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. ^^;

September came and went in a flash, I’m not even sure where the time went this month! I feel like I read quite a lot of good stuff this month, so lets take a look:

Manga

• Graduate volume 1
• Eromanga Sensei volume 3
• Record of Grancrest War volume 4
• It’s Fine, Even if It’s Just a Dream volume 1
• Demon Slayer volume 8
• Jinjin Jingisukan
• Haikyu!! volume 34
• That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime volumes 9-10
• To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts volume 9
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom volume 1
• Motion Emotion volume 1
• Infinite Dendrogram volume 3
• Shortcake Cake volume 5
• Silver Spoon volume 10
• Snow White with the Red Hair volume 3 – review
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Full Metal Edition volume 6
• Magus of the Library volume 2 – review
• Bungo Stray Dogs volume 12
• Discommunication volume 2
• Candy Colour Paradox volume 3
• The Golden Sheep volume 1
• The Secret Between Two
• I’m Sorry, God
• Become You volume 1
• Mood Indigo volume 1

Light Novels

• The Night is Short, Walk on Girl – review
• Koyomimonogatari Part 2 – review
• Sexiled! volume 1
• The Reprise of the Spear Hero volume 1
• Konosuba volume 9
• Restaurant to Another World volume 1
• Kokoro Connect volume 7
• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom volume 10
• Outbreak Company volume 11
• Combatants Will be Dispatched! volume 1

So 26 manga this month and 10 light novels, compared to 40 and 13. September was a relatively quiet month for new releases and so I managed to get through my pile of shame a little bit instead. Speaking of, here’s how that’s looking:

Pile of Shame:

Currently reading: Torture Princess volume 1

Reincarnated into Sword volume 1
Decapitation
Strangulation
Classroom of the Elite volume 2
Arifureta volume 1
Sword Art Online: Progressive volume 6
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

Now we’re officially halfway through the year and I can say that my ability to keep up with manga and light novels has been going well this year. Here’s what I got through in June and if you’re a first time visitor you can read the rules I set for myself here.

Manga:

• Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition volume 5
• One Room of Happiness volume 5
• Queen’s Quality volume 7
• A Very Fairy Apartment volume 2
• I’ve Been Standing on a Million Lives volume 1 (reread) – Review
• Noragami volume 20
• Ao Haru Ride volume 5
• Maiden Railway
• I Shall Survive Using Potions volume 1
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 1
• The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! volume 2
• Sweet Reincarnation volume 1
• Red Sprite
• Marginal Operation volume 1
• Our Dreams at Dusk volume 1
• O Maidens in Your Savage Season volume 2 – review
• Food Wars! (was following in WSJ)
• Discommunication volume 1
• Love Rush
• The Unwanted Undead Adventurer volume 1
• Animeta! volume 1 (reread) – review
• Bungo Stray Dogs volume 11
• Konosuba: An Explosion on this Wonderful World volume 1- review
• Little Miss P
• Blank Canvas: My So Called Artist’s Journey volume 1
• Tokyo Tarareba Girls volume 7
• Silver Spoon volume 9
• Hi-Fi Cluster

Light Novels:

• I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out my Level volume 4
• Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki – review
• Classroom of the Elite volume 1
• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 6 – review
• Cooking with Wild Game volume 3
• Side by Side Dreamers
• Kokoro Connect volume 6 – review
• Full Metal Panic volume 2
• Log Horizon volume 3
• Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf volume 2
• Strike the Blood volume 3
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 2
• Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess just wants Little Sister volume 1
• Record of Wortenia War volume 1
• The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious volume 1 – review
• My Next Life as a Villainess All Routes Lead to Doom! volume 4
• If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord volume 8
• Katanagatari volume 2 – review
• How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom volume 9

A fairly bumper month for reading with 28 manga down and 19 light novels, up from May at least! Here’s the pile of shame:

Currently reading: Woof Woof Story volume 2

DanMachi Sword Oratoria volume 9
The Reprise of the Spear Hero volume 1
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

Down a bit from last month, thankfully, although it has also seen some newcomers arrive…

We’re now five months into the year! Time is going by too fast for my liking and I feel like I’ve read a lot less than usual, but let’s take a look. As always the rules I set for myself can be found here. Bold shows a completed series while italics means dropped. Now let’s see how I’ve done this month.

Manga:

• Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction volume 5
• Animeta! volume 2
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 1 – Phantom Blood
• Silver Spoon volume 8
• Fullmetal Alchemist: The Complete Four-Panel Comics – reviews
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 2 – Battle Tendency 
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 3 – Stardust Crusaders
• Black Torch volume 4
• Shortcake Cake volume 4
• Anonymous Noise volume 14
• Demon Slayer volume 6
• Hell Warden Higuma (Weekly Shonen Jump)
• Haikyu!! volume 32
• Dive!! volume 2 – review
• Emanon volume 1 – review
• Love in Focus volume 2 – review
• Yozakura Quartet volume 2
• Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World volume 2
• Natsume’s Book of Friends volume 2
• Hitorijime My Hero volume 3
• Blood Blockade Battlefront volumes 9-1

Light novels:

• Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan – review
• My Hero Academia: School Briefs volume 1 – review
• Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight volume 4
• Konosuba volume 8
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash volume 14
• Tsukimonogatari – review
• Seoreo Gensokui Spirit Chronicles volume 5
• Penguin Highway – review
• Outbreak Company volume 9
• A Sister’s All You Need volume 4
• Infinite Dendrogram volume 9
• I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse volume 14
• In Another World with my Smartphone volume 15

This brings me to 22 manga and 13 light novels for the month, so around the same as May (which was 23/16). I buzzed through a lot of JoJo this month, so I guess that’s where a lot of my reading time went…

And here’s the pile of shame for the month:

Currently reading: I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out my Level volume 4

Snow White with the Red Hair volume 1
I’m Standing on a Million Lives volume 1
Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition volume 5
Wolf Children
Classroom of the Elite volume 1
Log Horizon volume 3
Strike the Blood volume 3
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

The pile of shame has, shamefully, grown this month! Everything from Wolf Children down is a LN. I’ve been stalling Wolf Children, I’m Standing on (…) and Snow White for awhile because I’m behind on reviews for AUKN and didn’t want to read them and then forget things before I could review them. So I should be able to knock those off pretty fast once I get through my current backlog. FMA also only arrived yesterday, so just haven’t had a chance to touch it yet.

Another month, another reading log. I’ve managed to keep these going for four months now so I’m feeling pretty proud of myself. As always the rules I set for myself can be found here.  Bold shows a completed series while italics means dropped. Now let’s see how I’ve done this month.

Manga:

• • Clockwork Planet volumes 1-5
  • Nano Hazard volumes 1-3
  • Candy Colour Paradox volume 1
  • As Miss Beelzebub Likes volume 5
  • Hitorijime My Hero volume 2
  • Eromanga Sensei volume 2
  • Fire Force volume 2
  • Tokyo Ghoul:re volume 7
  • O Maidens in your Savage Season volume 1 – review
  • Lofty Flower, Fall for Me volume 7
  • If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord volume 3
  • Himouto! Umaru-chan volume 5
  • Yozakura Quartet volume 1
  • Ne0;Lation
  • Tokyo Tarareba Girls volume 6
  • Ao Haru Ride volume 4
  • Pumpkin Scissors volume 1
  • The Master of Ragnarok volume 1

Light Novels:

• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Volume 5 – review soon
• The Unwanted Undead Adventurer volume 4
• Durarara!! volume 12
• Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill volume 1
• Kokoro Connect volume 5 – review soon
• 86 volume 1 – review
• Full Metal Panic! volume 1
• My Next life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! volume 3
• Re:Zero volume 7
• In Another World with My Smartphone volume 14
• I Shall Survive Using Potions volume 2
• The Devil is a Part Timer! volume 10
• Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 1
• Vampire Knight: Fleeting Dreams
• The Greatest Magicmaster’s Retirement Plan volume 1
• Re:Zero EX volume 1

So my counts for this month are 23 manga and 16 light novels, which is down for manga from last month but also up in light novels. Light novel reading raises and falls a lot depending on when J-Novel Club finish books, so I’m not as interested in how that number raises and falls as my manga reading does.

Also worth noting that my count for manga is off by one because I don’t count Ne0;Lation as a volume, I was reading it simulpub’d but I didn’t want to give it its own header for finishing. It’s always a shame to see a WSJ series come to an end, but no real surprise with this one either.

To finish off, here is what’s sitting in the pile of shame:

Log Horizon volume 3
Strike the Blood volume 3
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

It’s not growing at least!