What is Seven Seas even doing??? 😩

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What I miss the most about old fantasy series is the travelling element. It hurts seeing the declining popularity of adventure as a genre, I love stories about characters who travel around & getting to know the people & the story behind each place they visit.

Got this artbook for 60% off sealed so extremely happy. The king of baseball manga reigns supreme I love his art so much

For those that don’t keep up with Twitter, people didn’t have nice things to say about my post on Mpreg that I made while being delirious from a lack of sleep so there’s that. It’s so hard criticizing anything without it being taken as a diss against its entire existence.

Sorry for being so inactive lately. I started at my new job so barely had anytime to do anything recently.

I jusf finished vol 1 of Tramps Like Us & I love the vibes of these older josei. Lowkey I don’t even think their age gap is that scandalous. Was surprised to see Sumire’s only 27, Momo graduated ballet school so he has to be 20 at least.

Finished the 1st volume of The Moon on A Rainy Night & I had such a great time. The way people treat disabled folks that aren’t nice or agreeable is so cruel, I feel for Kanon. I love seeing the girls connecting with each other, Kanon opening her heart makes me so happy for her.

Everytime I criticize a series for making commentary about beauty standards yet center around androgynous/masculine-looking cis girls wanting be feminine as the main challenge, somebody has to comment about how it’s also a problem & I can’t stress enough how annoying it is.

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I don’t like when a story or its fans frame multiple love interests aiming for a the same person as a conquest/competition. Stop with the “winner/loser” narrative it’s corny as hell, why is the person making the decision being objectified into a prize in the 1st place.

I’m so sick of coming on the hellsite for animanga & people are too busy accusing each other or other series of being tourists/larpers/fake fans/industry plants to have an actual opinion on literally any topic.

It’s wild how fast so many people go through hobbies & fandoms, like they’re so quick to call a series a fave & make it their entire personality but will lose all interest in a matter of months. I don’t call a series an all-time favorite easily but when I do, it sticks for years.

Got the 2nd volume of On My Way to Meet Mom in & it’s so beautiful. I love the merch that comes with this series

My unpopular opinion is I don’t need my BL manga to come with acrylic stands or a bunch of merch. What I need is for publishers to give me the freaking exclusive bonus chapters, I’ll pay extra for them. It drives me crazy everytime I learn there is content I don’t have access to.

I don’t necessarily agree with all the controversy surrounding how young Maomao looks, but the most recognizable versions of her (Square Enix manga & anime) do make her look younger. My bigger problem is I don’t like how those versions beautify her (bigger eyes, smaller face)

The concept of putting a $20+ plastic case on a $10 volume of one of the most popular SJ manga because it’s a first print from *checks note* 2016 is so damn funny. Even Asian collectors aren’t doing this much, and their obsession is mental illness level.

Finished Mata Ashita Aeru Yo & it’s such a lovely read. The art matches the story, clean & simple. I enjoy how quiet it is but also the emotinal depth it carries. They have such natural chemistry, it’s so enjoyable reading about people who are comfortable around each other.

I feel like my taste for Korean & Chinese BLs are completely reversed from what’s popular in Western fandoms. For Korean BLs I love fantasy & action series more than modern romance, but with danmei I prefer modern romance & some horror. Still popular but not the most popular.

The concept of buying a 20 dollars plastic case to protect your manga that’s 15 dollars at most & then spending even more money to get them graded. Also I don’t collect manga magazines so Idk but aren’t they, generally speaking, not that sought after?

There’s a new manga coming out called Garden in The Closet about a boy who’s discovering his sexuality & his crush on the FTM transfer student. The art is gorgeous, and it’s actually magical realism, which is pretty rare to find in manga. x.com/comic_nettai...

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

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You might have missed the ragebaiting grifters hating on Shiharama Kamome for her interview with UNESCO about how invisible women are. The concept of being a man who’s not in the field mansplaining how misogyny doesn’t exist to a female mangaka because *checks note* popular mangaka exists.

If you like On The Way to Meet Mom you should totally read Nicola travelling around the demon’s world. Basically the same premise, and the art in both is incredible. I can’t even begin to describe how these series makes me feel, just look at them.

It’s such an odd feeling seeing Korean series being mentioned the most when it comes to gangster romance, I was in the BL trenches back in the day with these series.

Time isn’t real because wdym nowadays people know Ike Reibun from Dick Fight Island & not her Bi no Isu/Bi no Kyoujin series, it’s so graphic but the characters are so hot. Also Sublime should have picked this series up seeing how popular DFI was

Kyaaa new HQ illustration, it makes me so emotional to still be getting new content for the series after all these years

In a Dayoo craze so I read vol 1 of Carnivore’s Suite & it’s so cute. It’s about friends who are big meat lovers & they hang out at this barbecue restaurant together. The chapters are short & each couple gets a few chapters.

The way syundei was struggling mentally from the harrassment they faced to the point of deactivating & a BL account with 63k followers on Twitter made it about themselves & how they’re so much better than the antis because they hate it for better reasons. Had to unfollow you’re just obnoxious

I just read the 1st chapter of Teacher’s Friday (せんせいの金曜日) & it was SO GOOD!!! The MC is a born-&-raised island boy but he wants to have sex so bad, so when he got transfered he met ML on a dating app, and they have an arrangement to hook up on Fridays. Spoiler alert: and they were coworkers

I just hate how much the Internet has declined in terms of having basic decency for others. Sometimes you literally have no choice but to engage with the perception people have about you because people don’t leave you alone otherwise.

Okay so Syundei the author of "Go for it Nakamura!" was harassed so much by random assholes outside of Japan for a non-existent TeacherxStudent grievance in the manga, accusing her of pedophilia that she deleted her Twitter account. You're all fucking nightmare monsters. #goforitnakamura #BL

Syundei (Go For it, Nakamura creator) just deleted their twt account bc of harassment. Those who witch hunt & dogpile a creator bc they love moral policing ""problematic"" fiction while ignoring that there's an actual person behind the work are my enemies. You people don't fucking deserve anything.

I’ve been thinking about this recently but I do not like people assuming somebody’s sexuality based on their taste in fictional characters, especially if it’s from an illustrated or written format. There are things that are the same but also way different.

I finally got my Hikaru volumes 5-7 from the store I preorder & Vietnamese fans for this series eat so well, the collectors’ edition is so well worth it everytime. Every volume has a double-sided alt cover on top of all these inclusions. And the back covers are stunning too.

Hold on I just learned the physical version of Kaii-san to Asuka-kun no ohanashi is non-explicit. No offense but what is the fucking point of a size-difference monster romance without the sex? I’m here to see monster bits & an anatomy lesson not chaste kissing.

Art from Yugo Kobayashi (AoAshi) of Momo from #Dandadan to celebrate the series fifth anniversary. ©️Tatsu Yukinobu/Yugo Kobayashi/Shueisha.

I compiled a list of some Korean action novels I enjoyed by theme. Currently I’m reading Wax Doll Explosion Academy, but this series is extremely triggering so I’d recommend Hell Execution Order instead, same author but I’m 14 chapters in & it’s an easier read. Full text is in ALT for image 1.

I’m on chapter 40 of Wax Doll Explosion Academy & what is wrong with this author 💀 It’s a dystopian so I expected the SA & extreme violence but there’s canibalism in chapter 1. It’s so action-packed tho, I’m enjoying myself.

Kai from Umi ga Hashiru Endroll is so beautifully androgynous like if a man & a woman had a baby Those bottom lashes are to die for 😩

There’s this person on Tik Tok who keeps calling Sung Ho from Our Sunny Days by his English name & that really bothers me. Sung Ho doesn’t identify as American, ik it’s not intentional but it just feels like his Korean identity is being erased when you purposefully choose to call him Andrew.

I don’t like how whenever a series has romance AND something else in it, the most common praise is “it’s so much more than a romance”. I don’t like the negative implication that romance means nothing, if it was that easy to write then why do so many writers fuck it up 🤷‍♀️

I refuse to read Marriagetoxin until it’s ended cause this is the one dog I can’t be losing chess to. Also Idk why I keep forgetting this is a Jump+ manga & then act surprised seeing straight dudes root for anyone other than Kinosaki 😭

Wet Sand fanbase so bad they are even hallucinating the characters & starting discourse in Jaxx’s new art like c’mon now

What intrigues me is that despite the series’ popularity with casual BL fans, I don’t think Nakamura-kun is that highly regarded with avid readers, in my circle at least. It’s quirky but leaves much to be desired. If anything Syundei’s horror series gets a better reaction.

This is the future liberals want

I get why Mappa dropped out of YOI but I think people’s resentment towards the studio is completely justified. This is the studio that started with Kids on The Slope, whose fame was founded on series like YOI & Banana Fish. And look at their productions since 2020.

When the ai bubble pops, I won’t be a gracious winner about it, sorry not sorry. I will be annoyingly giddy and tap dance very badly on its grave and no amount of “be the bigger person” will stop me

I saw someone on Twitter saying they couldn’t finish The Hunter’s Gonna Lay Low cause toxicity isn’t their thing. Funniest thing is I can’t even defend the series because Sa Young IS toxic in the most literal sense, so they’re technically correct 😭