High expectations that this season's anime will be the opposite of what I said about last season.
Already off to a strong start.
Already off to a strong start.
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First time I saw Darwin Jihen long time ago, I thought it was a gag manga, so I wasn't interested in reading it.
Even after I found out it wasn't, the premise still didn't appeal to me.
Now that I've read it... well... the story was... good...?
I can't say I liked it.
too many on-the-nose and patronizing lectures and messages that made me
I always leave notifications on even after I've marked manga as dropped, because I don't rule out the possibility that the story will be good someday, and I'm always open to being proven wrong. (which has happened before)
But in 2026, I think I'll start turning off notifications for some titles.
There's just too much garbage that makes me dizzy just by looking at it.
I kinda even want the series blocking feature now.
I've always been against giving manga a romance tag just because there's a slightest hint of romance between 2 characters.
There was a good SoL manga that ended without the "romance" ever being resolved, and I was always afraid people would get mad and call it romance bait.
2 years later, the manga got an anime adaptation, and somehow the manga continues with one extra volume already released and another on the way.
And with a new character replacing one of the old main characters, now I'm afraid people will call this continuation a yuri bait.
Looking back at 2025,
none of the manga I've read that started publishing this year have even managed to break through a score of 9 for me.
This hasn't happened in a long long time.
Well, I'm sure this is simply because I haven't discovered those hidden gems yet.
So, someone watched the whole 13 episodes of an anime, and then just write it off as "dropped" with score 1/10,
Like... why would you torture yourself like that?
If you hate it so much, you can stop, yknow?
I wanted to like the live-action adaptation of Ikusagami,
because it gave the protagonist a much better backstory as to why he helped the girl compared to the manga. (I don't know how it was in the novel)
However, as with most action/fight-oriented live-action movies/TV series,
I found the action scenes to be a bit lackluster.
Overall, it's quite a good adaptation. Not amazing, just alright.
Whenever I see people making "predictions" comment about a manga that has a lot of still untranslated raw chapters out there,
and then replying to themselves with "called it,"
I always like: yeah, sure, buddy
I really love it when a manga is created with digital release in mind,
where certain pages are drawn without different padding for the left and right pages.
So for pages that show a before and after of something,
you can flip the page to see the effect while the object remains in the same place.
(something like this example)
Last July, Jump published a shonen battle ping-pong manga, but it failed after just two volumes.
Now, at the end of the year, it seems like they're trying it again.
And I can't help but imagine in my mind, how the editorial team were thinking:
"How can we make this a success?"
"Oh, I know. Gay girl, innit?"
One of the famous erotic mangaka made a new manga, which is obviously also super erotic,
with an invisible man as the main guy.
Truly a hentai workaround since... well... you can't see his dick.
Anyway, no white Christmas here, but it's pouring rain outside
Merry Christmas yall
wow, lots of uploads
Christmas presents?
It's funny to me that there's this manga that's been officially translated, but only released as chapters.
As far as I know, there haven't been any volume releases yet.
Then, in one of the chapters, the story references a past event,
and it says "see volume xx for more information."
And I was like, "What volume?"
After 3 years of use, my mouse started to acting up.
Oh, the new version is on sale, so I'm gonna buy it.
That was 3 years ago,
and to this day, that newly purchased mouse is still sealed.
Now, this 6-year-old mouse is finally ready to be retired.
I don't know what possessed me, Christmas week felt so slow at the office.
A strange curiosity suddenly struck me, and 40 minutes later
I made this
Weekly Shonen Jump, 2020-2025
data from myanimelist
We used to just have "TV anime," regardless of how many episodes or how long they ran.
Then we limited the episodes to around 40-50 and called them seasons. Then we reduced that to 24 episodes per season.
Then to around 13 episodes per season and call it ”cour”.
Then we went back to "2 cour" anime seasons.
Then "parts 1 and 2" anime seasons.
Now we have "this anime season will be 5 cours."
The circle of life
Okay, that upload date bug is starting to annoy me.
Fooled me several times into thinking there's no new update.
Just couple more chapters before ending, Yona finally got an anime sequel.
It's kinda both funny and cool to me that an axed manga from almost 2 decades ago, consistently at the top of the list of most-wanted anime adaptations for almost 10 years,
is now finally getting an anime,
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