Howdy Y’all!
If you are reading this, then you are either
- Already aware of what Harta is, and are thinking about reading it, OR
- You have no idea what Harta is, but a friend maybe recommended it to you or maybe you stumbled onto this topic on your own!
Well, it doesn’t matter, because this thread is for everyone! This is a space for those who want to read Harta and discuss their thoughts, or just to read other’s opinions of Harta and find new manga that way. Its all just good manga vibes here, so please don’t be a stranger!
Oh, wait! I haven’t explained what Harta is yet!
Harta is a seinen manga magazine, published by Kadokawa/Enterbrain, that publishes ten times a year (once a month skipping Januarty and July). Now, because it is only published ten times a year, this makes it perfect for getting into reading manga magazines. I recently got into reading a biweekly magazine, which was a lot more stressful to catch up on due to its frequent publications.
Over in that thread, @rodan introduced us to Harta, which is a magazine they had been reading for some time now, and is actually full caught up on! Their write up of the currently running manga series in the magazine (as of issue 109) is linked below. I cannot recommend reading it enough, as it explains a lot of the particulars about Harta, and their thoughts about the individual manga series in it as well as the magazine as a whole.
Here are just some example images of the manga that they use in his article!
just had to throw in Atami-kun for you Rodan!
A lot of us thought that the manga in the magazine looked AMAZING, so there was a lot of interest in reading the magazine. Around the same time, @rodan told us that there is CURRENTLY a sale on Amazon and on Bookwalker on almost every single digital issue they have for about 110 yen a volume!!! GET EM WHILE THEY’RE HOT!!!
The digital editions go back to 75, and the current edition as of me writing this is 110. But since so many manga in the magazine look so good, and since the price was so cheap, there was talk of an informal reading group/casual book club thread, for people who wanted to read Harta from volume 75 all the way to the current issue (or as far as they wanted to go!). A thread designed for people to be able to easily access the discussion for any issue of Harta (75 and onwards), not only for those discussing to be able to read at their own pace, but for anyone to be able to follow along easily and find new manga that catches their interest.
If you are still reading, that is where you are. This is that thread. Congratulations on making it here! 
That all said, I should make it doubly clear that your don’t have to read any of Harta to participate in the discussion! This is for all Japanese learners/nerds, of all different skills levels. It is also a place for those who are going on the journey of reading Harta to share their experiences, and for everyone to bond over great manga together!
The post below will be an index/wiki, both as a point of organization for anyone who wants to navigate this read more effectively, and as an index for @rodan’s posts that help explain some confusing things as they come up. Please feel free to add to it at your leisure!
Finally, here is a tag dump of everyone in the other thread who vaguely mentioned off-hand that they were interested in this project/watching others go through this project!
@Clovie1 @Jintor @kuirin @MaraVos @iwamoge
Also thanks to @Belthazar for catching the title formatting error!
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I’ll try to find some interesting series from here!