Really?? I thought it was over (not that I knew anything about it, I just assumed). Do you have a feeling that it will ever be?
I also thought it was about to end, but then new arc 
I have no idea when it will end. The first book was written as a standalone and I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s the kind of series first published on narou and the like. So it’s a surprise for everyone :3 Will probably end at some point.
Thanks, all good to know! Still planning on trying the series at some point (for example, when I’m done with my tsundoku 
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Finished the VN Fatal Twelve!
see 積読 progress in my home post here 
I had bought it in 2022, then it was read in 2023 by the VN club. Didn’t join at the time because I wasn’t ready to read such long things at the time (it’s almost 500k).
Went better now, finished it in two weeks! (thanks to a lot of statutory holidays haha)
I found it OK but not amazing.
Couplea weeks, read some stuff!
One more AX: アックス第155号
I read all of Dear Brother! おにいさまへ…
The farthest back manga purchase in my Bookwalker library…
Here’s a collected volume of manga originally published on the obi of physical editions of Harta: 図書室のキハラさん
And I made a lot more progress into Red. レッド １９６９～１９７２（5-8）
quick context on Red since I think it's the first time I posted about it.
- Dry, detailed manga about (real-life) revolutionary leftist factions in Japan in the leadup to the famous あさま山荘事件.
- Uses changed names, but otherwise gives the impression (to me, who of course has no real way of knowing) of being as direct a retelling of real events as possible.
- Has the notable interesting stylistic flourish of constantly foreshadowing character death/arrests, via numbers constantly floating around the heads of characters who die, representing the order they will do so, and the ultimate fate of every character being reiterated at the end of every chapter.
- Tangentially related to Harta, the manga magazine I read, because the author (who otherwise mainly does erotic manga) writes the prose column in the back of that magazine.
Which is to say… it’s an interesting work!
ギリギリ積読ゾーン
I believe I had this in a physical edition for years but got rid of it last year with intent to rebuy it digitally, and then bought it on bookwalker with coins… this calendar year. 
I can only trust that you decide in your own heart whether or not this counts in the thread.
ドラえもん（４）
… Oh yeah, also, an interesting milestone I was thinking of mentioning here is that after about seven years and 41000 cards… for the first time I ran out of new cards in my self-mined Japanese anki deck. It’s been weird not having new ones in there the last few days!
Of course, I have a handful built up now that I could import… but I think at this point I just don’t look up enough to ever get the hopper sustainably full again in the way it used to be to surpass the default 20 new cards a day that I never bothered to change. A strange feeling! I had fully assumed this would never happen and was 覚悟’ｄ for that eventuality, so since it’s never a goal I was looking towards I suppose I feel mainly (mixed in with some sense of accomplishment to be sure) a little regretful that I’m not learning as much every day all the time as I once was…
Wow, congrats on “emptying” your anki deck!
It must be an eerie feeling. I use JPDB and have around 5000 new cards in front of me, I learn 20 new a day too, but occasionally I add a few thousand to my queue, when I add a new prebuilt deck to my queue for something I’ve read. So I’m definitely still in the stage “I don’t think this pile will ever be empty”, can’t imagine being were you are at all, but even though it seems infinite, it has to be finite and end at some point 
seven years sounds like a reasonable estimate for that.
Finished 52ヘルツのクジラたち and 言の葉の庭 since last update.
Books read / total books: 7 / 69
Been a while since I’ve done an update, but I’ve mostly been doing not heavy reading or playing VNs so far this year.
Finished 侵略！イカ娘 7-9, which are all physicals. Having a volume with me just to read a chapter or two before bed I think is probably the best way to do this series. Whenever I try to read more than that I kinda get bored 
I also finished 2 of my backlog VNs, which i’m not counting for much here because they’re digital and thus do not take up shelf space, but finishing things that have been sitting there still feels good!
ツユチュル was about 120k and was just ok, like glad i finished it but wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend it. 春の音 was about 50k, so not the longest things in the world but I was pretty impressed with it for how new and small the dev team is (30 twitter followers and like, it might just be one guy). Kind of like 噓夏 vibes mixed with green yuri
積読 Read: 7 manga (6 physical/1 digital)
Read Stats
| Title | Type | Format | Date Acquired | Date Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARIA 2 | Manga | Physical | 2025/10/18 | 2026/1/1 |
| もののけもの１ | Manga | Digital | 2023/12/22 | 2026/1/05 |
| ラブひな３ | Manga | Physical | 2023/3/9 | 2026/1/6 |
| ラブひな４ | Manga | Physical | 2023/3/9 | |
| 侵略！イカ娘６ | Manga | Physical | 2023/10/19 | 2026/1/16 |
| 侵略！イカ娘７ | Manga | Physical | 2023/10/19 | 2026/2/25 |
| 侵略！イカ娘８ | Manga | Physical | 2023/10/19 | 2026/3/27 |
| 侵略！イカ娘９ | Manga | Physical | 2023/10/19 | 2026/4/21 |
| Manga | Books | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Digital | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Finished the series QQスイーパー!
… kind of! Technically I did finish the series called QQスイーパー, but that’s only because it is continuing under another name, クイーンズ・クオリティ.
Got both series back in 2023.
I feel like this series is aimed at young teenage girls longing for romance.. Well, it’s a bit embarrassing and I don’t have much to say in my defense, but I’m giving it 4,5/5 :x we’ll see with the rest of the series, maybe if they keep using the same tricks it might get old, but for now they definitely work on me! 
april 積読 update!
All digital this month. Two Harta issues (#78 has my favorite cover so far):
Two novel finishes:
スリ squeaks in under the wire as I purchased it in December. (Well, I guess that would make all the Harta issues under the wire too. They still count!!)
Aaaand one manga volume! I forgot this was 積読 until the moment I was typing this. The rest of the series isn’t since I only bought the first volume. I’m pretty good at not buying a complete series before I’ve actually started reading it.
Digital books purchased/acquired this month: 16
Physical books purchased/acquired this month: 0
as you can see I’ve been enjoying the Bookwalker coinback promotions