My boyfriend was visiting for the past three weeks or so, I didn't play games much other than a bit of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 on an emulator and mobile games got back into bandori, got into the newest love live game (I'll never forget you llsif rip) and umamusume. god I hate mobile games. In terms of anime I also didn't watch a lot, caught up to newest pokemon (12 episodes behind lol) and the garbage MAL made me watch for a stupid badge - Tougen Anki and for something I actually enjoyed watching I finally finished '79 Gundam. I had way more fun with it than I expected, given how old it is I thought It might've not hold up well and would be boring for how quite long it is but I had a lot of fun and was really engaged I will definitely be watching more mecha and political drama
On a different tone I finished Handa-kun with my boyfriend, we also watched Kase-san and shoujo tsubaki together. Other than that September was manga heavy, because I wanted to read everything my boyfriend bought while visiting.
Tista (Tatsuya Endo)
Pretty cool, the set up was great but half way through I felt like the author forgot what the manga was supposed to be about, the ending was shit otherwise fine.
Jojo part 3 (other than the first 2 volumes I read in May) and all of part 4 currently released physically in polish. self explanatory. it's jojo. Part 4 is still my favorite, they get progresivelly dumber with each chapter and that's what makes it kino.
Gakuen Toukukei Duklyon
The weakest CLAMP work I read so far probably other than that one old bl one shot with a teacher, it was decent, did what it set out to do, nothing more, I did really like the banter between to main characters, for some reason they decided to release this one before 20 Mensou ni Onegai so that reference was lost on me.
Mata, Onaji Yume wo Miteita
Better than I expected, the ending didn't really speak to me but otherwise I really liked it and how each character represented the protagonist in a way.
Ryuu no Kawaii Nanatsu no Ko
Each chapter had it's own story and I liked a lot most if not all of them, not a fan of short form media but this one was really solid, a great example how to do short story collections right.
Reiraku (Inio Asano, this is where I realized I forgot to put authors for everything after the first one)
First work by him I read, I've been very interested in reading his works especially punpun ever since hearing about it pretty much, I won't say reiraku disappointed me but when all you hear is how depressing his shit it and how it's going to break you it's hard not to feel unsatisfied when it doesn't do it. I did like it but nothing more, I still want to read his other stuff but might get my expectations in check first.
Hellsing
Not my thing, it lost me after second volume of ww3, the first few volumes were interesting then it was the same conflict for the rest of the story, the author notes were funny, It's really interesting how he's a hentai artist and says in the last volume how he wanted to draw tits ass and fanservice but there was really nothing of sort other than couple of shots where seras sucks integra's finger, one panty shot and I guess unnaturaly big tits but they didn't seem sexualised at all and just where there. It's cool to see people just make stuff they enjoy even if it's not for me. My boyfriend likes the third reich and furries so maybe he's going to like it more.
.hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu
Never played .hack in my life, bought the whole series for 5 bucks I hated the first volume, the first chapter makes me expect a deeper driven plot of finding answers in an mmorpg world which sounds really cool and was, the rest of the first volume is a bunch of nonsencical unconnected for the most part stories that are supposed to be fun but it was unsufferable for me (my boyfriend liked the first volume the most so to each their own ig). I liked the rest but it wasn't anything ground breaking, probably not a great start into .hack in my opinion, if they didn't like it most people probably wouldn't want to touch anything else in that universe but it made me very interested in it, I'll try to get everything they published in english physically and sell my lung for a ps2 game. I'm one of those people that thought sao sounds like the best thing ever so If I can get a good 2000s mmorpg isekai story I'm taking it.
It also made me really want to play mmorpgs, I started playing mabinogi, in a ideal world where I can stop time and live eteranally and I read and watched everything I wanted I'd spend my days playing that, pangya and SMT imgagine probably honorable mention ffxiv or ffxi if I didn't hate subscription services as much.
Sadly the only VN stuff for this month was reading Mandemon with my boyfriend, I was serioysly hyped for it because it seemed like a cool mystery with climatic graphics but the moment first sprite appears the use of AI is so jarring it honesly throws me of how the bully character has a face of a 5 year old, we only got one ending so far but it seemed all over the place and not very coherent, we'll see how it goes. For now I'm going to try to get through some of Higurashi console arcs.
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