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New Read - Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 3

Fantastic volume. Met a kraken. Also, got more backstory on the party including a former member introduced. Which was fun.

Favorite moment - when they sewed giant poison frog hide together to help them get through some areas where there are poisonous flora.

That moment and screenshot. Looking great.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 2 against a light colored wall. The cover is bordered in red and gold with the title in the upper right-hand corner. To the left is a light skinned, red haired halfling sitting on a treasure chest with a group of adventurers caught behind them in the water being thrashed around by a kraken.

Black and white photo of a single panel from Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 3. The image shows four adventurers of various sizes all wearing sealed up suits made of the hide of a poisonous giant frog. The two in the middle have little bumps on the top that almost look like frog eyes. They are sort of patched together. The mustachioed character on the right has some of their beard poking through the seams.

New Read - Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 2

Another great volume. More cooking while in a dungeon in a fantasy world. Plus some social commentary on racism in fantasy world settings...

Love to see it.

I don't know what else to say. It's keeping my attention this whole time.

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Soo… my reading has gone off the rails. As have my posting. I don’t know what this means, but I am enjoying what I’m reading. I’ll work on getting my reviews up this week.

CR: Home Front by Kristin Hannah

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New Manga Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 11

The first half finished the tale of the battle to beat Macht of the Golden Lands and it's so well done. Denken gets a great chance to shine, so does Frieren. Also, Frieren gets to show how she's grown as a person in trusting her allies. It was so well done.

The second half was a string of short self-contained chapters with little stories. Frieren once again gets silly spells from locals she helps.

All in all, great volume!

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume 11. Image shows the titular Frieren centralized ready to strike with her staff at the ready with various characters behind her battling including an older, bearded gentleman (Denken) and a few demons. The lower half of the scene is covered in golden layer. The upper half is the night sky, largely.

Photograph of a manga screenshot from Frieren, Volume 11. The image shows a bundled up elf with light colored, long hair (Frieren) reading a book and saying, "A spell that makes paper airplane fly father." There are two typos I just noticed including "aireplanes" and "father" instead of "farther." Whoops!

New Read - Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1

Okay, volume 1 sold me. It sold me hard.

Basic premise is that a band of fantasy adventurers get through a dungeon, only to be so hungry that they cannot fight against a red dragon and one of their compatriots is swallowed whole by the dragon.

So, after regrouping, they decide to go back. But, like they need to eat along the way.

Enter Senshi. Senshi helps teach them how to cook monster they find in the dungeons and it's so much fun.

Glad I picked this up. Looking forward to more.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 against a light colored wall. The cover is bordered in red and gold with the title in the upper right-hand corner. To the left is a light skinned, blonde man in a suit of plate armor holding cooking utensils. Behind him in dull light is a small group of fantasy adventurers and a red dragon behind that.

Photograph of a single black and white manga panel from Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1. The image shows a light haired warrior in plate armor from behind talking to a tall, light haired elf and a short, half-foot (halfling) rogue. The warrior is saying, "People have been resurrected from mincemeat before, right!? Has any adventurer ever been revived from poop!?" The half-foot character says, "Not htat I've ever heard of."

New Manga Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 10

Almost the entire volume is comprised of the memories of Macht of the Golden Land.

This flashback is SO well done. Incredible to fully understand Macht's backstory and how it overlapped with the region, with Denken, and with Frieren.

Flashing back to the present in the story and Macht with a friend from the past become a problem.

But that ending.

Such a well crafted volume, as always. Now I need to request the next volumes from my library!

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume 10. Image shows the titular Frieren centralized with mana swirling around her and assorted characters, including an older, bearded gentleman (Denken) standing behind her. The scenery is medieval fantasy; however instead everything is covered in a rainbow of color.

New Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 9

So good.

No, seriously, each volume is just so good.

Volume 9 brings back Denken into the plot. We meet near the Golden Land as Denken is trying to get Frieren's help to defeat the demon that has kept it gold. And the plot here, so well done. A lot of good flashbacks and the reveal of the demon's personal connection to Denken.

So good.

Can't wait to read the next volume.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume 9. Image shows the titular Frieren standing next to an older, bearded gentleman (Denken) with a white-blue background near the bottom half, a golden background and a colorful demon seen from behind in the upper half of the cover.

Through Volume 1, it's implied they have a mutual crush. Kind of. She's 24. He's 45.

I...I dunno. That feels weird. Too weird, to me. Too much of an age gap.

Also, his weird obsession with her when she's in cashier mode creeps me out. He specifically goes only to her aisle for check out even if the line is longer. That's explicitly said in the manga.

If a 45 year old dude kept doing that to a 24 year old woman IRL, how weird would that be?

Anyway, dropping after Volume 1. No thanks.

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New Read - Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You, Volume 1

So, a lot of folks online have been reading this, apparently, so I saw Volume 1 at the library and picked it up. Also, a lot of folks I had followed on Insta (when I was there) gushed over this.

Premise: 45 year old business dude is kind of obsessed with a younger woman who checks him out at the grocery store. Another woman who works there (same woman, different hair style) asks to smoke with him. They chat outside while smoking together. He doesn't realize they're the same person.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding "Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You," volume 1. Image shows an older man in a suit next to a younger woman with purple hair in a skirt and leather jacket smoking. They are sitting on crates against a wall.

New Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 8

Volume 8 is a collection of shorter stories of Fern, Frieren, and Stark. Various encounters, well done flashbacks, solid fight scenes. Everyone holding their own.

But the final chapter showed Denken coming back into the story and, for that, I am thrilled.

Denken is back, guys!!

Sorry.

Anyway, loved it. Looking forward to Volume 9.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 8 against a light colored wall. The title is at the top. The cover shows a group of three fantasy adventurers walking toward the viewer downhill with a long, rocky countryside behind them at night. On the right side is a monster with four arms and a snake lower half and two demons alongside them at dusk. The titular Frieren (white haired, long eared, short elf) is at the center standing toward the front of the group walking downward.

New Read - The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, Volume 1

I have heard good things for a while, so picked up Volume 1 from the library. Short version: I enjoyed it.

Summary: Teenage girl has a crush a music store employee who she thought was a boy but, as it turns out, is a girl in her class. When they both figure it out, they wrestle with those feeling as the both kind of dig each other.

It's cute. A lot of references to American rock music. Also, very short chapters which makes it read similar to Wotakoi, if you read that one.

Overall, liked it.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding up The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, volume 1 against a light colored wall. The cover has the title in all capital, black lettering along the left side of the page with a neon green background. The cover has a person centralized sitting on an amp wearing baggy pants, a hoodie, and a face mask to cover their mouth. Sitting on the other side of the amp is a blushing, feminine character in a school uniform with a skirt.

The local library had a stack of old #NationalGeographic magazines they were giving away. This one (my birth month and year) seems like a score. Can’t wait to learn about this new #technology known as a “microchip” and the valley in which it is made.

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Cover of an issue of National Geographic (Volume 162, no. 4; October 1982), featuring a hand holding a microchip with a list of other stories about microchips, Silicon Valley, saving deer in Père David, Thailand, and Alaska’s Pribilofs

New Read - Hi Score Girl, Volumes 8-10 (Final)

So, I finished Hi Score Girl this weekend.

The last three volumes flew by. They were so well done. So many fighting games. So much about these characters, Haruo and Oono, finally owning their feelings for each other.

At long last, they both know that it's love and the ending had me tearing up while reading it on the couch.

It's so cute. Glad I read the manga.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Hi Score Girl, Volume 8. The cover shows two teenagers holding an egg-shaped snack while sitting with a lime green background. Haruo (boy) on the left and Oono (girl) on the right. Oono is leaning over to look at Haruo's snack while Haruo is sweating.

Photograph of a white person's hand holding Hi Score Girl, Volume 9. The cover shows two teenagers in front of a candy crane game machine with a light bluish background. Haruo (boy) on the left and Oono (girl) on the right. Oono is leaning toward the camera operating the machine to get the candy while Haruo is chomping on something.

Photograph of a white person's hand holding Hi Score Girl, Volume 10. The cover shows two teenagers standing side by side with a white background. Haruo (boy) on the left and Oono (girl) on the right. Both are slightly nervous / blushing.

New Read - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Volume 7

End of the First Class Mage exam. I genuinely like how it ended and congrats to Denken and Fern. I hope we see Denken again someday.

The other part of the volume is some minor adventures and the importance of enjoying / experiencing life.

But, also Stark and Fern go on a date and it's so adorably awkward. So cute.

Anyways...yea, still loving it.

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Volume 7

Another one.

Haruo and Hidaka are basically at war, kind of. Haruo can't go to his normal arcade cause Hidaka's posse have made him uncomfortable. So, he goes to a different arcade. And then there's arcade turf wars. It's wild.

Also, Hidaka is pushing again for Haruo all while Oono is finally getting SOME reprieve from her home life.

The ending of this volume.

Phew.

Need to get Volumes 8-10 to finish this up.

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One more note, before I to into Volume 7. Their slow burn arcade romance is great because Haruo isn't an "I want this hottie" person, but "I want an equal partner / gamer that I want to make happy." He just hasn't figure it out yet.

It's very sweet. And the nostalgia is huge.

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Volume 6

Phew, this volume.

The first half is entirely comprised of the battle between Haruo and Hidaka via arcade fighting games. Hidaka dropped the gauntlet saying, "If I beat you, date me." She trained. Hard.

However, she ultimately lost. And, frankly, that's for the best. Haruo doesn't feel the same way about her and doesn't fully get his feelings, However, he is clearly in love with Oono. Everyone sees it, except him. And it's adorable. When he describes his feelings for her, Oono's sister said to him, "Do you know what you call that?" And he is so confused.

Solid volume.

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Volume 5

Short Plot Summary: Set in the early 90s. Haruo is a hardcore arcade gamer obsessed largely with fighting games. Oono is a wealthy heiress who is a natural at video games and loves them. However, because of her wealth, she is constantly on lock down. The two meet at arcades and get close.

Enter Hidaka who became a gamer and has a huge crush on Haruo.

This volume follows after Hidaka's confession to Haruo; and Oono gets more isolated. There were also some great flashbacks from Oono's perspective.

Solid volume for this slow burn romance based on mutual gaming respect.

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Photograph of a black and white panel from Hi Score Girl, Volume 5. The panel zoomed into shows a teenage girl (Oono) slamming her head into the chest of a teenage boy (Haruo) who is very shocked by the exchange.

Hi Score Girl, Volumes 5 through 7

More of my transfer of my PIxelfed manga posts over to Mastodon. Here are the covers of Hi Score Girl volumes 5 through 7. I finished Volume 7 this past weekend, so I'll talk about that in the following thread.

I'll also be transferring over my comments from the original posts here.

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Photograph of a white person's hand holding Hi Score Girl, Volume 5. The cover shows two teenagers playing a home console video game with a hot pink background. Haruo (boy) on the left and Oono (girl) on the right. Oono is pulling on Haruo's cheek.

Photograph of a white person's hand holding Hi Score Girl, Volume 7. The cover shows two teenagers at a boxing arcade game with a teal background. Haruo (boy) on the left is sipping a drink while Oono (girl) on the right has a boxing glove on and is slamming the machine.

Volume 6

Volume 6 is the entirety of the next part of the First-Class Mage examination, as well as a beginning to the next part. The part after that, is brief and amazing, but I'll let you read it to find out. There's also flashbacks to a younger Frieren and the head of the entire magical program. Very well done.

The section in the cavern is great as you see how each of the mages from the previous volume deal with the conflicts of entering this unimaginable dungeon. Including a monster that can duplicate the powers of others.

Also, Frieren trapped in a mimic.

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