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SEAN: It was the end of Julys, it was the beginning of Augusts... We start off with Airship, which has print for Though I Am an Inept Villainess:…
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SEAN: The end of January and the start of The Worst Month (tm). ASH: And an extra long one at that! SEAN: We start with Airship, which in…
Fluffy Paradise, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man
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SEAN: The end of June, and if you're in North America, dangerously high temperatures. Stay inside with manga. MICHELLE: Good plan. ASH: I do like manga more than…
Japan Top 12 Weekly Light Novel Sales Ranking: December 25 – December 31, 2023
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Bungo Stray Dogs, Aria the Scarlet Ammo
Daily Blog Post of February 12, 2022
Aside from my Top 10 Anime Characters Whose Name Starts With a C post, I only have one thought for this post. You probably don’t know this, but Hatena…
Japan Top 12 Weekly Light Novel Sales Ranking: December 18 – December 24, 2023
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Author Journey (December 26, 2022)
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Manga the Week of 12/25/24
SEAN: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Best wishes from Manga Bookshelf!... wait, there's manga out this week? ASH: As if there was any doubt! SEAN: Yen On has…
Manga the Week of 12/4/24
SEAN: December is here, and so is Whamageddon. Good luck to all! ASH: Ha! SEAN: No print light novels for Airship, but we do see an early digital…
Manga the Week of 12/11/24
SEAN: As we prepare for Christmas, publishers try to put out all - well, most - of their titles a couple weeks early. Buckle up. ASH: Let's goooooo!…
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, High School DxD, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
Manga the Week of 12/18/24
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Manga the Week of 6/12/24
SEAN: It's officially hurricane season, and there's a hurricane of manga. The debut from Viz Media is Naruto: Sasuke’s Story—The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust (Naruto: Sasuke Retsuden…
Sasuke, Shangri-La, Skip Beat!, Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Call of the Night
Listening/reading log #26 (December 2021)
Sorry for the late post again; work has been drowning me, but every time this kind of rush happens it gets easier to deal with. Maybe this is…
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: December 25 – December 31, 2023
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Spiraken Manga News Ep 26: December 2nd - December 8th 2021
Let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast In this episode, Xan discusses the latest news in the manga world, showcases the Doraemon anniversary statue and…
Japan Top Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: December 25 – December 31, 2023
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Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: December 25 – December 31, 2023
After major gains made by most titles the week before, nearly all titles on the Top 10 have witnessed a decline in sales week-over-week. Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu…
D4DJ All Mix – Episode 11 and 12 (END) – The Rest of the Collaborations
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Top Weekly Manga Sold in the US: December 24 – December 30, 2023
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Episode 159 - GARP: Aquarion 24-26
We are back for the first episode of 2022 with the epic conclusion to the first part of The Great Aquarion Rewatch Project. We finish off th...
Fall 2020: The rest of the field…
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Fall 2020: The end of the rest…
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TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: December 18 – December 24, 2023
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Hyakusho Kizoku-the farmer's days, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Chiikawa, Parallel World Pharmacy
Seasons Drawings! (Part 1)
Have some holiday cards from different collections to share, in the spirit of re-gifting.
SEASON’S DRAWINGS! (Part 2)
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Visual Novel Translation Status (31/3/24)
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All Might and the Importance of Rest
We continue our Holy Week series about anime and disability with a guest post by my former editor, Allison Alexander. Her newest work, Super Sick: Making Peace with…
Japan Top Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: December 18 – December 24, 2023
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Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: December 18 – December 24, 2023
General sales of video game software pressed on with last week’s momentum with all titles on the Top 10 recording a rise in units sold week-over-week which includes…
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: December 18 – December 31, 2023 (Two-week)
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COMIC ZIN Weekly Manga Sales Ranking via Natalie: December 25 – December 31, 2023
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Author Journey (December 12, 2022)
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Tokyo 24-ku (12)
Tokyo24-ku ends is with a garbage budget Sailor Moon and a heaping dose of “nothing makes sense”. Read Su’s reaction to Episode 12 here.
Look At The Stuff I Posted From 12/2/24 to 12/9/24
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Weekly Round-Up, 24-31 December 2025: Internationally Streaming Takarazuka, FTC Anime Industry Investigation, and Gal x Gal
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Trigun (Toraigan) – The Final Shoot Out Arc, Episodes 24-26
Trigun (Toraigan) (1998) The final shoot-out! While hardly so divisive as the ending to Neon Genesis, there are a fair few disappointed folks out there when it comes…
When Two Drawings Are Plenty
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Raden, Marry Me! Forget the Rest of ReGLOSS
Dive into the captivating world of VTubers as we uncover the magnetic allure of Juufuutei Raden, a rising star from hololive's DEV_IS branch.
Amazoness Kiss (the rest of it): Ishitsuyo Natsuko
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 26, 2020
Yuri Manga While Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Volume 1 is on the way in English, Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts, Volume 2 hit shelves last month in Japan!…
Top Weekly Manga Sold in the US: December 31 – January 6, 2024
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Episode 173 - GARP: EVOL 24-26 & Love OVA
The journey is now over. We conclude The Great Aquarion Rewatch Project as we finish with the last episodes of Aquarion Evol as well as talk...
What I Watched This Week – 12/18-12/31
Chimimo – I asked for people’s picks for underwatched gems from 2022, and this was one of them, so I decided to give it a go. I initially…
KADOKAWA’s Weekly Top 5 Manga and Light Novel: December 18 – December 24, 2024
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COMIC ZIN Weekly Manga Sales Ranking via Natalie: December 18 – December 24, 2023
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Black Lagoon, Hyakusho Kizoku-the farmer's days, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You
Manga the Week of 4/24/24
SEAN: April is lurching towards its conclusion. What can we find? ASH: Hopefully my mind; try as I might, it's convinced that March comes next. SEAN: There's a…
Kokuhaku, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
Manga the Week of 7/24/24
SEAN: It's still July, and still hot, but don't worry, you can relax in the shadow of Yen Press releases. ASH: That could possibly work. SEAN: There is…
Manga the Week of 1/24/24
SEAN: After waiting for Yen Press to show up this year, we are finally here. ASH: Hold on tight, folks! SEAN: No debuts for Yen On, but we…
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Reign of the Seven Spellblades, The Irregular at Magic High School
I Didn’t Draw Anything from 12/10/24 to 12/17/24
I mainly posted old drawings.