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Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 38] (ani.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another week in the books. Let's chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am going to only talk about two series this week. One of them I mentioned last week as well, so I will start with that one.

Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord

Last week I recommended this series when I was only 5 chapters in. This week, I just finished volume 4 (chapter 24). My recommendation from last week holds up 100%. I have been really enjoying this series. It is such a nice, comfy, adult romance. In addition to the main pair, there is an interesting cast of side characters that I genuinely am invested in their stories as well.

One of the things I have really appreciated about this series is that, even though the main couple are in a lesbian relationship, it has literally never been a point of drama, or even commented on by any character in the series. It just feels perfectly natural and is accepted by everybody else in-universe, including older characters like parents and grandparents. I just really appreciate that the author didn't try to inject drama into an otherwise chill series in that way.

(NSFW) Mato Seihei no Slave / Chained Soldier

This has been on my to-read ever since the first season of the anime wrapped up. I finally dove in this past week and started working through it. I just finished up the second volume and have been enjoying it so far. Even just reading this far, I definitely sympathize with the complaints that @[email protected] and others had in the discussion threads for the anime. The artwork is really good, and that was not really translated to the animation at all.

Story-wise, the adaptation was pretty faithful so far. I have just gotten to the tournament arc in the story where the cast of characters begins to expand quite a bit though, so I am expecting that there might be more exposition that was cut for time in the anime through this section.