Welp, I got covid for the first time ever and it seriously kicked (and continues to kick) my butt. At least I’m finally well enough to read again! So without further ado …
Issue #82
新連載
ふくふく万福帳 by 伊藤 有生 (いと ゆせい)
Ooh, this is exciting! I read and really enjoyed the yomikiri, now it’s getting turned into a series! Curious to see what happens. Guessing the title means something along the lines of “diary/notebook of ten thousand happinesses” …
I tried to look for a collected volume of this, but I don’t think it exists …
あかねさす柘榴の都 by 福浪 優子 (ふくなみ ゆこ)
The handwritten editorial comment at the beginning of this one tried to throw me for a loop, but I just copied the scribbles as exactly as I could and my dictionary could handle it! Go takoboto go!
Curious to see how this one progresses … the art is totally gorgeous. Makes me wonder about the mangaka’s connection to Andalusia.
ガラスの瞳で覗かせて by 井上 きぬ (いのうえ きぬ)
Hmm, creepy … Terrifying. Hilariously terrifying.
３号限定再録企画
★ききみみ図鑑 by 宮田 紘次 (みやた こうじ)★
So this is a sad story. This is a brilliant mangaka who died too young and they’re reprinting some of their stories in this and the next two issues. Just read a couple pages and it’s already so good.
Finished, (although, only skimmed the two pages at the end talking about the mangaka). Super good. I’m not sure if next issue will continue the same story, or be another short story related to music.
読切
節食のすゝめ by 牧野 康平 (まきの こうへい)
Title is probably a reference to 学問のすゝめ?
I originally thought from the title page image that it was going to be more about the joy of eating? It was kinda cute but … not super impactful.
タナトローム by 犬島 ななこ (いぬしま ななこ)
My thought process on this one:
Okay, it’s gonna take a minute to get through this news broadcast infodump in the first two pages.
“Great invention makes euthanasia fun”. Okay. Let’s do this.
Nope. I take it back. Let’s not do this.
★魔王 by 野町 達也 (のまち たつや)★
Huh. I feel like I don’t totally get it, but I also loved it. Great art, great characters, fun shenanigans … Not sure why it had to end the way it did, but that’s okay.
I wonder if this mangaka goes on to do anything else? Couldn’t find anything with a quick amazon search, but they could have changed pen names, or I could have typo’d it, etc etc.
★しろくて、ふわふわ by 小林 愛 (こばやし あい)★
Super cute. An encounter with a surly stuffed animal artist helps a meek office worker learn to be more assertive!
どうして歌ってくれないの？ by よしかわ さとこ
I got covid in the middle of this story, which I’m sure detracted from my reading experience. I feel kind of bad that I lost faith in this story somewhere in there. It’s actually very cute in the end! Maybe there was a slight pacing issue, but it’s impossible to tell if that pacing issue was in the story or in my real life when I had no brainpower (or other power for that matter) for a whole week.
裸足のマジカルホームタウン by 木原 悠里子 (きはら ゆりこ)
Huh! I didn’t expect or really want to like this story. I don’t love it when stories open with a bullying scene, so that put me off, but I forged ahead because I wanted to get through this issue once and for all. And even though I also don’t love cult stories, this one kinda really grew on me, and in the end I really liked it.
ショートショート
★仏さまが見てる by 松本 水星 (まつもと すいせい)★
Wow, I … have no idea what that was, but it definitely makes me want to know more about this mangaka! The title page plugged their series 燕のはさみ, so I will probably buy volume one at least …
If anyone can explain the last two panels to me, please do. Particularly the significance of the sign? I don’t know if it’s just the brain fog or what, but I feel like I missed the punch line somehow.
連載
生き残った６人によると by 山本和音 （やまもとかずね）
Lol, this story is so weird. If it were any less stylized I definitely wouldn’t be able to read it, and even though it is stylized sometimes it makes me feel a little nauseous but I also kind of really like it??? So weird.
★夜の名前を呼んで by 三星たま★
The physical volume arrived just in time for me to read this last chapter on paper. Feels strange to have had the book in my hands less than an hour before I put it on the “finished” shelf, though!
I believe I originally was going to come back and write some thoughts on this story as metaphor for depression, but then I got sick and now I no longer have thoughts. 
So I’ll just say: it’s cute!
クプルムの花嫁 by namo
I can’t really remember this chapter too well right now, unfortunately, and I didn’t write much of anything about it when I first read it. Oh well.
先生、今日どうですか by 高江洲 弥 (たかえすやや)
This series is (also) so weird. But this was kind of a cute chapter.
ことり文書 by 天野 実樹 (あまの みき)
Cute!
ホテルメッツァペウラへようこそ by 福田星良 (ふくたせいら)
Huh. Jun’s backstory was a bit different from how I expected … (He just got the tattoos to emulate his mentor…??) … and this chapter was a lot more violent than I expected … (I get that they’re men’s men or whatever but hitting someone in the head because you’re worried about them when they just woke up from being knocked out cold? Seems like it goes a bit far…)
