It’s 2022! A new year begins, but before I can worry about what kind of things I’ll be reading this year it’s time to find out what I read in December 2021 and how my reading stats compare to the previous year.

Bold = completed series
Italic = dropped
No volume number = one shot

Manga:

1. Astra Lost in Space volume 1
2. Perfect Propose volume 1
3. Here and There and Us (and Then and After) volume 1
4. Desert Flower
5. Honnou Switch volume 1 (JP)
6. Rent-A-(Really Shy!)-Girlfriend volume 1 – review
7. Honnou Switch volume 2 (JP)
8. Yagami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai volume 1
9. Astra Lost in Space volume 2
10. Nosatsu Junkie volume 10 (JP)
11. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 11
12. Eromanga Sensei volume 8 (JP)
13. Bungo Stray Dogs: beast Volume 2
14. The Downstairs Resident is Mr Fudanashi volume 2
15. Kizuna: Bonds of Love volume 1
16. Everyone Stand Up! Boy’s Love Private High School Dachida/Mizuki
17. Crystal Harem volume 1
18. Momo Oni (JP)
19. Yozakura Quartet volume 12
20. Yozakura Quartet volume 13
21. Noragami volume 23
22. Astra Lost in Space volume 3
23. With a Dog and a Cat, Every Day is Fun volume 6
24. Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town volume 5 – review
25. A School Frozen in Time volume 4 – review
26. My Only Doggy volume 1
27. Just for the Butler volume 1
28. Cupid is Stuck by Lightening volume 1
29. Beast’s Storm: Kiss Me Baby volume 1
30. Enjoy Delicious 
31. Blue Sky Complex volume 2
32. Yagi the Bookshop Goat volume 1 – review
33. Astra Lost in Space volume 4
34. Astra Lost in Space volume 5
35. Bootsleg volume 2 (JP)
36. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime volume 18
37. Our Bodies, Entwining, Entwined volume 2
38. The Splendid Work of a Monster Maid volume 1
39. The Emperor’s Lady-in-Waiting is Wanted as a Bride volume 3
40. I Am a Cat Barista volume 1
41. Uwasa no Saiki wa Kare to Koi ga Shitai volume 1 (JP)
42. Gacha Girls Corps volume 1
43. Sex with a High-grade Man volume 1
44. Love Story of Hoshino Zoo volume 1
45. If You Share a Kiss with Asakana volume 1
46. Gold from Heaven’s Night Sky volume 1
47. Bibliophile Princess volume 5
48. Sweat and Soap volume 9
49. Sampling Sex: Araeda and Sakuma
50. Eromanga Sensei volume 9 (JP)
51. The Savior’s Book Café Story in Another World volume 1
52. The Two Lions 
53. Mars Red volume 1
54. Queen’s Quality volume 13
55. How Do We Relationship? volume 4
56. Cells at Work: Code Black volume 4
57. Takane and Hana volume 6
58. Natsume’s Book of Friends volume 4
59. That’s My Atypical Girl volume 3
60. Beauty and the Feast volume 2
61. Cells at Work: Code Black volume 5
62. Natsume’s Book of Friends volume 5
63. Takane and Hana volume 7
64. Your Wish Is My Command volume 1
65. The Loose Cat Wag Its Tail in Secret volume 1
66. The Cat is Always Capricious volume 1
67. Suspect of Mutual Love volume 1
68. Gacha Girls Corps volume 2

Light Novels:

1. I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top volume 1 – review
2. The Apothecary Diaries volume 4
3. Guide to the Perfect Otaku Girlfriend volume 4
4. Konosuba volume 15
5. Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing volume 2
6. The Otherworlder, Exploring the Dungeon volume 1 – review
7. The Magician Who Rose from Failure volume 4
8. Black Summoner volume 7
9. The Girl I saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend volume 1 – review
10. In Another World With My Smartphone volume 24
11. How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom volume 15
12. Altina the Sword Princess volume 12
13. Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On?! volume 8
14. Slayers volume 12
15. My Next Life as a Villainess All Routes Lead to Doom volume 11
16. The Great Cleric volume 6
17. Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Liseselotte volume 2
18. By the Grace of the Gods volume 10
19. My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, as I Expected volume 9
20. Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be An Adventurer volume 1
21. The Ideal Sponger Life volume 6
22. Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun volume 6.5
23. Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World volume 3

So my numbers for the month work out to 68 manga (compared to 62 the month before) and 23 light novels (compared to 22). So doing pretty well! Yearly stats work out as 712 manga read compared to 587 and 248 light novels compared to 220, so another tick upwards. Hopefully they’ll stay around this number next year and not continue to climb higher and higher…. ahahah. Meanwhile, my backlog has increased from 32 to 59, but with Christmas etc that’s no real surprise…