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Great reads! 😀!

Well dang, came here looking for new stuff but I've already got all these heh

Asking what my favorite reads have been is kinda like asking a parent who their favorite child is!😂 There's probably an answer, but how on earth am I supposed choose?! Lol I suppose my overall favorite has to be Wind and Truth! I don't think I could give any other answer with a straight face. As far as manga goes🤔... for completed series, it's a toss up between Monster, Alice in Borderland, and Parasyte. I loved all three so much! My favorite one shot has to be The Music of Marie. I want to Eat Your Pancreas tore me apart, and Uzumaki creeper me the hell out, but The Music of Marie was just on a whole other level! It shocked me, made me cry, had me completely invested in the characters, and just really told such an amazingly excellent story! For ongoing series, once again, there are so many that have been stellar! There's not much in it between A-Do, Fool's Night, and Gannibal! And with the way After God has started out, I could easily throw that into the mix as well! I suspect that there's at least one or two more that I plan on reading in the very near future that will end up on that shortlist as well!😂 Also, honorable mention to King in Limbo! Because the internet told me that it was a Josei, I wasn't sure how much I would be able to relate to, or enjoy it, but out of all of those manga you talked about in that video, it might have been my favorite! I know that I just mentioned two of those as definitely being in my top reads of ongoing series,😅 but they're still ongoing! Totally different category!🤣

Well if I wasn't already sold(I was🤣) on Leviathan, I definitely am now! Hopefully I'll have made it through my current tbr by the time that the 3rd vol comes out and I can binge it all at once! If not, I'll still binge it all at once anyways!🤣

Ooh! I'm excited to hear what you have to say about vol 3 and 4 of A-Do!😃 I read vol 5 not too long ago and the series just continues to be so much fun to read! (IMHO of course😂) Vol 3 is maybe a little more action oriented than the others, and vol 4 might have had some of the darkest moments of the series so far! Although there's plenty of both of those things throughout each vol!😂 I've really enjoyed the series so far, and I hope the same will ring true for you as well!

I read the first two volumes of Let’s Do It Already, as well as volume 1 of Pink & Habanero and am now impatiently waiting for physical releases of both

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After this video I need to open a New TBR List " Read Manga for the Art". I like panels that you posted and I want to see them for myself. Maybe the story is going to up my alle as well. For example I read Dorohedoro vol 1 as it was a chalenge by a friend [she got Overlord from me]. Like the crazy art style, impressive but not my allee and I didn't care for the premise.

My favourites reads of this year are Twin Spica, A business proposal, Lonely castle and Who made me a princess. Just yesterday though I read a very new favourite called Lord hades ruthless marriage 😊

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Zoey! It was nice getting this little video as an early present! I'm excited to see what you're most excited for in 2025! My top five new manga series of 2024 hmm. I had to go back to my reading logs to look for those, but I would have to say 5. Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru (I am genuinely shocked you haven't picked this one up yet!!), 4. Spoil Me Plzzz, Hinamori-san!, 3. I Want a Gal Gamer to Praise Me, 2. Monster Marraige Shop (I'm surprised how high I put this up and I'm not proud), 1. Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. I think you knew what was going to be my number one 😅. Yeah most of them are on the ecchi side, but they're cute for the most part and I haven't read any new series on the series end of things lol. It would be nice if more people gave Destroy All Humans a chance but I know the TCG portion is going to be a turn off to most people. But I'm going to make this manga my little secret 😉. Fun video as always Zoey, I'm glad you fell in love with so many new reads this later half of the year!

Every time I watch your videos I end up spending more money on manga 😂 Thanks for the great recommandation !!💕

I read both. But now for my comment to Stay at my Side after Rain. . . Spoiler!! . . It is not like Lethal Love as it doean't have the dark wait that other has. Found that one better but needed to be longer for me, like an omnibus. So SAMS after Rain... I want to slapp that woman coworker! How dare she put him in a tight spot and drive him up the wall with making him feel gulty. Yes, he lied by saying he has a girfriend but if she was angry because she noticed she should have adresst it. But noooo she can't give up even after he sad NO to her by using a lie. THE ONLY WAY SHE WILL BE SATISFIDE if by making him feel so gulty that he, obviously unconfortable, ADMITED he is GAY. What a bitch! If man is to respect womans "No" that woman is to respect mans no. Butttt she can't let it go because as a woman she has a chanceeeee but by addmiting he is gay she finaly needs to accept it. Gosh I want to slapp her sooo hard. Es long she gets what she wants is ok to make him feel gulty or unfair towards her so he confessiss that he is in love with a man. Ah and she thinks of him like a "prince" and all other man make her afraid 😑 . And the BL story needs to be between to grown up but it feels more like high school the way they act and talk. 😮‍💨

Are you planning to make a video about your manga highlights of 2024? :))

I could listen to you talk about manga for hours. Another great video as always, I’m particularly interested in Ragna Crimson

I think Candy and Cigarettes sounds really interesting as well! It kinda sounds like a combination of Kick Ass and Lucky Number Slevin, which, if that's the case, I'm all for it!😂 I get the 11 year old assassin thing being unnerving, but I also think that would add to the depth of the character! Children aren't supposed to be killers. They're supposed to be sheltered from the horrors of a merciless and indifferent universe. That tragic loss of innocence certainly lends itself to a dark story, but it also has the potential to tell a really thought provoking tale, providing the magaka decided to try and go down that route that is.😅 A great example that came immediately to mind is the movie, Leon the Professional. It's pretty dark and bloody if I remember correctly, but it uses those themes to masterfully tell a fantastic tale of revenge and the price paid for it! (Aside from the wierd crush that Luc Besson wrote between Natalie Portman and Jean Reno's characters😅) Candy and Cigarettes could also just be about a bad ass little girl assassin and her quest for revenge, which I think could be really entertaining without delving into any grandiose ideas as well! I'll probably hold off on reading it for the moment just because my tbr is becoming unwieldy!😂 I have so many other series that I'm excited to read, but it's on my radar now for sure!

Leviathan sounds incredible! I'm definitely going to have to pick that one up! I don't know how the hell I'm going to finish any series if I keep getting my head turned by new manga though!🤣 It seems like every video you put out there's at least one series that you highlight, and I'm like, I need to read that, and I need to read it right now!😂 Oh well, there are worse problems to have!😁

have you read Blue Flag before? i ordered the first volume to try something I wouldn’t normally read

The longer the better!!! Love your reviews!!! Make them as long as you want

Thank you so much for providing such a fun challenge this month! I was able to read some old TBR's and discover new favorites! I'm almost halfway through my last one because, you know why lol. Well the biggest highlight of the challenge for me was Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie and Kaiju no. 8. Yes I'm being honest I'm totally not just saying that because they were your picks! 😂 Monster Marraige Shop was also in my top 3, that one I enjoyed a lot more than I should have. Definitely more funny than the deer manga haha. I'm glad you were able to knock out so much for a single prompt! I wish I had more than the one yuri that I read. Maybe reading all my manga as soon as I get them isn't as productive as I thought? Magiumiere looks really silly even for someone who isn't crazy about magical girls. I've seen a lot of different takes on the magical girl genre recently and it's really interesting! Also I love how you're not huge into dark fantasy but you seem to like much darker stories... just not fantasy 🤣. I guess dark scifi does have a bit more of a realism to it that makes the stories more intense!

Ohhhhhh noooo not the real territory!!!! 😮😮😮

🤣 Yes I have got myself a new tea, ingwer with Yuzu, make it japanese and I will buy it. So let see. . . Just got one of my xmas presents to myself: picked up Vol 13 of 86-Eighty Six LN. The next volume will start last arc. Yeah, 🥺 14+15 will be the last.

A couple of editing notes, I’m nerodiverse so I often speed up videos as most ppl talk a little to slow for my brain to process (something many of us do). Something you might want to keep in mind with music selection, as it was very intense in this video lol. Made it a little hard to focus on what you were saying . Thank you.

It's always interesting to see these Like i can't read attack on titan, the art is just too rough for me (I'm often very art focused) And it's just one example how things can vary (just personal taste ofc, I've had the same with classics like Blame that others love) But it's in my trash tier

"Neon's Revenge", "Perfect Hybrid" (plot is boring and MC is annoying) and "The Ghoul I believe could save the world" (too much fanservice)

Attack On Titan is complete crap.

I also read hard-boiled stories from the cat bar this year and it fell at the bottom of my list too. I wasn't annoyed with it, I had fun, but it did fell short on it's premise and the characters design were too similar.

You got a subscriber i love reading mangas and philosophy books after philosophicaletetsu i found u an underrated channel

Yes O had both Library mangas on my radar and like the cover so o much. They are still on the list and not on the shelf. I will try them online. I like tge art insporation in magus...it is like east europe I thing but also like tribes like 🤔🤔🤔

I am 15 min in and you had 2 that I am interested because of cover and blurb...turn out to be bad 🙀 . The snake that loved sparow.....sorry but I found it just somewhat ok. Like the story was missing elements or pages.🙈 . . . It is sooo sad that books are so expensive that it turns out it is better to read online befor one collects it. But I love holding and reading a printed version 😭 It is sad. Yeah yeah to sell them is an option but do you always menage that or you end up unhaul it or gift to library....like paying books but for someone else...that also gets me mad sometimes 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Amazing video as always, I love the passion haha. The red sweater and lip look great on you!

I know everyone “loves” The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom and no one has a problem with her doing a spinal tap in ANCIENT CHINA, advanced medical procedures in ANCIENT CHINA. I can’t.

I can't really think of any that I have read this past year that I haven't enjoyed. There's been a few that didn't live up to the expectations I had for them or were a bit inscrutable... cough Girl from the Other Side cough,😂 but I still had a good time reading them. There have been a few novels that I've read at various points over the last decade or so that were just complete letdowns though. The most recent was Solaris, which I read a few years ago. I talked about that one at length in a previous comment a while back, so I won't dwell on it here. The other three that jump to mind are Tommyknockers by Stephen King, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, and Matter by Ian M. Banks. I've mentioned before being a huge Stephen King fan in the past, but there was absolutely nothing redeemable about Tommyknockers! 0 out of 5 stars! It is just dreadful! A Dark Matter was the first Straub book that I read that he wrote himself, and it was a huge disappointment! I love The Talisman and Blackhouse, so I figured I'd love his solo work as well, but that one was boring, convoluted, and wholly unsatisfying in its conclusion imho. It kept on playing up this mystery and this event that takes place at the end and is central to everything that happens throughout the entire book, but when it got to the big reveal, there was just a convoluted mess that killed any intriuge that might have been there! Maybe I just didn't understand the ending,🤷‍♂️ but if the mystery is the whole point of the book, then you have to be able to present a reveal in a way that the reader can grasp at some level or another!😤 Matter is part of a larger series, which I did not know when I read it. (Totally a cover buy🤣) I've never read any of the other books in the series, (probably because I disliked this one so much😂) so it's possible that I would have enjoyed it more if I knew some of the characters and universe better from the other books, but I just could not connect with the plot or characters in any way. I forced myself to finish it and enjoyed none of my time with it.😅 It had some neat concepts, I just felt like they were terribly executed. I still own it though btw.🤣 It's just sitting in the back row on the bottom shelf of my bookcase collecting dust!🤣

Hmm🤔 I'm not sure if you were totally clear on that last one. I almost got the impression you didn't like it or something...🤣 Anyways, only running into two series all year that were just not it for you isn't too shaby!

I'm really glad you decided to give us a yin to the yang of these titles! It's nice getting some forewarning on titles that might not make the grade for whatever reason, but it's far better imo to discover titles that are worth getting excited about! I'm definitely going to check out A Drunken Dream and Nijigahara Holograph! I love a good mystery! If it's kinda dark and sureal all the better!😁 Those are some of the things that I find the most appealing in a lot of the horror (or any kind of story really🤣) that I like to read to begin with! The fact that Be Very Afraid of Nanako Inuki! was in the boring section of the video says all I need to know about it!😬 There's plenty of reasons to not like horror, from it being off putting or cliche or any number of things really, but it's completely failed in the most fundamental way if it's just plain boring!🥱 Magus of the Library is absolutely one that I plan on reading soonish, and I actually already got Another and Ibitsu at the beginning of November!😂

I like the anime of hyperventilating much better and i think you get a more complete story if you experience both since there are some scenes in the anime that are not in the manhwa and vice versa.

Junji Ito's No Longer Human was by far, the worst manga I ever read. The way the character's life just getting worse just felt comical. Like oh, of COURSE this hourse burns down. He was an awful person and I'm supposed to feel bad?? Then at the end he talks it out with some dude and he's like I feel better now 😊 and then Junji Ito had to give it a Junji Ito ending. I don't care that I spoiled it, no one should waste their time with it lol. I know you want me to read the other one but I'm afraid it's going to be a rage baity as this one...

Magus of the Library mentioned 🙌 It really is a hidden gem, this manga is so good

Unfortunately, this looks like it's going to be a lighter reading month for me between holiday travel plans and already having to house/dogsit for about a week and those doggos just would not allow me to crack open a book. Managed to cross off: cozy - Hirayasumi, fantasy - In the Land of Leadale, Fav genre (sci-fi) - Leviathan, Romance - Colette Decides to Die, and red - Kagurabachi. I've had a copy of Destroy All Humans that I need to get to. I was really looking forward to it as a former Magic player. Might shoehorn that into the challenge. Glad to hear it's even great for those with no MTG experience.

Your outfit is so Christmasy and pretty this video 🎅. I honestly hate a boring read more than an infuriating read. A read that made me mad I can at least talk about for a while! 😂. I still have Whoever Steals This Book volume 1! I think the manga is only three volumes so I may rrad the rest when they come out. There's also the original novel that YenOn is publishing. I may read that first. I somewhat liked the first volume but I agree it was clunky. Mayybe I would like it more if I had context from the novel. I appreciate you adding recommendations next to the manga you didn't like. I'm interested in reading Magus of the Library and Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl! That Beastly Prince manga sounds so infuriating 😂. I don't mind many bad fantasy romance but this one might be too much for me lol.

I don’t know if you have, but you should 100000000000000000% read Berserk.

About Kino's Journey, the reason there was only 1 light novel translated was because the writer hated the translation and revoked the publishing license, preventing any further novels from being released here. A shame about how the series ended too, I was really enjoying it then it was like wait, THIS is where they ended it?!? Seriously, even if there wasn't going to be another volume they could have added a couple of pages of epilogue to at least wrap it up a little better.

If it helps, A Man and His Cat remains interesting. We learn more about the man’s backstory, plus many more characters. If anything, Fukumaru (the cat) becomes less of the center. Warning: there is one volume where Fukumaru goes missing and it’s a bit tough for anyone that had that happened to them.

Agents of the Four Seasons has such a pretty art style but sadly the story wasn't for me. Idk..

Uh oh. You've sold me on After God. It's in my shopping cart now 😆 Ahhhh. I hope you enjoy the Agents of the Four Seasons light novels!!! Thank you for remembering my comment 🤧💕 And yes, you'll definitely get your answers with it 🥲

This was my first video of yours and I really enjoyed it! Always happy to get new manga recs and it seems like you have really broad taste!

My progress through the challenge has hit a standstill I'm afraid.😅 I can't put Wind and Truth down!😂 I've spent virtually all of my free time this past week absorbed in it!😅 I only have 500 pages left to go and an entirely free weekend ahead of me, so standstill, yes, but far from derailed!😂 I might not get all my prompts read by Christmas, which is a little disappointing, but I'd much rather take my time and fully embrace each read rather than rush through them to meet a deadline that only exists in my head! I was a little upset at my progress through Wind and Truth until I reminded myself that the prize for this challenge is hopefully the discovery of some new series to enjoy! With that realization, I found myself not only enjoying the book more, but I started flying through it so much quicker! Funny how that works, right?!🤣 As of right now, I am 1 for 1, though, on discovering excellent new series and I have high hopes for the rest!😁

I really hope that we get a fairly regular release schedule for After God! I can't wait to read more! That first vol definitely sunk its hooks in!😂 It looks like there are currently 8 vols out in Japan, with the next English one slated for a late Jan. release and the third possibility coming out in March. So, roughly two months in between releases as long as nothing gets delayed,🤞 which I suppose I can live with...🤣

You convinced me to add the Magic manga immediately into my cart

Haha I'm a cat lover too but I don't really gravitate toward cat manga. Like you said I just feel eh it was cute amd move on. I'll have to find A Man and His Cat and check it out! See see seeI I told you you would like Destroy All Humans! It's so much MORE than an MTG romance! Honestly it made me realize how much we need more romances where both interests have the same interests/hobby in common. Yeah everyone likes opposites attract but a lot of couples have a bunch in common with each other. I'm excited for you to read more of it because the cuteness just doesn't stop! If you feel compelled to read nore online I won't stop you 😂. I'm happy it's finally in english so I can gush about it with someone. Thanks for spreading the good word of Destroy All Humans!! 🙌

I’m missing volume 10 of Psyren. It’s torture!! 😭