I read another one! I guess let me know if I should let someone else have the first say on one of these for once…
ハルタ ７６号
I think the main things to look forward to this issue are the debut of What Six Survivors Told, the romance reality show X zombie movie mash-up series that’ll be a reliable entertaining slot for the whole run of the magazine so far going forward, and a bunch of good 読切s from people with future series in the magazine!
Also uh, maybe worth mentioning but… you could maybe come away from 75 thinking large amounts of violence or nudity wouldn’t be in Harta… 76 not so much - it all just depends on the series!
Harta’s very non-specific targeting of series to age/gender means that while usually it’s pretty tame sometimes it’s less so.
A little bit on that topic, I imagine with a club like this certain series or stories may likely prove divisive or off-putting for different people just given the sheer volume of them in an issue of the magazine, if nothing else. I think in a weird way that’s also part of the fun of reading a manga magazine! The ‘you never know what you’re going to get’ factor - sometimes it’s just not to your taste at all! Even as enthusiastic as I am about Harta there’s some series in its run I actively dislike and others that I don’t mind but wouldn’t recommend broadly. (just a caveat to air in the nervous space before other people start posting their thoughts, haha)
I still think 100 yen per issue for these two is a definite steal, so still looking good on the pitchforks-front!
To potentially keep up with the pace of catching up with a series per old issue, I read the one volume of:
真柴姉弟は顔が固い
which like Laika’s Star in the last issue, debuts in this one. I think it’s really solid and fun!