Final reading log of 2023! This one gives me an excuse to share shiny charts, charts which completely embarrass me I must say as the backlog has only increased tenfold this year. Still, let’s check out what I read this month first:
Bold = completed series
Italic = dropped
Manga
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End volume 6
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 18
- My Happy Marriage volume 4
- D-Genesis: Three Years After the Dungeons Appeared volume 1
- Lady Rose Just Wants to be a Commoner! volume 5
- Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon volume 3
- Rebuild World volume 6
- A Cave King’s Road to Paradise: Climbing to the Top with My Almighty Mining Skills! volume 4
- 魔法史に載らない偉人 ～無益な研究だと魔法省を解雇されたため、新魔法の権利は独占だった～ (Magazine Pocket)
- Black Summoner volume 14
- Noragami volume 26
- The Faraway Paladin volume 11
- Young Lady Albert is Courting Disaster volume 5
- This Art Club has a Problem! volume 2
- Bocchi the Rock! volume 1 – review
- Wistoria: Wand and Sword volume 6 – review
- Magical Girl Incident volume 2
- となりのメタラーさん
- Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf volume 8
- Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing volume 2
- Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag-character?! volume 4
- The Apothecary Diaries volume 8
- Kimura x Class (Weekly Shounen Magazine, JP)
- Even If You Slit My Mouth (Manga Plus)
- Ascendance of a Bookworm – Part 2 volume 8
- Only I Know That This World is a Game volume 3
- 女王オフィーリアよ、己の死の謎を解け (B’s-Log Comic)
- 15 Minutes Before We Really Date volume 1 – review
- Tokyo Aliens volume 5
- Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! volume 4
- You’re My Cutie volume 6
- Nina the Starry Bride volume 1
- Sweet Reincarnation volume 9
- Diamond in the Rough (Manga Plus)
- Gushing Over Magical Girls volume 9
- Koigakubo-kun Stole My First Time volume 5
- Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill: Sui’s Great Adventure volume 5
- 23:45 Volume 1 (JP)
- Just Like a Dad! (JP)
- Even Though We’re Adults volume 7
- My Hero Academia: Team Up Missions volume 4
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End volume 7
- Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuceino
- Call of the Night volume 13
- To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts volume 14
- Suzume (Afternoon, JP)
- Wolf Girl and Black Prince volume 2
- The Reason He Won’t Have Sex with Me
One-shot
- ガチャ日和 (Shounen Ace)
- アサシン先生の女難 (Weekly Shounen Magazine)
- 性交渉交渉 (Bessatsu Shounen Magazine)
- ゼロとヒャク (Weekly Shounen Magazine)
- Youは何しにこの星へ？ (Betsufure Next)
- 水曜日は、図書室で。(Betsufure Next)
- その“照れ”は反則です (Dessert Pink)
- 儚げ王子は守られない (Dessert Pink)
- 付き合うなら、ひみつで。(Dessert Pink)
- 息継ぎしふたり (Afternoon)
- Sweet Lullaby (ENG, Wolf Girl and Black Prince volume 2)
Light Novels
- Earl and Fairy volume 4
- An Introvert’s Hookup Hiccups: This Gyaru is Head Over Heels for Me! volume 5
- The Mythical Hero’s Otherworld Chronicles volume 6
- Knight’s and Magic volume 2
- The Unwanted, Undead Adventurer volume 12
- Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 29
- The Tales of Marielle Clarac volume 10
- Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade volume 7
- Tearmoon Empire volume 11
- Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World volume 6
- The Apothecary Diaries volume 10
- My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer volume 11
- D-Genesis: Three Years After the Dungeons Appeared volume 5
- Holmes of Kyoto volume 16
So, this month I managed 48 manga up from 42, 14 light novels down from 20 and 11 one shots up from 5. And this is how my year worked out:
Overall my yearly numbers are down. 600 manga compared to 851 in 2022 and 211 light novels down from 252 in 2022. Amount of books is up, but actually not that much compared to how much the backlog has increased… Here’s how that chart is going (the yearly total for one shots is 136, but I only started tracking that this year. Likewise its only the second year of data for my purchasing habits) 
Hopefully, in 2024 I can get the backlog down somewhat…