

241225 - Third entry for today. Started reading this like... 2 weeks ago? I'm up through around 11. It's definitely interesting. I'm not sure if they're going for a harem thing or not. It's interesting that the MC is insanely powerful and trains even more insanely powerful people. It makes me think of that one series I started (and probably don't have an entry for yet... ...) about that fraud of a teacher that teaches the MC sword skills and becomes incredible. It's in a sci-fi setting. I need to find that one again. ANYWAY, this gets a 7 for now. I want to get caught up to current. There's currently 27.2 chapters, so I have a ways to go. 241225

220828 - I think I have this added on my other computer. 220828

221205 - This sounds fun. I think I'll start this soon. 221205

220623 - Oh my GOD. That description. It sounds like "yuri slow life". I don't see a drama tag. I don't see a comedy tag. I just see GL. I. Am. In. I don't want to spoil it, but I'm going to read the first chapter just to see if it IS what I think it is. Be back in a minute. || YUP, so far it's EXACTLY what I wanted. Unfortunately, the first chapter hooked me into the second. I'll try and stop when I can. 220623

220624 - This is giving me such a unique feeling. After 8 chapters, the happiness is still there, but it has a melancholic undertone to it as well. It's not a sad story at all, in fact it's quite a joyful and wholesome one. It's just that there's this reality to their situation that the author won't sugarcoat or wash away. Yeah, they're living together happily on an island. Yeah, they're unshackled from the woes of city life. So many positives to their decision to move... but there's the reality that they've given up a LOT by moving out. Haru was job hunting, so she can always go back, but Hinoto was still in school. She's giving up her degree by moving out to the island with Haru. There's also the reality of whether they can stay there. Can they find jobs? Can they make enough money to live? Is this just a temporary thing? Meaning they'll have to come crawling back to the crushing reality of the life they just left? So many unanswered questions. A lesser series would have them living blissfully on this island. Then they might introduce these problems later on with someone visiting and telling them to come home, the aunt telling them to leave her villa, etc. It would be a problem introduced later; not here. These two are VERY aware of the risk they're taking. They're winging it, but they're scared at the same time. It's so well done and so realistic that it makes me root for them incessantly. But it's not something shallow like "I want them to be happy on the island". Instead it's more like I want them to find their place in life wherever that happens to be. They've left the safety of port and are now being tossed around in the ocean on a ship they built themselves. It's risky and full of uncertainty, but it's a decision they had complete control over.

I'm captivated by this story in a way I haven't been before. I'm not "excited" to see what's next, I'm more curiously-hopeful. Like I'm rooting for real people. It's as if this situation was happening to my friends. It's not comically sad/happy/angsty; it just feels real. For that reason, I'm giving this a 10 for the moment (7.43 with 149 reviewers on MAL so far). It'll probably drop off at some point, but for now it's perfect. I dearly hope it stays that way. It's such a breath of fresh air and I'm so happy that I stumbled on it. 220624

231118 - Just saw that this is done. I'll have to binge the whole thing soon. 231118

240726 - No entry? Uggh. I'm sure I've got some bookmark info somewhere. I'll check later.

220630 - Can you blame me for adding it on a whim? Look at that cover. 220630

220630 - There's that degenerate garbage I crave. Recommended here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/n651yc/recommend_me_manga_like_this_romance_that_doesnt/). Since dude is 30 on the inside, it's not super weird. I'll check this out real soon. 220630

221023 - I got through around half before I put this on pause last time. I'm going to restart this and go through it all in one shot. 221023

210205 - Kusanagi-sensei Is Being Tested (Title) - MangaDex - I'd heard of this series before, but I guess I gave it a pass. I saw it recommended by Squiggles at the end of Ouji-sama chapter 180 and decided to add here just cuz. 210205

221130 - There are 300 "chapters", but each one is a single page. Thinking about it, that means the whole series is no longer than a 16 chapter series. I can bang that out in an hour so I'll read this. BTW, this is the first MAL entry. Above was a bookmark. 221130

210123 - Can't Defy The Lonely Girl Manga Online Free - Manganelo - Class rep goes to an absent classmate's home to tell her to come to class. She will if the class rep will do a request for her each day. Typical yuri stuff that I love, but it occurs in a weird order. Basically they start with kissing, then eventually regress to just being friends. Not they're no the verge of getting together for real. Then, I checked and a 14th chapter was released like 2 hours ago. Perfect timing! I get this recommended on reddit and I get a new chapter immediately. Incredible timing for a monthly series. Anyway, I'm super looking forward to new chapters for this. 210123

210420 - Yooooo! 16 finally came out! Been checking for weeks and it was FINALLY released 2 hours ago. The whole mom drama situation was resolved pretty quick, but I'm OK with it. I'm just happy this wasn't the last chapter. It felt like they could have called it quits here, but it looks like we have one or two more at least. Looking forward to it. Hopefully the wait isn't nearly as long this time. 210420

211210 - Ahhhhh, so relaxing. What a lovely story so far. It's up to 22 chapters so far. Since I barely remembered it, I read it from the beginning again. Good choice. I got to experience it in one shot, unlike the first time when I was doing it monthly. It did let me see some of the rougher bits of the story though. For instance, the conflict resolution happens a bit too fast. The "moving" situation gets resolved a bit too quickly. Same with the long-lost piano-playing friend. I get that the author probably just wants to focus on the fluffy bits (good on ya), but it could have done with a bit more padding. Whatever, I can't complain since it just gives me more of what I want from a manga. It still gives me some great fuzzy feelings, so I won't knock it. I'll try and hold off for 6 months to a year for more chapters. Hopefully it's enough time to forget everything again! 211210

211230 - I read 23. I had to check if a new one came out. Now, I'll hold off for a while. 211230

220627 - I just read from 19 through 26. This story is too dang sweet. I love it so much. I was thinking it might end after they confessed, but luckily we live in Reiwa. Seems like it'll continue for a good while longer. At least into 2023 at this rate because now they have to go on their school trip before they wrap up the series. That and MC needs to do well on her college entrance exams to complete her character arc. So maybe into 2024 if I'm lucky. 220627

221129 - This is done now! 32 chapters as of last month. I'm going to re-read the entire thing again from start to finish. 221129

230712 - Found here (https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_irl/comments/123ozck/anime_irl/). Seems fun. 230712

230223 - Loved the manga, going to pick up where the manga left off. On the vacation planet when they're getting attacked. 230223

230318 - I'm on chapter 216 of the Isekai/Minecraft series from this author and I'm getting close-ish to the most recent chapters (I think it's up to like 317 or something). I'd planned to read this after, but I've been putting off checking if anyone had been translating the WN/LN. Well, my fears were just alleviated. There's 395 for this one... so EVEN MORE than the Goshujinsama one. I am so happy. If I wasn't so hungry (currently at 158, dieting again) I'm sure I'd feel it in my stomach. Oh well. I'm happy regardless. Not sure if I'll start at the beginning or not once I get started. Maybe I'll jump around. We'll see. Just good to know that I've got somewhere to go when the other one is no longer bingeable. 230318

230910 - A random add. Looks pretty good, but only 9 or 11 chapters out right now (depending on the site). I'll maybe check back later? Or I might start it soon. Who can say? || This is really nice. I love it when the author slows it down and starts to develop the world a bit. Basically anything more than the generic isekai shlock is going to get a good score from me, but this is actually good. MC reincarnates as the seeming villain of the series as a child. Immediately, he starts changing things for the better, on accident. Not in a comedy way, but in a "I want to train and things accidentally go right" kind of way. He saves his father, saves a noble, and keeps his village safe. Plus, it's all believable. The plot from the game he isekai-ed into is completely changed now, which is awesome. Basically, I had a great time and now that I'm caught up, I'm reading the web novel. So fun. 230910

230215 - Not rated high, but found in the trending bar on Mangadex. Seems "plot" heavy. 230215

250113 - Hella cute story. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but I GUESS it does? MC is 40 year old guy looking to get married. He starts dating girl who wears a monk basket mask thing (that I guess makes sense in Japanese culture) so he doesn't know that she is his office mate. It's cute. Solid 9. It's being updated right now. Since there are only like 36 chapters, hopefully it's finished sometime soon. We'll see 250113

230530 - I've heard about this a few times, but now I'm adding it because I saw it again here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/13vt48a/disc_exiled_from_my_old_party_for_being_a_woman/). Then I saw that it had the GL tag and I was DEFINITELY adding it. This should be fun. Adding to the reading list because I want to check it out immediately. 230530

210209 - Ch5 (9) The Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing - MangaDex - Went to mangadex, went to yuri category, sorted by rating, and found this highly rated. Not many chapters, but I'll check it out soon.

Caught up Ch5 210225: This is cute! Wolf-girl butler serving the third princess Sheep-girl. Animal ears and cute expressions. Not much to the story so far, but it's a low-stakes series so far. No drama, no troubles. Just warm and fuzzy feelings. I'm digging this. Giving it a 9 for now. Greatly looking forward to more! 210225

220115 - Adding to MAL today. Was just a NOM bookmark before. 220115

220119 - Started re-reading again. 220119

220120 - Caught up to current, chapter 14. Such a lovely little story. None of it makes sense, but who cares? It's cute! When I say it doesn't make sense, I mean the princess doesn't seem to have any duties, just hangs with the few characters that are shown, no men in sight, etc. It's basically just cute and that's all it needs to be. I'm going to bump this down to an 8. I'm not feeling a 9. An 8 feels better. Maybe even a 7 if it doesn't start picking up the romance a bit. I mean, that's all it's got going for it. So that aspect better start seeing some progress by the next time I start re-reading this. Probably next year so I have a bunch to binge. ... Hopefully things have picked up by then. Not just in the story, but with me too. Job and girl. That's all I want. Let's see what happens. 220120

230430 - Found here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/133bge8/disc_an_ol_at_her_limit_needs_help_tidying_up_ch_1/), looked cute. 230430

240116 - I was fiddling with the Firefox Translation extension and found this when scrolling on the Comic Walker website. I thought this was going to be another crappy kicked-from-the-party style manga. And... well, it IS, but it's also REALLY good so far. MC is an assistant to his childhood friend/lover who is an alchemist and treats him like shit. She is one of the best alchemists in the country but he seems to suck. His retrieval rate is like 40% whereas others are 90%. It seems like one of those typical scenarios where she asks for impossible things and he can deliver better than other people because other alchemists ask for understandable things. So his rate is actually extremely high for the rare ingredients he gets.

Point is, he stands up for himself and he quits. He meets some nice people and starts adventurin'. He meets a couple of lovebirds, a guild master who likes to bake, and a former saint. He hangs out with each at different times because they're all kind of doing their own things. I really like it. It's like friends who meet up and hang out, but aren't coworkers who meet up every day. By chapter 7, the alchemist lady has already had her alchemy shop demoted to rank B so that whole "I didn't realize you were actually awesome" trope is already starting up. I actually want more right now. I REALLY like this one. This might be... yeah, I'm going to look and see if I can find the LN version of this. It has to have one. These always have a WN version at the very least. Fingers crossed there's a translation. || Oh nooooo! There IS a web novel. There IS a translation. But it stopped about 8 months ago after the first 9 chapters (0f 100+). NOOOOO! Also this is a monthly series (better than bi-monthly, I suppose), so I'll need to wait quite a bit before I can read more. I'll need to put this awesome series on the back burner because it's a slow burn. Might be a couple of years before something substantial happens. I'll try to forget this for a long time. 240116

240726 - This was not what I was expecting from this. I was thinking this would be a dumb rom-com where the MC tries to succeed in a world where women rule over men. While that's TECHNICALLY what this is about, this is so stupid fun, that it works. I watched the anime, then decided to read this. I actually decided to read this from the beginning and got through it all today. 66 chapters. There's enough material out for the second season, and I'm SO looking forward to it. I laughed in the translator notes in chapter 66 because the translator was like, "don't worry, this concludes volume 3 of 13". I was shook thinking that the series was wrapping up when in fact we're not even at the 25% mark yet. Just wild. I'm going to start reading this soon. I'm giving this a solid 9. It's got so many flavors. Action-y, romance-y, comedy-y, drama-y. It has so much going for it. 240726

240801 - Been reading this for the past few days on z-library. It's a cute story. Nothing incredible, but it's nice. I'm currently on volume 8 and our MC is back in the kingdom after spending a year in the Giant-Spirit-Tree land. He basically killed off half of that land's romanceable targets before returning and becoming a marquess. I'm giving this an 8 for now. For a brainless story, it's got some fun moments of almost-tension and soap-opera drama. Anyway, I'm going to get back to reading now. 240801

220901 - OK, what the hell? I've been running across series after series where I have no entry. They're all ero series so they're probably all on my other computer, BUT STILL! I'm sure I have an entry of some kind somewhere for this, but for now, I'll put this here. I started reading this one like 2 months ago, I think. No new chapters yet. 220901

230218 - Found on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1150xsy/art_rome_futari_gurashi_married_couple_ancient/). Same author as that one about the freeter who marries that single mom after working hard to get through school or whatever. That one was a 7, so I expect something decent here. I'll check in a year or two when there's more than a chapter 0 and chapter 1. 230218

230514 - Just saw this again on r/manga. Seems neat. Especially now that I've made it through about 75% of the History of Rome podcast. I really want to see where in the timeline this takes place. Republic, Empire, which historical figures about, is it even IN Rome, etc. But I'll keep holding off for now. 230514

230222 - ... ... ... ... ... ... This is a weird one. ... I NEEDED to know what would happen with Lisa. I NEEEEEDED to know. But at the same time, I was barely interested in the story. It's odd. I've never been so interested, and so disinterested at once. I started on the translated LN on the discord. Then, I started to read the WN from the discord because those translations are better the poterglast ones. Then I got up through chapter 6 (just now). ... There's a lot to critique here, but I'll try to jot down some of the stuff I remember.

First of all, there's "the situation". By that, I mean the shitty situation that the MC finds himself in. I get that in this school, shit rolls downhill. Lower classes are treated as garbage from those above, and the bottom of the barrel is treated the worst of all. So when MC is thought to be a cheater, everyone dog-piles on him. I get all that. I get the hate, etc. What I don't really get, is how he stayed at the school? If he sucks at fighting and can barely pass a class, isn't that enough to get him kicked out? Other people have dropped, and according to one line, it's hard to stay in. So if you're an ability suppressed person... wouldn't you be gone after the first year? They're supposed to be the elite, yet he's not. Pretty odd.

Second, why won't Lisa ever talk to him? Seems kind of weak, but... maybe it makes sense? She's getting gaslighted pretty hard so maybe. Third, ... where'd Mena go? She was introduced as this badass swords-maid person, had one fight with MC, and disappeared. For all the exposition building her up, you'd think she'd have any relevance at all. Fourth, why does everyone think Mars is a "good person"? He was a bully who attacked MC for years until he found out MC was strong. Now he's a good person for NOT attacking him anymore? Really? Hell, Tima seems to think he's a kind person. IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE IS A BELLIGERENT & VIOLENT DRUNKARD who beats up people EVEN WHEN SOBER a "kind" person? Why, because he "saved you" Tima? When you were going to be attacked that ONE time? Wow, what a reason. Bull-fucking-shit. Author is trying to sell some hard BS on that one. Not. Buying. It.

Fifth, all of MCs supposed "friends". I get that they all thought he was a scumbag and came around in the end, but when he was hiding secrets from them and they had the GALL to ask "why would he keep secrets from us? His best-est friends in the whole wide world?" I wanted to fucking scream. He's been bullied, mocked, attacked, and ridiculed by EVERYONE for two years. Now, a few of those same bullies, mockers, and ridiculing individuals are now his friends... after he does something for them. So what, you're friends with this emotionally damaged person for all of a few weeks and expect him to tell you his deepest, darkest secrets? Why? Because you've always been so nice to him? Crazy. Sixth, the story takes FOREEEEEVER to go anywhere. There were large chunks of battle scenes that I straight up skipped. I've never done that before. EVER. I just didn't care. The author kept repeating the same lines over and over and over again. It was nutty.

Want to know the crazy thing? I'm still going to keep reading it. Why? Because the school drama isn't done. I couldn't care less about the battles, the dragon Tiamat inside MC, or any of that crap. I just want to know what's going to happen between MC and Lisa. That's. It. Uggh. I'm giving this a 6 and that's me being VEEEEERY generous. It is NOT a 7... ... ... right? No. I can't give it a 7, no matter how juicy I think the MC Lisa stuff is. Everything else is just too mid.

230905 - I found out about this here (https://fanstranslations.com/novel/tearmoon-empire-story/chapter-128/) in the comments. It seems neat. There's only 15 chapters of the LN, so I might check this out really soon. 230905

200823 - I think this is done, but going to hold off. Super cheesy and fluffy.

220621 - Didn't I read most of this one before? I thought I did. Oh well. We'll see soon enough. 220621

250116 - Finally. I finally found this one again. I remembered this one, but had no idea what to search for in order to find it again. I'm going to take a look at this again tomorrow. 250116

221205 - This is AWESOME! 1 chapter in and I'm already laughing. Everything is ridiculous and I love it. Only 5 chapters out right now or I'd read it immediately. I'll check back in a year or two and hope for a bunch of chapters. 221205

230914 - Late putting this in since I started reading this... almost 2 weeks ago. I've had the tab open, but I've been reading another series. The one where the guy isekais into the world of his game. The seven heroes or whatever. He isekais into the guy who becomes the villain in the second game or something. Point is, that one is great. This one is great too, but I got distracted. I'm still focusing on that one, but once I'm done. I'll come back to this. So fun. In this one, we're past the student council election and we're about to get into the poisoning thing. Anyway, that won't be for a couple weeks or so, I think. 230914

230225 - Random find on manganeto. Seemed neat, so I'm adding it. 230225

231108 - Damn, this is hilarious. I don't know why this was in my reading list, but I'm glad it was here. It's your typical "start from nothing and grow your kingdom" story, but it's so damn funny. The MC is a legit piece of shit. He has healing magic and uses it on people so they'll be loyal to him, won't attack him, etc. He basically bumbles his way into everyone loving him and willing to lay down their lives for him. God, he is so stupid too. Everything he does is on accident in the dumbest way. Even the narrator is like "WTF" at times. I mean, his main spell is "cows", hahaha! He uses his healing magic to make a swarm of cows that overruns his enemies. Like the giant golem, bursting the dragon from the inside, and almost using it on the leader of the nearby island. It's just the best kind of stupid. I love it. Plus, there's a legit reason why he doesn't bang all the ladies around him even though they are hopelessly in love with him (in typical fashion). In this case, MC knows they're hot, but also knows they're busted. They're either crazy, stupid, or a mix of both. He's surrounded by an insane cultist, a beastman with a brain only for meat, a fujoshi, etc. So damn good. I'm giving this a 10 for now. I just love it so much. Maybe later I'll drop it, but right now I'm having a blast and laughing my way through the early chapters. I'm up through 19 so far. Just, so good. 231108

231111 - Caught up to current at 57. We're now firmly in Season 2: Electric Boogaloo. He defeated the king, saved his people, and then... he gets sent to another world where his buddies don't remember him, demons & monsters rule, and he needs to start from the bottom and save everyone again. I love it. It's so stupid and wacky every chapter. I love that cows became his signature move. Anyway, this is probably a 9, but I'm going to leave it a 10 for now because it's so fun. 231111

220624 - Random find on lilymanga. || That... was PINNACLE trash. Hahahaha, I LOVED it! It made no sense whatsoever... and I enjoyed every minute of it. She timeslips into the past for no reason. Check. She saves her love in the past from a passing scooter-driver who was going to hit her (something that didn't happen the first time). Check. She's able to just... walk around their high school whenever she wants as a 25 year old. Check. She just finds a new place to live with no money of any kind while she's in the past. Check. It's like the author was like, "I don't care about that shit, let's draw LEWDS!" And frankly, I was all for it. The story was SO absurd that I basically stopped caring and went with it. The first third is lewd, but around that point it turns into nudity just about every chapter. Then future and present MC get into a 3way relationship with their love interest. Then they have a 3some in the 2nd to last chapter. It was too much! Hahahahaha. Yeah, there was a plot, but who cares? I loved how present MC and future MC were trying to NTR each other for the first 2/3 of the story; it was hilarious. Man, what a great trash fire. Great art, spicy situations, and a fun & brainless plot. This COULD have attempted a decent story, but since it didn't care about that at all, I respect it. I'm giving it an 8! It doesn't deserve it, but I don't care. It was so brazen in it's disregard for all logic that it earned a bump from the 7 I was considering. It's too interesting & spicy not to get an 8 from me. Heck, I'm on the verge of giving it a 9! Anyway, I had a great time and I think I might check this out again some time in the future. 220624

230403 - Well that's surprising. Seems I've read this one already! I'm reading through "I Won't Sleep With You For Free" from this author and was reading this (https://www.reddit.com/r/yurimemes/comments/wlouon/i_wont_sleep_with_you_for_free/). I saw that the author made another degenerate series, so I came to look for it. Turns out, I read it. I don't want to read the description or what I thought before. I'm just going to read this one again. I wonder if it's that one about the shifting timelines or whatever. I don't think so, but maybe. 230403

240625 - Lmao! Apparently I forgot AGAIN that I've read this. Starting it again because I was looking at the IWLWYFF series and saw this one. 240625

220105 - See manga comments for manga/LN review. 220105

220107 - Reading the LN (not web novel) for the first time starting today (in beauty shop parking lot). I read through the web novel before, but I want to read the LN this time around. The 4th (and final?) LN comes out soon. I'll try and time it so I don't have to stop reading between 3 and 4. That means I'll probably read this one kind of slow. Should be nice. 220107

220125 - I haven't been reading this since 220107, so I'll just restart once I get around to it. 220125

220131 - Power was out all day today so I read a bit more. I didn't restart. I just kept going. 220131

220831 - I finally got back through the first half of the series. Volume 2 is the end of the Revolution part of the series. I have part 3, but I'm not sure if I have part 4. I think part 5 comes out in October? Let me check. || Oh no, it's actually September 6th. That's next week! So at this rate, I should be ready for part 5 in a few months and I'll get through it all without breaks. Side-note, I actually thought I'd been doing the "marking down when I complete a volume" thing for this series. Apparently not. I guess I only started doing that for Ascendancy of a Bookworm. Speaking of which, I need to get back to reading through that soon. I haven't read any of that for a couple weeks now. Regardless, I'll start on volume 3 of THIS series within the next few weeks and keep chipping away at it. As for my thoughts? I love it. It's so darn cute. It was nice to get a refresher on what happened too. I blazed through this the first time I read it as a web novel, so it's nice to remember how the almost-execution actually played out. ... Time to read the subscriber-only chapter online now, hehehe... 220831

230218 - Found on r/manga (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1158ahr/disc_our_yuri_started_with_me_getting_rejected_in/) while scrolling. All I saw was the title and NSFW. That's enough for me. Going to start this one soon, but I'm in the middle of reading that annoying Dragon Chain Ori web novel right now. I'm still not sure why I'm reading it since I don't really like it. Anyway, this looks cute as heck. 230218

220623 - Since it's short and done I might check this out very soon. Maybe within the week. || Hahahaha, of COURSE it's written by the same author who made that lesbian elf lemon LN. Hahaha, I should have seen it coming! 220623

220108 - Saw this randomly on lilymanga. They only have 7 chapters, but 17 is the complete story. I need to look around to see if I can find the whole thing. || No luck so far. Until I find the whole thing, I'll put it on hold. 220108

220623 - Just re-found this on lilymanga. I actually thoguht this might have been that After School one with the infinite kissing. Then I started the first chapter and saw it was different. Also, the whole thing is on lilymanga now. All 17.5 chapters. || Just finished it. It started SUPER strong with that first chapter. Unfortunately, it couldn't sustain it and just ended up as pretty good. I'll be honest, that first chapter was giving me "10" vibes. But then it got shaky. First, the author introduced plot points like MC's boyfriend. But it was so poorly worded that I wasn't sure if they were even still together at the beginning of the story. Emi mentioned she needed to break up, but I didn't even know she had a boyfriend. I thought the story was going to go the route of "I'm going away to better myself", but it was talking about her boyfriend, not her new girlfriend. Then there were the other rave-organizers. They were cool, but they had no substance. There was so little interaction with them that they all sort of blended together in my mind. Then there was the ending. Keiko needs to go home to help out her family. I get that, but WHY THE BIG VANISHING?! Just to create drama for the audience? I'll be honest, it felt a bit cheap. It was also confusing because Emi was home for 2 days, but it wasn't easy to follow that. I thought she was still with her family at the time, not back in Kei's apartment. That plus her weak reasoning for disappearing kind of dampened my opinion toward the end. The author tried to sell it, but I wasn't buying it. Then it ends without her even coming back at the end! What's up with that? At least give us the reunion.

This series was a mixed bag. Lots of good, lots of interesting, lots of unclear, lots of odd plot elements. It was just a lot. All in all, I had a good time with it. I want to give it a 7. I want to give it an 8, but I think it might fall JUST short of that. Maybe if we got a reunion at the end, but since there wasn't one, I think a 7 is about right. I'm cool with that. I'm a bit bummed this wasn't better than it was. I feel like it fell short of greatness. Well, at least it was still fun in the end. I had a good time and that's good enough. On to the next one! 220623

Found on reddit recommendation: https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/992nn5/i_just_read_girl_friends_and_now_i_need_something/

Will read once complete

210123 - Nah, reading today. Got up through chapter 5 so far. Not the saucy-est thing in the world, but it's alright. It's a 4-koma so my expectations are in check.

210219 - Caught up to chapter 50 today. Took a while. I started reading, got to like 25 or so, then started on other series. About four or five days ago, I started up again and read through 50. I stopped around halfway because the gag was starting to wear thin. By gag, I mean how Arisa is so nervous about being in a relationship. Yeah, it was cute, but it should have progressed faster than it did. Anyway, after restarting, the plot started to pick up. Mari proposed, they got married, Arisa got about half of her memories back, and they're going to go on their honeymoon (as of chapter 50). Not only that, but it seems like Arisa and Mari are FINALLY going to have sex again. I mean, they already have, but not since Arisa has had amnesia. Should be cute. Anyway, I've read on a couple comments that volume 6 is the final one. From where I'm reading, that means there's only a few chapters left. Looking forward to reading how this whole thing ends. I mean, everyone reading already knows how it's going to end, but I want to see it anyway. Just a side-note, I'm glad it continued past the wedding. It could have easily ended there (and in fact it felt like an ending too) so everything now is just a bonus. 210219

211209 - Turns out there was only one more chapter! I read it today. Now it's done. I might check this one out again, but I'm not sure. It's hard to remember the details, but this is a lovely, heartwarming yuri series that was filled with nothing but good vibes from start to finish. I'm glad I found it. 211209

210127 - (6) I'm the Villainess, but I'm Being Captured by the Heroine?! Anthology - MangaDex - Found here "https://aminoapps.com/c/yuri-manga-and-anime/recent/". Not sure how good it is, but it's short so I'll check it out at some point. From the title it obviously reminded me of "I Favor the Villainess". Also recommended by Squiggles (I was going to add it from her recommendation, but saw that I already had it and just forgot about it). 210127

Completed 210225: An anthology, therefore it was just alright. 5 chapters. The first two were just OK, the last one was a bit better, and #3 & 4 were pretty good. Nothing truly outstanding from the lot, but that's because there wasn't any time to build up the relationships. If these were converted into longer series, I think I'd have a really good opinion of these works. As it stands, I'd give this anthology a 6. Some average stories, some nice stories. I'd say a 6 fits it nicely. Maybe a 7 if I'm being very generous, but a 6 is fair. Every case revolves around a prince, an annulled marriage (in most of them), and another woman. Sometimes it ends in a lesbian pairing, sometimes it's a happy threesome (with the prince), and sometimes the two girls are just friends and the villainess will marry a different guy. Not worth a re-read, but this was a nice collection worth a single read. I had a good time. 210225

220115 - Found while looking for Akuyaku Reijou no Shitsuji-sama Hametsu on MAL. It sounded interesting and only had 15 chapters so I figured I'd give it a shot. 220115

220622 - I read this after "Around 30 dakedo, Hatsukoi desu". So the second series of the day. I thought it was neat. A bit bare-bones, but a cool idea. 2 people isekai into this otome game. One goes into protagonist, one goes into villainess. For something that was just a 1 volume promo for the light novel, it was nice. I'll give this one a 7. It was pretty good. I feel like the bad prince and the game protagonist got off too easy here. I get that the author didn't want to kill them off so they could be brought back later, but still. It was a bit weak. Anyway, I had fun. No need to re-read or check out the LN though. I'm good. 220622

210127 - Recommended from
https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/

220105 - I just finished re-reading the original version (this is the reboot). I'm trying to decide if I want to read this right now or later on. || So yeah, I decided to read it now. This reboot is a much more serious version of the story. At first I had trouble getting into it. Mostly because the comedy in the first one hit hard. It was right up my alley the entire time. This time around, the comedy is almost completely eliminated. Now it's more of a romance/drama rather than a romance/comedy. I'll be honest, in the first half I was getting a bit bored. Mostly because it was the same story, but not as funny. Then in the second half (around chapter 7 or 8) it really started to pique my interest again. By chapter 16, I was completely back in. I was captivated by all the romances and even got a sort of closure from the original series. In the original, there wasn't any romantic closure. It just sort of ended. But in 16 of this reboot, they actually become a couple, or confess at the very least. It's literally the perfect time for me to come back to this series.

I have to say, even though I LOVED the comedy from the original series, the tone here is much more consistent. In the original, it started with ridiculous slapstick comedy. Then it morphed into this serious drama toward the end. It was kind of a jarring shift. Here, there is no shift. It just stays serious the whole way through. That means when they start talking about how Shishimaru used to contemplate suicide, Kumakura who was always hospitalized when she was young, Nekozaki's dad leaving, etc. it doesn't feel out of place. So I get it. I'm just curious why this was even allowed to happen. I've never heard of another series getting a reboot like this. It seems a bit unique. I'm not complaining, it's just odd. Anyway, regarding a score, I'm going to give this a 9 for now. The first half seemed odd to me, but it was because I had just read the story a few hours earlier (with a much funnier tone too). Now that I get what the author was going for, it makes sense. The story feels smoother and I had a great time because of it. I'm looking forward to reading more. I'm curious if the story is going to wrap up soon (like the original) or if this will go on for a while. I'd love to read about this couple while they're together. Either way, looking forward to reading more. 220105

220621 - Holy crap. It looks like this finished a few weeks after my last entry. Actually, Mangadex just updated 17-21 9 days ago, so perfect timing to get back into this series. I'll finish this up soon. I may restart it though. 220621

220830 - Restarting for the last time today. 220830

220914 - Finally finished (after a week break). Did this get axed? Whatever, at least it ended on a decent note. Looks like I was about 2 chapters away from finishing this when I stopped reading it last time. There was SO much left on the cutting room floor that it had to have been rushed at the end by the publisher. Everyone gets their happy ending, but it happened at the speed of light. As long as they're all happy, I guess that's what matters. I'm giving this a 7. It was a good story. Without the insane comedy of the original, this didn't have too much going for it. Just cute girls that eventually get into relationships. While that's fine, I wanted a bit more. Maybe like another 8 chapters to really wrap everything up. So all in all, I'm content with leaving it at a 7, but wish it had more chapters to really flesh everything out. 220914

210206 - Recommended from "https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/835ixf/i_need_fluff_yuri_manga_like_their_story/".
Seems like a happy fluffy manga "on par with Kase-san" so I'm game.

210207 - That was nice. It was showing its age throughout, but it was pleasant. I had trouble getting through the first chapter yesterday, but today I burned through the rest. It was helped by the fact that the middle got a lot better. For something that came out like 18 years ago, this was pretty good. If I remember right, that was back when Yuri Hime only came out every 3 months... what an awful time. I'm so glad it's monthly now. Anyway, back to the series. I'd say this gets a 7. If this came out today, I might have given it a 6. Back in the day, this probably would have gotten like an 8 or 9, but in today's manga environment, this just falls short in the romance department. So I think a 7 is just right, taken in context. The art was old, the plot was very light, and there wasn't even a single kiss scene (can't get much more "2000's romance manga" than that). Rather than anything overt, the romance was only implied. They SAY they're going to spend their lives together. Honestly, I feel like this series could do with a remake. If they remade this series today, it would be absolutely lovely. As it stands, it's nice. For people who read it back in the day, this might be one of the better yuri of the day. A lot of people were putting this on par with Kase-san, and I can see why. It still has that fluffy charm that Kase-san has, it just came from an earlier time. Regarding things I liked, I enjoyed the romantic progression here. It was simple - sure - but also heartwarming and pure. It's a cute little tale taking place in a tea shop. I just wish there was more character development. While I can't say much about the art (because that was the style at the time), the characters were underutilized, in my opinion. Well, for something that was only 15 chapters (+ side stories and other unrelated stories), it was worth a read. I don't think it's worth a re-read though. It wasn't bad, in fact I DID like it. I just wasn't emotionally connected to the characters as much as I could have been. Still, it was a sweet little story and I'm glad to have read it. 210207

Apparently I started reading this on May 12, 2019. It's now August 2nd 2020 when I'm picking this up again. I never wrote down what chapter I started at, so I started at the beginning with chapter 0. I get the feeling that I got through chapter 0 and maybe 1 before stopping last time. Either way, here we go...

After finishing, I'm pretty sure I read like 6 or 7 chapters before ending last time. I remember thinking the story was all over the place. It turns out, I thought that mainly because it was missing every other chapter :P. Mangakakalot was missing a lot of content and just double posting the same chapter twice. E.g. chapter 6 was for both link 6 and 7. Then chapter 8 was 8 and 9. Eventually, I figured it out and read it here:

https://mangadex.org/title/13356/ano-ko-ni-kiss-to-shirayuri-wo

I went back and read through some stuff that was missing and it helped to fill in the blanks... mostly. Now, on to the review...

This was an interesting story because my feelings on it are very complex. It has things that I love, hate, feel indifferent about, etc, etc. When I was going through the first 10 chapters or so, I didn't really feel it hooking me. In fact, I didn't really like one of the main characters because of her attitude. I also didn't like how the cast was hard to distinguish. I was OK at the start because we had 2 characters, then a couple more were introduced, then 2 more, then a trio, then another couple. Eventually there were 9 duo/trios of characters making for 19 major characters. Confusing! It's made worse by the fact that they're all very similar and even look similar. Often times, I found myself wondering, "is this the black haired girl who is on the morals committee who talks to to the dumb bike girl? Or is this the black haired girl in the trio? Or the one in the long distance cosplay relationship?" Same with the blonde girls, only worse. I'd be thinking, "is this the track manager? Or the bike girl? Or the model? Or the Student Council President? Or the servant gardening girl? Or the girl in the trio? Or the OTHER girl in the trio? Or the piano girl? Or the girl who graduated and studied astronomy?" Like, COME ON! The cast is too big and too samey! If they had cut the cast in half, I'd have been fine, but it was just way too confusing with the characters all looking the same.

Other stuff I didn't particularly like, everyone is a lesbian. I mean, I get that this is Shoujo Ai, but it seems like we got transported to a big gay world. It's just kind of funny after a while. Also some of the decisions that some of the characters make are really strange. Like how the gardening blonde servant girl basically betrays her friend for no reason. Then the friend just forgives her in like 1 second. Handled strangely, but whatever, it leads to happy endings all around.

Speaking of which, that was one of the things that I really enjoyed about this manga. Happy Endings, everyone gets one. Kind of ridiculous, but I don't care. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, and if everyone gets a happy ending, I'm thrilled. The drama was light and always got resolved. In terms of storytelling, I suppose that's weak, but whatever. I wanted a gay/happy time and that's what I got. Am I supposed to be mad that I got exactly what I was looking for in that aspect? Romance was nice. Seems like there was only 1 straight character out of like 50 (the astronomy girl who graduated), which I found funny.

I really liked the ending. I could feel it wrapping up from like 6 chapters out. Usually with manga it's like we have 1 chapter left and the mangaka suddenly remembers he needs to end this shit. Here, it felt planned. All the characters came back and their relationships were examined in some way. It was a nice wrap-up at the end. Quite lovely. I think I really liked this manga? I think? I had a lot of problems with it, but it delivered in all the ways I wanted it to. Lots of weakness, but nice romances and kissing scenes throughout, which I love. I think it's possible that I may revisit this one at some point. I feel satisfied. It wasn't the best, it wasn't awful, it was good. I feel satisfied. Hard to choose between a 7 and an 8, but I think I'll go with an 8 just because of the rampant happiness everywhere. Definitely satisfied.

Yeah, this is just like a more serious Sasameki Koto. I watched the Aoi Hana anime, then jumped into the manga around half way through. Sasameki Koto had better art, a more fun atmosphere, and a more gripping romance. This one wasn't all that fun. Even though both weren't super fun to get through, this one felt harder to finish. The bad art didn't help things either. Man, I spent all day on this one. Definitely not a repeat read... I want to go back to Kase-san where everything is happy & fun with sunshine & rainbows.

200821 - Want to read. Looks like a cute story. Not complete yet though. I took a look at the first chapter a year or two ago. Still waiting.

220621 - NOW it's complete. Well, it has been for a while. Point is, I'm going to check it out now. 220621

220622 - That was nice. Not the deepest story in the world, but a cute story nonetheless. No drama, no problems, just 2 dorks falling in love with each other. They act like typical Japanese shy virgins, but the fact that they're 30 makes it kind of funny. It's played up a BIT much, but that's fine. The 2 side couples were pretty nice too. The friends who acted like the couple's guardians and the 2 coworkers. I wish we could have seen a bit more development for the 2 coworkers, but it's OK. As for a score, I think I'll give this a 7. It's good and cute. No problems, but I wish there was more to dig into. I don't know. Maybe I'll give this an 8 later on, but for now a 7 seems alright. 220622

220621 - Holy crap. I heard about this from the credits of Wotakoi ch77 (https://gamesk.pro/games/d/escape-from-kabagahara-143976) and decided to check it out here. I was surprised to see that it had an 8.0+ rating and doubly so when I saw that all of the reviews here are 10s! I'll have to check this out soon. 220621

230307 - I had this in my Reading list for a few months, then I started cleaning house. This got dropped to Plan to Read as a result. Then I kept seeing a series called Telework Yotobanashi on r/manga. An ACTUALLY good slice of life romance. I read 1 chapter - somewhere around #8 or #9, I didn't start at the beginning - and was instantly hooked. I decided to TRY and stay away though. But then I heard that it was written by the author who wrote this. I stayed away for a while, but finally gave in today when I saw chapter 15 of TY released. The first chapter of this read like a complete story. I went to check the DISC and apparently, it was meant to be a one-shot. Then it just continued, I guess? Regardless, I LOVE it based on the first chapter. There's always some typical anime BS, but whenever I could feel it bubbling up, this story quashed it immediately. Misunderstandings? Nope, talk it out. Weird guy acting like a freak/anime weirdo? Nope, he's weird but it makes sense. Over and over again. I love it. This is a 10 so far. Looking forward to reading more. 230307

230308 - Oh my god, it's so REAL! There's no anime bullshit. It's just REAL bullshit. Sure, side-MC has his super-human smell thing going on, but everything else feels grounded. No yelling tsunderes, no over-enthusiastic idol-worshipers, none of that. Although to fair, I'm only through the first 3 chapters. I just had to write about how much I love this.... again. 230308

230313 - Just finished. What a great story! No nonsense tropes, no typical manga-BS, just a good relationship story. It was just a relationship that was grounded and REAL. No NTR scares out of nowhere. No mysterious ex who shows up again. None of that. Just a typical relationship that moves from meeting, to dating, to living together, to marriage, to kids. In all honesty? I feel like it could have just kept going forever. Dealing with kids, growing older, becoming grandparents, all of it. Even the "coincidence" where the childhood bully shows up? It didn't feel forced. Nothing felt contrived, I guess is what I'm getting at. Everything felt earned or necessary. That being said? There is a LOT I wanted from this to really flesh it out. Like what about other people in the story? Their relationships? Nonexistent. No one gets a boyfriend/girlfriend except for the main couple... and that boisterous guy from sales or whatever, the one who got dumped and got back together with his girlfriend. But the girl who liked MC? Nothing. Glasses dude? Nothing. fMCs brother? Nothing. MCs little sister? Nothing. It's the only thing that rang a bit hollow for me. When I compare something like that to the other REALLY good romance series like ReLIFE, that's a good part of the story. It really fleshes out the story and makes the surrounding characters feel real... But that's the only negative I can find. Everything else was immaculate. ... ... So do I bring it down to a 9 just for THAT? I don't think so. I think this HAS to get a 10, right? Hard to say. But for now, I'm going to give it a 10. I may change my mind later, but this feels right. I wish I could know what I know now and rank all the series according to my manga experiences. That way I can really spread out the curve. Oh well. I had a great time and really loved everything that happened. Will I read it again? I'm not sure. But it was a great time nonetheless. Time to start this author's other work. The telework one. It's up to chapter 16 so far. I'll catch up today and read it until it's done! 230313

Current Chapter Read: 1

210126 - Ch0 (Low Priority) Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo (Title) - MangaDex - I don't have a burning desire to read this one. Maybe once it's done I'll check it out. Something about the tail/pants bit has me a bit weirded out. I don't know, it's a strange thing to be weirded out by, but there you go.

210129 - Regardless of what MAL says, this is not complete. As of now there are 44 chapters on Mangadex. I'm adding today as the start date because I read the first chapter a few days ago, but wanted to restart today.

210207 - So I never, restarted. Today I was thinking about restarting, but it looks like chapter 43 and 44 got removed from Mangadex. I'm not particularly interested in this series, and the fact that it has chapters disappearing mean I'm going to put it on the back burner for a while. We'll see what happens - if anything - in the following year.

You know what? I changed my mind. I'll just get up to 42, then read the other 2 somewhere else. I just need to know. 210207

210208 - So, I'm glad I read that one. It started off whatever (just like last time), then the vanilla fluff hit me and it drastically improved my perception of this story. Honestly, it's not a great story. It's barely even a good story. Instead, it has a constant stream of good vibes and cute romantic moments. They're brainless moments, but they're lovely happy times. Going back to the beginning, the story could really use some work. I caught myself early on saying "there's a GOOD story in here. The author just didn't polish it enough". The reason being that the plot is surface-level. A lot of it was told in a hand-wavy way. This was clear when we're told that Heath attacked the town. Her attack on the town wasn't well explained. The same is true for some character introductions. Rather than feeling organic, sometimes they feel a bit clunky (such as the doctor's intro). These moments kind of drag on the story a tiny bit, but all of that kind of falls away when the romance starts up. It's just so cute. They're constantly kissing, hugging, "mating", acting all lovey-dovey, etc. Now, I wasn't really a fan of the monster character design. The tail - and how the clothes fit over it - are kind of weird. It made it really hard to start this series, but I'm glad I pushed through. By doing so, I was able to see a very cute romance. As for a rating, the story deserves a low-ish score. It's pretty weak. There's not much story, and what is there is glossed-over all the time. However, the romance is absolutely wonderful. That is where my ranking skyrockets. It made me smile so much that I'm going to give this an 8. The romance overshadows any issues I had with the story. I was just so happy with their romance because it's just so wholesome. In fact it's so wholesome that it's kind of odd. Every time they have a romantic chapter, it feels like something terrible is going to happen in the next chapter, but that almost never happens. It occasionally gets plot heavy at times, but it always returns to the blissful romance. For instance, in the latest chapter, they found a mermaid that had stolen the voice of the mute child. It could have been a long arc that created a lot of drama, but it instead wrapped up in about 3 chapters. Chapter 45 isn't out yet, but I image it would be back to the romance now that the little drama bit is complete. My point being, that this is a series for fluff-lovers like myself. It's overly saccharine and that's just what I want. Looking forward to reading more in the future. 210208

220116 - 49 chapters out now. I'd have expected more by now. I'll keep holding off for a while. 220116

220701 - Someone on Reddit mentioned that this was done... and that the ending is sad. I'll finish it up, but I'm going to brace myself. || That wasn't bittersweet at all! It was great! I was worried that it'd be a downer ending where Lily was simply dead at the end. Turns out, yeah... but it's a timeskip to when Heath dies. So we don't even have 1 full chapter of them apart. It's sad that Heath had to live for 6 human generations before seeing Lily again... but she got to see her again! And forever this time! What a lovely ending! I'm going to have to re-read this soon. Maybe next year when I forget a bit more of the ending. 220701

Started and finished after Itoshi no Karin (3rd of the day). A cute little romance story for a loner and a transfer student. Not too much manga trope bullshit in this. For a short one, I think it was really nice. I wouldn't mind reading this one again.

210406 - (9) I'll Cheer On My Yuri Onee-chan - Mangakakalot - A little brother gets his sister and the neighbor to be friends, but they're both gay. Not sure if it's good or not, but it's highly rated. 210406

210420: Yooooo! Little bro for the win! Talk about a killer wingman! Little bro gets everything done in this series! He gets them to be friends, he gets them to hang out, he gets them to make up, he's the MVP! I had a great time with this one. I didn't know it was finished, so I'm glad I took a look. It's short and sweet. While the bro is my favorite character, the romance was good too. I especially liked the epilogue stuff where it shows them together years later (I just wish it showed the bro too). I have nothing bad to say about this series. Giving it a solid 9. The bro really sold it for me. I love a good wingman and he delivered, for sure. Definitely going to be reading this one again in the future. Looking forward to it! 210420

220617 - Started and finished it again. I still like it, but I'm going to move this down to an 8. I still love the brother and the story is still cute. But it's a bit too short and I want a bit more character development to keep it at a 9. Plus, I wish there was a bit more with the other girl who seemed to like MC. She needed a bit more characterization. Still a cute little story though. 220617

Romance. No K, but still great. Fluffy as hell. Uber-vanilla.

230223 - Moving to a 9 to redistribute scores. 230223

Nice. No complications. Cute story.

210127 - Recommended from
https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/

Apparently there is an OVA series that this is based on. Watch that first, I guess?

210210 - So I watched the anime, and it was really "meh". I mean, I gave it a 6 because it had nothing really going for it. The characters were kind of bland, the plot was almost non-existent, etc. But THIS? This is MUCH better. The characters are much more expressive, there's good humor, plot points that are actually explained, etc. This isn't the best manga in the world, but in comparison to the anime, it's like night and day. I'm only up to chapter 4 so far, but I'm floored by the difference in quality between the anime and manga adaptation. I'm going to get back to it.

Just finished it. It's only 11 chapters, not 20. So after finishing it, I'm having a hard time ranking this. I'm torn between a 6 and a 7. I liked it well enough, and it's WAY better than the anime, so I want to give it a 7. On the other hand, I feel like it was just "fine". I also don't think I'd ever read this again. I think that I should give this a 6 in order to spread out the ratings more. I have a lot of 7's, but not many 6's. Because of that, I think I'm fine giving this a 6. It's the same rating as the anime, but this is much better. I just wanted to make that clear. Anyway, regarding the content of this manga, it loosely followed the plot of the anime series upon which it's based. Some of the plot points were changed, but a lot of it stayed the same. They still lived together, they flew home for New Year's (but Sakuya didn't go this time), and they kissed once at the end. Some things were different such as Yukino getting hospitalized due to overwork at her part time job and the inclusion of Yuriko (art friend of Kanade). So it follows the same flow, but there are differences. All of it was handled better than the anime, but still probably not worth a re-read. I enjoyed this well enough, but I'm happy to be moving on to other series; especially those from this decade where yuri is more overt and the romances have distinct answers. The ambiguous relationship at the end is one of the telltale signs that this came from the 00's. To be fair, I'd have preferred if the incestuous relationship didn't proceed (like I said in the anime comments, I wanted Kanade to end up with Sakuya), but I'd at least like some confirmation about what will happen in the future. Since it did come from the 00's, I get it. But like I said, on to other manga with more overt romances and more conclusive endings. 210210

That was a pleasant read. It was like 80% 4-koma, 20% normal manga. Nothing to write home about, just run-of-the-mill pleasantness. MC x fMC happens, but I had no problems with it this time. They were just cute together. I liked that the side characters got together too. That was nice.

Not a lot of drama in this series. It was easy to tell that this series was meant to be a consumable series that wasn't too serious, and it excelled at that. It eventually started to introduce some plot elements, but nothing too crazy. When MC moves away, it didn't feel like it was to increase drama, but as an organic part of the plot. When the side characters got together, that also felt pretty natural. I just wish they had gotten deeper into the romance angle of it. I did enjoy how they kiss just past halfway so there's time to explore that. To be fair, they don't really go into depth, like I mentioned before, but it was still nice to not end on a confession like so many manga do. I'm thinking this may be a trend in recent manga. It's possible that these authors were manga readers themselves who were in the same position we are. By that, I mean they wanted to see the series go past the confession. Since they have the power to do so, they're doing it. Maybe that's the case, maybe not. Either way, I'm glad this series is joining the ranks of manga that don't end on hand holding.

Looking at this series critically, it's junk food, which I'm totally cool with. The characters were alright, there was no drama, romances went places, love triangles were resolved with everyone being happy, etc. Just a simple, no-thought-required, lovely story about a girl "trying" to lose weight while hanging with her friends. I've got no real problems with this except for the usual... I NEED MORE ROMANTIC MOMENTS! Other than that? No real complaints. Always down for a thoughtless romance between normal characters. If only shoujo characters could be normal people (instead of "the most popular/hottest/richest/coolest/whatever-est person in school". Freaking barf...) I could have so many more series to enjoy. Oh well, as long as I can keep finding little cute stories like this, I'll be happy for a long time. Solid 8. Hope to read more from this author in the future.

Cute story. Grounded in reality. Romance. Happy Ending.

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. 220109

220110 - For something that was 7 chapters long, that was REALLY good. I'd just finished Kimochi No Katachi (also 7 chapters) and I felt like this delivered way more in the same chapter count. That one was good, but this was even better. There's basically a love square of sorts, kind of. Aoi likes Chihiro. Chihiro pretends to like Shino. Nao finds out Aoi likes Chihiro and by helping her, falls in love with Aoi. It had the potential for a lot of hurt feelings, but no one ends up the loser, really. This was a lot of fun. I'm surprised at how good it was despite the short chapter count. I'm giving this an 8. I had a blast. Great vibes all around and really fascinating characters. Especially Nao. She was awesome. Well, I'm off to read the last 2 chapters. There's a separate MAL entry for those, so I'll finish my write-up there. 220110

220110 - OK, I THINK it's done? Not sure. Either way. I'm happy with how it ended. It kind of gave closure to the fact that Nao used to date another girl who kind of just left one day. So yeah, extra 2 chapters. Pretty nice. I'm giving it an 8 to match with the first bit. Really enjoyed this little series. 220110

210131 - Random add from "https://myanimelist.net/manga/genre/34/Yuri" when looking up highest rated yuri series.

210131 - For 6 chapters, this was incredible. I'd never seen a manga take place in a circus-environment before. That was a breath of fresh air. Add to that a pretty interesting scenario and characters that are all likeable and competent. All that equals a good little series. I wish this was longer, but nothing anyone can do about that. I'm thinking an 8, but... I can't think of anything I didn't like. Usually with an 8, there's something a bit off or whatever. I can't think of a single moment I didn't like here. Everything was lovely. I think it might deserve a 9, but an 8 feels pretty reasonable. Regardless, it's definitely worth a re-read at some point. Worth it to get another dose of this lovely compact story. 210131

220121 - Looks cute as heck! Childhood friends becoming lovers. I'm all about it. I'll check this out soon even though there's only 5 chapters so far. || Damn, it's on hiatus after 5 CHAPTERS? Guuuuhhhhh. Wish I'd known that before I started. So, in my mind, this is pretty much dropped by the author. Who goes on hiatus after 5 chapters. Lame.

This had so much promise too. Started with the kissing in chapter 1, introduced a second yuri couple that was going to get together eventually, everything was going great. Why stop there? I mean, did the author get sick? Something personal? No one runs out of ideas after 5 chapters. Why start? So yeah, something must have happened. Bummer, regardless. Oh well. For what's here, I'll give it a 7. It was good for what we got. That's about it. Wish there was more, but what can you do. 220121

220107 - This is a 2 chapter side-story thing alongside Dear My Teacher. It follows Chiaki (the short-haired lady who sleeps with every woman she can at the bar). It follows her as she accidentally falls in love with Mikoto (the girl from Dear My Teacher), gets her heart broken, and eventually gets into a real relationship with a girl who liked her from the beginning. It seems like an actually pure relationship. I mean, it was cool. I'll give this a 6. It was neat. I liked it a bit better than Dear My Teacher (which I gave a 5) so I figured a 6 was good. 220107

*From "Not On Mal" List. This one-line description was buried until after I already did the following write-ups. Keeping it here anyway.*
210429 No idea, just know it's yuri. 210429

210528 - The translator of "Todo no Tsumari no Uchouten" recommended this at the end of chapter 7. They said it was better than Bloom Into You. I'll probably read this in like a year or two because I saw that it has the drama tag. I'm not interested in a month to month cliffhanger, so I'll binge it when it's done. 210528
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220105 - I've seen this around before, but decided to add it after seeing it mentioned here "https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/todo_no_tsumari_no_uchouten_ch07#24". People seem to like it. I decided not to add it the first few times I saw this series because the description sounded a bit skewed from my tastes. Since I might be wrong, I'm adding it. I'll try and check it out soon-ish. 220105

220107 - Started it yesterday and finished today. A cute story, but could have used another 20 chapters or so. It had a real Heisei feel to it, what with them getting together in the VERY last chapter. That got fixed a bit with the extra chapter where they did nothing but make out, but still. I'm a bit spoiled with all the current Reiwa energy floating around these days, so this was a bit disappointing in that regard. Not only that, we got no resolution from the Miki situation (Nanaki's gyaru friend who hated Nanaki most of the story) or the side couple! I mean, it's implied that they might get together, but we there's nothing to base that on other than a single sentence from one of them saying they're going to start dating soon if she can just confess or something. I would have loved to see how those relationships shook out. Seeing a happy Izumi (short-haired girl who got rejected by Nanaki during the school trip) would have done wonders for the story. Oh well, as it stands, it was a nice story. Everything felt believable, the characters were fun, and it seems like all the girls got a happy ending (even if some were only implied rather than directly shown). I'll give this... a 7 or an 8. Hmmm. I mean, I had fun. But, it didn't resolve a lot of the relationships between the characters. So maybe a 7 is good. Yeah, I'm good with a 7. I mean, not really, but between the two, a 7 seems to fit considering the unresolved plot points. I wish there were more chapters to develop everything else, but what can you do? I had fun. 220107

220915 - Found here "https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/xd51vw/disc_to_you_who_might_miss_out_on_your_youth/". Everyone was saying it was neat and VERY LOUD. I'm interested. 220915

20925 - Stared reading yesterday, finished today. It started great, kind of meandered in the middle, got great with the side ship, then ended OK. To be fair, everything with the main couple was great from start to finish, it's the side characters that didn't work for me. It's not that they were bad characters, in fact I really liked them all. It's just that they disappeared and had no plot significance after the first half. I mean, loud-boy's 2 friends were basically gone from the story. They may as well have stopped existing. Same with loud-girl's cat-faced friend. They were replaced by loud-girl's sister and the tall-scary looking dude. Now, I like them WAAAY better than the friends, but still... gone? 0 importance? It's such a bummer. It's like after the side character confessed to loud-girl's friend (and got rejected), they all lost their significance. Honestly, seeing what would happen to him after the rejection was my main interest for the rest of the series, and he has no lines for the rest of the series. So lame. Oh well. This is a 7, I guess. Not great, but definitely interesting. I just wish the cast had more to do. Speaking of which, the sister and tall-dude never get together? SERIOUSLY? lame. Oh well. This series is a 7 and I'll leave it at that. 220925

220117 - So this was an official thing? I thought it was a doujin when I read it a year or two ago. I'll have to try and find where I did a write up about it and add it here. If there's an entry above this one, it means I found it and entered it here. If not, I'm still looking for it. Either way, I'm probably going to re-read this one in the next few days. 220117

220118 - Started reading again today. 220118

220119 - So, APPARENTLY, there's 5 chapters out there somewhere. I searched, but could only find 3. Not sure where the other 2 are. They're titled "extra story" (where Yamcha tries to duel Vegeta for Bulma, loses, and finally gives up on Bulma) and "The Reincarnated Ones' Special Plan" (where Yamcha and Chiaotzu fuze into a bald Yamcha), but I couldn't find anything. I only got any info about them from this site "https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball:_That_Time_I_Got_Reincarnated_as_Yamcha". Other than that? Nothing. Well, it doesn't really matter. This basically felt like manga-fanfiction anyway. Not a big deal. I'll give this a 7. It was fun re-read. I wish there was more. There was some potential to really expand this into something awesome, but I doubt that would have ever happened. In fact, I'm surprised this was made at all. I'm leaning toward this actually just being a super popular doujin or something, not an official thing. If it was a doujin though, they really could have fleshed out an interesting story here. Instead, it was pretty surface. Although to be fair, that's what happens when you condense most of DB & DBZ down into 3 chapters. I mean, in the first chapter, Goku is a kid, then it jumps to the Vegeta fight, then it jumps to the cell games (completely skipping Namek). I just wish they could have taken a bit more time. Regardless, it was fun. If I ever find the dates for when I originally read this, I'll add it up top. 220119

210419 - Reddit recommendation for lighthearted yuri. I'll take a look soon. || Man, I would have sworn I've seen this cover before. It looks so familiar. Maybe I saw it but never added it to the list? So strange. Oh well. I'll try and take a look tomorrow and see if the contents seem familiar too. 210419

210420 - Yeah, that was OK. I don't think I've read this before, the cover just looked familiar, I guess. Anyway, there were interesting characters, character growth, character development, etc. I just wish it actually showed their romantic relationship develop. It's too vague for me. Honestly, I'm giving it a 6 because it's just OK. Basically, Hotei is an average employee while Ebisu comes down from corporate to their branch office. She transfered to take care of her niece because her sister is irresponsible. Hotei starts off hating Ebisu, but comes to like her over time. I don't know, I feel like the story could have been better. I mean, they end up living together, but it's unclear if they're even in a relationship at the end. This wasn't a bad one, there's just not much here. Whatever, at least it was short enough not to get too invested. - 210420

Great manga, but the ending didn't feel like it ended strong. Great overall though!

220203 - Another series from Petit Yuri Hime. 220203

220211 - Damn, cancelled? It's been a while since I've even SEEN one of those. I'm not talking, rush job ending, but straight up cancelled. What a bummer. It was kind of getting interesting too. Oh well. I liked this well enough, I suppose. It was rough, but still interesting. I didn't like the immigrant princess in the beginning. She was really rude and annoying. Then we learn that she was just trying to get the wedding called off so she could go home. That's a neat little plot point, but they didn't explore it nearly as well as they could have. Then there's the fact that the princess found out that she was married to a woman... and there was like NO followup on that. She just starts treating the MC nicely. Is she upset? Confused? Angry? Accepting? We have no idea. Then there's the older brother. Is he trying to actively sabotage the happiness of his little sister and her gay marriage? To what end? Also, what was up with him showing up out with those assassins during the festival. It was REALLY unclear. Was he protecting his sister from the assassins with the royal guards? Did he order the assassins to attack them and showed up to save her? Were the assassins under his orders to scare them but not hurt them? It was so unclear what was going on, and the MC didn't even ask any questions. Like "WHY ARE YOU HERE?!? WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL ME?!?" I don't know. There was a lot of room for improvement. Deep at the core, there was a magical story here. Like literally and figuratively. In the last chapter they showed magical goat-pet-things that could fly. It was pretty cool. There was also a neat story that could have been stronger if built correctly. This was just sort of a fumbled job. I can kind of understand why it was cancelled, but I wish they had given it a chance to actually conclude. I'll give this a 6. It was a good attempt, but was too weak in my opinion. Or maybe it's a 5? It had a lot of weak points and didn't even finish. Maybe it's deserving of that. Guess I'll put it there? NAAAAAHHHHH, I'll give it a 6. I liked it better than the stuff in 5, for sure. 6 feels right. And with that, I'm on to the next one. || I just had a thought after looking at the last 4-koma half chapter. Instead of seeing this as incomplete, it feels a lot more satisfying if I think of this as a snapshot into their lives. Like Baccano. It's not the end of the story, but it's the end of what we get to see. They'll be continuing their lives, just outside of our vision. That's a nice spin on it and makes me feel a lot better about it. Makes me happy thinking about it that way! Gives me a nice warming feeling in my stomach. Glad I came around to that way of thinking. 220211

Fourth (and last) manga series of the day. This was actually - probably - incredible. It actually had some intelligent, compelling, and interesting characters in this shoujo ai story. I had no idea where it was going, but it actually had some interesting depth to it. I'm really happy with reading this one. It felt substantial for something that was only 18 chapters long. I feel really good after reading this. Definitely a strong manga. Really glad I randomly came across this one. Literally randomly. I just went to manga rock, did a search for shoujo ai and romance, and picked this one at random. So glad I did. Just lovely.

190215 - Just finished Bully. It was a one-shot that has no entry here. Found it at random and read it real quick. I liked it. Short and sweet. I'd give it an 8 if I could.
200927 - This is the 3rd time I've read Bully (Sukoyaka). Can't remember when I read it the second time. Really cute story. Every time I read it, it makes me smile.

200927 - Second series of the day. Why did it take me so long to finish this? Usually when something is this good, I binge it fast. Especially because it's so short! I loved this! Chicken soup, from start to finish. Heck, even that ending line "we want everyone in the world to find a flirty happiness". Gaaaahhhh. So warm and cozy. Like being wrapped in a fuzzy blanket. I can't understand why I didn't finish this one. So strange. I think I stopped somewhere around chapter 7 or 8 before I took a break. Either way, I blazed through it this time.

How to rate this series... this is hard. I loved it all. The characters were nice, the "plot" was fluffy as hell, the art was cute, the drama was low, etc. It's hard for me to think of a negative for this manga... I suppose the only thing I thought was a bit odd was when Kanana started going out with Shirayuki, at first Shirayuki made it seem like she was playing hard to get. But then Kanana just said her name (after looking it up in the dictionary) and they started going out? That was kind of weird, but that's all, really. No other negatives that I can think of. I suppose I'll give this one a 9. I want to give it a 10, but I feel like it's missing something. Not sure what though... Anyway, it was absolutely lovely. I'd like to read this one again in the future. Definitely deserves it.

220121 - Strange. I know I've heard of this before (It's by Morinaga Milk, so of course I have), but I can't seem to find an entry for it anywhere. Strange. Maybe it's because no one has the full translation except for lilymanga? They only updated it a couple months ago as well. It might have been that. Regardless, I found the translation, so it's time to jump in. 220121

220123 - Ehhh, it was alright. Actually, I take that back, it was pretty good if I wasn't expecting a typical Morinaga Milk yuri manga. This had minimal yuri, but an interesting plot. Two girls are basically school police. Almost nothing really happens crime-wise until the end. Even so, it was an interesting tale. It discussed how the police are not really heroes of justice, but followers of the law. It went into the darker side of being police offers. Corruption, covering up for other officers, being unable to help people who are being stalked, etc. From that perspective, it was pretty interesting. The two girls don't miraculously solve the world's problems, instead they have to face the reality of being police officers. It was neat. It feels like the end had a lot of loose ends though. Did Sakuraba (dark-haired MC) actually like Sasami (blonde MC) back? Why did they decide to become cops anyway after they were disillusioned by the whole system? What happened to revealing the police using underage kids as police offers? Did the photography teacher end up going to jail even though she helped stop the prostitution ring in the end? I wish there was closure on these items. Oh well. If I had to give it a score, I guess I'd give it a hard-fought 7. It feels like a 6 on the surface, but I was a fan of the behind-the-scenes of the police world. It brought this manga up a bit. Enough to boost it to 7 status. I don't think I need to read this again though. A pleasant-enough one and done. ... You know what? I think I will give it a 6. I keep thinking back and it just seems "fine" to me. I wouldn't classify it as "good". So I'll stick with a 6 rating. That seems fair. 220123

Finished this after watching 3 other anime things today (Kase-san, Wotakoi, and Inugami san). Went from chapter 100 to the end.

This series has gone on hiatus so many times that I've literally waited years for the final few chapters to be released. I have NO idea when I watched the anime or started the manga. Looking back at my original anime word doc, Silver Spoon wasn't even ON it. So I think I may have started watching before I made the doc? If so, THAT'S CRAZY. That idea is based on the fact that there's no start date on MAL and I think I put start dates on everything after using the site as a tracker? If that's true, then I've been waiting anywhere from 4.5-6 years for the last few chapters to be completed.

I'm relatively happy with the ending. Once again, BARELY any romance at the end. It's such a common problem where the story kind of just... stops in manga. I feel like there was SO much more that could have been told. It was fine though, I suppose. Very funny series, nice little romance, slight payoff to said romance, so I'm pretty happy with it. Kind of a bummer because I thought the series was absolutely incredible, but the ending didn't really feel like a homerun ending. It felt like the author just picked a point and stopped. That's not to say I didn't like it, just that it feels like it easily could have kept going. Like it's missing another 50-100 chapters. This may be because of the illness in the mangaka's family and they just wanted to end it. I'm not too sure about this though. Honestly, they did go through graduation and had like 4 chapters after that, so I can't complain too much, but still. If I had like 10 chapters of Hachiken and Mikage hanging out and being happy together, I'd have a different tune. That's how it always goes with me though. Is there a satisfying romance? The answer to that question usually answers how I feel about the ending. It's always the cherry on top of a great series to me. I suppose in conclusion, I really liked this series, wished it went longer, and wish it had a more fleshed out romance. It had incredible humor, incredible characters, incredible plot structure, and was an incredible series. Feeling a bit sad that the Hachiken/Mikage train is over. Hell of a ride.

Found accidentally while looking for an entry for Lily Love 190203- 190205 on MAL (there isn't one). Also found that ninja manga as well.

As for Lily Love, I really enjoyed it. Thought the romance was nice and it kept progressing. I'd give it a solid 9.


This was amazingly well-made. I absolutely loved this series. The characters had nice arcs, and even more importantly, acted like humans. It was quite wonderful to see the anime tropes coming from a mile away and either: 1) completely avoid the BS tropes, or 2) do the trope in a way that feels organic to real life. For instance, when there are misunderstandings, they feel like REAL misunderstandings that would take place. The progression was good, the cast of characters changing out was well done. The new cast coming in was good. Everything felt solid. I can't think of a single negative for this series. This series just felt so mature and well executed that I can't think of a single problem. Just to look at all the usual problems, the entire cast wasn't gay (almost everyone was straight, feels realistic), the cast was able to figure out obvious things (The girl with 5 boyfriends realizing that the MC's were dating), misunderstandings were believable (the kiss without verbal confession felt like it could actually be real, and I bought in), Akko didn't start off gay, but rather realized over time that she loved her friend (this was very well done in my opinion), etc. I loved this series. This is an absolute gem that I will be re-visiting again, and while I absolutely loved Ookami, I think this one is up there too as one of the GOAT's. Marvelous.

Re-reading 190512 start
Re-reading 190518 end
Still awesome. I love this. Just wish it continued after the relationship started. Seems like Jitsu-wa is the only one that was able to handle this hurdle. Oh well, still a 10/10.

220111 - Saw it was written by Jin Takemiya. That's it. Hope it's good. 220111

220113 - Guuuuuuhhhhhhh, I am torn. On one hand, I thought there were some really interesting and fun story elements here. On the other, the girl I could not care less about ended up with like half the chapters. There's like 4 other couples who I was extremely interested to explore. Instead, we mostly got the one I didn't like. I don't even know why; it was really weird. I think it was her character design or something. As soon as she showed up, I was like "I'm glad she's not a main character"... little did I know...

Man, I was hoping for a lot more from the person who wrote Itoshi Koishi. The first half was great. I loved every couple they introduced. The dumb athlete? Awesome. The president of the company and her employee? Pretty good. The gardener and her friend? SO GOOD. The whatever girl that took up most of the story? Uggh. Honestly, she had an interesting story. Abused as a kid, lost her mother and step-father, taken in by a lady who owns a bar. It had a unique air to it. I just didn't like HER for some reason. I think to average everything out, I'll give this a 7. It certainly doesn't feel like a 7, but that's because of the second half. The first half was phenomenal. I also really liked how whenever a couple got together it would show them entering the theater one after another. That was pretty neat. I didn't get it until like the 3rd couple. So yeah, that little interesting bit, the great first half, and the good backstory for the meh girl brings this up to a 7. It almost tanked, but a 7 seems like a good compromise. 220113

220128 - After thinking about it, all I can really remember is the lackluster back half, so I'm going to move this down to a 6. That seems about right. I did like the theater thing, but that's about it. Honestly, maybe I can see it in the light where that is keeping this from being a 5. Honestly, that might just be true. So yeah, a 6. I'm good with that. 220128

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. I hesitated adding this because the cover picture has that shoujo art style that I hate. Whatever, adding because it might not be that bad. || Decided to put this in "Plan To Read" because it's part of a larger universe of stories. However, I never started reading those other series because they update super infrequently. So once those are done (Motto❤Hanjuku Joshi), I'll check this out. 220109

(Following entry was from NOM, hilarious because I discovered it only 12 days before and forgot about it. Added 220124)
220121 - Gokujou Drops ⋆ Lily Manga - Sounds nice. Complete too. 220121

220126 - ... This is VERY close to those shoujo monsters I tend to avoid. That and the fact that the backgrounds are almost nonexistent. This was moving into choppy waters from the get-go. Then, the making out started almost immediately. I can forgive a lot when that gets introduced. I just wish the art style was better. Whatever, after 2 chapters, this seems like a worthwhile addition. 220126

220128 - D'aaaawwwww. So nice. This was cute and verging on hot & heavy. There was nudity, but it was never really raunchy. More artful if anything. Cute girls in relationships with each other. A bunch of kissing, petting, etc. There was a plot of sorts, but it wasn't too important. Most of the story is just Komari (MC) getting used to living in her new dorm full of girls that want to do dirty things with her. She keeps trying to be in a monogamous relationship with Hime (the girl she's rooming with), but the other girls like to get involved too. It's never drama, always played for comedy and cuteness so I was totally fine with it. Nothing about this was ever really serious. Sure, there were moments were Hime was going to get transferred to another school or whatever, but since it's not a drama, it was pretty obvious that nothing was going to really happen. While predictable, it was a whole lot of fun. I wasn't looking for shocking twists and turns. I just wanted cute girls together and that's exactly what I got. I'll give this one either an 8 or a 9. Hard to decide. There were a lot of positives. I enjoyed all of the characters, the plot was pretty light which let me focus on the fluff, and there was an endless supply of kissing. If I had to think of negatives, the backgrounds were sometimes pretty light. Like, the panels felt a bit empty. Not a huge deal, but it was a bit distracting to see characters on white backgrounds. It didn't happen all the time, but still. Other than that, not much. The characters could have used a bit more depth, I suppose. They were fairly light on character traits. That's about it. My big concern, where they'd look like shoujo character freaks didn't happen. They looked like normal characters for the most part. I mean, there was a BIT of that shoujo freakishness, but it wasn't overblown. || I took a look at the list, and I think I'm going to go with an ... 8... Yeah that seems good. Especially after reading the description for Hatsuoki Shimai. That one was another series that sees like this. A cute little yuri story. I wrote how that one is also worth a re-read. Maybe in the future I'll read them both back to back and see if they both deserve an 8. If this is better, maybe I'll move this back to a 9. As it stands, I think an 8 is alright. So I'll leave it at that. Time for me to get back to "Succubus ja nai mon!" Up to chapter 9(of 12.5 so far) and looking forward to more. 220128

220112 - I think I started reading this in the "Not On Mal" folder. I should check soon. || Maybe I haven't read this yet? I don't know. It sounds REEEEALLY familiar, but maybe I'm wrong. Either way, I'm excited to check it out because it's apparently complete. 220112

220113 - I'm pretty sure I started this one before. I think this is one of those where I read the first couple of chapters and skipped to the most recent chapter (probably 15 or something). If there's a chapter later on where the girl writes her crush's name on something, I've definitely seen this before. We'll see. 220113

220115 - ... ... So yeah... that's left me feeling conflicted...
Let's get the good stuff out of the way. I loved the art. It had such a soft art style that left me feeling calm and relaxed the entire time. Everything was gorgeous and I loved how the images seemed so rough and yet detailed at the same time. It was really interesting. I loved how cute the beast-kin were. They were just adorable little creatures that I wanted to hug whenever they were on the page. Same with most of the human characters. I just wanted them all to be happy. The plot, for the most part, was pretty nice. Verging on iyashikei. Almost nothing happens. They just kind of hang out in the master's mansion. All of that was just great.

Now on to the bad... I'll start with the smaller thing. What was up with the kidnappers? Did they get away? Did they get arrested? The cops were RIGHT there. I'm guessing they just got away? I just want to know what happened. It's a bit aggravating. Anyway, on to the BIG problem. ... So the master is in love with a child? I was trying REALLY hard to try and find a way to spin this in my brain that didn't seem really freaking weird and gross. I was playing up all the anime tropes in my head. Oh, she's not human so maybe she's maturing faster? Nope. Well, maybe it's like the typical 3000 year old loli vampire BS. Is it something like that? Nope. Well, what abou- NOPE. It's just a child. ... ... Now look, I can get that the beast-kin girl is in love with her master. That shit happens in real life all the time. Kids falling in love with adults. It happens. So throughout the story, I was cool with it. I figured they might do a time-skip thing at one point and they might get into a relationship. I mean, it was cute the way she was all nervous and excited around her master. It got gross when the master said she loved her back. It was really weird when that happened. I thought they might be setting up a thing where the beast-kin girls would get together and the two human masters would get together. That'd be nice. No weirdness there. Instead, the master says she's ROMANTICALLY into this beast-kin girl. Just, no. No, no, no. Not cool. What's more, it's like as soon as she says she loves the beast-kin girl, the world is OK with? Not really, but her friend seems totally OK with it. She doesn't even seem worried that her friend might be arrested (which the master's publisher has said would DEFINITELY happen if a human x beast-kin relationship ever became public). It's odd. Uggh. It really soured this story for me. It was so cute and wholesome and then they just, do that. To be fair, artist expression and all that. It wasn't a real kid, but still.

As for a rating... what to do? There was a lot to like in this story, but the negatives were many. The kidnapper thing never got resolved, for one. They just kind of showed up and then left. On an unmentioned note, the ending was a bit rushed. It might have been nice for everyone to say goodbye to them as they left. The old maid showed up, which was nice. But you'd think the master's handicapped friend would have seen them off too. They'd been thinking about each other for the past few decades, so you think they'd say goodbye to each other before being unable to see each other again for god knows how many years or decades to come. And of course, the big knock. The romance. So do I give it a 6 or a 7? Time to look at the list... and after looking, I'm going to give it a 6. I mean, hell, I gave Prison Town e Youkoso! a 6? There's no way this ranks higher than that. It might have needed some padding to really flesh out the world, but I still think back fondly on that one. I'm more mixed here. So a 6 definitely seems OK here. I wish it had done some things differently, but that's the way it is. 220115

210131 - Random add from "https://myanimelist.net/manga/genre/26/Shoujo_Ai" when looking up highest rated shoujo ai series.

210131 - I got through 4 chapters, but the last 4 are not translated... and they haven't been updated in like 4 years. Real bummer. Another series that I can't finish until I learn Japanese, it seems. As for what IS translated, I had a great time. Just a no-drama love story between two cat-eared girls. Really cute. Giving this an 8 because even though it was simple, it was just so darn cute. No real plot, just cute girls being adorable. 210131

220111 - Started re-reading it again today. I know it's not done, but I wanted to read it anyway. 220111

220113 - So, After reading the afterword and the MangaDex entry (which says it's complete at 4 chapters), I think it actually IS complete. If so, that means I just re-read the whole thing. Also, it means I'm going to bump the score down to a 7. Mostly because it didn't really feel like an ending. More like just another chapter. I still liked it though. Just wish there was more. Anyway, I guess I'll be putting it in the complete list. For that, I'm glad I re-read it. Got to finally mark this done. 220113

220720 - NOPE! It WASN'T done at 4. Some kind soul finally updated the last 4 chapters. It's now ACTUALLY up to 8 chapters. I'm going to check this out right now. I saw it updated at the bottom in the recommendations after a chapter on mangakakalot. I was reading that tsuntsuntsuntsuntsun series (up to 14 right now) and it was there. Glad I randomly saw it! 220720

220805 - Nothing remarkable happened in the last 4 chapters. It was still nice, but nothing more than that. Still just a 7. At least now it's complete though. Time to get back to Hayama Sensei. That's the one about the two yuri teachers. Been reading that one now that it's complete. Anyway, I'm glad I finally finished this. I wish there had been more progress, but what we got was sweet. 220805

210131 - Random add from "https://myanimelist.net/manga/genre/34/Yuri" when looking up highest rated yuri series.

210201 - I was going to start reading this, but just learned that it finished at chapter 11. Since only 9 have been translated, I'm going to wait a bit until it's all out. In the meantime, I'm going to put this "On-Hold". Shouldn't be a long wait.

210204 - And just like that, BAM! Last 2 chapters translated. Only took waiting 1 day before it was done (they were translated 2 days ago. 1 day after my last entry here). DAMN THE AXE! This was shaping up to be a very interesting series. Everything was moving along nicely, then WOOSH, straight to the ending. I can't complain too much because I got a happy ending, but still. I wanted more make-out chapters. Those were great. Akira (brunette sempai) was working through a very interesting character arc, Mayuki(dark hair kouhai) had basically confessed to Akira (and seemingly got her respect too), and Rin was... doing just fine. Oh well, what we got was cool. Everybody in the comments were pissed for some reason. I guess they hate the idea of romances involving multiple partners. If everyone loves everyone else, who cares? Whatever, people love to get mad about everything. I had a great time with this series. Nothing especially deep, but a 3P relationship was definitely new. Well, new-ish. This happened in the author's previous work (that series with 19 main characters and 9 relationships? remember?). This was fun. I had a lovely time. Even considering the rush job at the end (to be fair, I ASSUME it's a rush job). The art was stellar, the romance was fun and interesting, the plot was neat, etc. It was just dumb fun! I'm glad I came in when I did. The series finished up right as I got here. I'll give this one an 8. That might be a bit high, but I was intrigued by the novelty of the relationship. For that, among all the other positives, an 8 feels fair. 210204

Short and very sweet. I really like stories like this. Almost everyone was happy in the end (except for librarian girl, but she seemed to bounce back really quick). Didn't leave me with any negative emotions whatsoever. I just feel... full? is that the word? Content, probably? It was very nice, wholesome, and I just feel good after reading it. Very pleased.

201222 - Started and finished after Wanko ni Kuchizuke. Been sleeping on this one for a LONG time. Not sure how long it's been sitting in my "reading" list, but I finally did it. The final verdict?... It was nice. Nothing fantastic, but nothing terrible either. Story has 3 couples. I really liked two of them and didn't like the 3rd. First couple is baseball player and his stupid, fun, badminton-playing classmate. The story mostly revolves around them. They're great. Then the female baseball club manager gets introduced. She likes the pitcher of the team. Their relationship is pretty interesting too. She says she doesn't want to date him until they graduate so they can focus on winning, but that kind of goes off-course all the time. I liked this one too. Lastly, is the school beauty who starts dating some older guy. That was pretty lame. I mean, I get that it happens, but I wasn't a fan. Anyway, I thought the plot was nice enough except for the 30+ year old boyfriend guy. That was sketch to me (at least he told her to wait until she's 18. That's something, I guess). I'm a bit bummed because it felt like the series was getting padded toward the end. They kept almost having sex, but then either MC's girlfriend would get scared, run away, fall asleep, etc. Even so, it was a nice story. Some nudity in this series (boobs only); just thought I'd mention it. If it wasn't for the older guy relationship, I might read this one again. As it stands, I think I'll leave this one on the shelf as simply a good series (and nothing more). Just glad I finally got around to reading this one. A fine time, everything considered.

220111 - I mean, come on. I saw the cover on Amazon and was basically (-.-) || Unfortunately, it looks like it got dropped halfway through. Only like 4 of the 8 chapters are done. No dice until I learn Japanese and can find raws or something. Most likely, anyway.220111

220203 - So I re-found this one again while finding all the stories for the Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. Same author. On mangadex all 8 are present, so I'll check it out now. 220203

220207 - I REALLY liked this one. Each one left me feeling a bit emotional, or wow-ed in some way. Especially the first one. For some reason, when they talked about how MC's love interest was home whenever she stepped outside, that really left me with an interesting perspective on things. The idea of saying "I'm home" when you're out in the big bad world? Fascinating. Once I finished, I found out that ALL of these stories are related to other works from this author. I wish it was all in one 70 chapter series instead of spread out like this. It's aggravating knowing that I've read about a few of these characters before, but can't remember anything about them. After reading this, I may go back and try to re-read them or find them because this was so good. I think I'll give this an 8. It was a 9 before the last story. That one was just OK. Everything else was killer though. I think I'd like to re-visit this one in the future. So good. 220207

GYAAAAAH! That was wonderful! I didn't feel like there were any wasted chapters, everything flowed smoothly until the end. When I saw that there were only 4 chapters left, I was concerned that it would be wrapping up way too quickly, but it actually ended at a great spot (went full circle, I really liked that). I liked the MC's, I liked the supporting cast, I thought the comedy was pretty good, and there wasn't too much trope-y manga BS. Fantastic. I feel great after finishing this. It wasn't long enough to give me PBD, but if it had been this good and 4x the length, I would probably be feeling it now. So pleased. Will most likely re-read this again in the future.



200805 - Second thing I read today after Omae Wo Otaku. I still love this one. Very well written and is still one of my favorite romance manga. Again, I'd like for this one to be longer, but as it stands it's darn-near perfect in my eyes. Characters are unique, people act like people, and it ends in a very wholesome way. Absolutely wonderful. It was nice having forgotten the entire plot before restarting so it was all a mystery when I read through it. Still a 10/10 for me. Can't wait to read it again in a few years! 200805

230223 - Moving to a 9 to redistribute scores. 230223

Pretty good, I suppose. Predictable, but alright. Had a bittersweet ending where the woman lives, but the guy dies. Didn't really resonate with me.

Started off great, then got a little whatever right at the confession, then started to get a little better at the end. The confession itself just felt a bit weird and unmemorable to me. I don't know, I think it was the translation getting weird around there (what was up with the font change/sloppy text work?). Anyway, it was good overall, but not more than that, I don't think. Girl Friends is still the best from this author. Re-read is a solid maybe. Definitely not a no, but not at the top of the re-read pile either. Maybe I'm being too harsh, I did like the ending, it's just that the confession itself was weird to me. Thinking back, the marriage magazine shot in the last couple chapters was pretty awesome. That alone almost makes up for the weird confession.

190507 - Restarted this one. Can't really remember too much about it. Really enjoyed it this time. I'm reading this one first, then the cooking one, then I'm going to finish with Girl Friends. I need this to help heal me from the depression nonsense I was dealing with for the past few days (190508 today. Same date that I finished re-reading this series). I really enjoyed this one. I felt like it could have gone into greater depth and had more characters that were fleshed out, but I really like this one in spite of all that. Just lovely and enjoyable. I feel that I definitely judged the second half of this series too harshly last time. I wouldn't say the confession was weird, in fact I actually liked it. From start to finish, just a wonderful story. It really made me feel better given the depression-filled week I've been having. This one put a smile on my face.

Re-read from 190507 to 190508 (second reading)

Found on mangarock after looking for Shoujo Ai.

Cute story. A bit too short for serious character development, but it was still nice. Even though the art wasn't too refined, I feel that it had a foundation for a much longer story that I would have really enjoyed. Not too much to say, it was nice and I liked it for what it was.

I remember starting this one a year or two ago, but can't remember if I finished it. I know I got at least half way, but that's all I remember. Either way, restarted and ran through it all in one shot today and you know what? It wasn't bad. Sure, it was by-the-numbers, had a super basic plot, no real depth at all... but it was alright from start to finish. Not only that, but the last chapter put a smile on my face the whole way through. It really sold me on this manga right at the finish. Brought it from a 7 to an 8. I liked that everyone ended up with someone at the end. Not realistic (on that note, everyone in this universe is apparently gay, like most lesbian manga...), but still heartwarming. I think this could be worth a re-read in a couple years. Short and pleasant. Nothing to write home about, but really nice with a lovely last chapter. Satisfying.

210127 - Hayama Sensei to Terano Sensei wa Tsukiatteiru - MangaDex - This has been licensed, so it's going to be a long time before any updates are made. Still, I want to read this based on the cover art and the story description. It sounds so cute! Heard about it here "https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/l26y3e/my_yuricollection_is_my_joy_and_pride/".

210202 - I read the first chapter a few days ago, but went through it all today (including chapter 1). No drama, no problems (for the most part), no love triangles. There's just lovey-dovey characters enjoying their lives together. Everyone supports them, everyone is a good person, and the world is full of sunshine and rainbows. Just magnificent. This is the kind of manga that'll heal your soul. I WAS surprised when they slept together and actually SHOWED it. I was like "OK, this is when they cut to the next day... AAAAND, it's still going?". French-kissing, nudity, etc. I was NOT complaining, but it WAS unexpected. I thought it was interesting that they censored the nudity before they had sex (in the bathhouse), but didn't censure anything afterward. It's almost like the author was saving it for their first time. Once they had sex, all bets were off. Definitely an interesting choice. It made the sex scene all the more surprising. Anyway, I had a great time up to chapter 12. Nice progression, lovable characters, and a cute art style. I couldn't ask for more. Giving this a 9, I think. I want to give this a 10, but I'm going to hold off for now. Looks like it's going to a long wait for the next chapter though. I'll have to distract myself with other series until then. 210202

210430 - So I decided to check lilymanga, and it is complete up to chapter 18. I'm not sure if this is the last volume or not though. I'll put this in "On Hold" for a while. If I come back in like a year or two and there's still no update, I'll mark it as complete, I suppose. Leaving this at a 9. There's no plot to speak of, but it's just so happy that I can't give it a lower score. It's just too dang wholesome. I'll hold out hope for a volume 4. 210430

210501 - Apparently volume 3 just came out last month. I have a feeling that means a volume 4 could come out in a few months. So yeah, I'll check back in a few months to see if there's any more. 210501

220621 - I just checked lilymanga and saw it was up to 24.5. Then I realized that there are four 0.5 chapters. Added together makes 28 (24+4) so I think it might be complete on lilymanga. I'm going to re-read it over there in the next day or two. 220621

220730 - Restarted again today. Going to finally finish the whole thing this time. 220730

221008 - Finally finished. I took this one pretty slow and spent a few weeks on the last 2 chapters. Mostly because I didn't want it to end. I have a few series in my like that right now (Kawaii Hito, Ascendance of the Bookworm, Kou-2 ni Timeleap, etc.). Anyway, this was cute all the way to the end. I had this down as a 9 before, but I think I'll give it an 8 for now. It was overflowing with sweetness, but there wasn't too much substance to it. When I read this one again, I might move it back up to a 9. Man, over a year and a half to finish this. What a journey. 221008

Discovered randomly on main page of manga rock. I just saw a non-shoujo romance that was complete.

Meh. The thought that popped into my head when it finished was, "what a big old pile of nothing." There wasn't anything great or anything terrible. It was all just average and whatever. The characters aren't really memorable, and even the little character details that could have made them seem deeper (like the one girl who's a fujoshi, the male MC who likes taking videos, and the delinquent girl who likes candy) were never really explored. Everything just felt so surface and hollow. I was bored basically from the first 5 chapters or so, but continued on just to make sure I never needed to take a look at this one again. I don't hate this, I just don't have any positive or negative feelings about this one. So much wasted potential. The definition of a 6... well... BACK TO RE-READING OOKAMI!!!

221201 - Well now, that was different. It was straddling the line of ecchi and H, and eventually became totally freaking weird. It started off weird, where fMC is into MC because she "knew he was into the same stuff" as her. OK, how? It's never really brought up. Then they mess around with each other for a few chapters. That was neat. Then it gets really weird toward the end. They have pissing fetishes, fMC gets abducted by a crazy classmate, they piss off a building onto a crowded street, etc. This was bonkers. I'm giving this a 5. For the time 2007-2009 this was probably neat. For today? It's just wack. Whatever. Moving on. 221201

220622 - Random find from Kinsei No Reveal recommendations at the bottom of the page. Looks cute. 220622

220624 - That was fun. It reminded me of that "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story (Botan win) that I love so much in that the side character gets the MC in the end. I just wish it could have taken its' time. It moved a bit too fast to switch from the MC liking the prez to liking her sister. It seemed to imply that it took place over multiple months, but I still would have liked to see it develop on the page. Maybe if there were another 20 chapters, this could have been a killer story. As it is, I'd say it's a solid 7. I had a great time, but it wasn't anything too special. I'd be willing to read it again though. It was such a happy little story that I wouldn't mind checking it out again. 220624

210126 - Ch0 Her Shim-Cheong - WebtoonXYZ - I need to check, but this may be like one or two chapters away from being complete. If so, I'll hold off until it's done. I'd hate to read 80 chapters and wait like 2 months for the last one. I'll find out later. In the middle of reading Teiji ni Agaretara right now. 210126

210424: Alright, I'll read it now! Been on my "Currently Reading" for 3 months and after adding a bunch of other titles - and getting through them - I figured it's about time. Let's go. 210424

210425: That's a 10. If I ever wondered what a 10 looks like. It looks like this. This was damn near perfect. I was intrigued from the very first chapter when we got a look at Cheong for the first time. A dirty, scruffy beggar. Then we go into the story and every character is incredible. No one is a stupid cartoon. Everyone has motivations, goals, biases, and reasons for everything that they do. It's glorious. I especially had a great time with the relationship between Shim Cheong and the madam. It's such a deep relationship and story that constantly evolves over the course of the story. Cheong knows that she wouldn't befriend her without something to gain and she's completely right. Of course, that isn't truly revealed until the end, but I love that Cheong basically knew the rough details from the start. That and the madam's change in motivation from the beginning to the end? Such a wonderful character arc. I love that they both ended up saving each other. It wasn't a typical B.S. Aladdin "Save you by showing you the freedom of the world" story. This was smart. She LITERALLY saved her by showing her the world outside of her bubble. Shim Cheong showed her how suffocating her world was, and how she could escape if she gave 100% of herself to doing it. Likewise, the madam gave Shim Cheong a reason to live, plain and simple. They both started the story with a desire to die, and by the end, they found in each other a reason to live. Just beautiful.

While their relationship is incredible, everyone else is absolute garbage. The son of the house is a wife-beating asshole, the madam's brother deserves to be annihilated off the Earth, and Shim Cheong's dad is a worthless scumbag who pushes everything on to his daughter and can only think of himself (even when his daughter is just about to die). Oh, and the village people should all burn in a fire. That'd be nice. Other than the main couple, I pretty much only liked the one fisherman who didn't condone killing Shim Cheong (he was cool throughout the series), and the fortune teller lady. She had her hand forced a couple of times, but she was one of the few with a moral compass in this series. Man, good villains, good heroes, good everything.

I thought the inclusion of light folklore creatures was great too. It wasn't over-the-top in a way that turned this into a fantasy. It really only came up in a couple of chapters to the point where it was unclear if it was actually real or not (I mean, it was, but still). Other than that... this series also had a yuri romance. It took me THAT long to mention the word yuri. The plot was THAT GOOD. I went into this to get a yuri story, instead I got a fantastic story that also had yuri in it. The story was so good, that if they had just been friends by the end, I still would have loved this series. Usually with bad series, if there's no kiss, it's almost like the series was pointless. Here, it was the icing on the cake. This wasn't a story about romance, it was a story about love. A deep and powerful connection between two people that allowed them to defy their circumstances and save each other. I don't know what else to say. I feel like this is one of the greatest love stories I've ever read. A true gem that left me in awe. Absolutely marvelous. Deserving of a 10 without question. I'm a bit sad now (slight PBD) because I know my "Currently Reading" is now temporarily empty. It hasn't been this way in 3 months. Knowing that I had an incredible love story waiting for me kept this feeling away for a bit. Now, I need to look for more. I doubt I'll find something of this calibre for a long time, but I know they're out there. Time to go searching for them. || Turns out, this series isn't done. Just found chapter 85 on, you guessed it, mangakakalot.tv. I took a look there again, and it turns out it had an extra chapter beyond webtoon.xyz. Glad I checked. So there's still a bit more of this world to explore. Really happy to know that I don't have to close the book on this world yet. Looking forward to future chapters. 210425

For a one-shot, this was pretty cool. That's all there is to say, really.

200816 - Reread it, and it's still good. It's like a highly condensed Kaguya-sama Wants To Be Confessed To. For a one-shot, it's really good.

220923 - Found here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/xkn7p2/what_is_the_name_of_this_manga_ive_been_trying_to/). Actually interesting. Reminded me of that weird series with the alpha, beta, and omega people. I'm giving this an 8. I actually wish there was more to this one-shot. 220923

190212 - What a cute little story. By the same author as Girl Friends. Shorter, and not quite as good, but still really nice. I love the lack of drama in these works. It makes for an emotionally easy journey. Easy-to-enjoy cuteness. Thoroughly enjoyable. Would read again, will read again. 190212

190509 - Finished in one day before work. Just like the first time, it was really enjoyable. Wish it could have been longer, but other than that, I love this series. I love the lack of drama here, everything is pretty easygoing. Going to read through Girl Friends next. This author is great. 190509

Last manga of the day. Definitely unique from the rest of what I usually check out. This was about a shoujo ai S&M couple. More comedy than romance, but still plenty of both. I thought it was good. It never went too far into making the blonde girl too mean, and so it felt OK to me. I don't really know that world, so I don't know how realistic the M girl was in regard to her reactions, but I thought this was great considering how short it was. I think it'd be worth a re-read at some point. It was short, sweet, and ended on a kiss. All in all, pretty darn good.

210318 - Looks like this series is finally done. Caught it on the perfect day, because it apparently finished today! That means I can start it! Everyone keeps saying this is incredible, so I figure I'm in for a good time. 210318

220109 - I just don't think I'm in the right head-space for this right now. I think it finally dawned on me why I've been reading nothing but yuri romance for the past while instead of straight romance. Jealousy. It started with Kase-san and just kept going from there. I'm worried I'm going to start reading this and feel that feeling again. ... I need to get my shit together. I'll get on OKC again this week and do it until I find someone. Maybe this time it'll stick. Digressions aside, I'm going to put this one in the "Plan To Read" category. I'll get to it. Hopefully soon. 220109

220507 - Started today to try and wash the Kaguya out of my system. I'll check that out when it's done in a year or so. As for this, I like it! I don't think it's worth all the praise yet, but it's nice. Started the anime too. || I'll be honest, I'm like 7 chapters in and... it's OK. As of right now... it's sitting around 7 territory. I'm kind of bored. Kind of losing focus. That type of thing. I'll keep going though. Maybe it's just because I got 4 hours of sleep last night. I'll keep pushing on. || OK. I got to chapter 16. It's getting better. I'm really interested in Sakura from the StuCo. Mostly because I saw the series just putting girl with close guy, girl with close guy. It doesn't seem like this is doing that. I assumed Yurki (short-haired friend) would get with Tooru (dude who got rejected by Hori), but it doesn't seem to be going that way. Instead he might get with Sakura, a girl who he meets by accident. If that happens, it'll be a nice change of pace from my bored expectations. This just jumped up a bit in my enjoyment of the series. Curiosity officially piqued. 220507

220509 - I'm conflicted. I loved this series for most of the story. The romance was lovely, the cast was fun, the comedy was on-point, etc. It was fantastic. Then... it started to get a bit odd. Hori started to get more violent, more jealous, more possessive. It went from being OK to being kind of strange. People on Reddit kept throwing around the phrase "abusive relationship" and I think I'd have to agree toward the end. It was OK in the beginning, but it started to verge on dark. What's so annoying though, is that she doesn't go through any kind of character arc. She just... stays the same. Even though she knows that she's angry all the time, she never works on it in a meaningful way. It kind of brought down my enjoyment of the series toward the end. I was flipping between a 9 and a 10, but now I'm sitting on an 8 and a 9. It's a great story, but I think it definitely faltered in a few different ways. First, Hori basically had a character change from the beginning to the end, and not in a good way. In the beginning she was a normal girl, but by the end she's basically bipolar. It was kind of ridiculous when looking at it from start to finish. Second, Miyamura. They just obliterated his character completely. Although, now that I think about it, maybe that was the point? He starts off as a gloomy loner and over time becomes comfortable in his own skin? Yeah, actually now that I think about it, I want to spin that one as a positive for the series. However, sticking to the Miyamura train for a while, they could have really explored his past a bit more. I mean, his middle school bully basically shows up for 3 chapters then never shows up again. It could have lent to an interesting dynamic. ALSO on that same note, what's up with his tattoos? No one finds out? Like, ever? Isn't that kind of boring? That whole plot element was kind of just forgotten in the second half of the series. Never brought up, no one cares. It really felt kind of weak to me. Third, Yuki (short haired girl who likes Tooru). Nothing happens. I mean, NOTHING happens. They pretend to start dating. OK. She realizes another girl can steal her fake-boyfriend. OK. She wants to confess. OK. Then nothing. Not even a mention of it in the last chapter. ?!?!?! WHAT? You can't just end it like that! Same with Sakura! What, she's not getting with Yanagi? That sucks. They could have built up to that, BUT NEVER DID! They both like manga, right? They're friendly with each other, right? Why not show them interact and get together in the end? GAH!!!

So many problems with this one that - to an outsider - it would seem crazy that I want to give this such a high score. The problem is that it's THAT good. I loved it so much. While the characters weren't all the strongest, they were fun and brought fun bits to the table. Their interactions were lovely. I just wish they gave them more room to shine. I just feel SO MUCH PBD RIGHT NOW! I'm so depressed it's over, but in a different way than normal. I think it's worse than normal. Usually, it's a sad contented feeling where I'm full and empty at the same time. Here though? I think it's because I needed more for a series like this. It was so long, and was so good, that for it to end with so many loose ends and plot points unexplored... it feels like leaving a story in the middle. Strange to say about a series that's been going on for 120+ chapters, but it needed more room to finish. My relationship with this series is like Miyamura's and Hori's. It's exasperating, but I love it anyway. I NEED more, but I'll never get it. I don't know. I feel like I'm on the verge of that depression feeling from all those years ago. Oh well. As for the score? ... I was THIS close to giving it a 9. ... I'm still SO tempted to. But there's too many dangling threads at the end for me to put it there. Too many things that need closure. But you know what the final nail in the coffin was? Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo getting an 8. I remember I went through the same thought process there, but for the opposite reason. THAT one felt like it was dragging whereas this one felt like it didn't have enough time. Both series resolved their plots early and just started spinning their wheels a bit. Both could have used some streamlining even though both were incredibly fun and interesting. It's not an apples to apples comparison, but the similarities are there. Enough to allow me to feel decent about giving this one an 8. I may feel differently about it tomorrow (as is so often the case with these longer series), but for now, I'm content with that.

I also want to reiterate that I love this story and the characters. They don't compare to the ones from Jitsu Wa or anything like that, but they had a nice heart. They were just so fun from beginning to end. While there were a few character issues toward the end, they were still interesting and so darn lovable. Glad I finally read this series. I'm not sure if I'll ever read it again. It's a real toss up. Probably not, but that makes me kind of sad in a way. I wish I could live for 1000 years so I could read and re-read everything on my list over and over again. Since I can't I guess I'll just have to content myself with new stories all the time. Anyway, on to the anime, then on the next series! 220509

220130 - Added because it's by the same author as Gokujou Drops. That's it. I liked that, so I'll check this out. 220130

220203 - That was nice. Another good series of one-shots here. I was surprised by the reappearances of the characters from Gokujou Drops (MC goes to boarding house with a bunch of school-famous girls) and Mousou Honey (MC gets forced onto the student council and eventually gets with her childhood friend). I'd already read these in those stories though. As for the other one-shots, they were all super cute. Nothing too complicated or special, but nice all the same. Total junk food. Giving this a solid 7. Not much to it, but I wouldn't mind reading again. 220203

201223 - Read after Shoujo Junrei. Needed a quick shot of yuri in my life. This was good even though it was a teacher and a student. Wish I could see them together after she graduates. That'd be cute. Oh well, this was exactly what I wanted. Solid 7.

Kind of whatever. It's a 4-koma, but I think the translation is a bit off. The dialogue doesn't flow smoothly and the art was simple. Also, half the time, I had no idea who was talking (speech bubbles were vague). Meh, as a romance I suppose it was alright. Definitely had more progress than most romance manga. I'd give it a 7 just because of the ending. Had a nice ending. On top part 2.

Same deal as part 1. Same positives and negatives. Liked the romance, but it was a tad hard to follow at times. Ended alright, so there's that. I'll give it a 6 because it's kind of boring/hard to follow even though the romance worked out.

Just to note, it says 5 chapters, but it's really 4. There was an unrelated one-shot chapter at the end that I skipped.

Leave them wanting more. I think this perfectly encapsulates that idea. I wish this was longer, but it was fantastic because everything keeps moving forward without manga tropes getting in the way of progress. Just wonderful due to the characters, and their interesting perspectives on each other and romance in general. It was short so there was no room for pointless drama. Just SO GOOD. The ONLY reason it's not a 10 is because it didn't have enough chapters to develop into a 10. Basically, we didn't have enough time to develop a connection. If it had been longer, definitely a 10. I want to check this one out again, and since it's so short, it's only like a 30 minute commitment.

210127 - Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It - MangaDex - Recommended from "https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/". Seems alright. A girl is behind on rent. The landlord (female) says if they sleep together, she's good.

210128 - SO MUCH FLUFF! I was worried in the beginning - like a lot of people in the comments - that this started as a coercion-adjacent kind of thing. Turns out, NOPE, the MC was just drunk and assumed the landlord had wanted to trade sexual favors for rent. That means there are no bad feelings here! Everything is wonderful! I'm at chapter 17 ( I think 18 will be released in a couple days) and the story is really capturing me. I mean, the author is able to make hand-holding and head-patting lewd... I've never seen that ANYWHERE else. It's incredible. While the lewdness is nice, I'm all in because of the cute relationship that's blossoming. It's just so wholesome. No drama, no problems, just two girls slowly approaching a relationship together. I mean, I've seen this story play out a dozen times already, but this one feels especially lovely. I'm excited and ready for the next chapter! 210128

210202 - Read Chapter 18 today. Looks like the next one is the last one. Bummer. People are speculating if it was axed or not. Hard to tell. It's ending in a good spot, but feels like more could have been developed. Whatever, looking forward to the next - and last - chapter. 210202

210318 - Took a break from playing Portal 1 (was feeling nauseous. Think I got a bout of motion sickness). Looks like the last chapter was added 5 days ago so I read the last 2. Just a wonderfully saccharine story. Gave me that warm and comfy feeling all over. I just LOVE happy stories like this. I'm probably going to re-read this one soon. I can't remember too much of the story details so I'd like to go through it again fairly soon. Should be fun! I currently have this as a 10. When I re-read it, I'll give it a real rating. 210318

210415 - Read chapter 19.5 today. It was a little extra bit at the end of the volume. Changing the "Finish Date" to today instead of March because I'm considering it truly done as of now. Anyway, as for 19.5, it was a couple of cute stories between the two girls. Just lovely. Still leaving this a 10 for now because I can't think of a flaw. I still want to re-read the whole thing at some point, but I'll put it on the shelf for now. 210415

210127 - Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl - MangaDex - Recommended from "https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/". Seems cute!

210129 - What a lovely series! I was starting to get worried around chapter 6 that this wasn't actually complete because no progress had been made telling the other girl that MC was actually a girl. Then progress really picks up and it concludes well by chapter 13. It adds a bit of weirdness in chapter 13 instead of wrapping up the main story, but it was still good. The real treat is the epilogue in 13.5. The author does a cute proposal scene that - while it seems too soon with how long they've been dating - was very sweet. All in all, I had a good time with this. I think an 8 is a good score for this one. No flaws that I can think of and just a very solid series that I'd like to read again some day. 210129

210415 - Finished a 2nd time. I decided to re-read because I was reading other stuff from Mochi Au Lait and saw this as one of the works written by the same author. After reading some of the other stories by Mochi, I'm surprised this is as good as it is. I think it's the art that does a lot of the heavy lifting (Mochi's art isn't great in the other works. Here it's drawn by someone else), but it's still a good story compared to the other Mochi stuff. All of the other Mochi stuff I've read is in the 6 range. After re-reading this, I think this still belongs as an 8. A cute story that doesn't overstay its welcome. I'm glad I went through this again. 210415

220701 - I wanted to read it again. I might start today or tomorrow. 220701

221013 - Putting this back in Completed because I'm not going to get to this for a while. I'll re-read it again later. 2210013

210202 - I was on Yuri Hime, found "Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata", found that the author wrote this, and added it here. People saying it's just alright. I'm going to read anyway since it's complete.

210203 - Yeah, it was alright. Well, I loved the romance scenes, but the rest was pretty standard. Someone mentioned that they thought the author was setting up a bait and switch where Hina (small blonde girl) would fall in love with her aggressive sempai (blonde with short hair) instead of tall dark hair girl. Thinking back, that would have been an awesome development. Instead, they went in a predictable direction. Oh well. As it stands, this was a nice compact little story. I have nothing bad to say about it other than that it was fairly by the numbers. This is a 7. Not bad, not fantastic, just good. 210203

220720 - Is this another series where I never wrote ANYTHING down? Oh well, I'll write it now. I think I know when I caught up to current, so I can make a guess later at when I first added this. Point is, it's done now so I'll binge it. 220720

220728 - Haha, yeah this was cute. One of those turn-your-brain-off kind of series. Almost no plot or anything of substance. Just dude who likes abs of girl who saved him a long time ago. Wish it had a bit more post-romance material, but what can you do. Clearly the author isn't all that good in the "writing" department. At least not when it comes to stuff that affects the plot. Anyway, I'm giving this a 7. It was nice, and had hot abs everywhere, but there wasn't much more than that. It's no Saotome Senshu, that's for sure (the boxing one with the hot lady boxer). I just thought it was nice. I might be willing to check it out again in the future...just for the abs. Hehe. 220728

220228 - I Don't Know What My Little Sister's Friend Is Thinking! Manga - Mangakakalot.com - This is cute. A guy's little sister's friend likes him. She's super quiet though. It's up to 18 chapters so far. I read through 4 before deciding to hold off. It's been sitting at chapter 17 since April 2020 (2 years ago). It just now got chapter 18. I'm going to hold off for a bit and see what happens in the future. 220228

220630 - I'm a bit confused. I could have sworn that I JUST checked this a few days ago and it was incomplete. The little sister confessed and the dude turned her down. Wasn't that the latest chapter? (I skipped to the end and read that last time) Whatever, maybe that was a different manga. Anyway, I'm going to check this out now that it's done. 220630

221010 - Going to read through this to clean up my reading list. 221010

221012 - So this WAS that series where the guy turned down the girl. That was actually the last chapter. All good though, since it seems like after a time-skip, they get together. I'm kind of happy he initially turned her down. He never thought of her that way, there's a big age gap, etc. He doesn't want to lead her on, which I get. I just wish there was more. A bigger cast, outside problems, making them getting together secondary. Flesh out the world a bit, you know? ... There I go thinking everything can be Jitsu wa again. This is the core of a great story, but I guess the author didn't know how to expand the world. Whatever. I'm giving this a 7. It was really cute, but not much substance. The MC was a good older bro, the younger sister wasn't annoying, the fMC was cute and had an adorable personality, the older childhood friend was cool. That's about it. Nothing plot heavy of interest. I had a nice time and that's fine. That's all I need every once in a while. On to the next one. 221012

220907 - Oh damn, I had no idea that the other story I was reading (about the isekai guy who finds his wife in bed with another dude) was actually a sequel. I'll read this now since it's done. 220907

220910 - I'm getting so mixed up with all these series. I thought I made an entry for this when I finished this series, but I guess I never did? Weird. Anyway, I finished this a couple days ago. It's good. Really hot. I just wish we could have gotten more after the time skip at the end. I wanted more information about that asshole of a noble who tried to kill the hero and the warrior. Oh well. I'm going to give this an 8. It was hot, even if the ending didn't make sense. I mean, they're getting put to death? That seems a bit extreme for infidelity. Not only that, but they had chains strong enough to hold the hero? Someone capable of killing the demon lord can just get confined like that? Also, HE KILLED THE DEMON LORD! So that just gets overlooked? He saves the world, but is sentenced to death for banging another woman? Bullshit. No way that flies. Dude should get a free pass for life. It's like Tyrion at the trial. Should have let the demon lord kill them all. Anyway, it was a contrived way of turning back the clock so... I guess. It did the job. It could have been handled much better though. Plus, I didn't like how they made that noble out to be a villain. They should have just made him out to be a dude who got NTR'ed by the hero for 10 years and hated him because of it. If that's the angle they were going for, it didn't translate. It felt more like he was a villain who was using the princess to gain power, then tried to kill the hero because the hero got in his way to kingship a decade ago. Utter nonsense. If they had gone in that direction, I would have LOVED this story. But at the end of the day, this was a smut-delivery vehicle, so I can't expect too much from it. I'm giving this an 8 because it delivered on everything I wanted. It fumbled the story at the end, but it was still hot throughout. Would definitely read again. Looking forward to reading the sequel all the way through when it's done. 220910

210609 - Yuri series. First chapter was great. I'm a bit worried since Drama is the main tag, but I'm going to run through it and see how it is. || Why... THE HELL... is this rated so low? This is just the best. Two girls dating each other. One still in high school, one just out of college. The age gap isn't crazy so it doesn't seem all that strange. They have insecurities, as is typical for the drama genre, but here's the kicker, THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS! This clears up all the problems almost instantly every time. It's just the best thing ever. I wish there was more than 9 chapters for this series. Based on the release schedule, it might be a few months to a year before the next chapter comes out. Regardless, I'm looking forward to it immensely. I'm giving this a 9 for now. You know what? Screw it, I'll give it a 10 for now. I can't think of any problems with it. They talk about their problems, there's no POINTLESS drama (it all feels real). 210609

220103 - I found this one again today. There wasn't much more. The story ended at 15.5 chapters. I think I might have been feeling the fluff a bit too much when I wanted to give this a 10 before. This was cute, but probably closer to a 7 or an 8. Maybe if there was more romance. Although, it makes sense that they didn't do much in the way of romance. The older lady wanted to hold herself back and she did a good job throughout. That made for a less fluffy story, but made it more believable. This was cute. I'll give this a 7. It was a good little story that I wouldn't mind checking out again in the future. 220103

200911 - I've seen this manga before... I don't know if I read it a long time ago, only saw the cover and skipped it, or something else. Not sure, but I KNOW I've seen the cover before. Maybe I started reading and dropped it? Not sure, either way, I'm intrigued and want to read it, not because of the description, but because I remember the cover in such a strange way. Adding here today 200911.

200927 - Third manga I read today. To be honest, I wasn't expecting what I got. I went in thinking that this manga would be a cute rom-com between a guy and a ghost with some comedy moments throughout. Instead, I got a thought-provoking erotic iyashikei. That's the only way to describe it. I thought FOR SURE she was going to disappear at some point and he'd either A.) have to live his life without her, or B.) she'd come back in the last chapter and they'd be happy. So, either bittersweet or sweet. Instead, she never disappears. In fact, almost NOTHING happens, plot-wise. That might lead some to think that this is boring, but no. This was beautiful. I loved it. The male MC Daikichi starts the story with nothing. He lost his home, lost his job, lost most of his possessions in the move to his new shitty place. All he has is a few items... and this ghost that was there when he moved in. From there we get a lovely iyashikei where Daikichi and Kana live together. They don't go searching for her past, they don't investigate to see if she was actually murdered, they don't try to uncover why Daikichi can touch Kana, they don't try to do ANYTHING. They just live. They live with each other and for each other. They turn a shitty little apartment into a home. A loving home.

This is an incredible story throughout because it does so much with so little. All they do is talk, go to the convenience store, eat, have sex, sleep, and enjoy each other's company. That's the WHOLE story. The only "plot" that happens is when Daikichi goes to where he thinks Kana was buried. He almost dies, but then Kana saves him. As the reader, it's done in a way where you think Kana is sacrificing herself for Daikichi, but at the end of the chapter...is she gone...? NOPE! SHE'S FINE! WHAT? DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A DRAMA, YOU FUCKING IDIOT? Honestly, I felt the author was trolling his readers into thinking there would be stakes or consequences or something. Then he reminds them that NOPE, this isn't that kind of story. That's when it first hit me that this might actually be a 100% happy iyashikei story.

To be fair, there are a lot of dark moments in this manga. Discussions of Kana killing herself occur frequently. Talk of death, Kana going to heaven one day, death, suicide, etc. It's rampant. There's even a man who tells Utako (the musician who moves into the haunted building with Kana and Daikichi) to "die" after playing a song he requests, but more on that later. There's darkness throughout, but it's told/shown in a silver-lining kind of way. Maybe that's not the right term, but it never feels depressing, more matter-of-fact. Like, "these things happen". I think the message here was "don't worry about the past, live in the present". I saw that message a lot when Kana would discuss her past. She didn't seem to mind that she couldn't remember her past. In fact, she even says that it doesn't matter anymore. The same is true for Daikichi. He lost his home, lost his job, etc. Instead of dwelling on that, he's living in the present with Kana. In fact, while I was originally put off by the pedestrian telling Utako to die, I eventually understood what the author was trying to say. I thought the scene was weird, not just because he told her to die (in a way that felt dissonant with the rest of the series when viewed at a surface level), but because afterward, she continues on with gusto. It didn't make sense to me at the time, but looking back, I think it's actually a very important moment. At the end of the story, she said she had been depressed. It's possible she had been considering killing herself at one point since she said she had lost everything. However, after meeting Daikichi and Kana, she said that she had returned to being a happy person and was going to record a CD. So when the man said to die, and instead she continues to perform, that's her way of saying she will not die because she isn't that person anymore. Her past is gone. She is going to live. In fact, in that chapter she says "I'm alive again". She says it's so she doesn't disappoint her friend Kana. All three of these characters get past these horrible events that transpired in their lives to lead them to the current time. Kana was unburdened by her death, Daikichi was unburdened by losing his job/home, and Utako was unburdened by losing everything including her happiness. All three were able to continue on and live on for today & tomorrow.

I don't think I've written about a manga regarding "themes" or "tone" of a story, but this one definitely deserves that kind of discussion. On the surface, this manga appears to be a smutty, brainless romance between a guy and a ghost. While that is true, I feel like there is so much more that I got from this series. Thoughts about the importance of relationships over material possessions, and not letting the past horrors of life define you. That coupled with the smutty, brainless romance was unexpected. I loved every single moment in this manga. There was never a point where I was bored. Every second was incredible. This one gets a 10. I love this manga. I WILL be reading this again in the future. It's one of my favorite manga because it has nearly everything I could want from a manga. Actual romance, realistic characters, LIKEABLE characters, iyashikei, no pointless drama, and comedy. All of that combined with the lack of boredom, bad characters, and dragging the plot and that makes for one of my favorite manga of all time. This is a gem. A gem that I had previously started (and maybe finished?) and forgotten. It's possible I had found it looking for something smutty, started it and realized it wasn't what I was looking for. Who knows. The point is, I found this again, and I'm so glad that I did. It means I could read this wonderful story all the way through. I'm excited for the day that I decide to read this story again. Marvelous and damn near perfect. 200927

Finished after T Rex.

What an example of wasted potential. It started off SO strong and just sort of floundered and went limp toward the end. MAN, I REALLY wanted this to be good. Typical trope of "I love you and you love me, but we can't be together because of bullshit reason to increase chapter count"... Then they don't even REALLY get together at the end. Yeah, there was a confession, but it was just so limp-wrist after all the drama nonsense. Uggh. WILL NOT BE RE-READING. SO MUCH POTENTIAL WASTED! At least I was never bored, so sad to see a nice idea go nowhere.

220121 - SO glad I looked at the author's other works. I didn't know there was a sequel series to Jigokuren... which is stupid because that manga page shows this as the sequel. Seriously, what's wrong with me? Anyway, I'm going to check this out now. Mostly because someone reviewed it saying that although it has a weaker story & characters, it gives us an epilogue that was missing in the first story. I'm hoping this means we get to see the original MCs together in some way. We'll see. Be back in a few. || After a few NSFW detours (https://mangadex.org/title/21c2380e-bc9b-4e43-8018-85c3f34886f0) I finished this one today too. It has a new cast of humans and demons that I think are just as interesting as in the first series. Again, I wish it was longer, but it was still nice. I appreciated the cameos of the characters from the first series. Again, I wish that the romances actually went somewhere. Instead, we just gets hints toward the future. It was nice to see the couple from the first series together in a maybe-romantic way though. Would have been nice to show them as a couple since Rintaro DID give up going to heaven to be with her. But whatever. This was basically the same as the first series, but with a bit less plot and a bit more gore. So even though I think I liked this season more, I'll give this one an 8 just like the last one. It kept me reading all the way through to the end without once getting bored. Always a good sign. I mentioned this in the first series, but I'll be re-reading this again at some point. It was a fun and creepy story that I won't forget anytime soon. 220121

220121 - I was looking up "Lily Love" on MAL, but it didn't pop up in the search results. I've read it before, but I wanted to see if I wrote anything on MAL (I guess I wrote about it on NOM or something since I couldn't find anything?). This popped up and I clicked it on a whim. I read the description and thought it sounded neat. I was going to check out just the first chapter, but then I ended up reading the whole thing. It was really good! I had a blast reading this one. I wish it was longer! I feel like this could have used another 5-10 chapters. Especially toward the climax. I think they could have stretched out the epilogue a bit. Instead of cramming in Rintaro jumping into the abyss, saving Koyori (his demon torture guide), getting the chance to go to heaven, giving the right to his childhood friend that ended up in hell with him, and becoming a demon ALL in one chapter. I think this could have used another 3 chapters at least. But honestly, after writing all that, I'm amazed the author jammed all that into a single chapter coherently. Kudos. Anyway, on to my thoughts of the story.

Since I accidentally binged this, I clearly loved it. I was worried at the beginning that it'd be some horror-filled nightmare (horror wasn't a tag, so I was less wary), but it was mostly an ecchi comedy. From the first chapter, I never got bored. It started good and just built from there. I really liked the entire cast. From the MCs to the side characters, they were all lovely. I wish we could have gotten more interaction between them, like more slice-of-life stuff, but it was fine as is. My only gripe is that the manga has "love" in the title, but the MCs never actually progress. I mean, Rintaro tells the abyss demon that he doesn't want to disappoint the woman he fell in love with (Koyori), so there was a pseudo-confession to the audience at least, but that's it. No culmination between the two. Not even after he becomes a demon! That would have been great. Like, they fall in love when he's still human, but they can't be together. Then they can when he becomes a demon? That would have been great. Oh well. It's not a big deal. I just always crave romantic closure when it's implied. || Yup, just checked and this came out 2011 - 2013. So it makes sense that the romance wasn't shown in a concrete way. If only it came out 5-10 years later, I might have given this a 9. As it stands, I think I'm going to give this an 8. Even though there wasn't a romantic payoff, everything else was so damn good and fun. It had hot ladies, an MC that I wanted to root for, a unique premise, a lovable cast, and a pretty decent - albeit rushed - ending. Glad I accidentally stumbled across this, and doubly so that I actually gave it a read instead of throwing it on the "Plan to Read" pile like everything else. It's worth a re-read in the future, for sure. Should be a good old time. 220121

200821 - Supposedly this is a bunch of romance one-shots. It's complete so I'll probably check it out soon.

201222 - Third series today (after Wanko ni Kuchizuke and Hajimete Datteba!). This is a bunch of romance one-shots with happy feelings and good times all around (except for one chapter where a demon-wife slowly sucks the life out of her husband, but let's not talk about that one). Other than one chapter, this was a big old bowl of chicken soup for the romantic manga-lover's soul. Each chapter made me happy and sad at the same time. I was thrilled because each chapter was really cute and lovely. Each one was fun and interesting in a unique way. However, I was sad because each one could have developed into a longer series, but all we got was a one chapter snapshot into each world. I wanted MORE. Oh well. At least we got a chapter 2 for some of the series here. I found it kind of funny that for at least half of the stories, I was thinking that the plots could have easily devolved into hentai. I wouldn't be surprised if the authors of some of these actually went in that direction in a different magazine from the one that published this anthology. Getting back on track, I had a great time reading this. The stories were fun, cute, and lovely. Couldn't have asked for more from a bundle of monster-girl romantic one shots. Would definitely check out again.

220704 - Oh my god. This sounds like the cutest thing ever. I'm adding this to the reading list immediately. || Haha, I saw the shoujo tag on MangaDex and my first thought was "well they don't look like hideous monster blobs, so I'm in". Should be a stupidly fun time. Also, it's got like a 9.11 on MangaDex. Should DEFINITELY be a stupidly fun time. || OK... well, the eyes are a bit fucked up on the first page of chapter 1, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway! || It's not quite up to what I was hoping for, but it's still fun so far. I feel like this is 8-ish territory right now. Maybe 7. 220704

220705 - It's skirting with greatness. This has ALL the ingredients for a glorious series. Comedy, cute & romantic story, side-ships, isekai, etc. It's got so many good points, but it seems to fall flat. First of all, the plot. It's a fun idea, but damn is it surface level. The premise starts off great, then BAM time skip, now it's a year later, then BAM time skip, now it's 6 months later, then BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM. No joke, there's like 10 time skips in this story. That's the big problem with this story. It never lingers on anything. It feels really surface throughout and never goes into depth on anything. Once a plot point gets introduced, BAM it's resolved. Nothing ever gets saved or put on the back burner. MC wants to lose weight? She does. Prince is worried about time spent away from MC? Time skip until they can be together again. It happens so much and there's no room to breathe. Same for the side characters. They're all introduced at once and have no individual personality except what we're TOLD about them. We never get the chance to see them interacting with each other to learn who they are. The only one I could quickly discern was Nelt... because he had black hair. Everyone else blended together. Same with the ladies. There was one shot with all the ladies in one panel and I had no idea who was who. Since everyone was so samey, I didn't have any kind of connection with them and didn't care when they got with the people they loved. That mostly stemmed from the first issue, we didn't know who they were. Anyway, the third point is that I was unhappy with what happened with the heroine. Why didn't the MC ever talk to her about being another isekai character? I get that MC is apparently pretty dumb, but still. Can't you realize that the other girl is from Earth too? Hell, it was just so aggravating. This could have gone in a few interesting directions if they went that way. Heroine goes full villain mode to get the MC out of the picture (which is basically what happened anyway) or they could have had some interesting interactions. It could have led to a different outcome for the heroine. What if the heroine - instead of getting yeeted to a monastery at the end - got employed to make future gadgets for the country? That could have been a cooler ending. Make her an engineer designing things for the kingdom and make that glasses dude her go-between. Then she ends up falling in love with him naturally instead of as a capture target. I mean, you could send her to a monastery to begin with, then call her back to use her knowledge. It's just kind of a let down, honestly. There were some cool points, like Kuro and that other spirit getting together (because we got to spend TIME with them) and the prince seeing a vision of his life without the MC, but that's about it. There was so much potential here, but it was just sort of OK. I'll give it a 7. It could have been so much more, but it just failed to deliver. 220705

Perfect. Just... perfect. The romance, the comedy, everything was on point. Even the art worked. The art started weird and got better as it went along. Considered dropping because of the art and I'm SO glad I didn't. Thematically this evolution of the character art can be canon because of people physically changing at that age. Loved the characters, loved this series. The End.

200926 - After reading Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches, I kept comparing it to Jitsu Wa, so I thought I might re-read this one. Only read 1 chapter so far. I remember I didn't like the early art, but it is kind of rough. I'm catching a lot of character reveals this time around though (Akari introduced chapter 1. So is Aizawa.). Need to do homework tomorrow, but I might go through this again in full very soon.

220203 - Author of story #2 from Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. Still trying to get through everything. 220203

220211 - I started reading this one and stopped after the first 2 chapters. I had a feeling this was going to be good, so I wanted to get through some of the other series in my reading list first. I read through Namae wa Mada Nai and it turns out chapter 9 of that series is actually just chapter 1 of THIS series. I thought that was a funny cooincidence considering I'd just put this one on hold like 40 minutes earlier. Anyway, I'm going to read this one real soon. I have one more series alongside this one. I'll probably finish this, get through that, then move on to the big yuri anthology series I've been planning to get through. 220211

220215 - It started off as a romance between a student and a school nurse. Then, I assumed it switched to a different story about a different couple. Then it went BACK to the original couple. I was confused. Then, I saw all of them in the same panel. At that point I realized that all the stories were about the friends of the MC. Then it sort of just clicked into place. This started off great, then I kind of just lost interest, sort of. The MC gets into a relationship with the nurse so quick. Then we learn that MC's friend had feelings for her. That was sad. Then we see the other friends get into a relationship. That was a cute story. I wish we got more of them. Then we find out that the MC's heartbroken friend got together with another one of her friends. So basically, happy endings all around. The problem was that I was a bit bored by it all. I think the reason is one of three things. First, I've become a bit desensitized to these yuri romance stories. I mean, it's possible. I've basically been steeped in the stuff for the past few years. It's bound to start getting a bit samey after a while, right? Second, I'm focusing on school and job stuff in the back of my mind. I know that I should be focusing on that rather than sitting here reading for hours. I think this is the most likely candidate. Third, maybe the story wasn't all that good? I have been reading a lot of shorter series lately. I've gone through like a dozen stories that were less than 15 chapters in the past couple of weeks now. Maybe it's about time I pick up a longer series that really delves into the characters. Well, whatever the reason is, I think I'm going to give this a 7 for now. I feel like it had the potential to reach an 8, but I'm not sure I feel that strongly about it. I want to revisit this again in the future and give this another shot. Maybe if I'm in a different mindset, this will hit a bit harder. Who knows? Also, this isn't an 8 chapter story. It's a compilation of the original work and what appears to be a continuation? I couldn't really tell, but that's what the author was writing in the ending omake. Point is, it's 20 chapters long. So during a re-read, be aware of that.

Well, that's that. All the shorter series have been completed. Now I can FINALLY read through that Petit Yuri Hime compilation. I know it won't be worth all this effort, but at least I'll have it cleared. 220215

Not much to this story. This is my second time reading this. I don't know the date of the first reading because this manga wasn't on MAL the first time. It's not bad, just not great. It was probably around 1 to 2 years ago when I was on my first yuri-binge. This one was kind of just nothing. No real character development and the plot is whatever. Not boring, but it's just nothing. No need to read this again now that I have this noted here.

220203 - Another series from that Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. 220203

220208 - One and done. Just a quick little story. Not an anthology, but a complete story. Not the greatest thing in the world, but still nice. Giving it a 6. It almost hit 7 territory. The MC confessed and the StuCo pres accepted. She then said that she might hurt MC in the future because she might want to make other people happy too. I liked this development, but then it kind of rushed to the ending. Pres basically rejects another girl and says she'll be with the MC only. While cute, it was a bit quick. If they had dragged it out a bit, this might have been something special. As it was, it was just alright. Not even a kiss. So yeah, a 6 seems alright. 220208

(Originally on NOM) 210127 - Kami eshi JK to OL fujoshi - MangaDex - Found here "https://aminoapps.com/c/yuri-manga-and-anime/recent/". Not sure about quality, but added anyway.

Found on 210410 (Re-found, more like it. This entry is from MAL, while one above was from NOM). An OL fujoshi dates her favorite artist who is also a girl. Sounds cute. 210410

210414 - Why is this rated so low?!? I can't believe it. This is way too good to have a rating in the 6's (currently 6.89 with 146 ratings). I'm shocked. Well, I guess that means I'm the weird one because I LOVE this manga. I think the reason is the numerous times where I can see the drama trope shit coming in hot, and the characters just duck it every time. This is the point where I tell you something so we break up? Nah, I'll just talk about my feelings. This is the point where you feel inadequate and tell your girlfriend to get with the other artist? Nah, just accept that you think you're not a good fit and talk about it with your girlfriend. So many of these in just 15 chapters. Everything in this manga is handled SO well that I couldn't believe it. I mean, it's a series loosely centered about two fujoshi's love for BL... and I LOVE IT ANYWAY!

I had such a good time reading this because the characters and plot are so fun. It's almost verging on iyashikei because there's no real problems. The characters just deal with life as it comes up. They deal with real issues, like the age gap, hero worship, expectations vs reality, etc. They're all done in a way that feels realistic and grounded in a way that I can't help but find endearing. They just feel like people. Gaaahhh, so good. I'm giving this a 10 for now. I couldn't find a SINGLE problem with this series. From the art, to the characters, to the lack of drama, to their cute relationship, and every single thing in this manga. All of it is wonderful. I'm just bummed that there are only 15 chapters. Based on that, it seems like a new chapter comes out every 2 months which SUUUUUUUCKS. I want more NOW! It's too cute! Oh well. I just hope this doesn't get cancelled. I want it to go forever. 210414


211230 - Been re-reading this the past couple of days. It's up to 22 chapters now. Ai (the OL) is about to walk in and meet the parents of the JK. Should be an interesting chapter. I'm going to TRY and hold off on this one for a few months. Maybe get a couple chapters at once. That'd be nice. Anyway, this one is great. The progress is slow and steady. A nice pace. I couldn't understand why I gave it such a high score until the progress started happening around chapter 12 or so. Once that happened, I was good with the score. Anyway, time to put this on the back burner for a while. Basically until my patience runs out. 211230

220912 - YOOO!!! This is done?! Time to read it! 220912

220917 - I've been SLOOOOWWWLLLYYY reading through this, but I've finally caught back up to where I was before. Ai is about to walk in and meet the parents. I'm glad my memory is shit and I couldn't remember that she was about to meet the parents last time. I mean, I held off for almost a year! That's nuts. Guess I got distracted with classes and everything else. Anyway, time to keep reading. SLOWLY. 220917

220918 - It's finally done. I read through the last of it and it ended the way it was through the whole thing. Full of warmth, happiness, and an overly excited Ai. While I would have liked a BIT more romance at the end, I'm still happy with everything this had to offer. Was it truly a MASTERPIECE? I don't think so. I think it's probably a 9. Let me go check the list. || After looking at the 9's and 10's, I feel like it could fit best as a 9.5, haha. I think I'll leave it at a 9 for now and decide if I want to increase it later.

There was so much to love in this series. Most of it coming from Ai's fantastic attitude and personality. She always acted like a real adult. Questioning her relationship, wondering whether it was morally the right thing to do. I also loved when Madoromi would say that she was a better fit than Ai to be with Misumi and she'd be all like, "yeah, you right". I just found it to be such a breath of fresh air. Instead of the usual feeling bad and then trying to defend her relationship, I loved her instant surrender attitude. It was always funny. Anyway, I had a great time with this. I basically read through the whole thing 3 times. First, ending on the wedding. Second, ending just before Ai met Misumi's parents, and the third time all the way through. I'll probably re-read this again in a year or two. I'm sure it'll be just as fun then as it was now. Such a wonderful time. It's taken almost a year and a half, but I finally got to enjoy the whole thing in one shot. So glad I found this. 220918

I thought it was nice. Definitely could have been much longer, but... whatever. For the length, I thought it was nice.

230420 - Seems neat, but nothing too crazy. Found here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/sejji3/disc_my_girlfriend_cheated_on_me_with_a_senior_so/). A guy and girl find out their partners are cheating with each other. So they want to catch them in the act or something. Whatever. I'll read this when it's done... maybe. 8 chapters out right now. 230420

231102 - Binged it all today. I saw it was completed because of that "hot" chart on mangakakalot or wherever I saw it. I noticed it was done and burned through the whole thing in one shot. It was decent. A solid 7. Not too much here, but it was definitely fine. I did get a bit of anxiety though. It felt pretty realistic and there weren't any crazy ass-pulls or deus-ex-machina shenanigans. The side couple is still ambiguous and full of personality, the main couple isn't together yet, and they out-ed the cheaters in front of everyone. Overall, it was good. I heard there are 3 other LN's worth of material, but they probably won't get adapted? That's what reddit was saying, anyway. Regardless, it was a good one-off. A unique topic too. Well, on to the others. 231102

220215 - This was recommended as a similar story to Sweet Little Devil (a yuri anthology of 3 couples). This was kind of whatever. Not great art, not a great story, no real character traits, nothing. Just a girl getting teased by her teacher and maybe starting a relationship or something? It felt old. || Whoa! Yup! Old! 1997! OK, this gets a bit more leeway now. For a yuri that came out 25 years ago, that wasn't... terrible? I was originally going to give this like a 4, but maybe I'll give it a 5 or 6? I'd like to give it a 6 just for the historical perspective. I think this is the oldest yuri I've seen to date. I mean, there wasn't a whole lot going for it, but this might have been like in the wave of breaking new ground for Japan. Kind of interesting. So I guess I'll give it a 6 for historical reasons. 220215

201229 - Kanojo No Sekai Manga - MangaDex - Adding because of the cover. Hope it's good.

201231 - That was a weird one. A girl gets hold of another girls fiction notebook. It seems it's based on another female teacher? So MC blackmails girl to keep writing and letting her read the stories. Then MC assaults/kisses the other girl. Other girl rebukes her. Later, MC realizes she's in love with other girl. On school trip, MC confesses and other girl kisses her, but doesn't confess back? So, is it a happy ending or not? I'm really confused by this one. It's like half happy ending half not? I don't know what to make of this one. Giving it a 5 because I have no idea what happened at the end. Very strange. 201231

It says that it's not complete, but from what I've read, the series is done and a sequel is in progress. This was definitely iyashikei territory for me. Just a lot of good vibes and a cute story. It doesn't have the best structure or organization, but I don't think it matters too much. The characters are just too sweet. Another great series to start 2019. I'm digging this cute genre.

Added this here at some point in the last year or so. Added before today 200921.

201223 - A no-drama romance about a guy married with children. Supposedly, it's semi-autobiographical. Just a bunch of real-world situations written down in manga form. I really liked this one. I was worried after the first chapter (which I read last night before bed) that it'd be so sweet that I'd get depressed (happens every once in a while), but it was actually really nice. There's no character growth to speak of, no real plot; just a bunch of scenes showing a man with his family. A fast and simple read. Just good times all around. I'll give this one an 8 because it did what it set out to do (could have used some kissing though, just saying). It told a carefree story and left me feeling good. That's all I wanted, and it's exactly what I got. Would definitely read this again.

Finished in about an hour. Cute little story. Not spectacular, but left me with a smile. Uncomplicated and pleasant.

221006 - This sounds adorable. I'm going to read this VERY soon. 221006

221008 - Yo, that was nice. Not perfect, but nice. MC has a decent growth from start to end. Well, from start to like chapter 10. After that, it just felt like artificial padding. MC wanted to confess again after he passes his licensing exam... but she already knows he's going to do it? And she still wants him to wait? It's kind of odd. I guess she wanted to make sure he was sticking to his guns or something, but it still felt a bit weird. Like, why wait? Why doesn't she tell him that she loves him? Around chapter 20 or so, so comments about how it must have been hard for him to have one sided unrequited feelings for her... then nothing happens. It's like she said, "boy... must have sucked being in love with me huh? Well, keep it up, I guess." It was just kind of clunky. There was A LOT to love about this, but that just seemed a bit odd. I loved the dynamic with the two kids (MC's niece and fMC's son). They were great and never a drag on the story. I just wish the two of them could have gotten together sooner and spend the rest of the manga figuring out life together. But that's hard for mangakas most of the time. Pretty lame, but whatever. Anyway, I had a decent time with this. I think an 8 is generous, but I'm OK with it. I may move it down later, but for now, this is alright. || You know what? After looking over the list, I've got some solid hitters in 7, so I'm going to move this down to 7. I think that's fine. 221008

230218 - I found this (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1150xsy/art_rome_futari_gurashi_married_couple_ancient/) today and it seemed neat. Someone in the comments mentioned that they'd read it because of the author's other works. That lead me back here. I'd completely forgotten about this, so when I clicked it and saw "Completed", I was pretty surprised. Just wanted to note that before writing up the thing on that page. 230218

Basically H. Meh, it was different. I thought it was alright.

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. Comments said they start dating halfway through, which is cool. 220109

220110 - This was nice, but a bit too short. I thought it was kind of interesting how it flipped from manga to 4-koma-ish style a couple of times. Not a knock or a plus, just interesting. Regarding the length, there was a good story here if they had stretched it out to like 20 chapters or so. Basically, MC was dumped by her girlfriend a year or more before the story started. She dumped her and said that a relationship between 2 girls is gross. Ever since, she's tried to be "normal". So when she fell in love with her female senpai, she got all emotionally messed up. However, her senpai ended up falling in love with her too. They confess, get together, it was nice! It just needed some padding to really flesh out the story. There was MCs friend who didn't get much characterization, there was the guy who was dating MCs love interest who seemed like a genuinely good dude, etc. This could have been awesome. Instead, it was just good. I was thinking about giving this is a 6, but the characterization of the MC and her feelings as "weird" was an interesting point of view to take. So I'll give this a 7. I had a good time, so I have no problem with that. Just a cute little story that could have used a bit more room to breathe. 220110

220918 - After 1 chapter, this story is pretty meh. But it's only 11 chapters and I have a passing interest so I'll finish it up quick. 220918

220920 - This is... not good. It's a fine premise, and there are some neat elements and plot hooks, but the execution is pretty lame. Dude can see people's affection towards him? That's cool. But it barely comes into play. He can see when his friends don't like something he said or did because it drops by a couple points; plus he can tell when people are being fake, but that's about it. I mean, he confronts the girl with the -100 affection rating, and it's handled in 2 pages. She basically immediately admits she thinks he's an "eyesore" and doesn't expand on it. Why does she think that? Does she hate that he's so close to her crush? Or wait, she doesn't have a crush on the dude... so why does she hate him? Also, why did she give him the handkerchief when it wasn't his? Was she trying to get him to notice her so she could get close to his friend? So confusing.

Then there was the literary girl at the very end. I actually REALLY liked her. Because she actually did SOMETHING. None of the characters in this series do anything. She actually has interesting reactions with the MC and I could actually see some chemistry between them. If they cut out the first half and just had her, this could have turned into something decent. Or even better? It starts the same way. Love interest girl falls in love with him for lending her a freaking pencil (so dumb) and he can see that she likes him. They start dating and it's just as awkward as in this series. Over time, she becomes disillusioned with him because he's a boring awkward weirdo. Same with him towards her. However, while this is going on, he's also having his secret pen-pal relationship with the writer of the story. So while his brand new relationship with his girlfriend is floundering (he can literally SEE her affection points dropping day by day), his relationship with this pen-pal is getting stronger. Eventually, they meet and the same process happens. She observes the couple and notes how awkward they are. Eventually the girl breaks up with MC and other girl confesses just like she does here. Except, MC has been much more relaxed and himself around her than his previous girlfriend. He then goes out with her and everything ends happily. Its pretty simple, but it'd be a whole lot more interesting than the nothing that happens here. Whatever. Giving this a... 4. The first 4. Too much show don't tell (like with MC's best friend), characters have weak motivations for everything, plot was almost pointless (why have the meters beyond the fact that the MC's girlfriend has 100?), and nothing interesting happening. Such a shame. With a better editor, this could have become something mildly interesting. I'm going to try and rate things a bit lower now so this will have some company. It's not the worst thing I've ever read, so I want to give it suitable company. 220920

210216 - Looked nice. It's complete, but still needs about 5 more chapters before it's done. I can wait that long. I'll check back in a while and see if the translation is finished. Just to note, it's currently up to 21 out of 26. 210216

210318 - 22/26 translated. 210318
211209 - 22/26 translated. 211209 T.T
220413 - OH! 26/26 translated! Time to take a look!!! So excited! I've been waiting at least a year to read this, but probably longer since I'm pretty sure I saw it before noting it down. I'll try and take a look in within the month. Typical story. Busy with school and interview prep. 220413

220424 - I'm REALLY excited to read this right now. I've been waiting at least a year to read this. I hope it can live up to my expectations (which are based on NOTHING). 220424

220502 - I took my time with this one. I read a few chapters every day and really let this one simmer. I spent so long waiting for it that I wanted it to last a while. What a lovely story. Usually yuri stories are pretty weak when it comes to the plot department. Not this one. There was some really interesting backstory here. Shinobu's mom ended up getting killed because of Kagami causing her to get famous. It wasn't her fault, but still, it was kind of intense. I felt pretty wrapped up in the story when that was revealed. I liked how the mother never apologized for her actions, but it also made me a bit sad. She blamed her daughter for the death of her loved one (Shinobu's mom) and never seemed to change her mind on that. Pretty interesting, to say the least. As for the other characters, I liked them quite a bit. They didn't have much to do, but they were still good. I was hoping for more development between Shinobu's bunkmate Aisen and the cavalry officer, or Ooba (Kagami's friend) and Hasebe. There was some more room to develop these characters but it never happened. All in all, I had a good time. It didn't blow my socks off, but it was lovely all the same. I'll give this one an 8. It had a good story, fun characters, and a happy ending, but I didn't feel a strong emotional attachment. I loved the happy ending, and it left me feeling pretty good, but it wasn't as strong as I think it could have been. Well, it had a lovely ending and that's what's important. I'm happy. 220502

210430 - Couldn't read the whole thing because it's broken up across multiple websites. Most places only have the first 7 chapters, but a couple of places have a couple more. Still missing like 5, but whatever. This is a Morinaga Milk anthology. One of the couples is featured in half of the chapters, the rest are one-shots. The long one is about a girl who kind-of rejects her friend, then they end up going to different schools. During high school the reject-er realizes she loves the girl she rejected. Eventually they get together again and all is right with the world. The others involve a ghost girl possessing a girls body to reunite for a time with her friend, the school nurse. Another is about two drama students who fall in love. Another is about unrequited love, so that kind of sucks. The last one is about a girl who falls in love with her friend who plays the flute. At the end, she is going to confess, but we don't actually see how it goes. They're all pretty good, but the 5 chapters one is a bit better. Overall, giving this a 7 since half of the stories were kind of bittersweet. I was looking for pure vanilla, so yeah. I'd say this isn't worth a re-read. Too much hassle to read the whole thing, what with jumping around to various sites to read it all. Nice stories though. 210430

220423 - Random add from lilymanga. || Yeah, that was alright, I guess. Not great, not bad. A few interconnected stories about girls who get "wives" from a company. It was a funny little idea. Good for a few chapters. It was basically junk food. Makes me want to bite into a really good story though. Maybe I'll read one soon. Giving this a 6. It was OK. 220423

Took - what felt like - a little under a week from reading manga/watching anime, but got back in on this one. Just a nice little story. The faces were a bit blocky, the characters were a little simple, and the translation was pretty rough. However, I liked this one. An interesting little story about being unable to express yourself honestly. I wish it could have been fleshed out more with greater character development, but it was good as it stands. I was worried about the ending being rushed, but I think even that worked out really nicely. Just lovely, no drama, all good.

201218 - I put this off for a LONG time (years) because I heard mixed things about it. I heard it was a great yuri, I heard the story was crap, etc. Well, today I finally decided to check it out... and my review is mixed. I didn't vibe with the story, in fact I felt bad while reading almost the whole thing. I mean, the ending is happy enough (the two girls get together), but I didn't like how MC's friend liked the tennis-guy. The two girls seemed to get together in the end, but it took 22 chapters for that to happen. It basically happens in the last panel which is always lame. Even the fact that MC's friend is gay isn't really explored at all. It's like, she's straight for tennis guy, but by the last chapter she's gay? It makes sense for MC because she's never liked another guy (even the one who confessed to her), but her friend needed a bit of lead-up to make it believable. Whatever. I lean more on the "this story isn't very good" side of things. Too much time spent on a relationship I was hoping would die from the beginning (MC-friend and tennis-guy). I'm glad he rejected her so the two girls could get together, but it just needed more story to lead up to the last chapter. Oh well, at least it's over. At least the chapters were really short (finished the series in like, an hour) Never need to read this one again. If I want yuri, I'll stick to Kase-san and the like.

First series of the day. That was nice. Done in like 20 minutes. I thought the first chapter was really cute; the two MC's were lovable too. Then the drama hit, and I was...alright with it. Then it ends pretty fast. That was a lot of story for 5 chapters. Not bad at all. Wish they had kissed though. That would have been the cutest. Oh well, it was nice. Solid 7. Lovely little story. Antagonist was a bit iffy, but the story was nice anyway.

210130 - OK, that was something. I mean, it started off with a funny concept (both girls are yandere) but it didn't deliver as well as I'd hoped. It wasn't that funny, and sometimes they didn't act yandere enough. I don't know. I'm giving this a 6 because I feel like it had wasted potential. I still need to review Nicochuu though. I KNOW I've already read that one before. I'm surprised I didn't read Love Death until now.

210131 - I just re-read Nicochuu. Definitely better than Love Death. The characters feel more grounded for sure. I wish this one could have gone on longer. Feels like it could have happened. Anyway, I'd give that one an 8. It had pretty good art, interesting characters, and a simple love story. It just made me feel good. Averaging the two gets a 7. I figure that's OK. If the second series had been longer, I'd have given then whole thing an 8, but a 7 seems about right. 210131

200807 - I have no idea why this is currently a 7.5 on MAL. This is one of the strongest romantic comedies I've ever read. To be fair, I'm only a few chapters in, and it may fall in quality later, but so far this is the 10est 10 that's ever 10'ed. Comedy is incredible, romantic progression is fast, characters are memorable and awesome. If the quality holds up, this may be one of my all-time favorites. We'll see...

200929 - I restarted this manga yesterday - since I only made it to chapter 7 before I got distracted - and finished it today. While the art wasn't great, the story was fun. It covered from around the second half of first year to just before graduation. Not bad for 30 chapters. Anyway, I think I'm going to give this one a 9. It's not that it dropped in quality (since I said this was a hard 10 at the time), I just wanted more. I loved the MC's and I loved the side couple too. My problem is that the side couple got almost no screen-time. Now, that's not usually my complaint (since the main couple SHOULD be the focus), but I just found them so dang interesting that I needed more. It's a shame. I mean, I think they did start dating, but it was kind of unclear. I was hoping for a few chapters that focused on them showing their romance growing. I was also unclear of the tertiary characters romance as well. It seems like the girl Sugimoto got over her crush on the male MC and might have gotten together with her childhood friend? It wasn't clear. The same was true for the braid-haired girl with the glasses. It seems like she might have gotten together with Hoshino's blonde friend, but it was also unclear. That type of stuff is why this isn't a 10 for me. I need good closure at the end to give it a 10, but I had too many questions. Everything else was really great in this manga. I LOVED the romantic progression here. They go from starting the relationship, to kissing, to sex, to discussing waiting for each other (since the male MC Hoshino is going to America for college to try and make himself competitive to become an astronaut) for marriage. To go through all of that progression in 32 chapters is light-speed as far as manga/anime is concerned. I'm all for it, so long as it's handled well, and this series handled it VERY well.

The comedy was great too. All the gags were fun and I enjoyed nearly every single one of them. The art wasn't great, but who cares? Mob Psycho 100 looks like trash and it's one of the greatest manga I've ever read. No, as long as it's not that garbage shoujo-style art, I can take just about anything. So yeah, all things considered, this was fantastic. Just a no-drama rom-com about a too-honest guy dating a serious girl with progression. That's about all I need to have a good time. Solid series, worth a re-read if I find the time.

(Bookmark info before I found the MAL entry) 210209 - 5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love - MangaDex - Went to mangadex, went to yuri category, sorted by rating, and found this highly rated. I'll check it out soon.

210225 - I read chapter 1 (which called itself a oneshot) then read the sequel. According to MAL there are 4 chapters, but I can't seem to find them if they exist. Honestly, based on the comments, I think that's it. Just the two. Either way, I had a great time reading these. I just wish there was a kiss! Oh well. Fun characters, fun plot between a witch and witch hunter, and a cute romance. I was satisfied even though it was just a oneshot. Giving this an 8. I had a great time. Unlikely, but here's hoping it gets a serialization. 210225

220623 - I guess I finally read all 4. I found this again on lilymanga without knowing if I read it or not (I forgot). So I read the first chapter and remembered it a bit. Then the second chapter was about a girl with demons who fell in love with her. Cute. Then the 3rd and 4th were back to the witch story. I'm glad I got to read these again. They were just as cute as the first time. Still an 8 in my book. 220623

211212 - Found from the link above. I'll check it out soon, but right now I have episode 22 of Mushoku Tensei to watch. 211212

220104 - Not the best thing in the world, which can be gleaned from the gap between when I started and when i finished this series. Characters weren't developed all that much, the plot was basically non-existent, no real romance. That kind of story. There were some good moments. I liked the MC's male friend. He was always mad and fun. I KIND OF liked the romance between the MC's, but not all that much. Plus, what's up with that jerk girl hanging out with everyone? I get that she apologized by the end, but there was no real catharsis. She didn't seem to reflect on the way she rejected him, he never told anyone how she was truly awful, etc. Plus, was it implied that they were friends before she rejected him? I wish it explored that. Could have made the story more interesting. Oh well. This story was just sort of whatever. I didn't even really want to finish it because it was so surface-level and... kind of boring. I just didn't want to drop it though. It wasn't THAT bad. I think there's a good story here, it just didn't go deep enough into each character. I was thinking about Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa. In that story, they delve into every side character and flesh them out. This could have used some of that for even the MC's, much less the side characters. Oh well, they can't all be winners. Cute story, lackluster execution. Giving this a 5 or a 6. Hmmm, judging from what I've given 5's and 6's to, I'll give this a 6. I liked it a bit so that seems OK. Anyway, no need to read this one again. I just wish it had better writing. The story was THERE, it just didn't deliver. Oh well, on to the next. 220104

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. || That was cute. In this story, humans can get animal ears attached to themselves. On top of looking cute, it can bestow animal characteristics at the same time. The plot basically consisted of MC confessing and eventually getting into a relationship wither her classmate who had rabbit ears. That's about it. There were at least 6 couples in this story. Just a big gay old time. The only one who wasn't gay was the rabbit-faced dad (who was probably the only guy in the whole story). I'll give this a 7. It wasn't the best thing in the world, but it was cute and I had a good time. Characters were enjoyable (every side character/relationship was great too) and the story was focused and tight. It didn't need to be longer than it was. It just felt like the proper length for this story. I could have done with more romance, but all in all it was good. 220109

I thought the ending was interesting. I'm sure the anime will make this all look incredible, but even in manga form, I enjoyed it. I just wish that the Tsubome thing could have gone somewhere. Maybe not THEM together, but someone getting with Shigeo would have been nice. Might not have felt organic though, oh well. I liked this, but don't think I'll be revisiting it. Just to clarify, I did not read this from the beginning. I started during the Claw Boss fight and went through to the end.

220128 - Same author as Gokujou Drops so I'll check it out. 220128

220131 - I read the first few panels a couple of days ago, but didn't actually read the first chapter until today. I'll say this right off the bat, I'm not feeling the direction of this one so far. I'd rather MC get with her friend than the beautiful popular girl. We'll see what happens, I guess. 220131

220201 - Meh, nothing much here. It was just confusing. There were too many characters with too little to do. I had trouble understanding what was happening half the time. Partly because it seemed poorly written and partly because of a story element. Apparently - and I didn't realize this until the very end of the story - MC has delusions all the time. I wish they had really hammered that home in the first chapter. Maybe they did, and I just didn't catch it. Regardless, it really confused me throughout the story. I feel like there's a cool story here, it just had poor execution. It could have been like a J.D. from Scrubs type of story. Instead, it was just confusing. I was a fan of the romance though. MC started off thinking that she loved her senpai (the one that got her into the student council), but eventually realized that it wasn't romantic. She ended up trying to see if she had romantic feelings for her childhood friend. That's the outcome I was hoping for, and I think it was actually done well. I was wondering how they could have made that romantic focus switch, but it wasn't a janky switch. It actually felt pretty organic. So kudos to the author for that. I liked how the MC and her senpai were extremely stupid. It made the plot a lot more fun. Especially when MC confessed accidentally. Then it turns out she accidentally confessed while broadcasting to the whole school. That was pretty funny. Anyway, I think I'll give this a 6. I was originally going to give this like a 4 or 5, but there were enough good moments to bring it up to a 6. That feels good. 220201

211227 - Maaaaaan... I love this story. Absolutely stunning. This is my favorite piece of fiction of all time at the moment. This beats Worm, this beats Majora's Mask, this beats every anime, live action movie, and every other series I've ever read. To date, this is my favorite piece of entertainment, period. I had so much fun with this series. SO much fun with this series. From the very beginning, even though I was retreading what I saw in the anime, it was still great. I should probably give the order of things. First, I saw the anime, then I read the LN up until volume 14. Then I started reading the web novels. They started OK, then the quality dropped off a a cliff. After like one or two volumes, they basically became unreadable. I was reading a section where Norn was giving a speech as the class president and it was almost unreadable. I then learned that there was a better version on the Mushoku Tensei discord. Turns out, this is the removed BakaTsuki translations (HAIL BAKA-TSUKI!!!) that someone saved and reposted on the discord. This version was INFINITELY better. I went through this version from that point until the end a few minutes ago (around 2pm, it's 2:07 right now). Anyway, that's the timeline. Back to my thoughts.

I'm just so pleased with this series. I thought I'd get hit with the roughest PBD of all time after finishing this, but I don't think it's that bad. In fact, I feel pretty OK right now. Maybe the full force of it ending hasn't quite hit me yet? I kind of felt the same way after Worm though, if I remember right. Rather than PBD, it's like a nervous relief. Like I went though a MASSIVE series and I'm glad I made it to the end, but I'm on the lookout for PBD. It's a strange feeling. Like I've got my hands up in a guard position waiting for the melancholy to hit. It might be most akin to that feeling right after my week-long depression episode where I was walking on eggshells hoping I wouldn't fall down the pit again. Kind of like that. Either way, I'm not in the throes of depression, which is good. I'm going to be reading up on Mushoku Tensei stuff for the next few days (or weeks), but I'm feeling good.

I can't believe the number of overlaps with my book idea though. It's kind of nuts. Well, regardless, I had fun. Maybe this will give me the inspiration to actually start writing. HIGHLY unlikely, but a fun thought.

As for my actual thoughts, this series was magical. It started off as a "dude gets reincarnated, aaaand he's awesome because of course he is" story. Then, it shifts during the Displacement Incident. It then becomes a world trotting adventure story. Then it becomes a story about depression and moving on from loss. Then it turns into fantasy world, magic school-life story. Then back to an adventure story for a while. Then, BETRAYAL! This kicks it into the last phase which is "protect family at ALL COSTS", which rounds everything out. It wears so many different hats and manages to do it pretty damn well. I mean, does Sylphy kind of disappear in the last half of the story? Yeah, kind of sort of. Do people like Nanahoshi and Julie get ignored after a while? Yeah, they do a bit. Could I have used a bit of a slowdown towards the end of the plot rather than reading about how a year had passed? Absolutely! But these aren't super big deals. I mean, it's kind of a bummer how the story has these time skips. I feel like there could have been a bit more downtime to really stress the importance of family and all that. I also wish that we could have seen more interactions between Sylphie and Rudie toward the end to remind us that she's still great. But yeah, even looking at those things, this is still a great story. Even the things that I'd normally consider problems, weren't problems here. For instance, the multiple wives bit. A lesser author couldn't have pulled this off. It would have made Rudeus seem like he "just wanted more wives". Instead, there is a reason why he marries them. It's not the best, but it's BELIEVABLE. The conflict in Rudeus, where he feels like he's betraying Sylphie feels real. It's a harem series, but it's not a dumb harem series. It feels bad when he starts talking about marrying Roxy. He feels like a total scumbag, as he should. I mean, his wife is PREGNANT for fuck's sake. And he's out screwing another woman on an adventure? Taken out of context, he's a piece of shit. Taken in context... he's a smaller piece of shit. That's what makes it so good though. He's flawed and he knows it. He doesn't just happily come home and say "hey pregnant wife, here's my new second wife. deal." Gah, it's just... there are so many BAD ways I could have seen this go, and the way it went felt like something that could actually happen. But speaking of flaws, that's another thing I like about this series. The MC is NOT a mary sue. He comes REEEEEAAAL fucking close, but he's not. He doesn't magically get more powerful right when he needs to, he doesn't always say and do the right things. He's legit flawed. He screws up ALL THE TIME. He fails his plan recover the lost animal on the demon continent. He gets caught in a magic circle in Shirone and has to get bailed out by Zanoba. He nearly gets killed by Orsted. He doesn't understand what Eris meant in her letter to him when she leaves. On and on and on. Same with his power. He starts off as some seemingly unbeatable god being. It seems like he's going to be superman, I mean hell, he wounds Orsted... kind of. But as he gets older, he becomes a total glass cannon. Yeah, he's strong against fodder, but against the top? He's basically nothing. He nearly gets one-shotted by Rudolph AND the Fighting God. It's only through luck that he makes it home alive on multiple occasions.

Speaking of which, that's another one of the weaker things in the story. That's luck and coincidence. For example, Rudeus has the box cut open when he falls into the Earth Dragon hole, thereby saving his life. The disease on the Supards is "cured" when they treat it the same as with Nanahoshi's disease. Although, now that I think about it, maybe that didn't happen too many times. Most of those lucky moments actually do make sense. So yeah, maybe I'm cool with that. I mean, I do like how close to death Rudeus usually is in this series. He starts off pretty badass, but over time he starts getting completely outclassed. By the end, he accidentally sneaks his way into the Seven Great Powers, which is kind of funny. Regardless, it makes him a much more interesting character. He doesn't go all Goku on everyone. He can't defend himself and can't tank a hit. That, in itself, makes him interesting. He's not some untouchable genius. His plans fail, he gets beaten in battles, he gets tricked, etc. But he also LEARNS. Why can he get out of barriers? Because he's been trapped in them before. Why can be nullify magic? Not because he's a mary sue, but because he collected scales off the hydra that killed his father. It's really something.

Now to be fair, I'm not saying this is the best-written story I've ever read. Far from it. There are quite a few tell don't show moments, skipping of dialogue because I'm sure the author couldn't find a clever way to say it, kind of moments. While someone who cares about stuff like that might balk at the idea of this being a great piece of literature, I personally don't give a shit. I'm here for the story. So long as the story is good, I can forgive a whole hell of lot. I mean, I loved Mother of Learning. That's basically "Tell Don't Show" the masterpiece. All I want is a good story, and this was a great story from beginning to end. I just wish it was longer. Hold on let me check the word count... I couldn't find anything concrete. Whatever, I'll check once the LN's are all done, I guess.

One thing I'm surprised about, I thought Rudeus and Eris got together after they died. I could have sworn I read that somewhere. Maybe I read it wrong. On that note, I glad that I was surprised by Paul's death. I had read somewhere online (before reading reading the LN) that Roxy becomes his second wife after comforting him after the death of ___. I didn't think it was Paul. I thought it was Cliff or something. Bless my terrible memory. So when Paul DID die, I was actually surprised by it. There were a bunch of these little surprising moments, but these two were from things I knew would happen, but didn't happen the way I thought they would. Hold on, let me check online about the Eris thing though, because I was so sure about that one... I don't know. People are saying there's a few extra chapters about Rudeus' life in his downtime. Like Mushoku Tensei SOL edition, I guess. Seems cool. Not sure if I'll read it right now though (I probably will). It seems like the Eris thing wasn't true though. I'll need to read through the extra chapters to see. Man, if that's true, it's kind of a bummer. I wanted Rudeus to live happily ever after with his family in the afterlife forever and ever. That's the kind of bow I want to see on this series. Just wraps the whole thing up beautifully. Oh well, maybe it'll be different in the LN. Regardless, this was one of the best stories I've ever read, one of my favorite stories I've ever read, and the new benchmark against which I measure series in the future. Solid 10. 211227



211229 - I finished Jobless Oblige and Redundancy. ... ... ... I feel empty. It's not even PBD, I just feel empty. It's incredible, really. All the author needed to do was have an afterlife scene. That's ALL the author needed to do. If they did that, I would have said this series is one of the GOAT's. In fact, I had been saying that... man... Here's the thing, I loved this series. I loved the characters. So when Rudeus dies and he basically just dissolves into nothing, I got confused. I read that he gets together with Eris again in the afterlife. So I assumed this was explored in the extra series of Jobless Oblige or Redundancy. Well, after finishing everything, it doesn't. No mention of it. This means that the original ending, where he just dissolves, is the end of Rudeus. It's just so sad. After having such a wonderful, vanilla, lovey-dovey romance story over however many hundreds of thousands of words that this story covered, to then end in that way just felt... wrong. It felt wrong. I went to reddit to see if I missed something from the author, but no. That was the ending. It left me with this strange feeling I have right now. It's like a bittersweet ending just popped out of nowhere. Like, here's the sweetest, most delicious cake you've ever eaten, and RIGHT at the last bite is a supercharged lemon warhead sitting in the middle. It's like, what? Why? It didn't need to end like that. You KNOW that, right? You could have just shown Rudeus and Eris walking away hand in hand while fading into the distance as Hitogami is pissed. You know that, right? But, you didn't? Just... because? Uggh. This was so close. It was SO close. If there was an afterlife... *sigh*. It's like... I WANT to be depressed, but I just feel empty. I feel defeated. The only solice I have comes from 2 points. First, the author might change up the ending in the Light Novels. He might decide to make a change and have Rudeus meet Eris. That's best case scenario. Second, he shows that Rudeus and Eris ARE together, in the sequel series following Lara. It would take years for this to happen. Years and years and years, so it's not exactly ideal. Hell, I might not even care about this series by then. Worst case scenario, the author leaves this alone because it was his intent from the beginning. In that case, I'm sad. Whatever, I'll call it here. It's been a crazy ride from start to finish. Ignoring the ending, this is one of the greatest stories I've ever read. And while the ending has put a serious damper on my desire to re-read any of this story, it was still an incredible journey. I'll leave it as a 10 for now. I don't have the heart to drop it down. I may revisit it in the future to either drop the score, update the afterlife situation, discuss the sequel series, etc. Uggghh, just, this feeling of emptiness mixed with sadness (sadness is starting to creep in). *sigh* I wish it wasn't 10:38pm right now. I want to cleanse my palette a bit, but I need to try and go to sleep. Here's hoping I can find some good stuff to get my mind off this series in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. 211229





https://www.novelupdates.com/series/mushoku-tensei-redundancy/?pg=1#myTable

https://readnovel.net/mushoku-tensei-redundancy-chapter-32

WHY YOU GET CANCELLED?!? T.T

220203 - The rabbit hole never ends. I'm still trying to read everything related to the Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. I may be doing this forever. This isn't in that anthology, but the author wrote story #2. Also, it looks like chapter 9 is skipped, but MAL says there are only 9 chapters, so I don't think one was skipped. 220203

220211 - The first half was GREAT. A few short stories about 2 chapters in length each. Each one was a cute little story. One about a telepathy situation, a girl confessing to her friend, and another where a girl confesses to her senpai before her senpai moves to Switzerland. All were lovely. Then in the second half, it was a longer story that I didn't really connect with. A transfer student befriends an abrasive girl and asks her out. I'm not really sure why she liked her though. It was like the plot said to so she did. It was weird. For a series that started really strong, it kind of died in the second half. I should point out that MangaDex skipped chapter 9. I found it on mangakakalot, but here's the weird thing. It's actually chapter 1 of Junsui Adolescence. It's by the same author so that's not weird. What IS weird is that I just read that chapter about 40 minutes ago. I started that series, decided it was going to be good, so I put it on hold until I got through some of the other series in my reading list. Namae wa Mada Nai was up first. So after finding chapter 9 (1), I was kind of surprised by the cooincidence. Anyway, I'm giving this one a 7. It was nice. I wasn't bored and it was pretty cool. A good time all around. 220211

220128 - OK, I'm going down a bit of a rabbit hole. I found this (https://mangadex.org/title/2a045681-d08e-41d7-b028-dd2981667584/petit-yuri-hime) on MangaDex because it had a work by the author of Gokujou♥Drops. Then I saw that that anthology had a sequel chapter from THIS author. Specifically, THIS manga anthology. Basically, Gokujou♥Drops -> Petit Yuri Hime -> Nettai Shoujo. I hope that made sense. Regardless, I'll check this out soon. 220128

220131 - EXACTLY what I wanted. This is the equivalent of a warm blanket. Every. Single. Story. They were stunning. Each one left me feeling happy. All warm and fuzzy. I don't think I've ever felt this way with a bunch of one-shots before. Maybe because they were all from the same author, but each story was exactly the right tone. Girls in love with each other. Sometimes in a relationship, most of the time starting one with their longtime friend. Such a lovely theme, and out in the countryside too. What could be better? Living the slow life with the one you love. Sounds great to me. There were just so many good moments. I remember around the end of chapter 6, I was thinking about how great this manga was looking to be. I was thinking "it just needs to stick the landing". And then for some reason, chapter 8 really warmed my heart. Something about the interaction of them saying "Summer is all about" "Summer is all about?" "___!" "I see!" was so endearing. It was the cutest thing I've seen in a long time, and I HAVE NO IDEA WHY! Gaaaah, this manga was great. 9 minimum. The real question is... might this be a 10? I think it might have been a 10 if not for the last chapter. It either should have been removed, or expanded. It brought back a character from a previous chapter, but didn't really do much with her. If it had ended at 8, I think this would have been a 10, but as it is a 9 seems about right. It was JUST under perfect. When I read this again in the future (which I really want to do), I may adjust it up. But this is good for now. I'm glad I went down that rabbit hole and found this. It deserves a much higher score than everyone gave it. I guess people just can't stand one-shots. 220131

Romance. Confession before end.

210523 - (7) Now Loading! - Mangakakalot.com - Random find from Lily Manga. Only 5 chapters so I'll read it right now. || That was nice. Just a basic little romance. Not much to it. A girl starts working at a game studio. Her boss ends up kissing her, they eventually start going out, the end. For 5 chapters, this was nice. There was even a side-yuri couple. Just good vibes all around. Giving this a 7. 210523

220121 - (I re-found this one today. Forgot I'd read it until I started on the first few pages and recognized it. Anyway, this text entry here iis what I had on the Lily Manga page) Now Loading! ⋆ Lily Manga - Short and complete. I'll check it out! 220121

210131 - Recommended from "https://www.reddit.com/r/Animesuggest/comments/84o3j3/looking_for_yuri_manga_about_being_in_a/"

The redditor wasn't necessarily looking for something happy or sad, so I don't know what I'm getting into with this one.

210131 - Ugggggghhhhhhhh. Bored... I'm all mixed up reading this one. I'm kind of interested in the plot, but not really. I think the art is OK, but nothing great. The translation feels weak, but I can still KIND OF get what's going on. So many things that just scream "meh" to me. This is a weird one. I think the big problem for me is that this is a tell don't show. It's like when they adapt anime from LNs. A lot of the dialogue is inner-monologue and just goes and goes... Look, I'm going to keep reading. I'm going to finish this one, but MAN it's kind of tiring. I'm currently up to chapter 12. Not sure if I'll finish this one today or not. It's becoming a bit of a slog.

So I decided to finish from 13-36 in one shot (same day as above). To be fair, it started to pick up a bit in the middle. I actually started to care about the drama in the story. Yukino would do dumb shit and I'd actually feel the slightest bit of investment. However, toward the end I was checked out. I was just pushing through to finish up the series. It had a happy ending, which was cool, but it kind of just...ends. Do her parents accept their relationship? Do Yukino and Mari (idol friend) remain friends (because it REALLY seems like they don't)? What's going on with the brother? Or the chef friend who showed up for like 3 chapters? There's so many things I want to know about and we got answers to none of it. I guess I can see this as a Baccano ending. It's not the climactic ending, but rather just a point where the story stops being told. The story will go forever and it had to stop somewhere... that kind of thing. Whatever, I'm just glad it's over. I had an alright time, but I am not going to read this one again. Definitely not worth a re-read from me. A lot of people seem to like it, but it just wasn't for me. I liked a lot of aspects in this manga, such as the depiction of gay relationships to conservative-Japanese people, the breakdown of relationships between friends, etc. There were many interesting points, but taken as a whole, I was "meh" most of the time. I'm going to give this a 6. I want to give it a 7, but I'm torn... Nah, I think if Still Sick is a 6, then so is this... AAAAAAND... I changed my mind again. I'm giving this a 7 because even though I was bored through some of it, it had some interesting moments, interesting characters, and interesting takes on homosexuality and how others react to it. I'm not happy with a 6 or a 7, but I'm happier with a 7 than I am with a 6. I still have no desire to re-read it (well maybe a very very small one...), but I'm happy giving it a 7... Changing my mind AGAIN! This is driving me nuts! I think I'm giving it a 6 because I was bored, the characters kind of just disappeared, etc. There were moments that I really liked, but I need to start spreading out my scores to lower numbers. This series was fine. The end. 210131

Neat story, but definitely nowhere near the best from this author. Still, I thought it was good enough for 7 chapters. In all honesty, this is probably the weakest one from this author, but it was still good. Maybe not worth a re-read though. Bordering on not caring territory. Still, it doesn't quite hit that low point, deserves a good 7.

220422 - One shot that I grabbed just because of the cover. H. Giving it a 6 because it had a cute & brainless story. 220422

220121 - Ojou-sama wa Love Come no Shujinkou ni Naritai! ⋆ Lily Manga - Yuri comedy with harem ending (I looked at chapter 30). Looks cool. 220121

220422 - Started today. That was a LOT better than I thought it'd be. It was much funnier than I could have hoped for. All the ridiculous harem situations felt like they were really poking fun at the typical harem antics. I don't have a single bad thing to say about this one. I wish it had been longer, but I'm guessing it might have gotten cancelled? I say that because the author said that it could have gone on longer in the atogaki section. Regardless, the ending didn't feel rushed at all. I guess they gave the author enough time to tie everything up in a neat little package. I think this is probably worth a re-read at some point. It was a lot of fun. I'll give this one an 8. It was good from the beginning all the way to the end, especially because it ended with the harem ending which I thought was pretty funny, and really fit with the whole series. I'm off to see if this author has made anything else. 220422

I'm feeling a bit weird about the ending to this one. When I started it, I wasn't sure who I wanted the characters to end up with, and toward about chapter 9, I had a feeling that I wouldn't be happy no matter how it ended. I was happy that the main character actually confessed to the girl he liked though. That was interesting since I thought it would go the full Toradora-route. While it did eventually go that way, it was a bit messier (since he got rejected), which felt more realistic. However, I didn't like how quickly the romantic switch happened. He basically gets rejected and flips his attention over to fMC. To be fair, in-world time was like 3-5 months, but there was like 3 chapters between them. I can't really blame the author though since the series apparently got axed and they needed to wrap it up quickly? I thought it would have been interesting if the MC actually ended up getting with the side character girl who was into cosplaying. It would have been the non-tropey was to do it.
As for my feelings on this series, I don't have any post-series depression. It was really cool in the beginning, and started to fall off toward the end. I really wanted to love this one, but it was just really nice, nothing more. It had some great moments that I really liked, but it seemed to move too fast at the end. The characters were interesting and unique, the plot was enough to keep me reading, and the romance was awkward, believable, and lovely most of the time. My only problem is that I didn't want the cosplay girl to be sad at the end, but she ended up martyring herself to the MC x fMC cause. Really sad, but at least she didn't seem all that broken up in the last chapter. I was reading in the comments on mangadex that the LN doesn't end this way. It goes on to college and there is an alternate-non-canon LN book where MC gets with cosplay-girl. I'm not sure if I'll read this one again, and probably won't ever look at the LN since they say that's not all that great either. Maybe if I want a romance and I'm bored by everything else I might read this one again. I'd say this is a solid 7.

220203 - Just seemed nice. That's it, really. 220203

220205 - Pure junk food. Completely forgettable. In fact, I've basically forgotten them all already. They were neat in the moment, but I'm starting to crave a bit more substance. The last story was kind of neat (2 girls in photography club, and their 2 friends), but not anything more than that. Giving this a 5. It's just didn't keep my attention. 220205

??? Maybe? Random find.

This. This is probably, to date, the best romance I've ever seen out of manga or anime. At the VERY least, it is up there with all of the heavy hitters, not just of romance, but in general. I've never had such an excited/happy feeling when he decides to go after Botan instead of MC girl. I'm amazed that I was able to flip like the male MC. When Botan was introduced, I didn't care, then when she started liking the MC, I was like "oh no, here we go with the crappy love triangle". Then, she confesses to him, and over time, I actually flipped and started rooting for Botan, even though by the laws of anime, she cannot win (she's not MC/1st girl). Then as the end started to approach it felt like the author was setting up MCxMC as per usual, and I was so bummed about it, but the series was so good that I couldn't stop reading or rooting for MCxBotan. I "knew" it was impossible, but I wanted it anyway. I simply thought that even though Botan wouldn't happen, that the series as a whole was still fantastic, so I was able to stay upbeat about the imminent Botan loss. I was reading the reddit DISC after every chapter and it looked like everyone else was thinking the same thing I was. Everyone else "knew" it wasn't going to happen, but wanted it alongside me. That's why, even though I was sad that it wasn't going to happen, to see everyone on the same page as me was a fun feeling. Like hurtling toward destruction, but keeping spirits up by being in a like-minded group. It kept me feeling positive even though I "knew" it would end in disaster. THEN IT DIDN'T! Oh man, the trope got turned on it's head and I just about freaked out here at work. I was making all kinds of embarrassing noises, I'm glad no one is here so early in the morning (8:00AM right now after reading all morning). That Botan win just about had me lose my shit. I'm going to instantly re-read this over the weekend because it's too good NOT to. Easily a 10/10. EASILY. I love this, I am so happy right now. I know that eventually another series will surpass this one for me, but it's going to take a LOT to topple this one. I am so happy right now that I'm not even feeling PBD, just happiness! Definitely one of the GOAT's for me. Damn near perfect.
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Restarted same day I finished, Friday 190125 after I got home. Completed again on Tuesday night 190129. Still love it.

200802 - Read it again for the 3rd time (2nd re-read) and I still really love this. The twist of Botan winning was less extreme this time, and I wish it went on and showed a couple of dates instead of ending where it did, but it was still good. I'm just on a heartwarming kick right now and this was great for that. Can't believe it's been a year and a half since I read this the first time. Kind of crazy.

Just for context, chemistry job just ended full time employment and I'm going to start part-time tomorrow. COVID-19 still in full swing and need to fix car coolant tubes. That's the big stuff. See you later, future me. Hope life is treating you well. Anyway, the manga/anime binge continues.

220114 - Found from (https://www.reddit.com/r/yuri_manga/comments/s11y6u/is_there_anything_good_in_this_list_i_have_only/). Someone said it was their favorite yuri story so I added it. 220114

220117 - Alright, I'm in. This looks like an insane story with a dash of yuri thrown in. A girl gets abducted to pay off her dad's debt when the company died. Now she has to pretend she's another girl at some upper class school. The girl she's imitating was supposed to play the "dad" in this weird school-wide family simulation thing. It seems bananas so far with a dash of absurd comedy thrown in. I'm in. It's only 16 chapters too, so it should be a quick read. 220117

220120 - Damn. 99.9% sure this got axed. It wrapped up well enough, all things considered. But it could have gone way longer. Basically, they had 1 competition between the families, then had to rush to the endgame. The girl that MC is imitating gets revealed, her reasons for having MC replace her in school (she was basically held captive, but someone needed to go to school in her place), the fact that MC was her long-lost twin, and MC leaving the pseudo-family program. Then after a week, she returns and the family gets reunited. It could have been a lot worse for an axed ending. It could have been MXO where it just kind of... ends. Instead, we had like a 4-5 chapter build up to the conclusion. I guess it wasn't a popular series. Anyway, as for my thoughts? I'll start at the beginning. I thought it was odd that they introduced the plot every chapter. At the start, they'd talk about the situation, the pseudo-family project, why they called her father, etc. I kind of get it. It'd be weird for new readers to hear these girls refer to the MC as "father" without context. But still, every chapter? I mean, maybe it wasn't EVERY chapter, but it sure felt like it. As for the story, I thought it was neat. I was expecting more since that one person who recommended it said it was their favorite yuri. But it was fine. The characters were neat, I laughed a few times, and had a generally decent time. But I never got invested in the story. Maybe I felt like there were no stakes to the competition? Or it just seemed too ridiculous? I don't know. Regardless, I just had a passing curiosity which never let it sink it's claws into my imagination. It was fun, but nothing too extraordinary. As such, I'll give this a 7. I really want to give this an 8, but I don't think I liked it THAT much. I enjoyed the impromptu kiss at the end, the cute yuri moments throughout, and the neat premise, but I think a 7 is about right. 220120

200821 - Read about this from discussion on chapter 68 of Pseudo Harem romance manga. Sounds pretty good.

https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/e3kaed/disc_pseudo_harem_chapter_68_slope_saitou_yuu/

That was nice. Simple, quick, and fulfilling. They confessed, kissed, and screwed all in the same chapter. That's got to be a new record. I was totally cool with it. Nothing to dislike about this one. Even the "love triangle" was fine. I liked the third-wheel character. She was pretty cool. All in all, not bad. I'd be willing to read this one again. Nothing special, but it was definitely what I was in the mood for. Fluffy/brainless romance. Always down for that.

220111 - Saw on amazon. That's it. || Short and sweet. A woman gets married to her friend to stop her parents from hassling her. The other girl has a crush on her and by the end, the "straight" girl seems to be coming around to liking her new wife for real. Not bad for 3 chapters. Then there was a one-shot at the end about 2 girls that were on the track team. No resolution to the story though. Not enough pages to get it done. It was OK. As for the first 3 chapters, I'd give it a solid 7. It was good. No complaints with that kind of score. Totally enjoyable experience. 220111

220128 - Petit Yuri Hime - MangaDex - Same author as Gokujou Drops (plus many others) so I'll check it out. 220128

220211 - I found this days ago. I didn't know there was a MAL entry for it. Or maybe I did and it got lost. Whatever. The point is I've been reading through a dozen or so stories just to read this one. I don't know why, but I've been doing it. It feels more like homework than anything. There have been some gems that have come out of this, but I'm looking forward to reading them all, reading through this, and being all caught up. Only about 3 or so left to go. 220211

220215 - ... That was so fast. I finished it in like 20 minutes. Each chapter was only like 3 pages long. I'll be honest though, this was kind of nice. It was like strolling back through memory lane. All these different series I'd finished in the past few weeks. Ones I'd forgotten were brought back into memory. It was like a constant nostalgia trip. For that - and the journey it took me on - I think I'll give this an 8. It was kind of a wild ride; it was kind of crazy. I'm glad I did this. In fact, I think I'm going to try and find the series I didn't the first time and read those.

1. Hatsukoi Shimai - https://mangakakalot.com/manga/hatsukoi_shimai (mangadex missing chapters)
2. Junsui Adolescence - https://mangadex.org/title/4fef00b8-38c8-48f7-9703-dd1fa9a8a227/junsui-adolescence
3. Creo the Crimson Crisis (cancelled) - https://mangadex.org/title/971d074a-9d8f-4840-b1a8-ed33b6756026/gurenki-creo-the-crimson-crises
4. Aoi Shiro - https://mangadex.org/title/ad13e11f-b8cd-476f-88d3-e6af8033d47a/aoi-shiro-aoi-shiro-no-enbukyoku
5. The Conditions For Paradise - https://mangadex.org/title/ed1605e1-9695-49ce-ba7a-9b4ff17ad4e6/our-first-time
6. Nanami and Misuzu - https://mangadex.org/title/2d80434c-3e69-49c4-b5be-3bced151d00d/nanami-to-misuzu
7. Apple Day Dream - https://mangakakalot.com/manga/apple_day_dream
8. Nettai Shoujo - https://mangadex.org/title/ac9c079b-339c-4e35-a55c-4da7def89ac8/nettai-shoujo
9. Cassiopeia Dolce (Incomplete?) - https://mangadex.org/title/8f4cd953-5a85-4bcb-99d8-69624e2ca268/cassiopeia-dolce
10. Original for Petit Yuri Hime.
11. Kaichou to Fukukaichou - https://mangadex.org/title/2da66760-ad05-4951-a0dd-14a91f9eb9b6/kaichou-to-fukukaichou
12. Flower Flower (SUCH POTENTIAL! WHY CANCELLED?) - https://mangadex.org/title/af639443-dac2-45f5-b6e2-91d6b2a7f057/flower-flower
13. Otome Kikan Gretel (Cancelled) - https://mangadex.org/title/98e2ddca-c755-46dc-b51b-1c0942e76ebc/otome-kikan-gretel
14. Sweet Little Devil - https://mangadex.org/title/9ea8f695-fbe0-4c27-a1ff-5af81b351d82/sweet-little-devil
15. Blue - https://mangakakalot.com/manga/blue_hayase_hashiba
16. The Greenhouse Witch (one of several stories) - https://mangadex.org/title/51477621-790a-4633-9e46-fdba0701385b/yuri-hime-wildrose
17. Hao! - Same as 16.
18. Ichiban Suki na Hito - Same as 16.

Well, that's all of them. Many I've read, but some I haven't. It looks like some of these are in that Yuri Hime Wildrose large anthology I'm still planning to read. The one that's like 75 chapters long. I guess I read the Greenhouse Witch one, but maybe I stopped? I don't know. Regardless, that's next on the list. Time to get to it. 220215

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. || Turns out this is from the same author who made that Vacation Demon Lord and her Pet story. The one where the demon lord shows up to Japan and ends up loving a human girl. That one that I was really iffy on. I think I wanted the girl to return with the demon lord to her world, but it didn't happen. Anyway, same author. As for this story, it's a bit odd. It kind of just drops the reader off in the middle of the story without any kind of warning. Stories like that can be cool, but this one felt like it was LITERALLY in the middle of the story. To the point where I thought I wasn't on chapter 1. The MC human was talking with a bunch of monsters as if as we - the readers - already knew who they were. It was a bit jarring. Eventually we get the whole story, but it's told piecemeal. I enjoyed it well enough, but it could have used better execution. First of all, the setting was a bit odd. Well, to be fair, the setting was really cool, but the explanation was a bit odd. It's basically an inter-dimensional prison where the inmates work off their sentence. The problem is, they're doing jobs, but for who? Why? They're doing jobs like growing plants, cleaning, etc. but who benefits? Are there non-inmate townspeople? What's the lore behind their prison world? I could have used some detail there (honestly, I don't think the author knew either the answers to those questions either). I liked the characters though. They were fun and interesting. Lots of different monster designs. I thought the MCs fell in love a bit too quickly, but with the 12 chapter count, they kind of had to, so I get it. Also, the ending left a bit to be desired. It sort of just ended. I like that the MCs can see each other at least once a year (because they are in different worlds and can only cross over on Halloween), but it sounded like they were trying to figure out a way to see each other more often. Did that work? Yes? No? Not having the answer to those questions is a bit of a bummer. I loved that there were epilogues showing how some of the other monsters ended up in the prison though. Killing people, failing their duties as spirit guides, etc. I wish those things had been in the main series, rather than an afterthought. I feel like if a seasoned author had a hold of this series, it could have become something truly special. Fleshing out the characters, fleshing out the world, building up to the romance, etc. It would have required 5-10x the chapter count, but it would be great. As it stands, I'll give this one a 6. It was just too underdeveloped! I want to give this a higher score, but I can't! It needed more development! It hurts to do it. I needed more of... anything! Character development, romance, world building, ANYTHING. It just didn't have enough substance. I really liked it, but it was light on too many things. Oh well. At least this helps to pad out the mid-range of the manga scores. That makes me feel a bit better. 220109

220203 - The LAST author for the Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. Uggh. Tired. I'm going to bed. Writing all these down took a while. 220203

220207 - This was nice. I read this out of order. "Our First Time" is also by this author. That series is like a sequel to this one. I'm kind of glad I read that one first though. I liked that one better. So reading that one first made me more interested in the characters here. Because of the sequel, I was thinking about giving this an 8, but a 7 is fair. I want to look at this for what it is, not how I felt about the sequel (which I gave a 9. Be warned though, the last story here is a bit melancholic. I like that the author alluded to a happy ending after the two girls both die (one is a cherry blossom tree at the end). Anyway, on to the next series. 220207

210210 - That was nice. Just found out about this yesterday. I was looking up Tome (alien/occult loving girl) because I was thinking about how nice it'd be if she got with Mob. Then I discovered this manga. Only 7 chapters, but still lovely. Writing is good, plot was interesting, etc. I'm glad that it focused on Tome. She was one of the more interesting non-psychic characters in the original series. I'm giving this an 8. It wasn't the most outstanding thing in the world, but I'm glad that it exists. It brought a little something extra to the Mob universe, and for that, I'm grateful. Would read again during a re-read of Mob Psycho 100. It's a nice wind-down for the series as a whole. If this is the last we see of this bunch of characters, I'd be content. It's a nice place to end. It's not like this spin-off tied up any profound loose ends. But even still, with this, I feel like the story is complete. 210210

I REALLY hope for a sequel. That would be lovely. Just as background. I heard about the anime before heading off to dental school. I really wanted to watch it, after hearing about the premise and was kind of bummed to learn that I couldn't watch it before going. While in dental school, I was swamped so I didn't even think about it. Then, once I got out of dental school, I waited until the show was done and binged it. I loved it, but didn't start to read the manga. I didn't get back into ReLIFE until I happened across a commercial saying that there was a 4 episode OVA planned on March 22 (2 weeks away). That's when I started to read the manga. That was, apparently on January 25th (a Thursday). I binged the thing all weekend and caught up to chapter 216. Then I read it weekly for the remaining chapters until 222 on Mar 11th. I've almost paid off my entire dental loan too, meaning ReLIFE has basically been there through the entirety of my dental experience. From before I started until nearly when I paid off my loan. I think that's interesting & symbolic. As a note, this weekend is when I moved the couch to Mom's place and cleaned my truck out. Just a note for a timeline. On a side-note, I've decided to start working out tomorrow and doing a little ReLIFE thing of my own. We'll see if I flake out and go back to business as usual or if actually stick with it this time. BTW, this doesn't just refer to working out, but about moving on from 2013. It's been 5 years, how's about we REALLY try again, huh? This anime entry sort of turned into a journal/time capsule. Well, let's see if something...compelling happens? Fingers crossed.



200816 - Holy crap! They released another chapter! Apparently it came out like 6 months ago! I just took a look at the end of ReLife today as sort of a refresher because I liked that they got together at the end. I did remember that the MC kiss was basically in the background of a dark shot though. Then I saw there was a chapter 222.5 bonus at the end. I was like, "Oh? What's this? One of those short 4-koma things they have at the end of most manga volumes?" NOPE IT'S LIKE 3 MORE CHAPTERS ALL ABOUT THE ROMANCES OF RELIFE! GAAAAHHH! I literally stopped like 3 times and said, "Is this actually real?!?! Isn't this just fanfiction?!?! IS THIS REAL?!?!" I was flipping my shit. It was awesome because it answered some romantic questions between An and Yoake, provided more romantic scenes between Kaizaki and Hishiro (MCs), and showed more of Kariu and Ooga. I don't think I've had a reaction like that since Ookami with Botan. Reason being that this actually ended the manga in a way that I want ALL romance manga to end. No ambiguity, showing the readers EXACTLY where the relationships stand with couples getting all lovey-dovey on screen. The ONLY way I could have asked for more, is if they explicitly showed the old classmates remembering Kaizaki & Hishiro and taking another picture at the beach. Probably for the best they didn't though. I would have turned into the foaming-mouth guy from Avatar. In all seriousness, if they had done that, this would have probably been crowned the greatest manga of all time for me. Probably beating Jitsu Wa and Ookami combined...maybe. As it stands, this single chapter brought me so much joy, in fact it might have surpassed the keychain scene? Maybe?? Not sure, but it was REALLY good though. Well, this final chapter ticked nearly all the boxes for me. Man... I took a look at the end of ReLife again today just to remind myself why the ending made me so happy, and instead I got hit by a tsunami of new happiness. Gosh, who knows? Maybe I'll check back in another couple of years to find a new miracle chapter released showing that future beach trip. That would cement this series as an actual GOAT contender. Man, I'm just so happy right now. What a great series.

220203 - Seemed cute. The end. 220203

220205 - There were 3 stories here. The first was the best, second was second best, third was third best. They were all just OK. The first was the most interesting because there was an older yuri couple (about 26 years old) who was advising a younger couple. It was neat. The middle one was a side sequel to the author's Renai Joshi-ka story. That MC was chasing down one of the characters from that series. I don't remember them at all though. Third one ended with the potential for a relationship. Not much more than that. As for a score, I'll give this a 6. It was alright. Don't think I need to revisit it again though. It was fine, but that's about it. 220205

210124 - Ch0 (? Priority) Love Fighter Shuravan (Title) - MangaDex - Someone mentioned this on "Love After World Domination" in the comments. Seems short and sweet.

210129 - Meh, it was alright. Had an interesting premise, but the execution was whatever. Not all that funny or captivating. It wasn't boring, but I found myself hoping to get to the end sooner rather than later. I basically kept checking the chapter count and going "5 chapters left, 4 chapters left...", etc. To be fair, the series got axed. So it's possible the boredom was related to the series trying to rush an ending. Who can say for sure? Anyway, I feel like it could have used a bit more work to turn it into something special. As it stands, it was just meh. Whatever, I'm going back to reading that other sentai series. That Love After World Domination one. That seemed funny, at the very least. It should be obvious, but this is a one and done. No re-read necessary here.

220121 - Rock it, GiRL!! ⋆ Lily Manga - Doesn't sounds all that great. But it's short and complete so I'll check it out. 220121

220422 - If this had 30-50 more chapters, this would be one of my favorite stories of all time. It started SO strong. Introducing all the characters, who were PERFECT. I loved every single one of them. The band was killer, the staff was great, the emotional buildup was perfection. It. Was. Strong. Then in the middle they do a timeskip thing and it gets a bit weird. They start moving REALLY fast and telling the story through flashbacks. It shows them get together romantically? Maybe? I'm not sure. They get together by the end, but I'm not sure if they do in the middle. To be clear, I LOVED the plot, I just needed it to be told a lot slower. I mean, showing how mushroom-girl (MC) is basically having a nervous breakdown while crying because she can't write more music was a heartbreaking panel. But that's all we got. A panel. That sort of thing should have been built up and built up and built up. Instead, we kind of have to go "oh, THAT'S why she's quitting the band, I guess". It just needed more room to breath. If the author revisited this and turned it into a 60 chapter series, I'd be all over it. I mean, there's so much to explore. Regardless, I loved this series. I'm giving it a 9. I want to give it a 10 so bad, but it has flaws. For one, it has the "just talk" problem. Mushroom girl needs to tell the singer that she can't write, or whatever the problem is. On the other side, singer girl needs to be honest about her feelings. It's just a mess of poor communication.

It's been a long time since I've been so invested in characters, but I was right there with them the whole time. I'm glad they got their happy ending, but I wanted more lead up to it, and a bit after. It just ended so quickly. It's like once the series got to the halfway point, the marathon became a sprint. Even so, I had a great time and I'm glad I didn't skip it like I was thinking of doing. Would have been a terrible mistake. 220422

221130 - Why didn't I add this before? I know I've seen this before, but I guess I decided not to add it anywhere? Weird. Maybe it wasn't completely translated? Is that why? I mean, it was on the top-scroll so I guess it was just updated. Maybe I was waiting for that? But I should have added it to save it for later if that was the case. Whatever. Anyway, I just found it again on the top-scroll of mangakakalot. It's not complete of mangadex, so I may start it there and finish at mangakakalot. It's only 20 chapters long. 221130

230215 - INFINITE INVESTMENT!!! I need to know what happens regarding his ex. I NEEEED IIIIIIIIIIT! I'm so glad I don't have jury duty tomorrow. I know how I'm going to be spending my time. Reading as much as humanly possible until I find out how that whole deal gets resolved. As for this? I'm going to give it a 10. I have to. Now to be fair, that's a circumstantial 10. I would be INFINITELY PISSED if there was no further material to read. But since there is a LN, I'm giving it a 10. I am just SO invested in how things go from here on out. Anyway, enough writing, I need to find the LN or WN or whatever. I just need it now. 230215

230222 - After reading through the 2 LNs and 6 chapters of the WN (out of 8), I've moved this down to an 8. Looking back, it had a bit too much text. It moved at a decent clip, but could have used with a better ending to lead into the LN. Anyway, I'm done here. Going to go put my WN and LN thoughts on the other one. 230222

220607 - I wanted to see if there was another chapter out for that Asumi Lesbian brothel series, and this came up in the search results. I read through the first 13 by accident (I was just going to check the first chapter... then I got sucked in). What a cute little series! The CEO of a company falls in love with a brothel worker and the worker falls in love too. The worker has already quit by chapter 13 and so it seems like the series is heading to a conclusion. There wasn't too much in terms of character-building or plot, but it's still cute as heck. There have been updates in the past few weeks so I expect this to actually finish. Hopefully in the next month or two, as well. Looking forward to it! Giving this an 8 for now. I'm having a GREAT time with it, but there's not too much substance. 220607

220819 - ... Seriously? I only started reading this back in June of THIS year? I could have sworn I'd been waiting for a new chapter since last year or something. I'm surprised. Oh well. I finished the last 2 chapters today. It was nice. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't see the end coming where the brothel girl starts working as her new secretary. It's obvious in hindsight, but it wasn't obvious when I was reading it. I wish there was more substance to this story. There's really not much going on. I'm going to give this a 6 for that reason. It was cute, but nothing to sink my teeth into. I'm just glad it got a conclusion (and a happy one, at that). 220819

220908 - I never made a start entry for this. Probably because it was during the multiple power outages that occurred from the portable AC unit. This started REALLY good, then kind of petered out toward the end. This could have turned into a really interesting story. Too bad it got axed hard. I think the art was the problem. It was a bit janky. Could have been much better with a better artist. Oh well, whatever. I'm giving this a 6. It was just OK. Maybe if it went a bit farther and got into the war aspect, it would have gotten a higher score, but a 6 seems alright for what we got. I mean, the premise of a world where guys can only ejaculate once every couple of weeks, and that's used to buff the military every time it happens? That's an interesting premise. Odd, but interesting. Then there's the MC who can act like a guy from our world and jack it multiple times a day? Alright, you've got the makings of a great smut series. Again, it's the art that tanked it. Good art may have brought this up to an 8 or so. Oh well. I heard there's a novel series so I MAY check that out? Probably not though. Anyway, on to the next one. 220908

230215 - Just skimmed it again and decided to move it up to a 7. Might move it up again later. The art isn't bad on second read through. 230215

200828 - Found here:
https://mangaworthreading.co/saki-the-succubus-hungers-tonight-volume-1-review/

Random article that I clicked on. Has nudity? Not sure. Does have romance though so I may check out once it's done.

210318 - So...that was basically soft-core H. No other term for it. Every chapter is filled to the brim with nudity and eventually sex. It's never technically explicit, but no one is fooled. I liked the story, but it was too borderline for me to REALLY like it. Pick one or the other. Go cutesy or go full H. The borderline nonsense got me feeling all kinds of frustrated. To be fair, I didn't NOT like it. I just feel like it could have been better served as either of the other two. Although maybe that's not fair. The author probably couldn't have written a full 50 chapter series (even if they're short chapters) if it was H. It probably wouldn't get the funding. Plus, if it went too safe, it'd probably be just like every other manga out there. Well, whatever. It was smoking hot, had a decent plot, and I definitely enjoyed it. All 3 girls were great. Saki ends up married to MC, Short-hair girl gets with childhood friend (I was hoping for a threesome with Saki and MC instead, but whatever) and the doctor is still messing around having fun. So everyone gets a happy ending. While I liked this well enough, I don't know if I'd ever read it again. Not because I didn't like it, but because this series got my engine going. Like I said before, the problem is that it doesn't go far enough in that respect so it's a bit frustrating. Regardless, I'm giving this a solid 7. It had good moments and interesting characters. While it rode the risque-line in a way that I wasn't fond of, there was very little that I was unhappy with story-wise. I've never seen a series ride the line this hard before. Kudos for that. 210318

Come on!!! Can this author write anything that I DON'T love? I've read three stories from him and they're all SOOOOO GOOOOD! God, I LOVE his art style here. At least once per chapter I actually caught myself staring at the art. I don't usually EVER care about the art, but here I was looking at multiple panels per chapter going "wow, look at them/that/it". Maybe I'm just used to it now, but I freaking adore the mangaka's faces. They're so devilish when they smile. That coupled with his funny stories, awesome visual gags, and interesting plots put him as - probably - my favorite mangaka.

This manga was lovely. The romance angle was exactly what I love as well. It wasn't the focal point, but eventually became a part of the plot over time. It wasn't rushed, forced, or anything weird. It just sort of...happened... in a way that felt organic. Plot points tied together, little nothings held deeper meaning when they were explored (donuts), and the characters were absolutely wonderful. By characters, I mean the character actions, art, personalities, etc. This mangaka can write and draw with such skill that it blows me away multiple times a chapter.

To be fair, on the nature of critiquing the story, some of the plot points finished up a bit too conveniently, but I'll easily forgive him for that since this manga as a whole was incredible. Think I'm going to give this a 10. It's a low 10, but a 10 nonetheless. Just makes me happy. Even the points that would normally get me down weren't bad. I'm talking about the failed confession/romances of the two side characters in love with the MCs. They bounced back pretty strong and I didn't get any negative feelings from it.

Would probably want to read this one again in the future. It wasn't very long so starting and finishing in a day doesn't seem crazy. Think I might read Jitsu Wa again now. It's pretty long, but I may start it again real soon. It has been a couple years so I've forgotten quite a bit. Maybe it's about time.

Short chapters, so it was a very fast read. I really liked this one. Not just because of the abs (although that definitely didn't hurt...) but because of the characters. They had fun personalities and the the MC romance was great too. I had a great time with this. Definitely feels like it got axed early, but what can you do? In terms of wrapping up the story when it still had more to tell, I think it did a great job of hitting that exit ramp when it did. A lot of threads left unanswered, but it was still a great manga in spite of that. Not only that, but the romance was really cute... and it actually progressed! It felt Jitsu Wa-esque in that regard. Definitely not to the same level, but movement forward was achieved. That's more than I can say for a lot of manga. Anyway, I think this deserves a solid 9. Really great story that mixes romance and sports in a way that I found highly enjoyable. Hope to see more from this author in the future... Hopefully the next one has lady-abs too...

Well that was a chore to finish. Honestly, it felt like the last half could have been chopped down to a 35 chapter story. Feels very padded. Even the confession felt weak to me. It also kind of came out of nowhere. I don't know... it seemed to start strong, got weak toward the middle and end, then finished strong in the last 2 chapters. I don't get the sudden jump to running for class president or the karate tournament, or other things. I mean, the girl who wrote novels basically disappeared until the very end of the story. This entire story just felt poorly written, and worst of all, I was pretty bored with most of the second half. I was really hoping for better, but the ending really did help to salvage it. I just wish it didn't have to crawl through molasses in order to get there. Giving it a 6 because - even though the ending was nice - it was just too much in order to get to that point. Wish it was 20 chapters shorter. Probably would have gotten a 7. Oh well, not like these scores matter to anyone but me. Sad to say, but definitely not a repeat read.

01/03/19 (1 day later) I decided to increase the score on this after reading Aoi Hana. That's like the serious version of this one. In comparison, I think this was better? Maybe? Point is, I'm giving this one a 7 instead of an 6.

Finished after Yukuyuku Futari. Not the best story in the world, but it was cool for 7 chapters. Not the most developed characters, or most developed setting, but I enjoyed the overall romance to some degree. For 7 chapters, I can't complain.

201229 - I found this on Lily Manga (Yuri Manga Site). Added randomly. Someone said this had a happy ending so I added it.

201231 - So I read it. Wow, what a good read. This was so classy. Basically an upper class lady and a maid fall in love. Since it's England (and homosexuality is illegal in 1900), they need to keep it a secret. It gets out, they elope, happily ever after. I WAS SO IN TO THIS! Unlike most manga where I can see the happy ending coming from a mile away, here I wasn't sure AT ALL. The reason being that everything felt so realistic. It seemed like the bad end was imminent, but at the last second it swerves into the good end. I loved this. It was SO good. I've never read a manga set in this period so it was a breath of fresh air. The fact that their love was LITERALLY forbidden, by law, made this a whole new thing for me. It was fascinating how they HAD to keep their budding romance a secret or the upper class family could face ruin. Super interesting, I was in from minute 1. The characters were great too. Everyone felt like a fully fleshed out person. The "villain" felt human, the MC and love interest had great chemistry, etc. I especially liked the bookstore girl. Her energy was lovely.

Man, I really had a great time here. I was worried right up until the end that it would be a bittersweet ending. All signs pointed in that direction (except that one comment that said it was happy, but even they said they were crying the whole time, so I wasn't sure) so when they get together at the end? Just wonderful. As of right now, I'm going to give this one a 10. It was just so well written (translation was a bit odd, but that's forgivable) with a lovely plot, lovely characters, and a happily-ever-after ending, that I feel it deserves it. Plus, every single kiss scene left me going "awwww" every time it happened. I can't think of a single flaw in this series so I think it's deserving of the score. Fantastic execution on a beautiful concept. I'll definitely be reading this one again in the future.

220109 - Found when scrolling through the top "Girls Love" on MAL. Looks interesting and it's complete. That's it. 220109

220110 - What an interesting and unique story. A girl's sister- who she hasn't seen in 13 years - shows up and wants to be in a relationship with her older sister. I was a big fan of the reluctance that the older sister Sayuri showed to that idea. In a lot of manga/anime, they might have just gone ahead and gotten together or treated it comically. Throughout the story, I never had the fuzzy romantic feelings of wanting them to get together. Instead, I just wanted them to have a good sisterly relationship. From that perspective, this was a great manga. Even though they alluded to the prospect of them having sex eventually, they never actually do it. If they did, I think it would have felt forced. Sayuri was never THAT into Mikoto. However, I wish the other relationships had gone somewhere. The princely-girl and Himeko could have had a bit more progress in their relationship, but it kind of goes nowhere. The mom also basically disappears. The dad apparently never explained the situation to his older daughter either. She grew up assuming that her family didn't want her when in reality the dad was just taking care of his daughter. There were a lot of these little problems throughout.

Did I enjoy it? Yes, I suppose. But the problems were not inconsequential. I liked the angel aspect. At first, it just seemed a bit cute and funny, but then there were actual story implications. I liked all of the girls in the story. They were interesting and I always wanted to learn more about their stories. Speaking of, I was clearly into the story when Mikoto was talking about how she didn't have much time left. I was wondering if she was already dead and was going to have to go back to the afterlife soon. At that point, I gave up on going to sleep and burned through the last few chapters to make sure I knew how it ended. That's always a good sign from a story. So yeah, there was a lot of good stuff in this manga and it seemed to be making all the right moves. But then it seemed to end just a BIT too soon. It could have used another 5-10 chapters, I think. Flesh out the parent relationships, flesh out the side romance, flesh out what happens after the sisters meet up for real, etc. As it stands, I'll give this a 7. It was good, but didn't QUITE hit the mark in enough areas to warrant an 8. It was close, but I think a 7 is about right. Cute story, cute plot, cute characters. Not quite the fluffy romance I was looking for, but still very glad I found this one. 220110

220203 - Random add looking for authors from Petit Yuri Hime Anthology. 220203

220207 - That was a neat little story. 3 yuri couples. But... in the end, they don't really go anywhere. It's got that fading Heisei energy. The main couple doesn't even confess in the last chapter. They're about to when the story ends. I mean, it was kind of funny how they both confessed to each other without the other realizing it, but still. I was hoping for some progress on the StuCo couple too. Instead, we're just left with the allusion to them maybe getting together down the line. Lastly, the literature club couple that broke up and got back together. All in all, it was alright. Solid 6. Not much to it. Not bad though. It could have used another 5 chapters and a bit more Reiwa energy. 220207

Ehh, it was alright. Started off as a basic comedy, then plot was introduced, then drama, then it ended as expected. I'm lukewarm on this one. The romance was alright, I suppose. However, I kind of wanted him to end up with someone other than fMC. The chuninbyou girl would have been cool. Even the perfect cousin of the side character would have been neat. Instead, it went the obvious route. Not that that was bad, but it just felt like the road most traveled. Toward the middle of the series, I knew it had to end MC x fMC because of the flashback stuff, but still. Anyway, I liked this one well enough. The memory stuff got a little weird toward the end, but it was still nice, I suppose. The romance was alright, the plot was kind of jumpy, the love triangle kind of came out of nowhere, the side characters never really got development or closure on any arcs, etc. It felt very surface, but still had a bit of charm, so it gets a pass. The art was good and the characters were all pretty likeable. There was a lot of potential with this one, but I feel like it just couldn't knock any aspect out of the park. It wasn't bad, just wasn't fantastic either. Middle of the pack romcom manga.

Pretty cute series. It is a 4-koma, but was still nice enough. Almost 0 romantic progression, but I thought the plot was cute so I didn't mind it too much. I just wish that there had been a kiss or something at the very least. I know that there's a sequel, but come on, it kind of just ended. If I didn't know there was a sequel I'd probably be upset with how this ended. As it stands, it's a nice part 1. A little slow, but nice. I think it'd be worth checking out again in the future. Not a lot of substance here, but definitely cute. Total 8. Would be higher if there was romantic progression, but meh, good enough as it is. Going to play Spider-Man for a bit, then it's off to part 2.

Sooooo, yeaaaaahhhhh... that took a bit of a nosedive...
It was honestly impressive. The introduction of 1 character basically ruined the whole thing. Maeda, the male school nurse who likes the fMC, just about tanked this manga. I could maybe have tolerated another love interest, but this dude was garbage. Like, a garbage-person. He knows she's in a relationship, doesn't give a shit, and keeps pursuing her anyway? Like, the fuck, dude? Everything up to that point was fantastic. Just a well-written, cute little love story. Sure, the fact that they couldn't tell anyone was kind of annoying and weird, but I could chalk that up to cultural differences in the super-repressed world that is Japan. Even in spite of that, it made the story interesting though. Maeda just ruined it. I was reading the comments on MangaDex every chapter and they all said the same thing. In the beginning I was like "nah, this could fun. This new character might add some funny moments to this manga. Y'all are being too harsh." But then I kept reading and I was like "this dude's gotta die..." Then in the second to last chapter the vice principal introduced ANOTHER love interest and she accepts going on a date with the dude? Like, COME ON! WHAT? I was completely checked out at that point. Final chapter, she goes on date, nothing happens, and the story ends. Then time skip epilogue, MC x fMC are married, have a kid, and it ends. In terms of salvaging the ending, it gets some leeway. THE TINIEST BIT! I just about freaked out when I saw the last panel before the time skip because I thought it ended there. For context, she goes on date with VP's rando guy, comes home, talks to MC, and holds his hand. The End. Then the next page said "Afterword. That's the end. Thank you very much." I HONESTLY thought that was how it ended. I actually said "No fucking way..." I was actually in shock thinking that was how they were going to end it. Then I saw there was like a 3 page time skip section. After reading that, I was a TINY bit more forgiving. I was about to yeet this thing in the garbage, but that ending did a lot to save my impression of this thing. I don't even know what I would have rated this series if it had ended there.

I think there is a really easy way to make this series better. Read everything up until chapter 15 of this second series. Then skip to page 12 of the last chapter and you're golden. Just ignore every chapter after Maeda is introduced and the series as a whole is probably a solid 9. Before that, all the characters were funny, the plot was interesting enough, and everyone was likeable. Even Maeda's sister was OK! She did get caught up in Maeda's BS (trying to get Maeda together with fMC), but even then I don't blame her! I blame Maeda again! As a whole, I'd have to rate this one pretty low because Maeda unfortunately DOES exist. He brought a lot to the table, and none of it was good. Maeda, on his own, dropped it from a 9 to a 5. You hate to see it happen, but that's how it go. If I do re-read, follow the guide I posted above.

Watched this a while ago, but decided to read it since I heard there was a different ending here. I also forgot just about everything from the anime. If I gave it a 10, clearly there was something great about it. We'll see.

NEVER MIND. Not translated. Have to wait until I can read Japanese... Gonna be a while. (09/09/2018)

(12/19/18) NEVER MIND AGAIN! The entire thing got translated like 3 days before I checked again this week. Plowed through it while also watching Tamako Market and the Tamako Market movie. Both were lovely. Anyway! As for this, the ending was great. Romance everywhere, fairly funny, and happy endings all around. This is why I read SoL manga. Very happy with this... I'm so glad it was translated.

Meh. Felt boring and rushed.

Reading after "She Who is Most Special to Me" Started 190206, Ended 190207. Just as a note for that one, started strong, got unbelievably rushed and convoluted toward the end. Not a fan. By the end I was going WTF? every few pages. Not great. Solid 6. Lots of story points that went nowhere (MC cousin who disappeared after a few chapters), story points that started and ended abruptly (the Yuri meetup characters who broke up after a single chapter), and characters who were introduced and immediately forgotten (the Mcdonalds worker's sister. She's introduced, given a few pages, and then immediately forgotten). Just, not a well written story.

Anyway, time to read this one.

This was ANOTHER story that was poorly written. Maybe it was the chapter constraints, but man, this could have been really good if spaced out correctly. I think it was just too rushed. I mean, we're introduced to these characters, and then we're told the MC likes the library girl, and then we're told that she changes the next time they meet. We need to SEE this stuff. Show, don't tell. If the first chapter had been stretched out to like 5 or 10, then the personality change happens, that would have been really compelling stuff. I'm also not happy how everyone in this story is a lesbian. I mean, come on, suddenly everyone in the world is gay? I hate unrealistic stories like that. Like, I know it's fiction, but come on. Anyway, unfortunately, this story didn't have any emotional value with me, and I just finished it because it was so short. It has the structure for a good story, but it wasn't anywhere near as fleshed out as it should have been. Oh well, another wasted potential. Giving it a 6 instead of a 5 for the interesting idea, but for lack of execution. Real bummer, could have been much better. Although, I would have preferred she get with her friend if it had been longer, so maybe it's good that I had no emotional buy-in. I would have been disappointed regardless. Would have been good if the sister trying to be Touka had actually been straight and was just emulating her gay sister by being with the MC, that would have been an even more interesting story. Whatever, it is what it is. I don't need to take a look at this one again. What a shame.

220920 - Temptation of Shiro Gal & Kuro Gal - MangaDex - YOOOO! This looks fantastic! I saw it here "https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/xiswja/disc_temptation_of_shiro_gal_kuro_gal_ch_7_sound/" and decided to check it out. Yuri between gals with an otaku dude thrown in for the lulz. Should be great, but only 7 chapters so far. I'll check back in a few months. 220920

230309 - There's a MangaDex entry now, so I just added it. I was reading chapter 39 of that Yuri rock-girl series (The Guy I Was Interested in Wasn't A Guy, or whatever) and I read in the comments that this isn't a 2-girls-seduce-guy series, but a yuri series. Blew my mind! (After reading my previous comment from last year, I don't know how I got it twisted in my head, but I clearly did.) Then I saw that this is done! First chapter shows that MC guy is basically on their side too. Going to read it now. 230309

230211 - There's no ending, there's no ending, there's no ending, there's no ending, there's no ending, there's no ending, AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! I'm so glad I waited until this was done. Nothing happened. Literally everything is the same at the end of the story as it is at the beginning. The two girls aren't dating, otaku is still single, and nothing of note was gained or lost. So lame. Giving this a 5. It was OK, but nothing happened. Oh well. Back to Ase to Sekken! 230311

201222 - Cover looked interesting. Decided to read. Seems interesting and different. That and gay ladies, so I'm down.

201223 - Soooooooo, I guess they were just good friends...
DAMN IT! I WANTED THEM TO FALL IN LOVE! Oh well. I suppose this was a nice story. It was definitely a good read with some serious character growth from our two MCs. I was just expecting a bit of romance. It was funny that the translators were just as bummed as me. They had these 1 image memes at the end of each chapter, and at they end they brought up the fact that they were "just really good friends". It was a happy-enough ending, but I was still sad it didn't go the way I wanted. I'll give this one a 7. For the story it told, it did a good job. I'm just sad about the lack of romance here. I probably won't read this one again, not because it was bad in any way, just because of the missing romantic angle. Well, I'm off to find a story about gay ladies somewhere else (I was planning to re-read Himitsu Recipe and Girlfriends again anyway).

Kept reading because it was short. I...didn't really get anything from this one. Characters didn't really feel great, no real romance, or comedy, or anything interesting really. It just felt like nothing of substance in any way. I guess the biggest thing is I didn't really care about anything going on here. Wasn't good, wasn't bad. Very Meh. Whatever, at least it didn't take long.

220105 - The author made another work that I've been meaning to check out. I saw this was a one-shot so I read this first. It's pretty neat for a single chapter. A zombie girl and a human girl in a VR world or something just as the servers are about to shut down. Turns out the human girl was an AI or something. Bittersweet/sad ending since the human disappeared. I'd give this a 7. It told an interesting story for how short it was. Don't need to read again though. I'm not about sad endings. Neat though. 220105

240402 - That was fun. I was in from minute one, and didn't get bored all the way through to the end. I wish there'd been a bit more development of other characters and the romance angle, but overall it was a blast. I think it's great that the power scaling never got stupid. He starts as an E rank and is getting stronger, but there's this threat of an S ranker who is out to kill him. Then he eventually gets strong enough to fight S ranks, then outclasses S ranks. Then it's revealed that there are nation level hunters. Unlike S rank, where countries usually have about 5 to 10 of them, there are only 5 national level hunters in the entire world. Eventually SJW becomes nation level, then eventually surpasses even them. He gets so powerful that be beats down what seems to be the strongest man on the planet without breaking a sweat. Then he gets stronger and stronger, fights the big bad at the end... then the story gets a bit odd. Time travel is involved, but... I don't really get it. He barely survives the fight by simply stalling for time until the real enemy of the big bad can show up and deal the final blow. Now he wants to go back in time and try and solo the big bad? How? What's his plan? His power scaling his maxed out. He can't get any stronger. Well, the story gets a bit hand-wavy at that point and says "so yeah, he beats the big bad again. Don't ask questions". It was a bit weak. It's like the author wanted things to go back to normal, but didn't know how, so he just MADE it go back to normal. After that, it was nice. 20 or so epilogue chapters and then the end. All in all, it was great. There were some issues, but nothing too bad. I want to complain that other hunters didn't get enough time to do anything other than job, but it is called Solo Leveling. It's all about our MC SJW. I get it. Regardless, it could have been awesome if he didn't outclass everyone he came into contact with. For instance, if he was fighting on the same level as D rankers, then C rankers, etc. Instead, there was no real tension in any fights. You know he's going to win before it even starts. Whatever. Sometimes you need a story like that. It's some good junk food. Too bad it's in longstrip format. Shit sucks. As for a score... somewhere between a 9 and a 10. I definitely felt some excitement at moments. The comedy was fun too. I'll give it a 9. It sucked me in and I loved every moment of it, but the ending was a bit odd for me.Maybe if the battle with the dragon at the end made more sense to me, I'd give it a 10. Maybe. In any case, there was almost nothing but good here. So much in fact that I might move this up to a 10 later. Now I just need to wait for Ragnarok to finish so I can read that. Unfortunately, it's still being written up as a WN, then I'll need to wait for the manhwa to finish (if that ever happens). It's supposed to follow his kid. Should be fun when I eventually get the chance to check it out. Looking forward to it. 240402

Found on mangarock after reading Nicochuu today 190210. Nocochuu was a funny little shoujo ai. Wish it was longer, but for what it was, I really enjoyed it. Only 7 chapters, but was nice. I'd give it an 8 if I could, but there's nowhere to put it.

As for this one... *sigh*. It starts off, like so many mediocre stories with a classic case of tell don't show. Playing devil's advocate, maybe they knew they only had 10 chapters with which to tell this story. Even still, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Why is the new girl such a jerk? Why does the MC allow this jerk to hang out with MC and friends? Why does MC bond and become friends with Juli over her existing best friend? Why does MC fall in love with Juli? Why did Juli suddenly start being nice to MC when she was mean to everyone else for doing the exact same thing? The only one who made sense was MC's best friend who gets sidelined immediately. Not good. Not a bad story per-se, but (as with most poorly written manga) in execution. You hate to see it happen. Oh well. No repeat read. No emotions stirred until the very end when Juli comes back. Even then, it wasn't worth it. Whatever, on to the next.

It's pretty clear that there are missing chapters in this series, but it didn't really matter, because I was bored by what was there. It started off really strong, but then started spinning it's wheels. Basically, the MCxMC was good and strong. But then the focus shifted to the 4 side characters and their interactions with each other and the MC's. This is fine, as long as you slowly introduce these chapters into the main plot. However, this didn't do that. Instead, we just completely shift from MCxMC to side characters. They are ok, but the reason I'm reading this is for the romance angle. When you take that away, I lose interest. Anyway, after the side character stuff is "done", it looks like there are quite a few missing chapters. Then the final chapter was translated, calling back to things that we never saw. Anyway, whether I got to read that stuff or not, I don't think my score would change all that much anyway, so it's rather irrelevant. No re-read for this one. Focus was wrong, but all the pieces were there. Damn shame, could have been one of the best ones. Actually, I just started laughing because I remembered that frame in chapter 8.6 page 4/9. "Dumb as I wanna be". Just so ridiculously goofy. I loved it. Brought the score from a 6 to a 7 on it's own.

210127 - Still Sick - MangaDex - Recommended from "https://www.reddit.com/r/shoujoai/comments/kyah4p/out_of_shoujo_ai_mangas_to_read_suggest_me_your/".

210128 - Ehh, it was alright. I was interested in the beginning, but once we got to the middle of the story, I kind of lost focus. Maekawa was creating unnecessary drama for Shimizu and I wasn't a fan. I'm all for drama if it makes sense, but it didn't fit here. Sure, some of it made sense, but in other places it was weird. Like when Maekawa wants Shimizu to save her from herself, but pushes her away when she's in the process of doing so? That's a stretch. Then it gets resolved like a chapter later. I really liked the cheating bit toward the beginning of the end though. That was a good setup, but I didn't like the payoff. Shimizu thinks Maekawa is cheating on her because that's something she's done to many of her previous romantic partners. When Shimizu calls her out on it, Maekawa has the nerve to act outraged that Shimizu would think it was possible she cheated on her. I don't know. There were some good moments, but by the end I was just rushing through chapters to get to the end. I didn't really care anymore. Definitely not a re-read from me. It's not a total loss of a series, but not the greatest thing ever. It's just alright. Glad I can move on to other series.

210208 - Found from here "https://mangadex.org/chapter/539034/comments". That's chapter 24 of Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo comments. They were talking about how that ranked 11 in new yuri of the year or something. Someone wanted to know the top ten. This one was #10. It seems nice. That and it's complete. Well, it's complete in Japanese. It's currently up to chapter 10 in English, but it's being updated right now. The last chapter went up 19 hours ago. I'm going to hold off for a few weeks to make sure it gets completed before I start. The previous translations were from 2-3 years ago so I'll hold off in case it gets dropped again. 210208

210318 - Up to 14/25 translated now. Looks like it's still trucking along. 210318

210420 - Still 14/25. I'll check back later. || Fuck it, moving to "Reading". I want to check it out!

OK, this is interesting. It's not just a yuri, it has a plot to it. Like, a for-reals plot. I thought it was going to be another silly yuri story. I knew that the pink haired girl (Pure) came back from the future, but I assumed it'd be a cute little gimmick. Turns out, there be plot here! Akira never wants to fall in love because of what happened to her mother. Pure had mixed up her fantasy of Akira with reality because Akira never actually loved her in the future. And chapter 14? CHAPTER 14?!? I actually gasped at the end of it. I don't know if I've EVER done that before. When she disappeared, that legit shocked me! Talk about a cliff-hanger while I wait for the next translated chapter! Oh man. This is good so far. Even though it deals with a bunch of drama that I normally hate, I'm still all into this. I just hope there's a happy ending! I'm going to put this "On-Hold" until it's complete. Even though this is a cliff-hanger, I feel like it's a good spot to leave for a while. Hopefully it's done soon because I need more! Giving this a 10 for now. It'll probably drop by the end, but for now it's a 10 because of chapter 14. Just shocking and awesome. Here's hoping I can read the rest before the year is out. 210420

220104 - I took a look, saw that only 1 more chapter had been released in the past year, and despaired. Then I realized, it might have been untranslated because of an official release or something. So I checked and while that may or may not have been the case, it WAS completed officially translated. So I went to some jpnovels.com site or something and got a copy of the 3rd volume. At that point, I decided to read the whole thing again from chapter 1 (as I'm wont to do). I had a good time with this. It's a cute story with some heavy elements. Akira was paralyzed and on her way to death, Akira's brother had died a few times, their father's new wife was bullied and traumatized in high school, etc. So it was a cute story with an undercurrent of darkness. Either way, I had a good time. For something so short, it really had a lot of heart and characterization. The plot was fun and about as convoluted as one could expect from a time-travel story. I wish there was a bit more romance, but what can you do? I had fun. I think I'm going to give this one an 8. Maybe if there was a bit more romance at the end I'd rate it a 9, but I think an 8 is about right for this lovely little story. 220104

Didn't actually "complete" this one. Read the first 5 or so chapters, then skipped to like 72 and read from there. The art is bad, the translation is god-awful, and the story is pretty weak. Decided to jump to the end to see if the romance was good. Nothing special at all. Glad I didn't spend a lot of time on this one. I'd rate it lower, but I didn't actually read it. So I'll give it a 5.

Found today 200913 from recommendation here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/4wmosq/action_or_suspense_manga_featuring_a_main_couple/
Seems neat.

201219 - It says 28 chapters, but it's actually 27. On top of that, these are LONG chapters. Each one is around 60-80 pages each. So compared to a normal manga chapter, this is like a 100+ chapter series. On top of that, this is only part 1. I really liked this one. A LOT. Let's start with the characters. Each one feels like a fully realized character. It was honestly like reading a well written book at times due to the depth of these characters. Manga characters usually feel one-note, but this series goes into depth for characters on opposing sides. There are reasons - that are usually explored - for why characters are doing the things they're doing. My favorite example is the king. When he's introduced, he seems like a jerk who won't listen to the hero because... he's a jerk. However, it later goes into the king's backstory and reveals WHY he doesn't want to listen to the hero. It's because he's dealt with cowards and failures who call themselves heroes in the past. He assumes that this hero is just the next in line to do the same. That's what I love about this. It takes characters that could easily feel trope-y, and gives a reason for their actions and attitudes. Same with the plot; I mean, a hero who doesn't kill his enemies? That sounds anime as hell. However, instead of making the hero some magically perfect guy who can do no wrong, everyone calls him on this outlook. EVERYONE. His allies, humans he wants to protect, his enemies, and even the demon lord. They all think it's BS, and rightly so. Who the HELL thinks they can end an endless conflict like that - where over half of humanity has already been murdered - through reason? It seems like the idea of a madman, but the hero holds true to those convictions. It's so interesting how he's constantly challenged on his beliefs, and at times he even falters on the feasibility of his path. It's just incredible. Now that's not to say that this series is perfect. There are quite a few "well that was lucky" moments that happen in this series, and I'm OK with them. The rest of the story is so interesting that I can push past that minor issue. Other than that, the only other problem is the lackluster translation. It's a bit jank at times, but I'm happy to have any translation at all. A bad translation beats no translation. Going forward, I still have the second half to read... I just checked and the second half is translated. OH MAN, THAT WAS SCARY FOR A SECOND. I panicked a bit when I realized I never checked if the second half had been translated. I basically freaked out because I thought since the first series (this one) had such a shaky translation that the second might have been abandoned or something. Looks like I'm OK though! Anyway, I had a great time reading this. There are a lot of great moments and I'm enthralled by the blossoming romance between the hero and the demon lord. I think it's commendable that the author created a romance where I'm less interested in if they kiss in the end, and more about if they can just survive at all. I'm just hoping they both live. I have a feeling the hero is going to die in the end, but I really hope not. I really want them to be happy together in the end, but I'm not sure how likely that really is. I'm worried he's going to die and she's going to continue what he started and create a lasting peace between humans and monsters. That'd be heartbreaking, but I think it'd fit. REALLY hope it doesn't go that way. I'd be fine with them just hugging in the end showing them living happily ever after. Although my dream situation is having them kiss, showing them happy, and a time skip showing them with kids with the world at peace... I'd be so happy with an ending like that. Anyway, I'm going to read Superior Cross tomorrow. Fingers crossed for a happy ending.

On a separate note, this is making me want to re-evaluate my rankings. My problem being that I can't decide between a 9 and a 10 for this. If I give it a 10, I feel like it's not taking into account the occasional ass-pulls that happen regarding the plot and the hero succeeding. On the other hand, if I give this a 9... well, a LOT of the series I have as a 9 are definitely worse than this one. I feel like I'd need to change the ratings on a lot of other series to make it work, but that'd require re-reading them all. That's probably not going to happen. I guess in the end, I'll give this one a 10, otherwise the system breaks. I think I'm happier with that than the alternative.

201220 - After reading the second part, I think I'll give this one a 9. I really loved the first part, but I think it makes more sense to give this one a 9. It could have been better. Not by much, but it could have been a bit better. I think that's what I'll use as a metric for 9's and 10's from now on. If I can find a flaw, it's a 9. If it's perfect, it gets a 10. This had some flaws that I couldn't overlook, so it gets a 9. That seems good to me. (A day later) You know what? I'm giving this an 8. I went through the same process as Yamada-kun. I started at a 10, then went to 9, now it's an 8. Again, I liked this one better than the second series, but I want to rate them together so I'm giving this an 8. That feels right.

201220 - Left wanting more. That about sums up my feelings at the end there. Not really PBD, just wishing there was a longer ending/better ending, but I'll get there. Let's go through this thoroughly. First, I still really enjoy the overall plot. The characters are also fun and probably the best part of this series. However, the character actions/events that take place to MOVE the plot along got pretty weak in certain places. First of all, there are numerous "ass pulls" that take place here just like in the first series. Important characters show up out of nowhere at the right time, characters act out-of-character at times, and just dumb decisions take place. It was honestly a bit disappointing. As an example, the doctor AND the evil doctor both end up at the demon lord's castle location. Why? I don't know, to finish up the series, I guess. Things like that seemed to happen, not often, but often enough that I found it a bit odd. There was also the deus ex machina in the final battle that allowed Sheila to beat the original. I mean, I get that she is cut from the same cloth as the original, but does that mean she has the power to take over that demon lord dimension in the way that she did? Why? Because of the age old anime trope, "the power of love & friendship"? That was kind of weak. If they had built up to the fact that the original had been weakened in some way, sure. But I didn't really buy it when the original is basically wiping the floor with everyone, then suddenly gets their dimension taken away at the drop of a hat. Not only that, but they reattached Sheila's hand with healing magic... Didn't they EXPLICITLY say that's not how that works? That healing magic ONLY speeds up the body's natural healing abilities? Maybe as a monster Sheila can naturally do that stuff? If so, why haven't I heard about that until now? Whatever. Just seemed like a ret-con to me.

Let's look at the good stuff for a bit, and this was most of the series (even though I was whinging up above). I did enjoy the extra character development of the party members. Going into their backstories a bit was a welcome addition to this book. It even cleared up WHY Kagami knew that Sheila was the demon lord. He created her as a clone of her mother as a vessel for the TRUE demon lord. I think? Either way, there was a lot to like, but I want to focus on the bad again since there were a lot of inconsistencies and things I didn't like as well. At the end, it just kind of glosses over the point of the series. They kind of hand-wave away that the hero hasn't been working too hard on human/monster peace since Sheila disappeared. OK, I get that... BUT WHAT'S THE STATE OF THINGS? Is the fighting at a standstill? Has an unofficial/official peace been brokered with some pockets of fighting still taking place? Is everything the same as it was? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE DEMON LORD'S DEATH? The fact that we have no idea is definitely lame. I guess the idea is that we are meant to focus on the Hero and Sheila, but WE DON'T EVEN REALLY GET MUCH OF THAT. There was never any resolution between the Hero and Sheila about how Sheila killed his entire village. Before the final battle, he just seems to accept it and move on. I get that they have to now kill the original demon lord, but still. It would have been nice to get some kind of heartfelt something or other. Something about how she regrets what she did or how the hero saved her from a life of destruction, blah, blah, blah. I'd have loved it, oh well. The same goes for when the hero saves her at the end too. It felt a bit rushed. I mean, you haven't seen her for 4 years, she comes out of a portal, and you just treat things as normal? Come on author. Give us some tears, hug her, kiss her, tell her you love her. GIVE ME SOMETHING! But no, in typical repressed Japanese-culture fashion, he sees her again after 4 years and they just act like it's business as usual. Then a halfhearted confession where he freaking COVERS HER EARS and says he'll stay with her forever. Talk about a letdown. What is this, middle school? It was humorous, but damn was that unsatisfying. I don't know, I just saw SO much potential to make this thing perfect, but the author slipped up too many times. It wasn't bad by any means (even though I keep coming back to the bad), but it could have been perfect. I think with the lovely characters, interesting story, weak character decisions, odd plot moments in the final battle, and deus ex machina in the final battle, I'll have to give this one an 8. A definite drop from the first series, but I think that about fits. Definitely not a bad one, but it could have been SO MUCH MORE. Makes me a tiny bit upset. Oh well. I'm glad I read it. It was a very enjoyable time. Definitely a great way to spend a weekend.

After thinking about it, I took Superior from a 10 down to a 9 and brought this up from an 8 to 9. I wanted to treat both series as a whole. If I split the difference, a 9 feels alright for both series. I feel like this deserves an 8, but I'd rather both get 9's than both get 8's. I feel good about them getting 9's because they of the characters and the plot. It fell off at the end, but it was still a great ride. (A day later) I changed my mind and brought this down to an 8. With all the issues, I feel the same as I did with Yamada-kun. It deserves an 8 with all the issues, but it was still a lovely series. Now that I've had some time to think about it, I feel really good about giving it an 8. That feels right to me.

220203 - Another Petit Yuri Hime Anthology series add. 220203

220214 - Power went out or something a couple of days ago. I came back to my computer and it was sitting on the login screen. I think I started this on the 12th, so that's what I put up top. 220214

220215 - Finished it up. Cute, with a bit of nudity. It has three or so couples in it. Each was nice enough. Nothing too fantastic. Just cute little stories. I'll give this one a 7. It was nice, I just wish there was more of it. I find with these short series, by the time I'm about to start getting invested, it's either over or moving on to a different couple. Anyway, on to the next one. 220215

What a completely ridiculous concept, which makes it perfect for manga/anime. The execution wasn't that great though. I thought it was ok. Definitely nothing more than that. No romance, comedy was alright, and the plot was whatever. Just average.

Recommended by: https://old.reddit.com/r/Animesuggest/comments/a7p8yf/wholesome_fulfilling_romance/

Took all day at work to finish from chapter 16 to the end. I thought this was beautiful from start to finish. The weaving of historical events into the story was really interesting and added some fantastic drama to the story. Especially with the Earthquake/Fire. There were some things that I wasn't super happy about, but I'm okay with. For instance, the evil daughter has no comeuppance, however in real life that doesn't always happen, so I'm fine with that. I think this one probably deserves a 10, a lower 10, but a 10 none the less. The romance was fantastic and the side characters were interesting as well. Even the jerk girl has a redemption arc that I found really interesting. I found this to be a nice breath of fresh air. Glad it had a happy and lovely ending.

220422 - Random short series. Nothing to go on since there's not even a description. 220422

220619 - I'll be honest, I just read this to clear it out of my "reading" list. For 6 chapters, that was neat. A girl has terrible luck with guys. They keep breaking up with her. Then she meets the other girl and... her streak continues, haha. The love interest is a liar and sort-of manipulator? Sort of? Either way, she's not a great person. By the end, they end up in a relationship anyway. It's interesting, but because of how they got into their relationship, I feel like this could have gone for another 20 chapters. It's strange. It's like the author said "and they lived happily ever after"... but nothing in the story leads me to actually believe that. According to the world that the author created, we should ACTUALLY believe that she'll break up with MC within the week. So odd. I think I'll give this a 7. I really want to give this an 8, but there's not enough here. It needs more characterization and depth. Oh well, I had a good time. Now to get back to Ascendance of a Bookworm. Currently on 5.4. 220619

230112 - Found here (https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1094tvx/disc_telework_yotabanashi_chapter_8_by_kintetsu/). Just from that smile in the last chapter. I want to read this... once it's done. 230112

230313 - I got hooked on this author in a weird way. I liked chapter 8 of this story, kept reading chapter after chapter as they appeared on r/manga, caved and read Ase to Sekken, and now I read this. This author can really turn mundane romances into beautiful stories. It's fantastic. Giving this a 10 for now. I'm up through 15, but I'm going to read this weekly. I have to. I'm hooked. This is another 10 from this author. I don't see it dropping in score anytime soon. 230313

230413 - Damn, I wish it was longer. I'm giving this a 10. I want more, but I'll take 20 chapters. This wasn't cancelled. The author just wanted to write a short story while writing a longer one. I get it. I just wish this had been the longer one. So much more to explore. Maybe this will get a reexamination in a few years. Stretch it into a longer series. Unlikely, but I can hope. 230413

210129 - This is the original version of "Ame demo Hare demo". Since this is complete and Ame demo is not, I'm going to read this real quick, regardless of how good it is.

Turns out, no. I will not be reading this as only 5/14 chapters are translated. If I want to read it, I'll need to read the new version that is incomplete. So I'll hold off for a bit.

**The following entry was in bookmarks, not on MAL. So I thought I hadn't finished this series. Current Date: 220105**
210523 - (9) I might have this (or the newer version) on MAL. Only 14 chapters long so it shouldn't be too much of a chore to get through. I think I heard that the new version is darker or something. I'll try to read this soon. 210523

210528: I'M TORN! This started off as a perfect 10. For the first 8 to 10 chapters, this was perfection. The comedy was perfect, the romance was fantastic, and the characters were ALL lovable... Then it started to bring the drama and it dropped in quality a bit. I wish the slapstick nature had continued all the way to the end. Instead, it got a bit dark. Oh well, it's still a 9 for me. Even though they didn't confess, even though they didn't kiss, even though there was NO resolution WHATSOEVER! It was still good. Now, to be honest, if this was the ACTUAL ending, I'd probably be pissed. There's so much more to explore and resolve and we got no closure on any of it. But, since the author knew this was moving over to another magazine to get rebooted, I'm good with a 9. I just pray that the humor stays the same. Dear god, this was probably the funniest manga I've ever read. It's from the same author who wrote that "dumb as I wanna be" joke from Sougou Tovarisch, so that makes sense. If it can match the comedy and romance, while dialing back on the drama a bit, the reboot will definitely get a 10. Looking forward to it. 210528
**End of bookmark entry. Current Date: 220105**

220105 - So yeah, I DID read this before. I just messed up, what with the "Not On Mal" bookmarks and the info on MAL getting all mixed up. So, I re-read it today. It was a lot of fun. Really funny and cute. Not a huge fan of the drama that starts to occur toward the end, but that's mostly because there was no conclusion to the romance. I'll need to read the reboot to get that, probably. Anyway, I'll still give this a 9, like I did before. The ending wasn't great, but the rest was awesome. Totally worth the re-read just now. Looking forward to reading the reboot. 220105

220630 - Random yuri add. Hopefully it's good. 220630

221008 - I just went through a whirlwind of emotions. I decided to read the description since I had no idea what this was about. I saw the words 4-koma and almost relegated it to the abyss of Plan-to-Read Low Priority. Then I clicked the first "chapter" and saw that it was just 1 page. Same with chapter 2 and 3. That means the whole thing is less than 1 chapter of a normal manga. So I'll read that one next because it should be REALLY fast. 221008

221009 - That was nice. Done in about 20 minutes. Nothing much happens. Just a maid helping her mangaka client with daily chores and such. It was cute, but that's about it. 221009

It was good. Nice little twist that I probably might have caught if I had been paying attention. Guy dies first, then girl. Bittersweet and nice story. For a one-shot, it was amazingly written.

210131 - Good and bad abounds in this series. I really liked the setting and the romance that developed. On the other hand, I didn't like how fast everything went. It was too short to really do any world building, but I felt like it could have done with another 50 or so chapters. 16 chapters is not enough to create a new world, show all the different youkai, develop them as characters, and produce a good romance. So the author barely involved any other youkai, didn't explore the world at all, and kind of rushed the romance. It's not like I was gripped by what I was seeing, but I'd like to have given the setting a chance before coming to the end. To be fair, when I say that the romance was rushed, it didn't feel artificial. It just happened very fast. I'd have enjoyed if they had the time to explore their feelings a bit more before the end. I think this could have been a great setting for a long yuri series. One that starts off with no romance, the human girl gets used to her surroundings, she explores the world a bit, makes friends with some other youkai, creates the hole between their worlds (as happened in the last chapter), shenanigans happen where youkai go to the human world, etc. Then over time the romance develops between human-girl and cat-girl. That could have made for a really cool series. Oh well, regarding what we got? This was nice for the length. It could have been better, but I liked it. I think even with all my complaints, this series would be worth a re-read. It was definitely an interesting and enjoyable time. I'll give this one a 7. It was a fine series. Pretty basic, but it got the job done. Bottom line is, I had a good time, and that's all that really matters. 210131

210124 - Ch17 (High Priority) There's Weird Voices Coming From The Room Next Door! Manga - Mangakakalot.com - Girl moves in. 2 girls next door are lesbians. Really hot series. There was a prequel too, which I saved here as well. Updates weekly so hope to read more soon. I think I read in one of the comments saying there are like 50-something chapters. Not sure if that's the whole series or just the number of raws that currently exist. Either way, I love this series. 210124

210420 - Up to 24. Putting "On-Hold" for a bit until it gets to 35. Hoping for a happy threesome ending. 210420

211209 - Up to 28. Getting there. 211209

220413 - Up to 29. Slooooowly getting there... 220413

220719 - I was on mangakakalot and saw in that right hand side bar thing "There's Weird Voices Coming from the Room Next Door!" and KNEW that there were more chapters. Seems there's 1 more before it's done. MangaDex is saying that there are 33 chapters total (not 35) and there are currently 32. 2 uploaded yesterday and 1 uploaded today. If I'm lucky, maybe it'll be done tomorrow! || Damn, it started strong, got super weak in the middle, then barely slid into home at the end. The whole middle section where they play tag and dodgeball was a bit weak, but I get that the author wanted to have some external conflict to go with the past of the neighbors. Regardless, those were pages that could have been spent on spicier topics. In my head this was a lot spicier than it actually was. Art was a bit rougher too. I just wish it could have kept the smut at a constant level. Oh well. I'm extremely pleased with the ending. 3some yuri ending. Gotta love it! I mean, if everyone is gay and attracted to each other, why not!? Makes sense to me! I'm going to drop this down to a 7. At the end of the day, it was pretty good, but not much more than that. If the smut had stayed constant, it'd be getting an 8 or a 9. Still a fun time, but less than what I've been hoping for this past year and a half. I'm just glad it's finally complete, now on to that legal yuri car-eared girl manga that finally got finished too! 220719

Uggh... Talk about wasted potential. I mean, is it possible to drag out a romance longer than this? Yeah, probably. But it would probably digress into comedy at the very least. This was so focused on the romance angle, yet NOTHING happened for like, 60 CHAPTERS? Fuck...the SIDE characters had more romantic development than the main characters. Even the TERTIARY characters got more romantic development!! The fuck?!

To be fair, I may not be completely objective when it comes to this manga. Since the romantic situation mirrors my own college life a bit. You know, asking out the girl, getting a wishy-washy response, asking her out again, getting a wishy-washy response. Difference is, in this one, the girl finally says yes, unlike in my situation where she asked me out for the lulz or some such reason. So yeah, maybe that jaded my perspective on this. These days I'm a proponent of "ask once, and move on". No good comes from sticking around someone who's not interested. Not for them, not for you. So when I saw this MC doing it, it made me feel really bad and cringy. I suppose it worked out for him in the end, but this whole manga just felt weak. When I say, out loud, after every chapter "I don't give a FUCK about this", that might be a bad sign. Whenever the side characters romance came up, I was like "sweet", whenever the tertiary character romance came up, I was like "sweet", whenever the main character romance came up, I was like "ugggggghhhhhhh...".

It just dragged. And dragged... and dragged. If they got together like 40 chapters earlier? I might have a different feeling about this. It's the one sided romance/dragging on that killed me. Because it DID start fairly strong. I was down with the whole secret artist angle. There was some plot development, character development was going on, the MC was trying to be a normal person, etc. Then it just got stuck in the mud for like 40 chapters because the fMC couldn't realize she was in love? Fucking come on. You spend a year and a bit like that? That just sucks.

Glad it's done and I never have to read this one again. Apparently it was unfinished for the longest time because the scanlation team felt the exact same thing I did. They saw how nothing was happening and they just dropped it. Normally I'd be all "Hey, man. Finish what you start!" but in this case I get it. Just a whole lot of nothing happening chapter after chapter. What's happening this chapter? Oh, MC is getting a weird look from fMC or fSide character. MC apologizes. Is/Is Not his fault. Next chapter, MC tries to resolve problem. Problem resolved. What's happening THIS chapter? Oh, MC is getting a weird look from fMC or fSide character. MC apologizes. Is/Is Not his fault again. Next chapter, MC tries to resolve problem. Problem resolved. Repeat ad nauseum. Based on the comments from MangaDex (I read it on mangakakalot since MangaDex is missing like 40 chapters), most of the people are glad it got finished translating from Japanese to Spanish to English, but they're also kind of whatever on the ending. Seems they're just like me. Whether it's shit or not, we just want an ending. And yeah, it ended. fMC says she loves MC, but no kiss. There's a hug and a confession, I guess, but no kiss? The side/tertiary couples kiss MULTIPLE times, but no smooch for the MCs? Hell, the side characters fuck, and the tertiary characters propose for MARRIAGE! And yet the MC's can't even kiss each other. Fucking boo. Waste of time. So much wasted potential. You. Hate. To. See. It. Happen... but here it is again. Worst part is, I know I'm going to read the sequel in 2 minutes. Gotta read those last 14 chapters. Uggh, what's wrong with me. This guy deserves a 5, but I'm giving it a 6, ONLY because the side romances were good. Those were the redeeming points of this series. Without those, this series would be nothing. Anyway, on to the sequel.

Hahaha! This series just took another dump on me. So, regarding the sequel. Not only is it not translated, it's nowhere online! I guess NO ONE gives a shit about the sequel. I'm actually... I'm actually SO MAD about this that I'm laughing! It's like, the MC characters FINALLY get together. They can finally have romantic moments. And just when I'm like "you know what? Maybe there's hope for this series. Maybe they'll catch up to the other characters and have some real development." NOPE, you can't read it! Doesn't exist! Not even in Japanese!

It's like... look, these are free scans. I didn't kickstart a manga and then not get something. But it's just... you know? I just wanted a romance that went somewhere. ANYWHERE! Uggh, whatever. Maybe if I'm feeling masochistic, I might try and read the sequel in a couple years if someone decides to put it up. Give myself another dose of "manga letdown" just to see it through to the end. *sigh* I'm going to go read some other romance manga and see if I can fix the let-down feeling that this manga instilled in me. Rant over.

https://myanimelist.net/manga/123511/Tonari_no_Kashiwagi-san_after_days

Damn, this dude tells great stories. Same author as Jitsu Wa, but this one was completed a few years before he did Jitsu Wa. In 8 chapters, he tells a great story about finding the place you belong. I wish there was an epilogue chapter, but it was also great as is. I think I'm going to give this one a 10. Emotionally resonant. Makes me want to read Jitsu Wa again. This one isn't as funny as Jitsu Wa, but the romantic/emotional moments are all there. Just a fantastic read with a happy ending.

220106 - I randomly found this and read the whole thing in like an hour. I was just about to go to bed after getting halfway through Useless Princesses (Akazawa Iroha just fell in love with Izumi) when I started this. I was going to read the first chapter, then I ended up reading up to 8. Then I saw that chapter 16 was the last one (when I went to look up discussions on chapter 8) so I decided to burn through it all. Glad I did. It was a cute story. No real romance (I mean, it was sort of implied, but nothing concrete. I'm fine with that though. Turns out they were childhood friends, but they were forced apart when they were young. It was the typical "didn't remember we were childhood friends" story, but this was done well. I wish there was actual romance, but it was fine as is, I suppose. I'll give this a solid 7. It was a compact little story filled with joy, hope, and love. Glad I found it. 220106

220111 - Apparently, no romance until the very end. Not a knock, just be aware. 220111

220112 - To think... I almost didn't read this. This was so good. It was basically an iyashikei-light story. No problems, no trubs in sight. Just 4 girls hanging out and having a good time. Maybe their older cousin might show up and join in. Maybe the two female teachers who are friends with that cousin might show up. No matter what happens, it's gonna be a good time. I loved this. Everything felt right in this story. I didn't know it was going to be as funny as it was. I'm so used to yuri stories being nothing but drama. I guess this barely qualifies as yuri, but still, it was funny as heck. That and I just adored all the characters. I just wish it had gone on longer. I feel like it could have used another 20 chapters to give us more story on the side characters, but as it was, it felt good. I worry that if it had gone on longer, it may have lost it's charm. As it stands, the yuri just barely brushed the story canvas in a way that was quite lovely. It wasn't heavy-handed at all. It was hinted at early on, it was brought up towards the end, and the two girls kissed in the end. That's all there was, and for a story like this, I'm fine with it. It didn't feel like a will-they-won't-they. They weren't spending chapter after chapter agonizing over their feelings. They gave JUST enough to make the yuri seem like the cherry on top of this story rather than the entire focus. I don't know if I've felt that way about a yuri series before. Usually, if that element is present in a story, it's hammered home. It's not secondary, in the background, or an afterthought. It's front and center. This was a breath of fresh air. Just a great work from start to finish. So now I'm torn. Is this a 9 or a 10? I had NO issues with ANYTHING in this story. It was great from start to finish. My only gripe is that it wasn't long enough. But is that even a problem? Is that worth dropping the score?

Man, I am so torn. A 9 feels PAINFULLY low and a 10 seems WAY too high. I keep looking at the other series I've given 9's and 10's to. ... Although now that I think about it, I ... damn, I keep coming up with good points and before I can write them, I think up counter points, haha. My point was GOING to be that I don't think it measures up to the same levels as Mushoku Tensei, Her Shim Cheong, or Ouji-sama Nante Iranai. Those left me with such intense feelings that this one didn't. BUT, then I think about the comedy, and the lovely characters, and the subtle romance of this series. It just felt so fresh. ... But then I think about how it ended so soon. I think if it was TRULY a masterpiece, I wouldn't have those thoughts. I mean, Sayonara Rose Garden and Toumei Ningen no Tsukurikata both had fewer chapters, and didn't leave me feeling that way, right? Gah, but then again, those were focused narratives. They weren't slice of life. So tough... You know what the problem is? I screwed myself by ranking everything so high. All the things I like are between 6-10. It's basically a 4 point scale. I want to give it a 9.5, but that's not possible. So here's what I'll do. I DON'T like it, but I'm going to give this a 9. If the author ever decides to come back and continue this story in the next decade or two, I'll revisit this and probably move this up to a 10. I'd love to live in that reality. It seems unlikely, but the manga finished a year and a half ago, and they just posted a 12 page story on Twitter 6 months ago. So, they're not DONE with it. Odds are low though. Regardless, I'll sit here with my fingers crossed and hope I get to see more. 220112

220109 - I thought this was "Will These Words Reach You" when I saw the cover. I couldn't remember the name so I had to go searching through my "Not On Mal" folder to find it. This one looks like straight H, but I want to check it out anyway. It's not by Peach Pulsar so it's a tossup whether it's actually H or not. Either way, I want to check it out. || lol, not by Peach Pulsar? OF COURSE IT'S BY PEACH PULSAR! Hahaha, so apparently Mira is another name for that author. I was thinking about just deleting this entry, but I thought it was too funny that I called out an author saying it wasn't them, when it actually was. Oh well. Anyway, I liked this one. The stories by Peach Pulsar are always interesting to say the least. I'll give this one an 8. For H, this had an interesting story. 220109

220630 - Looks cute and short. I'm in. 220630

221006 - Ummm, what? What was the point of that? A girl follows another girl, tries to act like she was a cat that MC befriended a while back, and reveals that she was lying. What was the point? I don't really get it. It's like a true slice of life where it's just a couple very normal days where these two people meet up and hang out for a bit. It was pretty weird and didn't feel like it had a solid goal. Whatever. I'll give this a 4? It felt like it had no point. Nothing interesting happened, nothing was learned, nothing was gained. It was just... nothing. Weird. 221006

220121 - Isn't valkyrie drive that anime I have on my list? Regardless, the cover is why I added this. 220121

221013 - I restarted this yesterday and got through it today. There's not much here for someone who never played the game. There's barely any plot and the "plot" is basically just ecchi. So I'm giving it a 5. For someone trying to get into it, there's not a lot to draw me in further. In fact, I had trouble telling who was who. All the brunettes with long hair all looked the same to me. The only ones that stood out were the short-haired-brunette (I'll-kill-you tsundere girl) and the blonde ojou-san. Point is, I'm done and probably won't ever come back. This might be nice if I knew the characters, but not for me. 221013

Short and sweet. Adding today 200913 from recommendation here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/4wmosq/action_or_suspense_manga_featuring_a_main_couple/
Looks nice.

201222 - That... was so much more than I thought it'd be. I went into this thinking it'd be a basic romance story with some action. While I did get that, I wasn't expecting this to be so well-made. There were so many good points to this series that it's hard to think of a negative. Let's start with the characters. Each member of "The Broom" is unique in ability, personality, and appearance. While some of them get a lot more attention that others, no one ever faded into the background, forgotten. My only gripe with the characters is also one of my only gripes with the series; the section chief is kind of a jerk. Everyone else is perfect to me, but he's just kind of unlikable. To be fair, I didn't hate the guy, I just didn't like that Kazura (female MC) is fawning over him all the time when he's... the way he is. I felt that even stronger when I realized that fire-guy liked Kazura. He confesses to her and she rejects him. It was kind of sad, but totally worth it in the end since he gets to end the series with another girl who really likes him. That minor thing is about the only gripe I have with this series and it wasn't even all that strong. I still like him well enough so it wasn't like it ruined the series. It just brought it down a bit, that's all.
As for everything else, I don't think I could be happier. The action was fun, the fights were interesting, the side-characters were always a joy to see, etc. It was all great. I wonder why this was never animated, especially since each chapter is basically a self-contained episode already? You'd think the process would be simple. Oh well, it probably wasn't popular enough. Anyway, there wasn't a single chapter that I didn't enjoy. From the start to the finish, they were all great. I especially loved the ending though. I was wondering how they were going to end it, considering it was increasingly clear that they were going to end up together. Since his Benten-gou powers could only manifest in a virgin, that meant (in my mind) there were only a few ways it could go. Option 1, he'd have to leave the company because he wouldn't cheat on her with another dog-spirit medium. Option 2, he stays with the company and works with a different woman while in a relationship with MC (doubted it would go that way since the NTR vibes would be too strong). Option 3, the shitty open ending where they keep working together, but their relationship doesn't change. I had doubts it'd go this way too. What I didn't expect was option 4, where both dog spirits sacrifice themselves to save their master. That was definitely unexpected for me which made me really love the ending. It allows everyone to be happy, hell even the DOG SPIRITS WHO SACRIFICED THEMSELVES are happy! They got to run off with their original master in the afterlife! I was so happy when I saw that. Man, everyone got a happy ending here. Well, everyone except Kinichiro (small glasses-boy) since fire-boy is probably going to be his brother-in-law, hahaha! Kazura (MC) got married to Kageyuki (section chief). Inuzuka (Osaka section chief) proposed to Itsuki (female blonde dog-spirit user). Kamo Tsumugi (Kinichiro's sister and doll-user from Osaka branch) kissed Mikogami (fire-boy). And everyone else was alluded to getting together too. Tonomura (Samurai-guy) and Yuka (female friend from another company), Terayama (Monk) and Konno (MC office-lady friend), and Leroy (blonde womanizer with guns) and Maya Oliveros (Armor girl from Osaka branch). Everyone got someone! Well, everyone except Kinichiro gets someone, but he said he doesn't care about 3D girls anyway, so EVERYONE GOT SOMEONE.

This was fun. Story was great, characters were good, action was interesting, and the ending left me EXTREMELY happy. The ONLY thing missing was stronger connections between the characters. There wasn't a whole lot linking the characters other than the job. We didn't get to see many deep heartfelt conversations between them. However, it didn't feel empty without them. It's not like I didn't buy the camaraderie between them. I just wished we could have seen more of it. We did get to see some of it, but it was usually done in a comedic way rather than a serious way (fire-boy and small glasses-boy). Not necessarily a problem, just a thing I wish was there. Anyway, I think I'm happy giving this one a 9. I was considering giving this one a 10, but I'm not sure. I can think of a few things that I wasn't 100% on board with, so I think I have to give it a 9. I might change my mind in the future (either up or down in score), but for now I feel alright giving this a 9. I might read this again in the future since I had a great time reading this one. Definitely one of the better action-romances out there.