Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
A couple series I wanted to call out this week. One of them I mentioned last week as well, so I will start with that one.
Third week in a row to mention this series. I am caught up with what is on Mangadex now and I am incredibly content with how things have worked out and incredibly sad that the next chapter to be released is slated to be the conclusion. I want so much more of this series. However, just like a recurring theme in the series, I feel like it is my duty to see it off with a smile. I look forward to the conclusion and hope only for the best for the author’s future works.
This series took a torture-porn turn in recent chapters that I caught up on this past week. Like, it spent a lot of time going into details of how a character was tortured. I…am not a huge fan. I had previously written about how I like how open-ended the power system the main character in this series has. However, the way that the author has actually put it into practice has so far been poorly motivated and feels arbitrary. I might keep reading to the end of this little arc to see if it improves, but my expectations have been lowered a lot in recent chapters.
I have continued to enjoy this series and it has changed up a bit after a time jump in recent chapters. I thought this week might be a good time to mention this series again after it has received a flurry of posted chapters. There has been a bit of scanlator drama with this series and it is likely that it will be a little while until chapters resume, making this a mini-hiatus.
I really liked this series and just caught up with a bunch of chapters this past week (they are only 2-4 pages long usually). As chapters have gone on, I feel like the story has taken a backseat. Instead, the short chapter is more often used as a setup to some fanbox-locked spicy content. I get that artists need to eat and this is often how it is done, but I can’t help but wish that there was more story in each of these chapters since they are so short.