Issue #78
Love the cover for this issue. Cover story: cute!
Series Debuts / 新連載
アビスアジュールの罪人 by 冨 明仁 (とみ あきひと)
Jan 29, read to page 34, finishing the first scene (almost wordless). That was super well done. I loved it. From the title page it seems like the artist has a few series under their belt already. Ack, I’m so impatient to continue but my coffee break is over and I need to get on with my day!
Jan 29 evening, finished. Super pretty, and very fun world building.
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)
Jan 31, read to page 13.
Yayyy!!! I’ve been looking forward to this one. I’d heard about it before, and gone so far as to read the first chapter or so, and it’s been on my “someday” list ever since. Now that someday is today! But first, I must walk the dogs.
Afternoon, read to page 30. No time to finish before I leave for work! Gahh!!!
Feb 1, finished. I got super sleepy real early last night so wasn’t able to finish it then as I was hoping. Anyway, I realize now that I hadn’t read to the end of the first chapter previously. I also realize that something I didn’t process the first time around is that for a Japanese citizen who is only 17 years old to have tattoos like that, he absolutely must have had something to do with the yakuza. I think I was less aware of that the first time around, so I didn’t get the same level of shock at the beginning of the sauna scene when he undresses. I feel like this is going to be a pretty slice of life type story, though. I dunno, remains to be seen!
Shorts / 読切
後ろのギャルにナプキンとられた by 杠 サキ (ゆずりは さき)
Feb 3, read to page 6. wuuuut
Feb 4. I wish I had finished this in one go, because now I am kind of dreading reading it again …
Found the spot where the beginning scene is explained (page 9) … Nope, can’t do it, what the fuck, nope. Skip.
街に鏤め宙に描く by 浜田 慶亮 (はまだ けいすけ)
Feb 6, read to page 8 (end of first short). I needed something a little lighter, this was great!
Feb 7, read to end of second short (page 18). Guh, so good!! Harta is like a box of chocolates … sometimes you get one you don’t like (see previous yomikiri), then sometimes you get one that completely makes up for your lack of enjoyment of the previous one.
I wonder what else this mangaka has done/will do…? (Since I’m currently reading in the past haha)
Feb 8, read last story. Meh. Kind of cute, but definitely didn’t love the toxic “I’m only interested in guys who are better than me” thing.
ねえさん、起きて by 梅ノ木 びの (うめのき びの)
Feb 9, glanced at title page … oh boy, is this one gonna be a tearjerker? Only one way to find out …
Feb 9 lunch, read to page 10. Okay ……………
Feb 10, finished. Hmm … creepy … and sort of cute art? But didn’t really do much for me. It was fine.
Continuing Series / 連載
夜の名前を呼んで by 三星 たま (みつぼし たま)
Jan 30, read to page 5. Creative, adorable, fun … just feeling slightly rushed right now, so I don’t want to keep reading until I can really enjoy it.
Jan 30 evening, finished. Cute and sweet.
先生、今日どうですか by 高江洲 弥 (たかえすやや)
Feb 2, read. Like, what is the point of her being 17? She could have been a college student. Or she could have been his adult landlord. She’s obviously drawn with the intention to create sex appeal. Maybe at some point it will become an issue that she is too young for him? I dunno, it feels pretty sketch. So, I can keep reading while head-canon-ing that she is a college student and enjoy it, or I can … just keep being sketched out? I dunno, we shall see.
帝都影物語 by 比嘉史果 (ひがふみか)
Feb 4. Just finished noping out of the first yomikiri in this issue, so not really in the mood for shenanigans right now. Paged through until I reached a part that was not about the prince being a brat, will probably start there (page 25 ish) tomorrow.
Feb 5. Needed a break today, so didn’t read until the evening. Then read from page 25ish to the end, with very limited look-ups. No particular thoughts one way or another at the moment.
We’re starting to see some of the princes complexities, so I think it will get more interesting now.
生き残った６人によると by 山本和音 （やまもとかずね）
Feb 6, read to page 6.
Feb 7 breakfast, read to page 18. Well now things are getting interesting!! Enjoying this chapter so far. 
Feb 7 lunch, finished. Fun! Cute! Weird!
クプルムの花嫁 by namo
Feb 8 evening, started and finished in one sitting. Cute. I liked how tiny Shiina’s shorts were the whole time haha. Nothing huge happened this chapter; it was a nice evening read.
(Normally I try not to read on screens in the evening but I got impatient to finish this issue! Only two more chapters to go! (No 真柴姉弟は顔が固い this time, and now that I have the first volume of はなやっこ I want to read that from the beginning. Tomorrow is the second to last chapter of Laika-sama!!)
ライカの星 by 吉田真百合 （よしだまゆり）
Feb 9, read basically in one sitting. (Relocated to a more comfortable spot early on.) Next issue will be the last chapter! I want to know what happens, I’m scared of what could happen, I want to finish so I can order the physical copy that comes with extra yomikiris, I want to know why this hasn’t been translated to English so I can order it for my bookstore … I want to know who I have to talk to to get it translated … 
I hope the last chapter doesn’t disappoint! (I don’t think it will.)
Ooh, I just discovered that at the very end of the digital editions they have a page where you can see the entire outside of the magazine, including the spine, which seems to always have a full color illustration from one of the new series! Just looked through all the previous ones, and they are super fun.
By the way, I started a little study log over on Natively where I’m keeping track of all my (Japanese related) projects! If anyone wants to stop by. 