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• Sunday at 5:19 PM

Reading Mangaplus Creator from time to time is fun.
I like seeing what those inspiring mangaka from all over the world are making.

Until I stumble upon one manga that suggested the idea of playing an electric guitar using a violin bow.
And I instantly got a brain aneurysm.

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• Saturday at 2:58 AM

Japan has a ton of cup ramen and instant ramen brands, so when I moved here, I picked up a new hobby: trying one brand/flavor of instant ramen once a month. (normal, udon, soba, whatever)
Just one pack/cup, once a month.

I'm no picky eater, so up till now it's been just "yeah, it's ramen alright".
Maybe one was slightly spicy, or salty, or thick. But overall, it's whatever.
But for this month's instant ramen, I was like

"why does the broth smell like piss?"

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• Wednesday at 9:27 AM

Reading the new manga from Leviathan's mangaka which will most likely trigger a certain user from the title alone.

Another one that doesn't have an entry in MD yet. Expect soon, I guess?

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• Jan 4, 2026

High expectations that this season's anime will be the opposite of what I said about last season.
Already off to a strong start.

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• Jan 2, 2026

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

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• Jan 2, 2026

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.

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• Dec 31, 2025

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• Dec 31, 2025

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.

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• Dec 29, 2025

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.

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• Dec 28, 2025

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?

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• Dec 27, 2025

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.

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• Dec 27, 2025

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

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• Dec 26, 2025

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)

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• Dec 25, 2025

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?"

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• Dec 25, 2025

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

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• Dec 24, 2025

wow, lots of uploads

Christmas presents?

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• Dec 24, 2025

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?"

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• Dec 23, 2025

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.

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• Dec 22, 2025

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

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• Dec 20, 2025

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