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I’m up to chapter 8 now. The last 2-3 chapters were better than the start. Tokiyuki and his retainers (the other kids) start bonding, go on a hunting trip and end up facing off with a demon. Now they want Tokiyuki to learn some combat skills, and he has to go undercover to learn archery from a dude that is trying to find and kill him, so he has to conceal identity and all that. The next few chapters should be exciting and suspenseful based on the setup. I sometimes don’t like period stuff like this where you have to learn historical terms, etc. but that element of it hasn’t been too bad so far.

I noticed Chainsaw Man while browsing in the Jump app but haven’t started reading it yet. I’ll check it out this week. 96 chapters won’t take long to read through if I keep waking up in the middle of the night every night... I also started reading The Elusive Samurai last night. Only about 3 chapters in, so I don’t know all about it yet, but it’s interesting enough to keep reading. I like a good underdog story.

Huh. You should give Tokyo Ghoul a look sometime. It was pretty cool. I thought the first chapter of Choujin X was solid.

First chapter of Choujin X is on the Shonen Jump app -- new manga from Sui Ishida. I never read the Tokyo Ghoul manga because I watched the anime, though IIRC there were differences so maybe I should go back and read that manga eventually... but I did read Ishida's HxH one-shot, Hisoka's origin story, and I thought it was really good. I like Ishida's style.

Between some sleepless nights this week and some other downtime, I got caught up on Dr. Stone. Chapter 195: From Treasure Island up to current: Candy Flurry #3

Read a few more chapters of Dr. Stone last night...

Read up to the end of chapter 138 last night, some thoughts re: Treasure Island:

Dr. Stone 103 - Now it’s getting good! Seeing everybody petrified on the ship deck was a great visual.

I'm almost caught up on DB Super, just three chapters left to read. The Galactic Patrol / Moro saga was pretty decent overall. Seems like it could be a bit of a slog if it eventually gets animated though. There is a lot of room in there for the standard "buy time for Goku / Vegeta" stuff that can make the anime drag. I liked Merus and the Ultra Instinct stuff, and while I think the technique Vegeta learned on Yardrat was ultimately kinda lame (Forced Spirit Fission? what a mouthful), I did like that he tried a new tactic and have some success with it. I don't think we needed to get all the Z Fighters back together again, as I didn't think like they added much substance... except for Androids 17 and 18, it made perfect sense for them to help out against Moro. I'm not a fan of Seven-Three, too gimmick-y of a character to me, but I guess he will play a role again eventually, so I will try not to make a final judgement yet.

Read a few DB Super chapters last night. Kinda funny seeing Vegeta step up and want to protect the Namekians. Almost seems out of character. But Vegeta has experienced quite a bit of character growth through Super, so I guess it is more fitting when you take the rest of Super into account. Of course then he pulls a classic Vegeta and takes on an enemy he knows very little about, just assuming he will beat him no problem I'm glad he is still consistent in that regard.

Dr. Stone - Finished chapter 100 yesterday. I am very curious about "Why-man" and what they are going to encounter on the Treasure Island. I hope the next story arc is fun. When reading this, I'm trying to turn off the part of my brain that takes exception with Dr. Stone, because it is a comic after all... I think what irks me is there is all this science talk, like there is a realistic, scientific basis for all of the stuff Senku does, but at the same time some things seem so incredibly unrealistic. It's a bit of a disconnect. The science stuff can be interesting and all, but I think I'd rather get rid of that element and just make it unrealistic and fantastical. In any case, I guess I'll enjoy it more if I overlook the science-y stuff I also started reading the DB Super manga last night on a lark. I think I started at chapter 42, somewhere around there, I looked it up on a wiki. After the tournament with all of the other universes (the manga just glosses over the Broly movie). Goku and Vegeta are joining the Galactic Patrol. Might be fun! I don't know if/when more anime is planned... so I'll just take in the manga and be happy with that.

That threw me off a bit too, I really don't remember Chrome being like that in the anime I don't totally dislike it, but it does strike me as a bit dumb. Chrome can be a bit of a dopey character though, I guess... Thanks for the insight re: Gen's Pig Latin as well. That makes sense. I'm glad they chose to do something with it instead of just discarding it. Pig Latin is fun. I would have gone for Egg Latin, that would be hilarious... but I guess also harder to read

Speaking of Dr. Stone -- I read a few chapters when I couldn't sleep last night, I think I went from... 84? (wherever it was you told me to start from) through to the end of 90. A lot happened in just a few chapters. I like how ambitious they're being, deciding to build a ship to set off sailing across the ocean, and promptly moving on to trying to find oil and building a hot air balloon to facilitate finding the oil. The loom they made for Yuzuriha was pretty rad too. One minor detail that kinda fascinates me a bit is that sometimes Gen speaks in Pig Latin..? I don't recall that ever coming through in the subtitles of the anime. It seems so random, but I like it. It does leave me wondering though, does Pig Latin work in Japanese..? Like, how are those bits of text written originally in the manga. I can't understand a lick of Japanese, much less read it, so I'm not gonna go down that rabbit hole anytime soon... but it's occupying a tiny bit of space in the back of my mind....

If @webhead would just hand over the nuclear codes and make me an admin already then I would have offered to take care of it

Can you split the posts about Spy x Family in this thread into a new one..?

Well, you keep telling me the story gets better, so I can’t help but be curious! Despite my (numerous? ) complaints so far about the anime, it is an interesting premise with some interesting characters, so I’ll keep giving it a chance even if I’m not in love with everything about it.

Hmm... so that's a bit over 100 chapters to get current. I might have it in me.

If one wanted to read Dr. Stone starting from where the Stone Wars anime ended in the winter, then what chapter would one start at..?

I didn't get to Spy x Family yet, but I just read through the first few chapters of i tell c, and it's pretty amusing so far. Good enough for me to continue reading.

I'll read the first few chapters of each later today and then decide if I want to keep reading. Based on the descriptions I've read about Spy x Family, it sounds like I'll really like it.

i tell c and Spy x Family are both on my radar from looking around on the Jump app for stuff that won't require extensive binge reading to get caught up on.

Anybody read the first chapter of Candy Flurry? I've been wanting to read more manga lately, but at the same time I'm not sure that I'm up for catching up on tens (or hundreds) of chapters for anything that's been running a long time now. So when I saw a notification today about a new manga, I figured why not get in on the ground floor? Kind of a funny concept. Beating people up with a lollipop is something I haven't seen before

Yeah I wouldn't bet against that

It's going to be interesting, about a year from now, seeing all the reactions to the ending from the anime-only people. I'm sure they will have similar complaints.