August has been a fairly hectic month for me. I started a new part-time job, which has eaten up a lot of my time and energy, but things are beginning to calm down now. Here’s what I read this month:
Manga:
- The Beautiful Greeness volume 1
- Elevator Strategy volume 1
- The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess volume 5
- Konekokawa and Koinumaru
- An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 2
- Himouto! Umaru-chan volume 6
- F-Ken
- Pornographer volume 1
- The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind volume 3
- Tomo-chan is a Girl! volume 4
- Secretly, I’ve been Suffering About Being Sexless
- Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san volume 1 – review
- Chi’s Sweet Home volume 1*in Japanese*
- So I’m a Spider, So What? volume 6
- The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life volume 1
- Haikyuu!! volume 33
- Flying Witch volume 7
- Witch Hat Alteier volume 2
- Our Dreams at Dusk volume 2
- Dreamin’ Sun volume 9
- Anonymous Noise volume 16
- Daytime Shooting Star volumes 1-2
- Ao Haru Ride volume 6
- Komi Can’t Communicate volume 2
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime volume 8
- Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 2
- Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest volume 1 – review
- Hitorijime My Hero volume 4
- The Last Saiyuki (was following in Weekly Shonen Jump)
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season volume 3 – review
- Phony World
- Animeta! volume 3
- I Shall Survive Using Potions volume 2
- What’s Under his Clothes is Outrageous!
- Kaguya-sama Love is War volume 2
- How to Treat a Lady Knight Right volume 1
- Nichoume Days Lives of the One-Room Residents
- Sleeping with the Stallion
- Tokyo Tarareba Girls volume 8
Light Novels:
- My Hero Academia: School Briefs volume 2 – review
- I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse volume 15
- Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? volume 3
- An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride volume 7 – review
- Der Werwolf: The Annuals of Veight volume 5
- 86 volume 2 – review
- Fullmetal Panic! volume 3
- Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki volume 1 – review
- Ascendance of a Bookworm volume 3
- Last Round Arthurs volume 1
- Cooking with Wild Game volume 1
- Bungo Stray Dogs volume 1 – review
- The Combat Baker and Automation Waitress volume 1
So this month I only managed 13 light novels, but a lot of my J-Novel titles have been on hold – which is what usually bulks out the numbers. However I did manage 40 manga, so I’m doing pretty well there… Finally, here’s what I’m currently reading and what’s in the pile of shame (which has grown because I got a job):
Currently reading: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Pile of Shame:
Record of Grancrest War volume 4
Haikyu!! volume 34
That Time I got Reincarnated into a Slime volumes 9-10
Decapitation
Strangulation
Classroom of the Elite volume 2
Classmates volume 2
Eromanga-Sensei volume 3
Snow White with the Red Hair volume 3
Torture Princess volume 1
Arifureta volume 1
Sword Art Online: Progressive volume 6
Restaurant in Another World volume 1
Tokyo Ghoul: Re volumes 8-11
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
At this rate I should probably make a separate pile of shame for manga.
It’s not hard to stumble across Sword Art Online when talking about recent anime hits. Based on a series of successful light novels, the anime told the story of thousands of people trapped within a video game. What the anime didn’t do however is tell this tale from the first floor of Aincrad up, although the original light novels didn’t either so it can hardly be faulted. That said, one of the more interesting aspects of Sword Art Online has always been the world of Aincrad and thus the Progressive series of novels are here to answer a lot of our questions and tell a brand new tale.