Out of the busy season and into a relatively calmer month. I feel like I read less this month than usual, perhaps because I was playing Soul Hackers 2 and Splatoon a lot instead… Let’s take a look at the breakdown!
Bold = completed series
Italic = dropped
Manga:
- The Love Song of the Cracker Bell
- The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter volume 2
- Earthchild (WSJ)
- Come On Over, Koda! The Dumpee and the Divorcee volume 2
- Seaside Stranger volume 4
- Love Death Lord (One-shot, JP, Monthly Shounen Magazine)
- Misaki-san no Kiken Shingou (One-shot, JP, Monthly Shounen Magazine)
- The Star and the Hedgehog
- Our Love Doesn’t Need a Happy Ending volume 2
- Love of Kill volume 9
- Me, My Boyfriend, and the Future of Our Love
- A Break from Japan volume 9
- Shonen Note volume 5 (JP)
- Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character?! volume 2
- Dualing Fighters (JP, Shonen Gangan)
- Mr. Good Luck Charm
- Falling, Drowning volume 3
- I Realise That I Am Falling in Love
- My Happy Marriage volume 1
- Shonen Note volume 6 (JP)
- Kizuna: Bonds of Love volume 11
- Bursting with Youth volume 1
- The Way of the Househusband volume 8
- Crime Catch Policure (one-shot)
- Fudanshi Kazoku (JP, Pixiv)
- Shonen Note Pilot (one-shot, JP)
- Shonen Note volume 7 (JP)
- Hyouka volume 4 (JP)
- Shonen Note volume 8 (JP)
- Buttocks Will Be Photographed
- Usotoki Rhetoric volume 3 (JP)
- Hyouka volume 5 (JP)
- Tokyo Babylon volume 2 (JP)
- Usotoki Rhetoric volume 4 (JP)
- Gushing Over Magical Girls volume 3
- My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files volume 1
- The Life of an Author
- These Twins Keep Coming Onto Me!
- The Apothecary Diaries volume 6
- Ano Ko ni kodomo volume 1 (JP)
- Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction volume 11
- Usotoki Rhetoric volume 5 (JP)
- Lullaby of the Dawn volume 1
- Destiny Unchain Online volume 1 (JP)
- Mr. Bride volume 6
- Tokyo Babylon volume 3 (JP)
- Hyouka volume 6 (JP)
- Hyouka volume 7 (JP)
- Hitman volume 3 (JP)
- Tokyo Babylon volume 4 (JP)
- Hyouka volume 8 (JP)
- Tokyo Babylon volume 5 (JP)
- Sono Kokuhaku, Nakatta Koto ni! (JP, one-shot, Dessert)
- Omiai na Futari (JP, one-shot, Dessert)
- Kinino-kun to Atsui Natsu (JP, One-shot, Dessert Blue)
- A Serenade for Pretend Lovers volume 4
- Planet With (CR)
- Harudonari (JP, Pixiv)
- Anti Romance volume 1
- That’s My Atypical Girl volume 6
- We’re Abhorred By Fate
- Tesla Note volume 6
- Boss & Yasu volume 1
- Burn the House Down volume 4
- Wails of the Bound
- Josee, The Tiger and the Fish (omnibus)
Light Novels:
- In Another World With My Smartphone volume 26
- When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace volume 4
- My Stepmom’s Daughter is my Ex volume 4
- Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 21
- Holmes of Kyoto volume 11
- Seventh volume 1
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa: Rusalka volume 1
- The Apothecary Diaries volume 6
- My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected volume 10
- VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream! volume 2
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa: Rusalka volume 2 – review
- D-Genesis: Three years After The Dungeon Appeared volume 2
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? volume 17
- Bungo Stray Dogs volume 8 – review
- Slayers volume 16
- My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected volume 10.5
So this month I got through 66 manga and 16 light novels, both down from 92 and 26. I did however manage to get the backlog down from 89 to 70, so even though my numbers are down I’m willing to consider that a win.