I finished reading June’s Harta!
ハルタ 95号
This one has an installment for just about all of the currently running series, as the ones with alternating schedules line up before the off-month in July. So it was a nice reward to me for getting caught up with all of them recently!
There was an important Dungeon Meshi chapter!
Other than new installments from all my existing favorites, one recently begun series that impressed me more with this chapter is 八百万黒猫速報 by 浅井海奈, since it showed off more of the Meiji period supernatural flavor of the world, and also a cute cat.
I’m still extremely happy to get a new installment of いやはや熱海くん by 田沼朝 every issue. I’m a really big fan of Tanuma’s style, and their previous 読切s meant this series rocketed pretty much directly into my favorites pile.
Trying to think how to describe what I like about it… I guess like, it’s got a casual and realistic vibe to its (Kansaiben heavy) dialogue and scenes that feels like… more naturalistic and direct than most slice of life? To me maybe anyway.
In this chapter there’s a new character introduced, which is fun.
クラスのアイドルは今日も推せない by 荒木美咲 surprisingly (to me - maybe I missed the notice last month) ends this issue. It’s a fun, pleasant series so I’ll be a bit sad to see it go but it’s also a high concept (popular girl wants everyone to notice the less popular girl she likes) and perhaps that just ran its course and they decided not to develop it further.
I think it’s the second series to begin and end entirely within the time I’ve been reading. The other one I don’t think ever got a tankoban but this one at least has one scheduled for some time in Fall! That’s good – it’s nice to think they’ll at least have a bit of a life outside the magazine.
I didn’t see any mention of Terang in the previews - so maybe that was a two-time thing and there really won’t be any magazine in July… already looking forward a little to August, I confess.