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Reading Log: August 2026

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The busy summer season has finally concluded, and now we go into autumn, where I’m excited to be able to spend more time on hobby stuff and am being completely unrealistic about all the things I will achieve. Still, I feel pretty accomplished this month too. I might not have been as on top of my hobbies as I’d like (just trying to watch my J-dramas before they expired on TVer has been a lot…), but actually when I’m tired I do tend to just read a stack of books, so that works out somehow. Anyways let’s take a look at what I’ve been reading!

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Backlog Conquest: You’re My Sun

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Yuki Fumino is a mangaka I’d known about for a long time due to I Hear the Sunspot, but I never got into her work until I watched the live-action adaptation of the aforementioned work in 2024. Well, I did have the Sunspot manga at that point, but it was in the backlog still… Anyway, this week I finally pulled out ユア・マイ・サン from the backlog (where it has also sat since 2024) and was surprised to find it’s another Yuki Fumino work, just under the penname Yuki Akaneda (which she uses for non-BL works). And what a delight it turned out to be! Certainly one of those hidden treasures that has been waiting for the right moment to surface out of the many piles of books.

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Backlog Conquest: Handkerchief Motte, Time Machine Matte, Last Scene Damatte,

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I’m actually an existing fan of Sagan Sagan’s work, but when I first came across Handkerchief Motte, Time Machine Matte, Last Scene Damatte, (ハンケチーフ持って、タイムマシーン待って、ラストシーン黙って、), I never got as far as the mangaka’s name before being captivated by the opening colour page below (disappointed this never made it into the full volume!). There was that instant sense that this was something special, so I hit pre-order and patiently waited for the first volume to release. So patiently, or perhaps I was simply intimidated by the large page count, this has actually been in the backlog since February. But better late than never!

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Backlog Conquest: Oshi ga Fan no Fan ni Nacchau Ohanashi

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I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an idol fan (although plenty of the seiyu I like are in idol units or act the part), but I do appreciate a good story about characters who are or are in love with idols. Maybe because the fandom of it is quite similar to the otaku fandom when you’re really into a show or character. I can relate to those feelings readily enough. And there’s certainly a whole lot of manga based on this subject recently, especially in the BL genre (seriously, there are so many). But when I pulled 推しがファンのファンになっちゃうお話 (Oshi ga Fan no Fan ni Nacchau Ohanashi), out of the backlog, I discovered it had a fairly novel take on the concept.

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Reading Log: May 2026

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Before we get into this month’s reading log, I have an announcement of sorts. Around the beginning of the month I started a new series, Backlog Conquest. The idea is to take a more in-depth look at some of the stuff I’ve been reading and that I’m not covering professionally for AUKN or Atelier. These aren’t meant to be reviews, they’re just a collection of my thoughts.

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Backlog Conquest: Ai Ou Futari

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A mystery has befallen me, dear readers. On Friday I was too excited about the latest Yen Press announcements and couldn’t sleep, so I found myself scrolling through my books on BookWalker until I decided on reading Ai Ou Futari (愛追うふたり) until I settled down enough to sleep. And it was really good (more on this in a minute!)! But I haven’t owned this book very long; I bought it toward the end of April, yet I can’t remember why exactly.

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Backlog Conquest: Bungo Stray Dogs – Another Story #3

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If you know me well, you probably know I am a big fan of Bungo Stray Dogs and have been ever since the anime started in 2016 (yes, a whole ten years ago now!). But volumes of the main series and most of the side content sit in my backlog, mostly because I read the monthly releases of everything except Another Story and Wan!, so I take my time savouring the full volumes later when some time has passed. I imagine, with the main series currently on hiatus after the conclusion of Part 1, I’ll binge my way through those volumes once we hear tell of the series returning. And maybe I will write something about that at the time; I mean, at least by then the English volumes might be caught up too, so I can excitedly talk about it with friends who don’t read the Japanese releases like I do. But today I want to talk about Volume 3 of Another Story: Yukito Ayatsuji vs. Natsuhiko Kyougoku. 

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Backlog Conquest: Hanakaze Killer Tune

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I buy and read a lot of manga magazines every month because if I can follow series from when they serialise, I’m less likely to spend money on full volumes down the road. At least, that’s what I tell myself. But I don’t buy Jump SQ (or Jump Square, as it’s often called) because Blue Exorcist, Seraph of the End and Gokurakugai are already simulpub in English through the Shonen Jump app. And sure, we’re not getting the whole SQ lineup in English, but it feels hard to justify buying it every month when I already fork over money to VIZ for their service and there’s that overlap in titles.

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