July was another continuation of the war of light novels and actually I finally cleared off the backlog of 2019!* Now let’s see what all I read this month.

*(In light novel form, still some manga boxsets to be read…).

Manga

1. From Me to You volume 4
2. The Job of a (Temporary) Teacher volume 1
3. Nad Venus & My Honey volume 1
4. Rent-A-Girlfriend Volume 1 – review
5. The Perfect Combo volume 1
6. Show Courage volume 1
7. Cherry and Skirt volume 1
8. From Me to You volume 5
9. Teacup Toy Boy volume 1
10. All I Think About Is You volume 1
11. Space Brothers volumes 7-8
12. Wish of God volume 1
13. Kiss My Blood volume 1
14. A Sign of Affection volume 2
15. The Demon Wants to Be a Good Boy volume 1
16. Imperfect Girl volume 2
17. A Sweet Beast volume 1
18. Blue Sky Wars volume 1
19. Imperfect Girl volume 3
20. Public Sex volume 1
21. Love Voice volume 1
22. I Want to Feel You Because I Like You volume 1
23. Foolish Heroine volume 1
24. 1122: For a Happy Marriage volume 6
25. Loner Life in Another World volume 2
26. Ran the Peerless Beauty volume 7
27. Wandering Witch volume 1 – review
28. xxxHolic volume 2
29. GE: Good Ending volume 2
30. Space Brothers volumes 9-10
31. Fullmetal Alchemist Full Metal Edition volume 9
32. Men’s Life volume 2
33. Boring Ninomiya-san volume 1
34. From Me to You volume 6
35. Haikyu!! (WSJ)
36. Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! volume 4 – review
37. From Me to You volumes 7-10
38. The Magic in This Other World Is Too Far Behind! volume 5
39. Bibliophile Princess volume 1
40. Tsubasa volume 2
41. Marginal Operation volume 5
42. Koi ni Mudaguchi volume 1 (JP read)
43. BL Metamorphosis volume 2
44. Combatants Will Be Dispatched volume 2

Light Novels

1. Re:Zero volume 9
2. Torture Princess volume 3
3. Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going On? volume 3
4. I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level volume 6
5. The Tales of Marielle Claric volume 3
6. Altina: The Sword Princess volume 5
7. I Had That Same Dream Again – review
8. When the Clock Strikes Z volume 1
9. The Epic Tale of the Reincarnated Prince Herscherik volume 1
10. Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 8
11. How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom volume 12
12. Defeating the Demon Lord’s a Cinch (If You’ve Got a Ringer) volume 2
13. Slayers volume 1
14. The Combat Baker and Automation Waitress volume 7
15. Wild Times with a Fake Fake Princess volume 2
16. The Unwanted Undead Adventurer volume 6
17. Log Horizon volume 5
18. The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?) volume 1

So for the month of July I managed 48 manga and 18 light novels, which are both improvements on last month (43/13). It’s a good job my pile of shame from 2019 mostly went away since now I’ve started back at work and have more disposable income I’m busy building myself a new pile…

Another month, another look at what I’ve been reading over the last four weeks. Been a semi-productive one I feel.

Manga:

• Animeta volume 4
• How to Kill a Heart volume 2
• Dragon Goes House-Hunting volume 2
• Aiming for the Moon, Becoming the Star volume 2
• O Maiden’s in Your Savage Season volume 6 – review
• While You’re Asleep
• Snow White with the Red Hair volume 6 – review
• Princess Jellyfish omnibus 3 (volumes 5-6)
• Zipman (WSJ)
• Like a Sugar Volume 1
• In/Spectre volume 11
• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom volume 4
• Snow White with the Red Hair volume 7
• Blue Flag (Manga +)
• The Unwanted Undead Adventuer volume 3
• Blue Flag volume 1 (reread) – review
• Fullmetal Alchemist Full Metal Edition volume 8
• Behind the Scenes volume 6
• A Side Character’s Love Story volume 1
• Ran the Peerless Beauty volume 2
• Lust -fantasy-
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 5
• A Side Character’s Love Story volumes 2-3
• The New Gate volume 1 – review
• Loner Life in Another World volume 1 – review
• xxxHolic volume 1
• Dragon Goes House-Hunting volume 3
• Witch Craft Works volume 1
• Waiting for Spring volume 1
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei volume 1
• Imperfect Girl volume 1
• Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest volume 3 – review
• I’m in Love and It’s the End of the World volume 1
• Marginal Operation volume 4
• Ex-Enthusiasts volume 1
• A Transparent Fever 
• Another Side of You
• Dreams Take Flight
• A Very Fairy Apartment volume 4
• Cosmo Familia volume 1 – review
• Ao Haru Ride volume 10
• Touch You Tenderly 
• Tsubasa volume 1
• The Reprise of the Spear Hero volumes 1-2
• Repeating Your End Together Volume 1
• If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord volume 5
• Our Dreams at Dusk volume 4
• To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts volume 10
• Hitorijime My Hero volume 7
• Himouto! Umaru-chan volume 9
• Ghost of After School volume 1
• Bungo Stray Dogs volume 14
• Demon Slayer volume 13
• An Incurable Case of Love volume 3
• I Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love volume 1
• Yuzu the Pet Vet volume 1
• Persona 5 volume 2
• Here, There and Us volume 1
• Star Crossed volume 2
• Katsutoshi volume 1
• Magus of the Library volume 3
• Wanna Try Dating Inoue? volume 1
• Perfect Pink volume 1

Light Novels:

• Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? volume 5
• The Greatest Magic Master volume 5
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash volume 14++
• Cooking with Wild Game volume 7
• 86 volume 4 – review
• Bibliophile Princess volume 2

So this month I’ve read 65 manga and 6 light novels. Not entirely sure how this happened and honestly I’m disappointed in myself for not reading more light novels… (last month was 60 manga, 23 light novels).

Pile of shame time:

The second reading log of the year is here. In February I made a decision to try and pour time into getting through some of the pile of shame given this month was quiet for releases. Let’s see how I’ve done…

Manga:

• Demon Slayer volume 11
• Death Note 2020
• Even If You Close Your Eyes, You Can See the Light volume 1
• The Dreams of the Cuckoos volume 2
• The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar volume 3
• My Hero Academia: Smash volume 3
• Yuki and Matsu volume 2
• Fairy Tail Ice Trail volume 2
• My Androgynous Boyfriend volume 1 – review
• The Right Way to Make Jump Volume 1
• Shortcake Cake volume 7
• Oto no Sekai no Mukougawa chapters 1-2 (Japanese read)
• I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level volume 1 – review
• Silver Spoon volume 13
• Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 1 – review
• Black Torch volume 5
• Young Good Boyfriend volume 1
• An Incurable case of Love volume 2
• The Way of the Househusband volume 2
• Hitorijime My Hero volume 6
• Hi Score Girl volume 1 – review
• Yozakura Quartet volume 5
• In/Spectre volume 3
• Layla’s Great 3am Adventure (Japanese read)
• How to Kill a Heart volume 1
• Aiming for the Moon, Becoming the Star volume 1
• Demon Slayer volume 12
• A Man and His Cat volume 1

Light Novels:

• The Devil is a Part-Timer volume 11
• Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World volume 1
• Re:Zero EX volume 2
• Weathering With You
• Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki volume 2
• You Call That Service? Volume 1 – review
• The Combat Baker and Automation Waitress volume 4
• Torture Princess volume 2
• Can Someone Please Explain What’s Going on?! volume 1
• Strike the Blood volume 4
• Toradora volume 3
• The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind volume 9
• Bibliophile Princess volume 1
• Combatant’s Will Be Dispatched! volume 1 – review
• Outbreak Company volume 13
• The Unwanted Undead Adventurer volume 5
• I Shall Survive Using Potions! volume 4

Well while I said I was making an effort to get through my backlog the numbers are somehow lower than last month. 28 manga and 17 LN’s compared to 37 and 15. I guess being ill for a bit and moderately busy in Feb screwed up my grand plans.

Here’s how the piles look:

Hopefully next month I make more progress than this….

After successfully sticking to my reading logs last year, I figured I’d continue into 2020. Time to find out what I’ve read in the first month of a new decade! Here’s what I’ve been reading and here are the rules I set for myself when recording this log.

Manga:

• The Dream of the Cuckoos volume 1
• Spirit Chronicles volume 4
• Can He Get a Lover in a Sex Trade Shop? volume 1
• Silver Spoon volume 12
• Drifting Dragons volume 1
• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 3
• Takane and Hana volume 3
• Yuki and Matsu volume 1
• Seven Days omnibus 
• Anonymous Noise volume 18
• My Father is a Unicorn volume 1
• A Witch’s Printing Office volume 1
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom volume 2
• Penguindrum volume 1
• Bungo Stray Dogs volume 13
• GE: Good Ending volume 1
• As Miss Beelzebub Likes volume 8
• Aki-chan is the Super Erotic Madonna for Guys volume 1
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 4
• In/Spectre volumes 1-2
• He Has Never xxx volume 1
• Konosuba an Explosion on This Wonderful World volume 3
• Himouto! Umaru-chan volume 8
• The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess volume 6
• Marginal Operation volume 3
• Persona 5 volume 1
• Haikyu!! volume 36
• Daytime Shooting Star volume 4
• Wedensday Morning, 3:30Am
• Snow White with the Red Hair volume 5
• Golden Sparkle volume 1
• Boys Love! volume 3
• The Heaven in the Hell volume 1
• The Pure Knight’s Shining Journey volume 1
• Tales of Berseria volume 2
• Solanin omnibus

Light Novels:

• The World’s Strongest Rearguard volume 1
• Kokoro Connect volume 8
• By the Grace of the Gods volume 1
• Isekai Rebuilding Project volume 1
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? volume 14
• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 9
• 86 volume 3
• Konosuba volume 10
• The Greatest Magic Master’s Retirement plan volume 4
• Tearmoon Empire volume 1
• Cooking With Wild Game volume 6
• Bungo Stray Dogs volume 2
• Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf! volume 3
• I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! volume 1
• Owarimonogatari End Tale Part 1

Total: 37 manga, 15 light novels.  About the same amount of light novels as December (14 then), but less manga (44 compared to 37). This month my ‘to buy’ list is significantly quieter than usual, so I’m hoping to use this free time to bring the pile of shame down a bit. ^^;

Speaking of here’s how the piles are looking….

I recently rearranged it a little to try and get some of the shorter reads out the way. I’ve already read 2 this month, so I’m hoping I can keep knocking them down!

November went by in a total blur and I don’t feel like it should be almost Christmas again. I still have books from my birthday to read and that was March! Anyway here’s what I’ve read this month. Rules I set for myself and these posts can be found here.

Manga:

• Tokyo Tarareba Girls volume 9
• Himouto! Umaru-chan volume 7
• Sweet Drop
• Daytime Shooting Star volume 3
• Ao Haru Ride volume 7
• Cells at Work! volume 5
• An Incurable Case of Love volume 1
• My Hero Academia: Smash volume 2
• The Unwanted Undead Adventurer volume 2
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable volume 3
• Arata Primal: The New Primitive (Manga +)
• Nicola Travelling Around the Demon’s World volume 1
• If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord volume 4
• The Wize Wize Beasts of The Wizarding Wizdoms 
• Hitorijime My Hero volume 5
• Combatants Will Be Dispatched! volume 1
• Crazy Fruits volume 1
• A Lotus Flower in the Mud volume 1
• Tomo-chan is a Girl volume 5
• The Beautiful Greeness volume 2
• Boys Love! volume 1
• Sneaky Red volume 2
• One Room of Happiness volume 6
• The vacation in Love volume 1
• Shinjuku Lucky Hole volume 2
• Shortcake Cake volume 6
• Yui Kamio Let’s Loose (WSJ)
• Double Taisei (WSJ)
• Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction volume 7
• Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro volume 1 – review
• Demon Lord, Retry! volume 1
• Our Dreams at Dusk volume 3
• The Love of Calendula volume 1
• Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest volume 2 – review
• Anonymous Noise volume 17
• Dreamin’ Sun volume 10
• Classmates volume 3
• Ten Count volume 2
• Haikyu!! volume 35

Light Novels:

• My Hero Academia: School Briefs volume 3 – review
• Cooking with Wild Game volume 5
• Sexiled volume 2
• The Miracles of the Namiya General Store – review
• Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? volume 4

So it turns out I’ve been majorly slacking on reading light novels in November. I’m going to blame playing the new Pokémon game… I finished the month with 39 manga read and 5 light novels, compared to 24 manga last month and 15 light novels. Gotta up my game next month!

Pile of Shame:

So I made a deal with a good friend of mine that once she visited if I was still writing these reading logs I’d include pictures of the pile of shame instead of a list, so gonna start doing that this month!

Currently reading: Decapitation.
Pile:

The end of the year is approaching surprisingly fast and somehow the pile of shame is still not decreasing but I’m still reading a bunch of stuff… Funny how life works. Anyways here’s what I’ve been reading this month. Rules I set for myself and these posts can be found here.

Manga:

• Cells at Work: Code Black volume 1
• Blank Canvas volume 2
• Teddy Bear De Cheri
• Marginal Operation volume 2
• Demon Slayer volume 9
• Cooking with Wild Game volume 1
• Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles volume 3
• As Miss Beelzebub Likes volume 7
• The Ancient Magus Bride volume 11
• Lust and Love in the New Academy
• A Very Fairy Apartment volume 3
• The Brave-Tuber volume 1
• Bakemonogatari volume 1 – review
• O Maidens in your Savage Season volume 4 – review
• Granblue Fantasy volume 1 – review
• Yozakura Quartet volume 3
• Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable volume 1
• Trial
• Beastars volume 1 – review
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime volume 11
• Konosuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World volume 2 –review
• The Stranger by the Beach
• The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind volume 4
• The Way of the Househusband volume 1

Light Novels:

• Infinite Dendrogram volume 10
• Torture Princess volume 1
• Full Metal Panic volume 4
• I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse volume 16
• In Another World with my Smartphone volume 17
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash volume 14.5
• Spirit Chronicles volume 7
• Sword Art Online: Progressive volume 6
• Durarara!! volume 13
• The Combat Baker and Automation Waitress volume 2
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 4
• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 8
• The Greatest Magicmaster’s Retirement Plan volume 3
• Altina the Sword Princess volume 1
• The Ancient Magus’ Bride: The Silver Yarn

So 24 manga this month, down from 26, and 15 light novels compared to 10 last month. Not bad given I’ve even been to SLA…

Pile of Shame:

Currently reading: My Hero Academia: School Briefs volume 3, Decapitation

Snow White with the Red Hair volume 4
Umaru volume 7
Daytime Shooting Star volume 3
Tokyo Tarareba Girls volume 9
Cells at Work volume 5
An Incurable Case of Love
My Hero Academia: Smash volume 2
Hiorijime My Hero volume 5
Suspension
The Miracles of the Namiyama General Store
Torture Princess volume 2
I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed out My Level volume 5
Reincarnated into Sword volume 1
Strangulation
Classroom of the Elite volume 2
Arifureta volume 1
Tokyo Ghoul: Re volumes 8-11
Re:Zero volume 8
Log Horizon volume 4
Re:Zero EX volume 2
Strike the Blood volume 4
The Devil is a Part Timer! volume 11

I’ve bought a lot of manga this week so the pile is looking even worse than usual. Hopefully improvements next month. ^^;