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I wouldn't mind seeing the occasional anime video on your channel! I'd feel a little weird about paying for a Patreon, but I also recognize that creating videos is a lot of work, and it would be nice to have some guaranteed revenue for that effort! It'd be nice to not have to censor yourself for TH-cam as well! The added content needed to keep up and justify an added cost would also certainly be a lot of extra work though. With a real job on top of everything else, it's a very real possibility that either the TH-cam or the Patreon, or both would suffer. You also wouldn't want to spend more time making videos about manga and anime than actually getting to enjoy it for yourself! Whatever you decide, don't let it lessen your enjoyment of manga, or anime, or making videos to geek out about what you've read or watched, and your passion will shine through and you will be successful!

You can absolutely count me in for the Beach It challenge as well! I love the name you chose for it also! I've never read the manga or watched the anime, but I think reading it with a bunch of other people and occasionally discussing it in a video(or comments of a video😂) sounds like a blast! I've often wondered if you had ever considered doing a book club like video, where maybe you posted a few 1rst vols, one shots, or short series on a poll on your community tab, and then picking the one with the most votes to do a video on a few weeks later so that ppl would have enough time to get their hands on and read it if they wanted to join in on the discussion. I think it would be a great format for doing a live as well! As long as there were enough people who wanted to and were available to join in on the video, that is...😅 Bleach is certainly not short, but like you said, there are enough ways to access it that don't cost a fortune that the biggest obstacle is the time investment! But only tackling a few vols a month is very doable!

I'm definitely excited for the 12 first vols challenge! I think I already have 9 of the 12 picked, although I haven't decidedly set any of them in stone yet either!😂 I might switch a few out or change which one I use for which prompt. I actually was just at Barnes & Nobel picking up my pre-ordered copy of vol 3 of Yomotsuhegi Tree of Death, and I spent like 40 minutes scouring their manga section shelf by shelf, volume by volume looking for ones for this challenge that caught my eye!🤣 I almost picked up Black Christmas for the winter vibes, as well!🤣 I ended up picking up a slightly older series that I'm pretty sure is already complete instead though. The only categories I'm not really leaning any particular way with are the cozy read, the 2024 release, and the lgbtq. I have a few that will qualify for 2024 releases that I'm considering, but none of them are 1st vols, and for that one, if no others, I'd at least like it to actually be a 1st vol!😂 There's a lgbtq one that I can read for free online, and since both it and the romance category (kinda the same thing in my mind 😂) are the two that I'm most unsure of picking one I'll enjoy, I'm kinda hesitant to essentially blind buy a vol. I'm assuming a digital read would still count, but some stupid part of my brain wants to use all physical copies for this challenge. 🤣 The cozy read is really the only one that I'm completely lost at sea with.😅 I'd be happy to hear any suggestions for those! (in addition to the ones you just mentioned, of course😂)

Omg, I’m planning on reading all of Naruto, starting immediately, like tonight! I will be using the shonen jump app. I’ve been seeing so much talk on social media lately about Boruto, that I want to see for myself. I made it to episode 180 of the anime but I just couldn’t anymore, the plot episodes were so far between each other it felt like nothing mattered. Naruto is one of my first and favorite anime series of all time, so I know reading it is going to be absolutely amazing. Personally I would love to see anime content on this channel. I feel like a lot of people connect the two of them together anyway, maybe you can test it and upload a few more anime related videos on here and see how it goes now. And then decide other routes if you end up wanting it separate.

My opinion would be to do a video a month about anime on your channel. I think that would be fine maybe do it the last Monday of the month or like a bonus episode? Maybe I don’t know.

(Sorry if this comment gets double posted because I think TH-cam is being stupid) I was going to choose the deer manga for the green cover and now I have to pick something else! I usually like the idea of every video being posted on one channel, but that's my biased opinion (you've seen my instagram lol). I like the idea of a patreon too. Extra content is extra time and work so you deserve a little compensation. I'd support you every month for that! I'm looking forward to the Christmas challenges! Not doing the Bleach one though 😝

Im excited to read more in December since i have a huge tbr, im not sure how much I’ll follow the prompts but definitely share what im finishing

Does it absolutely have to be volume 1's? I've been killing it on my TBR this year and am running out of volume 1s to read. If it needs to be volume 1s I'll give this challenge a miss.

Well ...If you want to try something new than patreon is a good way to go. Starting a new channel about animes 🤔 I don't know. If you really are adamant to keep it separate sure. But mangas do get animes. Sooo I think you could like do like a series on this channel. That pops up from time to time. Like you "disapointed manga" series. . . You see I have tooo many booktube channel....One does challanges like :"Deep dive" also " Read/burn/hord" and so on. Sure there are all about books and not about book turned movies. . But yeah maybe two channels are better. Wish you sucssess! 💪🏆✨️

Manga The Guy she was.....is not for me. Not even finished vol 1. Ice Guy and Cool Girl....Anime is sooo cute and a good fun time and slow romance. Manga will probably get them together. But I am not interested reading it.

I’m excited!!! I will make it work with the my 25 days of Sublime and the 25 days of Shojo I am doing :) I will also join in on the Bleach Read as well. Two a week seems doable!!! Both are going to be so much fun!!!!

Gimmick and Genkaku Picasso are both so slept on, they are both brilliant underrated unique series, haven't come across anything quite like them.

Hope you feel better! Wow so many series I never heard of on these bookcases! I noticed Yu Yu Hakusho was easier to find now. Think they did a reprint. I couldn’t remember if I still needed to finish it or not.

Seconding the Yu Yu Hakusho recommendation, you gotta watch the anime. Certified classic. Also if you like HxH, its not going to disappoint.

Wow hope you’re feeling even better now, and are 100% soon! I definitely enjoyed another installment in this miniseries. The art for Betrayal does look so good, so that’s a shame about its status.

I remember watching Yu Yu Hakusho when it first aired on adult swim way back when I was in high school! It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I remember really enjoying it at the time! Although I do remember thinking the spirit gun was a little ridiculous!😂 Not necessarily the concept of it, but the way that it was portrayed with Yusuke just pointed his finger like a gun to fire it!🤣 I thought the whole supernatural, spirit detective stuff was really neat! I never did finish watching the anime though. I seem to recall that adult swim would just pick a seemingly arbitrary stopping point for a lot of their animes and just replay those episodes over and over again for awhile before moving on to the next handful of episodes, even if more episodes were already available! I could easily be misremembering that though! I might have graduated and gone off to college (which was the hard stop to anime for close to 12 years for me) mid run.🤷‍♂️ I never read the manga, but I have watched all of Hunter x Hunter and read the first two vols that took place after the show ended, and I absolutely adore that series! Yu Yu Hakusho is probably worth checking out, providing I can find all the vols that is!😂

Ooh Genkaku Picasso definitely sounds interesting! Spiral the Bonds of Reasoning also sounds like it's worth checking out! I've also to wanted to read Platnum End ever since you featured it in your "Everythin I Read in 2022" video! A plot compelling enough that a cast of forgettable characters doesn't detract from it has to be one hell of a good plot indeed! The more I see of the content you put out the more my tbr list grows...😮‍💨🤣

I actually did do the math on this one!🤣 You've definitely completed more series than you haven't, and by a wide margin, too! I also added up the total numbers of each category: read, unread, and partially read if you're interested in hearing how it all shook out! However, the total number of vols in each category is a lot closer than the total number of series in each!😅 Since I know it's a point of pride, I figured I'd see how curious you were about how good those numbers were before posting them!😂

I guess if you've seen the anime not having read all of that Haikyu is totally understandable. That's why I like reading the manga first, it's easier to watch after 😂. I'm getting pretty into light novels now but I'm going to make sure I keep those more under control as far as having too much unread. Surely lol.

I love Yu Yu Hakusho. This may be controversial but I actually enjoyed it more than HxH. I’ve only watched the anime for both, but I do own all of the Yu Yu Hakusho manga as well since I enjoyed it so much

This is my reminder to do an unhauling of my manga 😅

I think you need to read no longer human original, in the meantime i will read the manga version so we can discuss making more sense with our ideas aboıt it :)

Wow belezebub, bloody Mary, Rizelmine aaaand Chibi Vampire you have exquisite taste~

Fantasy manga I've been enjoying is yakuza reincarnation

I've been enjoying The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic. It's amazing how just being all-around competent can set you ahead of the isekai pack. Nothing too crazy. Maybe more light sci-fi, but I adore Kowloon Generic Romance. The vibes are immaculate with the way it plays into nostalgia and I love the leads. I just hope it starts wrapping up soon. The nature of it is repetitive and I don't want it to drag on and lose its luster. I'm seven volumes deep and loving The Ideal Sponger Life. Truly a don't judge a book by its cover (or first page either in this case lol). Looks like it's going to be token male wish fulfillment isekai, but gave me a compelling world of politics in a fantasy world. There's dinosaurs too!

Omg you're the first person I've seen talk about Lonely Castle In The Mirror. I keep recommending it to everyone

Another is sooo good, I must reread it

Lonely Castle anime movie was really good and emotional and I wondered why have I not read the LN even though I saw it so many time in the bookshop. I think now it was the covers falt. I AGREE ! "Tallker" anime is interesting as it turns the expectation up-side-down...if you don't like "banished out a heros group..." with nice MC and his destiny in the story is to become OP later and stay good...NO with this one you are getting a MC that will pay you back and you will be doomed. Enjoy! Touge Oni is still on my To-buy-manga-vol-1 List.

Another wonderful video! I will have to check out Zom 100

🐞🐞🐞 Watch out.

Hahaha!🤣🤣 Omg! I'm so glad you didn't edit out the lady bug jump scare!😂 Definitely had me rolling! Not in a mean way, mind you. I can totally relate! I don't know if you've ever had any issues with mice, which, seeing as you have cats, I somehow doubt that you have😂, but I have, and they get me every time!😂 More often than not, when fall rolls around, those little guys somehow find a way into my apartment. I'll just be sitting there minding my own buisness when all of a sudden I'll see something dart from the wall and fly out across the floor at unnerving speed out of the corner of my eye! My whole body will tense up in a moment of WTF WAS THAT, shock! I've definitely yelped, almost dropped whatever I was holding, and hopped halfway to my feet before realizing, oh, it's just a mouse! 🤣 Still gives my heart a pretty solid momentary workout though!😂

I recently watched the Zom 100 anime and loved it. I think it’s a fun take on a popular concept. I liked all the bright colors as well

Hmm... The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan sounds like it could be interesting. It sounds like it's got some mmo/online fps elements hardwired into the plot of it, which I'm generally not a fan of. I don't like whenever other genres try to incorporate video game mechanics into their stories as plot elements. It feels clunky and forced and almost never works imo. I am intrigued by the protagonist though! Having a main character whose motivations aren't necessarily for the greater good can be a welcome breath of fresh air, especially in a genre that runs a afoul of having cookie cutter protagonists far too often! It's interesting to see the black night's perspective every once in a while! I'll keep this title in mind for when I feel like a little bit of a change of pace!

I've been wanting to pick up Zom 100 ever since I read Alice in Borderland! I know it's a completely different vibe, but I was so impressed by Haro Aso that I have to check out some of his other work! And you absolutely convinced me Touge Oni is worth my time back when you first featured it in a video a while back! I had wanted to get through the series that I had already started before jumping into something new. I'm about halfway done with Parasyte, then I'll be pretty much caught up with all of the series that I've already started. So I just ordered the first few volumes of each!🤣 Nows as good a time as any to dive into them!😂

Yes! Lonley Castle in the Mirror is such a good story! It's got some mystery interwoven with the supernatural in a fantasy setting that explores some very real and important (imo) subject matter with a cast of characters that are just so damn likeable and heartwarming! I know I've said all this before in previous comments, but I wanted to reinforce what you said in the video in the hopes that anybody who might still be on the fence about it might read this and get that little extra push to go and check it out!

I'm surprised there was no Dandadan mention! Well, you probably already brought it up in a previous video and I just forgot lol. I ordered volume 2 and I'm going to go slow with it. Volume 3 was out of stock everywhere anyway haha. Notorious Talker looks interesting, I'll probably read the light novel though. (The manga would be too expensive lol). I know how you feel about those titles, a lot of them feel like wish fulfillment. But I enjoy some of them anyway lol. I'm just really picky with them 😅

Ohh the lonely castle in the mirror was on my tbr, I might bump it up to be the next read!

We all have things on our bookshelves that we haven't read! Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of! I've read the vast majority of the novels that I own, but there's still probably half a dozen that I put on my shelf and then never touched again! Stephen King was my favorite author for many years when I was younger, but Mysery and Cujo have been hanging out on my bookshelf since the day that a friend gifted them to me nearly a decade ago!🤣 I have a bunch of non-fiction that I've tried to read, but ultimately found too boring to continue.😅 I've read most of the manga that I own, but I can absolutely see how easy it is to let your buying get way out in front of your reading! I own somewhere around a measly 100 vols in comparison to your collection, but already I have two major series (I'm not saying which ones because I plan on using both of them for your upcoming 1st vol. challenge!😃) that I've collected but haven't started yet, and there are a few ongoing series that I've started to collect but haven't actually read yet. There's just so many new and old series that I'm discovering and really want to read that it's incredibly easy to get pulled in dozens of different directions at once! The serialized nature of manga doesn't help any either! While you're waiting for the next vol. to come out, maybe you start another that's piqued your interest, but it's not complete either, so you move on to another one while you wait, and then this other one IS complete so you collect all of it, but then that vol. you were waiting on to start off with comes out... Maybe you pause what your reading and go back to it, or maybe it just gets pushed back to your tbr list, and by the time you get back to it you've forgotten the plot threads and you have to read the whole thing over again, but there's another series that just came out that you've been anxiously awaiting so you don't want to take the time to go back and reread everything again so on the shelf it reamians! And the cycle repeats itself, and the backlog of unread vols just keeps getting bigger and bigger!😅🤣

Excellent video! Putting ego aside is never easy! That being said, it seems like you've read well over half of the volumes on this bokshelf! I didn't actually do the math, but it seems like you've at least started to read a good chunk of these series even if you haven't finished reading all of them! Partial credit is still credit!😂 Part of me wants to second guess that impression because you didn't seem very sure yourself, but we're usually our own harshest critics! Maybe your ego is telling you that you should have read more because you know you could have despite getting through a sizable portion anyways!🤷‍♂️😂 If so, the completionist in me totally gets that! It's not everything, so it's nothing!🤣 I find it really interesting to see which ones you have and haven't read and the little insights into your thought process as to why as well! I really enjoyed hearing the little tidbits of your opinions on the ones you have read! A rapid fire book shelf review of sorts!

I'm totally excited for your 12 First Volumes of Christmas!! I'm so in! I've got so many volume ones!

Falling behind in collecting is also the story of my life and also behind in Last Game. I only have 1-3 right now. I'm trying to not start too many new series so I can try and catch up on more series and complete more series. = w =;;;

Lovely haul! Always enjoy the variety of series you pick up🩷 I really want to read/watch DMDP! Im also behind on Blue Exorcist, i need to catch up! Noragami is so good, im so excited to finiah the series 🥹

Today was maybe my single most anticipated drop day since I started collecting. I went to B&N on my lunchbreak and they had zero of the new releases out lol. I guess it's not Kagurabachin' time for this guy haha. FYI I think there's still one volume of LotL to come. I did take advantage of the CR Noragami bundles before they went away, but I still need to grab 21+. 86 came out on blu-ray today and is reasonably priced on Amazon. I have it waiting for me. Rare for me to buy anime. They also released one of those alternate school setting manga for 86 today. Not normally into those, but I NEED more Shin and Lena!

I'm reading Dungeon Crawler Carl now!

Great job on this one! I'm always looking for more one shots! Sadly I have read all of these! But it was still nice to see your thoughts on it!

Can’t believe it’s already Monday!!!! 😮

Ooh new subscriber here here, but I love the December reading prompt idea. I need to tackle some tbr in my collection. Love your haul, but I just unhauled maiden of the needle I had bought the first 4 since the art is great, but the story just baffled me too much I had to let it go 🫣 anyway love otaku vampire love bites and I plan to pickup How to Repair a Broken Cup it looks so cute!

Great pickups! I like your necklace as well 🩷

Ooh, that challenge sounds like something I could easily incorporate into my reading schedule! Several of those things I'll probably be able to check off just in the natural course of things!😃 I don't typically like to pull at a bunch of different threads at once, so I might cheat a little on the 1st vol. aspect of it😅, but I feel like attempting this challenge with just a few series that I focus on rather than a bunch of different ones will just up the challenge! Stormlight 5 might take up a chunk of my December, but if it's anything like the other four, I'll have it finished in about a week! That gives me about a month to plan and prepare for the challenge! Bring it on!🤣

I didn't really pick up very much in terms of literature this month. It's felt like a very long and busy month to me just because I had a lot going on, and I'm not entirely sure what I picked up and read this month, and what was from last month!🤣 I got a handful more vols of Seraph of the End, and I think Witch Hat Atlier arrived early in the month, although I'm not positive it didn't arrive in late September.😅 I know I picked up Ajin vol 1 in October(glad to hear it seems like an interesting story! It was 100% a cover/guilt buy when I went to check out what one of my local comic book stores had to offer manga wise. I felt compelled to purchase something even though their manga selection left a lot to be desired😂) And of course, I got Gannibal vol. 2 as well! That's about it in terms of manga. I knew I was going to be in Peru for most of the second half of the month so I didn't want to order anything and have it sitting on my porch for two weeks while I was away, and I didn't really want to dive into anything new for similar reasons. I did, however, pick up the first two novels in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series to read while I was away! I finished both of them while I was hiking through the Andes, and I don't think I could have picked anything more appropriate to read! They're kinda scifi, kinda horror, and focus on a trippy, unnaturally natural "pristine wilderness" called Area X that doesn't necessarily play nice with humanity or technology! Now that I'm back, I already have a laundry list of manga that I can't wait to read!🤣 I just ordered 9 vols earlier today through Alibris($20 off cupon!) and will probably do the same when they send me another cupon at the beginning of next week, and most likely again the week after!🤣