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And as this manga demonstrates, the alternate way to make a main character shine is, of course, to just make them shine.

As it would happen, I’ve been reading a book called Why We Sleep lately, and it turns out when real people sleepwalk, they don’t dream at all! Somnambulism only occurs during deep NREM sleep. Anyway, I do like that Nakamura is consistently willing to make fun of himself and consistently stans...

How? What evolutionary incentive is there? If there’s a genetic factor that leads to any given baby having only a 1/6 chance of being male, then the more widespread that gene is, the greater the advantage held by the competing “1/2 male” gene. Because the more skewed the population ratio, the...

Y U NO FISHER’S PRINCIPLE

I think Ciao is actually aimed at elementary-school girls, even — which explains why its manga have basically no international fandom and include a lot of Aikatsu and Pretty Rhythm tie-ins. Dunno if Ciao Plus targets an older crowd, though. (By comparison, look at how many of Ribon’s manga have...

And that’s how Crayak lost the Howlers.

Adult deaths are more common in general, though (populationpyramid.net says only 15.8% of Japan’s population is under 20, and of course adults are more likely to die), so a smaller proportion of “deaths without love experience” could still be a greater absolute total.

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?

Anterograde amnesia means never having to worry about “CANNOT UNSEE”! :D

My words were "this arc is adapted from the second book in the series" -- as in, this arc of the manga. I think my meaning was quite clear. (And I don't think "diss" is a reasonable interpretation of how I've spoken of children's books or light novels, both of which I'm rather fond of.) Oh hey...

You want to know where I’m looking at? Well, I decided to investigate an obscure source called “the Japanese Wikipedia page for this series”. Which says that the first novel came out in October 2018 and the second in February 2019, which was, yes, five and a half years ago. It was only this...

I don’t think any of Himari Hino’s books have been sold as light novels, though I can’t find anything she’s published aside from Yotsugogurashi. Inexperience is fair, though — apparently this arc is adapted from the second book in the series (out of 18 to date), and that was published five and...

lol @ Nitori swearing seven times in the translation of one chapter of a children’s book adaptation

For what it’s worth, this is based on an ongoing series of children’s books whose 17th volume came out in March. The illustrations are by the same artist as this manga adaptation, with the same style, so I’d say it’s working for the target audience. (Don’t ask me why the manga’s running in...

“When I look back over my work, I'm depressed when it's not very good, but when I'm okay with it I get scared I'm not improving.” oof

I’ve been theorizing that after girlfriend #33, everyone’s going to suddenly go up a year. Nobody will understand this, especially since it never stopped being spring (except possibly for a brief Christmas and/or Valentine’s arc out of nowhere), and there will be merciless Nakamura-bullying from...

…Is she going to patent a weapon tens of thousands of years old?

Huh, Chloe’s not nearly as sexually uninterested (or repressed) as Maomao.

Oh shit, seriously? I posted a request on /r/manga for someone to pick up Naisho no Tsubomi back in November. I’ve been seriously considering just ordering a volume or two from Kinokuniya USA and seeing if my meager Japanese skills are up to the task of reading it — a manga for...

Conway’s Game of Life? looks at picture that’s been my primary avatar across the Web since well over a decade ago for a long moment Nope, never heard of it.