The BookWalker Freebies Thread

18 December 2022

Anti-Gravity Boy (2001) - 70 - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shoujo

Arrested Love (2019) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen, Yakuza, Tsundere, Police, Primarily Adult Cast

Astro Fighter Sunred (2004) - 74 - Comedy
Tags: Parody, Super Power, Tokusatsu, Seinen, Superhero, Henshin

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Bound Beauty (2006) - 60 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Butterflies, Flowers (2005) - 68 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Female Protagonist, Primarily Adult Cast, Office Lady, Work, Heterosexual, Crossdressing

Caravan Kidd (1986) - 63 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags:

Crazy Lovers No.6 (2000) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Dr.コトー診療所 (2000) - 72 - Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Medicine, Male Protagonist, Rural, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Heterosexual, Work

Give My Regards to Black Jack (2002) - 82 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Male Protagonist, Work, Episodic

Go Go Heaven!! (1994) - 76 - Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Go with a friend! (1995) - 60 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heart Drop (2001) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heat Edge (1989) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery
Tags: Josei, Police

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

How to Treat Magical Beasts: Mine and Master’s Medical Journal (2016) - 71 - Fantasy, Slice of Life
Tags: Female Protagonist, Mythology, Magic, Witch, Animals

Jドリーム (1993) - 90 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム 完全燃焼編 (None) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム飛翔編 (1996) - 95 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Love Is Strange, Yet Delicious (2017) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Josei, Food

Love Order 200X (1999) - 70 -
Tags: Josei

LOW TEEN BLUES (1974) - None - Psychological, Romance
Tags: Shounen

Magnum Lily (2017) - 78 - Action, Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Boxing, Yuri, Shounen, Female Protagonist

Mane of the Wind (1987) - None - Horror, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Heterosexual, Female Protagonist

New Give My Regards to Black Jack (2007) - 61 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Work, Primarily Adult Cast

Paradise Town (1990) - 60 - Comedy
Tags:

Phantom Street (1994) - 67 - Action, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Tags: Youkai, Shounen

Playgirl K (1995) - 70 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shoujo

Porcupine (1987) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

Rozi in the Labyrinth (2019) - 78 - Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Iyashikei, Magic, Nekomimi, Adoption, Shoujo, Found Family

The End of the Line for the Sinister Beast (2008) - None - Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

The Isle of Tokkou (2004) - 83 - Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Military, Seinen, Historical

The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (2002) - 69 - Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shounen

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

Tokyo Baby Game (1997) - 70 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

VS. (1999) - 75 - Drama, Music, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

What’s Mine is Yours (2017) - 67 - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Josei, Primarily Adult Cast, Gender Bending

ただいま授業中! (1980) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shounen

ひらけ駒! (2011) - 81 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi, Family Life

ひらけ駒!return (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi

ほしのうえでめぐる (2011) - 100 - Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

やれたかも委員会 (2016) - 85 - Comedy
Tags:

アトランティス (1970) - 90 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shoujo

オフサイド (1989) - 74 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ジャイアント (2002) - 80 - Comedy, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Baseball

ソフィアの円環 (2020) - 77 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Tags:

チョコっとちょこちゃん (1992) - 90 -
Tags: Kids, Magic

デカ教師 (2006) - 70 - Mystery
Tags:

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ハヤブサ―真田電撃帖― (2010) - 75 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Shoujo, Historical

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

マタギ (1975) - 80 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

マタギ列伝 (1979) - 95 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

レピッシュ (1988) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

ワイルド★キングダム (2000) - 80 - Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Kemonomimi

一匹と九十九匹と (2010) - 70 - Drama, Thriller
Tags: Seinen

一条かれんは誘惑する (2018) - 71 - Romance
Tags: Josei, School, Yandere

八百森のエリー (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life
Tags:

北の土竜 (1981) - 85 - Drama
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist, Drawing, Foreign

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

月下美人 (1990) - 86 -
Tags: Shoujo

東海道HISAME (2005) - 71 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Shoujo, Boys’ Love, Historical, Youkai

淡河実永は生殺しがつらい (2019) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Teens’ Love

緋が走る (1992) - 85 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Seinen

転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

釣りバカたち (1973) - 75 - Adventure, Sports
Tags: Male Protagonist, Fishing, Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

魔探偵ロキ (1999) - 70 - Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shounen, Classic Literature, Detective, Mythology


Anything that jumps out to me personally among the above:

  • ドーベルマン刑事 was made into a movie (Doberman Cop) directed by Kinji Fukusaku and starring Sonny Chiba, so it may be of interest if you enjoy yakuza moves and the like.

Non-freebie promotions that stood out to me:

  • ~12/27 (火)まで
    There’s a generous sale on this series of children’s Japanese history encyclopedias. I loved reading this general entry! Children’s non-fiction lessens the non-native “a Japanese kid still knows more than adult me” problem that children’s picture books can often have, since it means there’s plenty of patient basic explanations about the subject. And imo, learning about the history of a place in it’s native language rather than mediated through a different one is a 醍醐味 of language-learning.
  • ~12/27 (火)まで
    This book promotion seems maybe interesting and had a couple that I checklisted in (albeit I think just because the covers looked interesting)
  • ~1/6 (金)まで
    Harta Comix is having a sale in honor of its 100th issue which came out this week. I’ve followed this magazine for a couple of years or so and post about it frequently in the extensive reading thread.
    The sale includes 100 yen first volumes of some great, heartily recommended manga such as:
    ダンジョン飯 (maybe my favorite manga – gourmet dungeon-crawling adventure),
    ふしぎの国のバード (travels through 1800s Japan – based on a real account),
    ハクメイとミコチ (cozy life in the woods, bustling with friends and food and craft),
    生き残った6人によると (like Terrace House X Dawn of the Dead),
    峠鬼 (gods and magic in ancient Japan)
    Also a chunk of back issues of the main magazine (and the one-shot where series writers drew one-off stories with a different feel to their ongoing series) are discounted too, if you want a lot of comics for cheap and don’t mind if they’re in no-longer-current magazine format.
    (I recall they said on Twitter this is across a lot of platforms, not just Bookwalker)
    There’s also an unrelated (?) promotion for spin-off magazine 青騎士 but the discounts are smaller and I don’t have specific recommendations
  • 1/15 (日) 23:59まで
    This publisher, in addition to freebies such as those mentioned above, is having 10-yen sales of additional volumes in sets where the first volume is free.
    There’s also some works of famous literary authors in the mix, although they look like public domain collections to me, so I guess I don’t know if those are even worth 10 yen when free options very likely exist for them too.
    But hey, that’s awfully cheap.
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Sorry to see you retiring from the weekly posts @curiousjp - Thank you for your hard work, and for pointing me in the direction of more free manga than I’ll probably ever manage to read! :sweat_smile:

Thanks for taking on the mantle @rodan!
I look forward to adding even more to my ever-growing “To Read” pile with your help :grin:

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25 December 2022

Ai Ore! Love Me! (2006) - 64 - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Gender Bending, School, Crossdressing, Band

Anti-Gravity Boy (2001) - 70 - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shoujo

Arrested Love (2019) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen, Yakuza, Tsundere, Police, Primarily Adult Cast

Art Rumor Picture (1998) - 50 - Comedy, Romance
Tags:

Astro Fighter Sunred (2004) - 74 - Comedy
Tags: Parody, Super Power, Tokusatsu, Seinen, Superhero, Henshin

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Bound Beauty (2006) - 61 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Butterflies, Flowers (2005) - 68 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Female Protagonist, Primarily Adult Cast, Office Lady, Work, Heterosexual, Crossdressing

Caravan Kidd (1986) - 63 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags:

Charge!! Men’s School (1985) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: School, Shounen, Delinquents, Martial Arts, Ensemble Cast, Gangs, Yakuza, Primarily Male Cast, Cultivation, Wrestling, Language Barrier, Foreign

Crazy Lovers No.6 (2000) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Dr.コトー診療所 (2000) - 71 - Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Medicine, Male Protagonist, Rural, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Heterosexual, Work

Excuse Me for Being a Cat! (1989) - 67 - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: School, Shounen

Give My Regards to Black Jack (2002) - 82 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Male Protagonist, Work, Episodic

Go Go Heaven!! (1994) - 76 - Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Go with a friend! (1995) - 60 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heart Drop (2001) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heat Edge (1989) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery
Tags: Josei, Police

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

How to Treat Magical Beasts: Mine and Master’s Medical Journal (2016) - 71 - Fantasy, Slice of Life
Tags: Female Protagonist, Mythology, Magic, Witch, Animals

Jドリーム (1993) - 90 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム 完全燃焼編 (None) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム飛翔編 (1996) - 95 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Female Harem, Martial Arts

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Female Harem, Martial Arts

Let’s Make Love!! (1996) - 61 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Age Gap, Love Triangle

Love Is Strange, Yet Delicious (2017) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Josei, Food

Love Order 200X (1999) - 70 -
Tags: Josei

LOW TEEN BLUES (1974) - None - Psychological, Romance
Tags: Shounen

Magnum Lily (2017) - 78 - Action, Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Boxing, Yuri, Shounen, Female Protagonist

Mane of the Wind (1987) - None - Horror, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Heterosexual, Female Protagonist

New Give My Regards to Black Jack (2007) - 61 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Work, Primarily Adult Cast

Paradise Town (1990) - 60 - Comedy
Tags:

Peacock King (1985) - 67 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tags: Demons, Historical, Male Protagonist, Seinen

Phantom Street (1994) - 67 - Action, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Tags: Youkai, Shounen

Playgirl K (1995) - 70 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shoujo

Porcupine (1987) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

Princess Mimia (None) - 66 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Seinen

Rozi in the Labyrinth (2019) - 79 - Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Iyashikei, Magic, Nekomimi, Adoption, Shoujo, Found Family

Salary Man Kintaro (1994) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Seinen, Family Life, Male Protagonist, Work

Still Sick (2018) - 76 - Romance
Tags: Yuri, Drawing, LGBTQ+ Themes, Primarily Adult Cast, Work, Female Protagonist, Otaku Culture, Office Lady

The End of the Line for the Sinister Beast (2008) - None - Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

The Isle of Tokkou (2004) - 83 - Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Military, Seinen, Historical

The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (2002) - 69 - Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shounen

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

Tokyo Baby Game (1997) - 70 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

VS. (1999) - 75 - Drama, Music, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

What’s Mine is Yours (2017) - 67 - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Josei, Primarily Adult Cast, Gender Bending

ただいま授業中! (1980) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shounen

ひらけ駒! (2011) - 81 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi, Family Life

ひらけ駒!return (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi

ほしのうえでめぐる (2011) - 100 - Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

やれたかも委員会 (2016) - 85 - Comedy
Tags:

アクジキ (2009) - 80 - Adventure
Tags:

アトランティス (1970) - 90 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shoujo

オフサイド (1989) - 74 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

キミノココロボクノココロ (2003) - 73 - Drama
Tags: Shoujo, Animals

サラリーマン金太郎 マネーウォーズ編 (2005) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

サラリーマン金太郎 五十歳 (2015) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ジャイアント (2002) - 80 - Comedy, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Baseball

ソフィアの円環 (2020) - 77 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Tags:

チョコっとちょこちゃん (1992) - 90 -
Tags: Kids, Magic

デカ教師 (2006) - 70 - Mystery
Tags:

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ハヤブサ―真田電撃帖― (2010) - 73 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Shoujo, Historical

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

マタギ (1975) - 80 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

マタギ列伝 (1979) - 95 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

メンヘラチャン (2014) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mahou Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Magic, Henshin, Superhero, Urban Fantasy, Body Horror

リメイク (2013) - 75 - Drama
Tags: Fashion, Makeup, Primarily Adult Cast, Female Protagonist

レピッシュ (1988) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

ワイルド★キングダム (2000) - 80 - Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Kemonomimi

一匹と九十九匹と (2010) - 70 - Drama, Thriller
Tags: Seinen

一条かれんは誘惑する (2018) - 71 - Romance
Tags: Josei, School, Yandere

二丁目路地裏探偵奇譚 (2007) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Seinen, Vampire

俺の死亡フラグが留まるところを知らない (2020) - 75 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Anti-Hero, Male Protagonist, Isekai, Conspiracy, Magic, Swordplay, Video Games

八百森のエリー (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life
Tags:

北の土竜 (1981) - 85 - Drama
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist, Drawing, Foreign

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

土偶ファミリー (1988) - 85 - Comedy, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen

天才料理少年 味の助 (2003) - 70 - Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Food, Shounen, Male Protagonist

密・リターンズ! (1995) - 74 - Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

月下美人 (1990) - 86 -
Tags: Shoujo

東海道HISAME (2005) - 71 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Shoujo, Boys’ Love, Historical, Youkai

淡河実永は生殺しがつらい (2019) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Teens’ Love

珈琲いかがでしょう (2014) - 75 - Slice of Life
Tags: Episodic, Food, Work, Seinen

異世界で、なんちゃって王宮ナースになりました。 (2019) - 70 - Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

精霊伝説ヒューディー (1989) - 80 - Action
Tags:

緋が走る (1992) - 85 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Seinen

聖戦記エルナサーガ (1993) - 90 - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

転生令嬢の異世界ほっこり温泉物語 (2019) - 70 - Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

転生王女のまったりのんびり!?異世界レシピ (2019) - 70 - Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

釣りバカたち (1973) - 75 - Adventure, Sports
Tags: Male Protagonist, Fishing, Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

風光る (1990) - 82 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Baseball

魔探偵ロキ (1999) - 70 - Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shounen, Classic Literature, Detective, Mythology


Anything that jumps out to me personally among the above:

  • 孔雀王 was on my checklist although the reason is even flimsier than Doberman Cop (which I mentioned last time and is still free): it was made into a couple of movies in Hong Kong by the director of (famously wild hyperviolent cult action movie) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (which was also based on a Japanese manga). That’s enough to pique my curiosity.

Non-freebie promotions that stood out to me:

  • ~12/27 (火)まで
    That promotion on the kid’s history books I mentioned last time is still highly recommended from me.
  • ~12/29 (木)まで
    The label for the magazine 月刊COMICリュウ is having a sale. I don’t know anything about the magazine at all, but some of the discounts are very deep so it could be one to check out if you’re tempted by manga that is almost free but not quite.
  • ~1/5 (木)まで
    This “アジアンファンタジーフェア” looks potentially interesting if that’s the kind of setting you like.
  • ~1/6 (金)まで
    That Harta Comix promotion I mentioned last time is still highly recommended from me.
  • ~1/12 (木)まで
    the label for Monthly Comic Beam is having a sale. I don’t know very much at all about the magazine, but it looks to my uninformed eyes like maybe a niche in a similar ballpark to something like Fantagraphics in the US, and there are lots of manga here that I haven’t read yet but would very much like to, and seeing them all in a list made me think I should hurry up and correct that. One that I have read and would recommend is Wandering Son.
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I wasn’t sure where to post this but figured it was related, there’s a current coin back offer on, do people think this is likely to be the best offer for a while? I’m wondering whether to buy some volumes that I will read at some point but don’t necessarily need now.

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The promotion appears to me to be

11/28までに配信されたすべての作品が対象となるコイン40%還元キャンペーン
2023年1月4日(水)09:59まで

So in other words, it sounds like everything released before November 28 of this year, will have 40% coinback until January 4th of 2023.

Honestly, speaking for myself, I turned my nose up slightly at it :sweat_smile: just because widespread 50% coinback promotions happen somewhat often (I’d guesstimate 2-3 times a year? I haven’t checked if it’s tied to anything regular and predictable).
But it’s not like that 10% is all that much of a difference! (although I suppose depending on the number of books and transactions it could add up) And while the 50% ones affect most/nearly all products, I’m not sure that they are quite as widespread as “literally everything released before a month ago”

So, up to you!
I think coinback campaigns and discounts are frequent enough that you would very probably get a similar or better chance again later by checklisting it and waiting some number of months. But it would be extremely hypocritical of me to dissuade you from a 積読 opportunity!
It wouldn’t be a bad time to buy what you want, surely! Particularly if your monthly rank happens to be high this month or the first purchase coinback boost is separately active (I thiiiiink both would stack).

P.S.
Keep in mind by the way as well, the coins are reimbursement not an actual discount , so if you want only a specific set of things you’d want to buy in chunks so the coins from the last chunk go to the next chunk. Or you can just buy what you want at whatever price it is and get other things as a bonus. If you know specifically what you want and there’s no rush, there might be less risk of “accidentally” spending more money than intended by checkmarking what you want and keeping an eye for notifications of a true discount.

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01 January 2023

Ai Ore! Love Me! (2006) - 64 - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Gender Bending, School, Crossdressing, Band

Anti-Gravity Boy (2001) - 70 - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shoujo

Arrested Love (2019) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen, Yakuza, Tsundere, Police, Primarily Adult Cast

Art Rumor Picture (1998) - 50 - Comedy, Romance
Tags:

Astro Fighter Sunred (2004) - 74 - Comedy
Tags: Parody, Super Power, Tokusatsu, Seinen, Superhero, Henshin

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Black Angels (1981) - 65 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Bound Beauty (2006) - 61 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Caravan Kidd (1986) - 63 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags:

Charge!! Men’s School (1985) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: School, Shounen, Delinquents, Martial Arts, Ensemble Cast, Gangs, Yakuza, Primarily Male Cast, Cultivation, Wrestling, Language Barrier, Foreign

Crazy Lovers No.6 (2000) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Devouring Heaven and Earth (1983) - 76 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Historical, Shounen

Excuse Me for Being a Cat! (1989) - 67 - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: School, Shounen

Give My Regards to Black Jack (2002) - 82 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Male Protagonist, Work, Episodic

Go Go Heaven!! (1994) - 76 - Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Go with a friend! (1995) - 60 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heart Drop (2001) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heat Edge (1989) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery
Tags: Josei, Police

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

Jドリーム (1993) - 90 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム 完全燃焼編 (None) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム飛翔編 (1996) - 95 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

Let’s Make Love!! (1996) - 62 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Age Gap, Love Triangle

Love Is Strange, Yet Delicious (2017) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Josei, Food

Love Order 200X (1999) - 70 -
Tags: Josei

LOW TEEN BLUES (1974) - None - Psychological, Romance
Tags: Shounen

Magnum Lily (2017) - 78 - Action, Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Boxing, Yuri, Shounen, Female Protagonist

Mane of the Wind (1987) - None - Horror, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Heterosexual, Female Protagonist

New Give My Regards to Black Jack (2007) - 61 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Work, Primarily Adult Cast

Paradise Town (1990) - 59 - Comedy
Tags:

Peacock King (1985) - 67 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tags: Demons, Historical, Male Protagonist, Seinen

Phantom Street (1994) - 67 - Action, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Tags: Youkai, Shounen

Playgirl K (1995) - 70 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shoujo

Porcupine (1987) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

Princess Mimia (None) - 66 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Seinen

Salary Man Kintaro (1994) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Seinen, Family Life, Male Protagonist, Work

Still Sick (2018) - 76 - Romance
Tags: Yuri, Drawing, LGBTQ+ Themes, Primarily Adult Cast, Work, Female Protagonist, Otaku Culture, Office Lady

The End of the Line for the Sinister Beast (2008) - None - Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

The Isle of Tokkou (2004) - 83 - Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Military, Seinen, Historical

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

This Mage Desires Mediocrity (2017) - 72 - Action, Fantasy
Tags: Isekai, Shoujo, Reincarnation, Magic, Male Harem, Female Protagonist

Tokyo Baby Game (1997) - 70 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

VS. (1999) - 75 - Drama, Music, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

What’s Mine is Yours (2017) - 67 - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Josei, Primarily Adult Cast, Gender Bending

Yamato the White Fighter (1976) - 69 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Primarily Male Cast

ただいま授業中! (1980) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shounen

ひらけ駒! (2011) - 81 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi, Family Life

ひらけ駒!return (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi

ほしのうえでめぐる (2011) - 100 - Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

やれたかも委員会 (2016) - 85 - Comedy
Tags:

アクジキ (2009) - 80 - Adventure
Tags:

アトランティス (1970) - 90 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shoujo

オフサイド (1989) - 74 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

キミノココロボクノココロ (2003) - 73 - Drama
Tags: Shoujo, Animals

サラリーマン金太郎 マネーウォーズ編 (2005) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

サラリーマン金太郎 五十歳 (2015) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ジャイアント (2002) - 80 - Comedy, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Baseball

チョコっとちょこちゃん (1992) - 90 -
Tags: Kids, Magic

デカ教師 (2006) - 70 - Mystery
Tags:

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ハヤブサ―真田電撃帖― (2010) - 73 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Shoujo, Historical

ファンタジウム (2006) - 91 - Fantasy
Tags: Seinen, Disability

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

マタギ (1975) - 80 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

マタギ列伝 (1979) - 95 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

メンヘラチャン (2014) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mahou Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Magic, Henshin, Superhero, Urban Fantasy, Body Horror

リメイク (2013) - 75 - Drama
Tags: Fashion, Makeup, Primarily Adult Cast, Female Protagonist

レピッシュ (1988) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

ワイルド★キングダム (2000) - 80 - Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Kemonomimi

一匹と九十九匹と (2010) - 70 - Drama, Thriller
Tags: Seinen

一条かれんは誘惑する (2018) - 71 - Romance
Tags: Josei, School, Yandere

二丁目路地裏探偵奇譚 (2007) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Seinen, Vampire

俺の死亡フラグが留まるところを知らない (2020) - 75 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Anti-Hero, Male Protagonist, Isekai, Conspiracy, Magic, Swordplay, Video Games

八百森のエリー (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life
Tags:

北の土竜 (1981) - 85 - Drama
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist, Drawing, Foreign

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

土偶ファミリー (1988) - 85 - Comedy, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen

大東京トイボックス (2006) - 77 - Comedy, Drama
Tags: Seinen, Politics, Primarily Adult Cast, Coming of Age, Otaku Culture, Work, Software Development

天才料理少年 味の助 (2003) - 70 - Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Food, Shounen, Male Protagonist

孔雀王 退魔聖伝 (1990) - 77 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tags:

密・リターンズ! (1995) - 74 - Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

新サラリーマン金太郎 (2009) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

月下美人 (1990) - 86 -
Tags: Shoujo

東京トイボックス (2005) - 70 - Comedy, Drama
Tags: Software Development, Seinen, Video Games, Primarily Adult Cast, Work

東海道HISAME (2005) - 72 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Shoujo, Boys’ Love, Historical, Youkai

淡河実永は生殺しがつらい (2019) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Teens’ Love

珈琲いかがでしょう (2014) - 75 - Slice of Life
Tags: Episodic, Food, Work, Seinen

異世界で、なんちゃって王宮ナースになりました。 (2019) - 70 - Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

精霊伝説ヒューディー (1989) - 80 - Action
Tags:

緋が走る (1992) - 85 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Seinen

聖戦記エルナサーガ (1993) - 90 - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

赤龍王 (1986) - 70 - Action
Tags: Shounen, Male Protagonist

転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

転生令嬢の異世界ほっこり温泉物語 (2019) - 70 - Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

転生王女のまったりのんびり!?異世界レシピ (2019) - 70 - Fantasy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Isekai

釣りバカたち (1973) - 75 - Adventure, Sports
Tags: Male Protagonist, Fishing, Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

風光る (1990) - 82 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Baseball


Anything that jumps out to me personally among the above:

  • It didn’t actually come up above (probably because it’s not on anilist), but for what it’s worth (very very little), 魔王ベルフェゴール. I’m 95% sure this was just because it came up while searching for “プロレス” and looked mildly interesting though. (I throw those checklist buttons around pretty freely…)

Non-freebie promotions that stood out to me:

  • ~1/3 (火)まで
    There’s a lot of first volumes of Manga Time Kirara comics heavily discounted (like 50 yen). For more information, ask around in the extensive reading thread :sweat_smile:
  • ~1/4(水)まで
    There’s an extremely widespread 40% coinback promotion, as mentioned.
  • ~1/5 (木)まで
    Looks like there could be some interesting non-fiction and (very very old) classic in this “KADOKAWA 知識教養 新書・文庫フェア” or this “神さま仏さま特集
  • ~1/6 (金)まで
    That Harta Comix promotion I first mentioned two weeks ago is still highly recommended from me.
  • ~1/12 (木) まで
    I noticed Ghost in the Shell (the first big volume) is around half off. That’s a famous name I don’t think I’ve seen discounted often.
  • ~1/12 (木)まで
    I still think the Monthly Comic Beam sale that I mentioned last time is interesting.
  • ~1/30 (月)まで
    I haven’t mentioned it before because the percentage on the discount is… unexciting, but I noticed issues of Demon Slayer are discounted and I know that’s incredibly popular, so with the coinback deal factored in too it might be a good time to stock up on volumes if you were wanting to do that.
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Ok, I clicked on this and immediately added it to my cart :joy_cat:. Thanks for highlighting fun things like this in addition to what the script finds!

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There’s a 50% coin-back campaign on right now and until January 7th, for all novels published before December. Which makes me feel bad for buying a book with only 40% coin-back a few days ago. Oh well.

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I was gonna mention it too since it does seem like an amusingly (or frustratingly!) direct confirmation that less wide but higher percentage coin promotions were fairly frequent… :sweat_smile:

The page for it, incidentally, doubles as a decent recommendation page, with links to lists of bestsellers, prize winners, and discount フェアs.
I confess I was tempted into buying a Saikawa & Moe omnibus since it looks like some combined editions are discounted a bit too.

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Interestingly, 乙女ゲー世界はモブに厳しい世界です 1 is free to keep on Booklive, but not Bookwalker. It’s the first time I see a promotion that is not mirrored on both sites.
Other than that, the book was really bad, so nothing of value is lost.

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08 January 2023

Anti-Gravity Boy (2001) - 70 - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Magic, Shoujo

Arrested Love (2019) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen, Yakuza, Tsundere, Police, Primarily Adult Cast

Astro Fighter Sunred (2004) - 74 - Comedy
Tags: Parody, Super Power, Tokusatsu, Seinen, Superhero, Henshin

Bound Beauty (2006) - 61 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Charge!! Men’s School (1985) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: School, Shounen, Delinquents, Martial Arts, Ensemble Cast, Gangs, Yakuza, Primarily Male Cast, Cultivation, Wrestling, Language Barrier, Foreign

Crazy Lovers No.6 (2000) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Devouring Heaven and Earth (1983) - 76 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Historical, Shounen

Excuse Me for Being a Cat! (1989) - 67 - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: School, Shounen

Give My Regards to Black Jack (2002) - 82 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Primarily Adult Cast, Male Protagonist, Work, Episodic

Go Go Heaven!! (1994) - 76 - Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Heart Drop (2001) - 60 - Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

Jドリーム (1993) - 90 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム 完全燃焼編 (None) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

Jドリーム飛翔編 (1996) - 95 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

Love Is Strange, Yet Delicious (2017) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Josei, Food

Magnum Lily (2017) - 78 - Action, Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Boxing, Yuri, Shounen, Female Protagonist

New Give My Regards to Black Jack (2007) - 61 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Medicine, Seinen, Work, Primarily Adult Cast

Peacock King (1985) - 67 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tags: Demons, Historical, Male Protagonist, Seinen

Playgirl K (1995) - 70 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shoujo

Porcupine (1987) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

Salary Man Kintaro (1994) - 69 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Seinen, Family Life, Male Protagonist, Work

The End of the Line for the Sinister Beast (2008) - None - Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

The Isle of Tokkou (2004) - 83 - Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Military, Seinen, Historical

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

This Mage Desires Mediocrity (2017) - 72 - Action, Fantasy
Tags: Isekai, Shoujo, Reincarnation, Magic, Male Harem, Female Protagonist

Tokyo Baby Game (1997) - 70 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

VS. (1999) - 75 - Drama, Music, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

What’s Mine is Yours (2017) - 67 - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Josei, Primarily Adult Cast, Gender Bending

Yamato the White Fighter (1976) - 69 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Primarily Male Cast

ひらけ駒! (2011) - 81 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi, Family Life

ひらけ駒!return (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Shogi

やれたかも委員会 (2016) - 85 - Comedy
Tags:

アクジキ (2009) - 80 - Adventure
Tags:

オフサイド (1989) - 74 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Football

サラリーマン金太郎 マネーウォーズ編 (2005) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

サラリーマン金太郎 五十歳 (2015) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

ハヤブサ―真田電撃帖― (2010) - 73 - Action, Comedy
Tags: Shoujo, Historical

ファンタジウム (2006) - 91 - Fantasy
Tags: Seinen, Disability

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

メンヘラチャン (2014) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mahou Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Magic, Henshin, Superhero, Urban Fantasy, Body Horror

レピッシュ (1988) - 80 -
Tags: Shoujo

一匹と九十九匹と (2010) - 70 - Drama, Thriller
Tags: Seinen

一条かれんは誘惑する (2018) - 71 - Romance
Tags: Josei, School, Yandere

八百森のエリー (2017) - 85 - Slice of Life
Tags:

北の土竜 (1981) - 85 - Drama
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist, Drawing, Foreign

土偶ファミリー (1988) - 85 - Comedy, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen

大東京トイボックス (2006) - 77 - Comedy, Drama
Tags: Seinen, Politics, Primarily Adult Cast, Coming of Age, Otaku Culture, Work, Software Development

天より高く (2007) - 72 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Seinen

天才料理少年 味の助 (2003) - 70 - Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Food, Shounen, Male Protagonist

孔雀王 退魔聖伝 (1990) - 77 - Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tags:

密・リターンズ! (1995) - 74 - Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

新サラリーマン金太郎 (2009) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

月下美人 (1990) - 86 -
Tags: Shoujo

東京トイボックス (2005) - 70 - Comedy, Drama
Tags: Software Development, Seinen, Video Games, Primarily Adult Cast, Work

東海道HISAME (2005) - 72 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Shoujo, Boys’ Love, Historical, Youkai

淡河実永は生殺しがつらい (2019) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Teens’ Love

精霊伝説ヒューディー (1989) - 80 - Action
Tags:

聖戦記エルナサーガ (1993) - 90 - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

赤龍王 (1986) - 70 - Action
Tags: Shounen, Male Protagonist

転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

風光る (1990) - 82 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Baseball

Quiet week! There’s some discount promotions, like ones I’ve mentioned before (the fairs mentioned on the coinback promotion page from the other day are still going even though the coins aren’t, for example), or there’s these discounting non-fiction books (with a few pro-wrestling-related ones).
But nothing so spectacular as to forget the memory of all the coins you could have gotten less than a week ago, so hey, might as well save your money!

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Wow, it’s free again?
It’s the only light novel series that has multiple volumes free on a regular basis.

To be fair, 本好き had its first volume free quite often, and at some point had the first three volumes free as well (sadly I owned everything at the time), so it doesn’t mean it’s a bad series (and it’s still going I think, even though it’s already at 30 volumes, so I guess it is selling enough?).

I read volumes 1 and 2 a while back. The first one was okay, but the second one was pretty boring. It has all the issues I have with a typical harem story, just gender swapped: the main character has a shitty personality, but all the guys like her for some reason.

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15 January 2023

Akihabara@DEEP (2005) - 66 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tags:

Area 88 (1979) - 73 - Action, Drama, Mystery
Tags: Aviation, Military

Black Angels (1981) - 62 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Black Angels (1981) - 62 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Bound Beauty (2006) - 61 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (2017) - 73 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Isekai, Food, Iyashikei, Gods, Dragons, Magic, Shounen

Caravan Kidd (1986) - 63 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags:

Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character?! (2020) - 69 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Reincarnation, Gender Bending, Isekai

Eleven Soul (2005) - 62 - Action, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Swordplay, Shounen

Excuse Me for Being a Cat! (1989) - 67 - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: School, Shounen

Go with a friend! (1995) - 60 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heat Edge (1989) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery
Tags: Josei, Police

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

Love Is Strange, Yet Delicious (2017) - 68 - Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Tags: Josei, Food

Love Order 200X (1999) - 70 -
Tags: Josei

LOW TEEN BLUES (1974) - None - Psychological, Romance
Tags: Shounen

Mane of the Wind (1987) - None - Horror, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Heterosexual, Female Protagonist

Paradise Town (1990) - 59 - Comedy
Tags:

Phantom Street (1994) - 67 - Action, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Tags: Youkai, Shounen

Robotics;Notes (2012) - 62 - Adventure, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Seinen

STEINS;GATE 亡環のリベリオン (2009) - 73 - Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- (2021) - 81 - Drama, Sci-Fi
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Musical, Idol, Chibi

What’s Mine is Yours (2017) - 67 - Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Josei, Primarily Adult Cast, Gender Bending

ただいま授業中! (1980) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shounen

ふたり鷹 (1981) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Cars

ほしのうえでめぐる (2011) - 100 - Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

アクジキ (2009) - 80 - Adventure
Tags:

アトランティス (1970) - 90 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shoujo

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ジョーカー・ゲーム THE ANIMATION (2016) - 79 - Mystery
Tags: Espionage, Historical, Shounen, Military

チョコっとちょこちゃん (1992) - 90 -
Tags: Kids, Magic

デカ教師 (2006) - 70 - Mystery
Tags:

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

マタギ (1975) - 80 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

マタギ列伝 (1979) - 95 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

メンヘラチャン (2014) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mahou Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Magic, Henshin, Superhero, Urban Fantasy, Body Horror

ワイルド★キングダム (2000) - 80 - Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Kemonomimi

一条かれんは誘惑する (2018) - 71 - Romance
Tags: Josei, School, Yandere

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
Tags:

土偶ファミリー (1988) - 85 - Comedy, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen

天才料理少年 味の助 (2003) - 70 - Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Food, Shounen, Male Protagonist

密・リターンズ! (1995) - 74 - Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

淡河実永は生殺しがつらい (2019) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Josei, Teens’ Love

甲鉄城のカバネリ (2016) - 73 - Action, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Male Protagonist, Zombie, Trains, Shounen

精霊伝説ヒューディー (1989) - 80 - Action
Tags:

素足のメテオライト (2011) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen, Gods

緋が走る (1992) - 85 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Seinen

聖戦記エルナサーガ (1993) - 90 - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

装甲悪鬼村正 魔界編 (2010) - 90 - Action, Mecha
Tags:

転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

釣りバカたち (1973) - 75 - Adventure, Sports
Tags: Male Protagonist, Fishing, Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen


Any free stuff that jumps out to me personally:

  • I had actually been trying to remember the name of the series ハイティーン・ブギ just the other day, because I remember seeing something a long time ago that made me want to read it (I think I’m just thinking of this tweet) and knew that I’d bought some volumes at some point after discovering bookwalker, but didn’t have the patience to search through my freebie-bloated library to try to remember the name. And so anyway, three volumes being free this week conveniently solved that for me!
    Interestingly – this didn’t come up in the automated query above. It looks like this isn’t because of inappropriate tags excluding it, but rather Anilist’s search not being very good. The bookwalker title is ハイティーン・ブギ, but Anilist only returns the right result for ハイティーン・ブギ
    The difference being that Anilist’s version uses separate markup characters for the dakuten.
    So that’s… cool. To be fair to Anilist, it doesn’t look like Bookwalker returns the intended results for the separate dakuten version, and you would think ideally both searches would treat both identically. But I do wonder quite how the tag on Anilist ended up like that…
    I might consider putting something into the script to work around this, but I suppose it’s probably not a huge deal.
I made a little comparison with a random character inspector tool I found googling

Bookwalker’s version:
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Anilist’s version:
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  • とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ was on my checklist in manga form, and it looks like the first light novel is also free.
    I suspect it was on my checklist just from being in one of those genre recommendation pages for gourmet manga.
  • 子連れ狼 (Lone Wolf and Cub) is a stone cold classic! Famous in both Japanese and English, and made into a whole bunch of movies (in the samurai action genre).
    Please do note though it was excluded (fairly) in the automated query due to the content warning worthy tags (not actual spoilers): gore, nudity, rape
    … but I think in this case the pedigree means it warrants mention anyway.
    One thing worth mentioning is this one has a bunch of confusing ebook editions all available, and it looks like this is the 新装版 specifically with free volumes right now. I remember debating myself whether to go with this version or an older one, as the older one has color sections while the new one is all black and white, but also noticeably sharper.
    It’s not a slam dunk one way or the other, but I went with the 新装版, which has free volumes now, for what that’s worth.
I made an edition comparison

新装版 (free today):

Group Zero older-seeming edition:

Interestingly, this shows that the 新装版 isn’t just sharper, the text is physically enlarged a bit. Go figure!


Non-freebie promotions that stood out to me:

  • There’s a couple much more limited 50% coinback promotions making me think my estimate a while back was a bit low… This Kodansha one, and this Shueisha one, until 1/17 and 1/19 respectively.
    I could swear there was a 40% one for manga too during the week but if so it seems to have ended.

Flagrant abuse of power:

This doesn’t have anything to do with freebies or discounts, but a couple of my favorite new Harta series got their first tankoban editions this month so I have to push them!

  • Asa Tanuma very quickly became one of my favorite current authors thanks to shorts in Harta, and this new collection collects the ones I loved and more I’m looking forward to reading!
    The first short in that collection is actually entirely readable in the free preview! And I enjoyed it so much at the time I actually hand-wrote translations into the balloons to share with friends who couldn’t read Japanese. So please, check it out!
  • And that primed me to also love Tanuma’s ongoing: いやはや熱海くん
    It’s about a boy who gets confessed to a lot by girls but crushes hopelessly on guys himself. It’s very mundane and lived-in, with a heavy emphasis on natural but sharp Kansai dialogue, and I love how laid-back and matter of fact it is. Less romance and more, like, friends quietly figuring themselves out. They shared the first chapter here.
  • Finally, 司書正 has ended up an ongoing favorite of mine because of the way its setting and plot has slowly built up over the chapters so far. Set in the unusual library of a fictional Chinese kingdom, I’d definitely recommend it so far if “the unusual library of a fictional Chinese kingdom” is the kind of thing that sounds interesting to you.
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this isn’t coming up for me, i assume that promotion has ended now? it was the same for a haikyuu promotion someone mentioned the other week…

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Yeah, looks like it, sorry!
I guess I should keep a better eye on the end date to mention it when I notice it, rather than assume if it’s new it’ll stick around for a bit.

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dw about it! i should really check more often myself tbh :joy:

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Many of the promotions are only active for 48 hours in my experience, so there is not much you can do about it. It’s only a few that last for a week or even longer. I have no idea why this is so different at times. (Probably to keep the userbase on their toes :upside_down_face:)

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Most of the 168th Naoki and Akutagawa nominees have a 20% coinback now until February 1st, in anticipation of the announcement of the prize winners. There are further returns if someone buys more than one. They are all on the expensive side though. :slight_smile:

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Another day another confirmation that 50% coin promotions aren’t infrequent…

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I might be in the process of drifting the day I do these earlier a bit – I looked at the days of the week sales ended and I saw plenty of weekdays but not really any 土 or 日, which makes me think after midnight the morning of 土 (i.e. for me, any time Friday) might be a good time to post these since anything I talked about would probably run the whole weekend at least.
If it turns out there’s a bunch of promotions that run M-F though, perhaps I’ll abandon the idea.

21 January 2023

Ai Ore! Love Me! (2006) - 64 - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Gender Bending, School, Crossdressing, Band

Akihabara@DEEP (2005) - 66 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tags:

Area 88 (1979) - 73 - Action, Drama, Mystery
Tags: Aviation, Military

Black Angels (1981) - 61 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Black Angels (1981) - 61 - Action, Drama, Thriller
Tags: Shounen, Revenge, Super Power, Time Skip, Tragedy, Dystopian

Bound Beauty (2006) - 61 - Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (2017) - 73 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Isekai, Food, Iyashikei, Gods, Dragons, Magic, Shounen

Caravan Kidd (1986) - 63 - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags:

Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character?! (2020) - 69 - Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Reincarnation, Gender Bending, Isekai

Eleven Soul (2005) - 62 - Action, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Swordplay, Shounen

Excuse Me for Being a Cat! (1989) - 67 - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: School, Shounen

Go with a friend! (1995) - 60 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shoujo

Heat Edge (1989) - 80 - Comedy, Mystery
Tags: Josei, Police

Her Majesty’s Dog (2001) - 70 - Comedy, Horror, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shoujo, Youkai

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

KAGETORA (2001) - 68 - Action, Comedy, Romance
Tags: Shounen, Ninja, Martial Arts, Female Harem

Kiichi VS (2007) - 89 - Drama, Psychological
Tags: Seinen, Philosophy

Let’s Make Love!! (1996) - 62 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Age Gap, Love Triangle

Love Order 200X (1999) - 70 -
Tags: Josei

LOW TEEN BLUES (1974) - None - Psychological, Romance
Tags: Shounen

Mane of the Wind (1987) - None - Horror, Mystery, Romance
Tags: Shoujo, Heterosexual, Female Protagonist

Paradise Town (1990) - 59 - Comedy
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Phantom Street (1994) - 67 - Action, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Tags: Youkai, Shounen

Robotics;Notes (2012) - 62 - Adventure, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Seinen

STEINS;GATE 亡環のリベリオン (2009) - 73 - Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark (1990) - 83 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- (2021) - 81 - Drama, Sci-Fi
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Musical, Idol, Chibi

ただいま授業中! (1980) - 75 - Comedy, Romance
Tags: School, Shounen

ふたり鷹 (1981) - 70 - Sports
Tags: Shounen, Cars

ほしのうえでめぐる (2011) - 100 - Romance, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shounen

アクジキ (2009) - 80 - Adventure
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アトランティス (1970) - 90 - Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Tags: Shoujo

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

ザ・シェフ (1985) - 83 - Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Male Protagonist, Food, Seinen

シュガー (2001) - 72 - Action, Drama, Slice of Life, Sports
Tags: Boxing, Seinen

ジャイアント (2002) - 80 - Comedy, Sports
Tags: Seinen, Baseball

ジョーカー・ゲーム THE ANIMATION (2016) - 79 - Mystery
Tags: Espionage, Historical, Shounen, Military

チョコっとちょこちゃん (1992) - 90 -
Tags: Kids, Magic

デカ教師 (2006) - 70 - Mystery
Tags:

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ドーベルマン刑事 (1975) - 89 - Action, Drama
Tags: Shounen, Police

ブラッドラインズ (None) - 90 - Action
Tags: Seinen

マタギ (1975) - 80 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

マタギ列伝 (1979) - 95 - Adventure
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist

メンヘラチャン (2014) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Drama, Mahou Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Magic, Henshin, Superhero, Urban Fantasy, Body Horror

ワイルド★キングダム (2000) - 80 - Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Tags: Kemonomimi

史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
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史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
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史記 (1992) - 74 - Action, Adventure, Drama
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土偶ファミリー (1988) - 85 - Comedy, Slice of Life
Tags: Shounen

天才料理少年 味の助 (2003) - 70 - Drama, Slice of Life
Tags: Food, Shounen, Male Protagonist

宮本から君へ (1990) - 80 - Drama
Tags: Seinen, Male Protagonist, Work

密・リターンズ! (1995) - 74 - Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

甲鉄城のカバネリ (2016) - 73 - Action, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags: Male Protagonist, Zombie, Trains, Shounen

精霊伝説ヒューディー (1989) - 80 - Action
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素足のメテオライト (2011) - 72 - Action, Comedy, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen, Gods

緋が走る (1992) - 85 - Drama, Romance
Tags: Seinen

聖戦記エルナサーガ (1993) - 90 - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tags: Shounen

華の神剣組 (2000) - 70 - Action, Supernatural
Tags: Shounen

装甲悪鬼村正 魔界編 (2010) - 90 - Action, Mecha
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転校生メデューサと二口女 (2020) - 72 - Slice of Life, Supernatural
Tags: School, Youkai, Yuri, Mythology, Monster Girl, Monster Boy, Crossdressing, Kemonomimi, Anthropomorphism

釣りバカたち (1973) - 75 - Adventure, Sports
Tags: Male Protagonist, Fishing, Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen

鉄人ガンマ (1992) - 90 - Drama
Tags: Seinen


Any free stuff that jumps out to me personally:

  • The light novel ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) has a volume free and more discounted, 2/3 (金) まで.
    I believe it’s a popular light novel, in the sense that it’s a light novel, and I have heard its name enough times to internalize it as the name of a light novel.
  • Oddly enough, ハイティーン・ブギ which I mentioned last week, has free and discounted volumes again, ~1/31 (火)まで.
  • Lone Wolf and Cub (note the content warning in last week’s post) still has free volumes, ~1/27 (金)まで
  • This is also one of those weeks where there’s an especially large amount of miscellaneous old manga that aren’t all picked up by the script (I assume mostly for notability reasons), so if you’re in the market for miscellaneous old manga, it might be a good time to check out the freebie query I like to use for browsing.

Non-freebie promotions that stood out to me:

  • in my previous post before this one I mentioned this 50% coin promotion, 1/23(月)まで
  • The 森薫フェア, ~1/26 (木)まで, synergizes well with the coin promotion as it means you can get Kaoru Mori’s work for up to 50% off + with 50% back of the remainder in coins. I’ve read a big chunk of 乙嫁語り (A Bride’s Story) and would recommend it if a beautifully illustrated, not especially action packed historical look at nomadic peoples in Central Asia sounds interesting to you.
  • also recently mentioned is the prize nominees promotion, 2/1(水)まで
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