That’s so interesting! I read a lot of Manga when I was a teenager, but now that I started learning Japanese I couldn’t really get into anything too much (and I have no good explanation why), so thanks to Harta (and Comic Beam) it is the first time I am consistently reading Manga again! So I don’t really have much experience currently with reading in a magazine vs volumes since I already skew heavily towards magazines. (And, to be fair, back in the 2000s a German Shoujo manga magazine was also how I discovered Manga in the first place, lol) For me it really is only 昴とスーさん where I feel like it was a better experience reading outside the magazine, although there was a bigger shift in the story (as you also mentioned/noticed, Mitrac!) which also could’ve been the culprit.
Yeah, I even thought about this, if I maybe should buy a magazine every few months and then just stock up the volumes of the Manga that I enjoyed. Because there’s already a lot I skip in Harta/Comic Beam anyway, so I thought it might be more economic to just buy one every few months to look for new stuff… But then you would miss out on the cool one-shots and they are some of the best part 
I do this because I think he would enjoy the stories and not to practice translation or anything, so it isn’t super serious. I just send him the pages in a messenger and after each page quickly write down what is going on there. But often he is there in person anyway and I translate on the fly 
but that’s amazing, gives me some fun ideas for sharing with my husband since he’s right there, too, and I hadn’t thought of sharing like that
Good to see someone else following Eurovision!
but when a (non-Japanese-reading) artist friend of mine read my Harta rundown post, they were looking at the Harta Alta website and saw Takahashi’s short story on there, and said (I assume just from the art style), quote:
I didn’t know there are different Altas!
How silly, I liked it 
