new manga delivery kills productivity
Happy April!! I'm celebrating with new manga that just came in!! 9 books and only one is from Hana to Yume...!!!! What is the world coming to?! One book is for work because I'm tired of having to rely on digital files for font reference, so I've started just buying my own books for this one publisher that doesn't send me physical reference copies. (I'm pretty sure they send books to their translators and adapters, but apparently letterers don't make the cut.) Then there are three from Dessert (new Robico and more kabe-don manga) and four from Betsuma (more Haru x Kiyo). All this in addition to the 10 volumes of Yumemiru Taiyou I got a couple weeks ago and am still making my wait through (thanks, Amazon JP marketplace sellers with cheap sets). I read the first volume, then made the mistake of looking at the tags on MangaUpdates, then was in denial about the final pairing for a few days, which left me unmotivated to finish the second volume, but then I was poking around for more Takano Ichigo as I was finishing up the lettering for orange (so good, aaaaaaah!!!) and found she made a new twitter account after deleting her old one a while back, and it had some super cute orange comics, and also some super cute comics for her other series too, and I read this one and decided I could accept however Yumemiru Taiyou was going to end. Because it was so stupid cute. (there are also a ton of comics and illustrations on her website, which I haven't yet had a chance to investigate fully but am sure are delightful). So now I'm half way through volume 3. The protagonist is kind of (really) a brat but that's kind of the point and I think she's pretty amusing to read about. I hope orange sells well and Seven Seas licenses more Takano Ichigo manga! (and that she keeps writing more of it too!)
I did cut a few titles from this order so I would have enough to qualify for free shipping again on my next order (in a couple weeks because apprentice-carpenter manga has become a priority-buy series). So I will catch up on Hana to Yume next time.
After I wrote all this I managed to do a bit more work (I have just around 60 pages that need in-depth cleaning for Yowamushi Pedal!! One of the volumes of this omnibus came already clean and there was great joy in my heart upon the discovery), and then ate lunch outside (it was so sunny!! I opened the windows to let the outdoors in! ...it was still pretty brisk and my yard was still squishy from all the rain yesterday, which is nuts because my house is on higher ground from the street so you'd think it would all run away but the ground was SATURATED. There were puddles in my lawn last night!), and then read some Skip Beat! and then wasted time on the internet and now I'm going to finish Skip (v38, from today's Kino delivery) and we'll see if I get more work done after that or if I read more manga after that.
I did cut a few titles from this order so I would have enough to qualify for free shipping again on my next order (in a couple weeks because apprentice-carpenter manga has become a priority-buy series). So I will catch up on Hana to Yume next time.
After I wrote all this I managed to do a bit more work (I have just around 60 pages that need in-depth cleaning for Yowamushi Pedal!! One of the volumes of this omnibus came already clean and there was great joy in my heart upon the discovery), and then ate lunch outside (it was so sunny!! I opened the windows to let the outdoors in! ...it was still pretty brisk and my yard was still squishy from all the rain yesterday, which is nuts because my house is on higher ground from the street so you'd think it would all run away but the ground was SATURATED. There were puddles in my lawn last night!), and then read some Skip Beat! and then wasted time on the internet and now I'm going to finish Skip (v38, from today's Kino delivery) and we'll see if I get more work done after that or if I read more manga after that.