Yeah - I’ve been figuring that even if I don’t catch up by the time that the scanlations catch up to the current releases, it’ll likely settle down to the magazine’s semimonthly schedule, so I’ll be able to catch up then.

And yeah - it doesn’t pull its punches.

Yesterday, I made it through three or four chapters, and then got to the introduction of Hikasa Ken - the leader of the Anti-transfloration movement - and his men methodically murdering the entire family of a recalcitrant politician. And that was enough for me. Later, when the edge had worn off, I went back to it, only to see the girl whose name I forget at her work in Austercity, pruning rotting human body parts off of warehoused transfloration subjects who are destined to be made into rich people’s furniture. That demanded another break. And so on.

It’s weirdly compelling, just because it’s so intense, but only in relatively small doses.