[2025] 多読/extensive reading challenge

青騎士 第4号

For some reason this one isn’t split up into two like most of the others. I think I prefer them together like this, since it eliminates the possibility of most of the ones I like or don’t like so much clumping together in one or other of the halves (though with the split issues there’s an illustration column at the back of each so that’s nice).
Some memorable things:

クロシオカレント by こかむも featured a たこ in a Schrödinger’s はこ

猿の手貸します by 戸塚こだま, who I’m pretty sure previously did the “Receipt Jiangshi” story I enjoyed, has another story about the intersection between business and the supernatural, about a business that rents wish-granting monkey paws of a variety of types to suit your exact need.
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全てが劣化する by 鈴木りつ is an interesting 読切 about an unusual interest in 古墳 (and insistence that they’re かわいい) becoming a metaphor in the relationship between two girls.
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お姉さまと巨人わたし by Be-con is an intriguing debut of a fantasy series about a girl who’s been isekai’d teaming up with a giant looking for another girl who betrayed her trust, in a series that looks like it’s going to try to flip some fantasy tropes on their head.
I think it’s funny/kinda neat how “isekai protagonist” is practically as established as “elf” in a fantasy manga at this point. The author really doesn’t need to do a lot to establish what’s going on and then build in whatever direction they want with that.
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