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‘The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 2’ by Sumiko Arai

I borrowed the second volume of this manga series from my Teen. The story is still enjoyable in this second volume, but there was just a bit too much teenage angst for someone as old as me and I felt a bit frustrated with the main characters at times. Feels quite representative of teenage girl drama and insecurities though. Love the side characters!

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New Read - UFO Mushroom Invasion

UFO Mushroom Invasion is a 70s horror manga. The idea is that there's an alien space craft that crashes into Japan and mushrooms harvested from another planet are there...and begin spreading everywhere, rooting in people, taking over the planet.

There are two things to note about this manga. First, the creator really likes talking about mushrooms. Between chapters there are just long, expositional stories about mushrooms: in folklore, in science, etc.

Since black and white manga panel from UFO Mushroom Invasion showing a teenage boy in the rain with an eyepatch covering his right eye saying, "I guess if humans go extinct, Earth will at least be free of pollution and wars..."
Photograph of a single black and white manga page from UFO Mushroom Invasion. The upper two panels are of an adult and child in a room searching. In the upper right panel, the kid says "Hey, where'd that mushroom go? It was just here a second ago..." The left upper panel has the adult with his hands crossed saying, "It's gotta be somewhere, it's not like mushrooms can sprout feet and walk away." The lower panels are set outdoors with a cat looking shocked on the roof of a house with a mushroom that is glowing literally sprouting feet and walking away on the roof.
Photograph of a white person's hand holding UFO Mushroom Invasion against a light colored wall. The title and the author's name (Shirakawa Marina) are written at the top of the page with a dark background. The rest of the image is a long landscape with mushrooms in the background and in the foreground a single human with a mushroom growing out of their head and tendrils coming for the mushroom covering the entire body of the human, partially buried in the ground.

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reviewed Konosuba! God's Blessing On This Wonderful World! 17 by Natsume Akatsuki (暁なつめ) (Konosuba! God's Blessing On This Wonderful World!, #17)

Natsume Akatsuki (暁なつめ), Kurone Mishima (三嶋くろね), Masahito Watari (渡 真仁): Konosuba! God's Blessing On This Wonderful World! 17 (Paperback, Deutsch language, 2024, Tokyopop GmbH)

Kazuma und seine Party treffen auf die Dämonengöttin Wolbach und erleben eine Überraschung. Vor allem …

"Ist es in Ordnung, wenn ich heute hier schlafe?"

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Und da ist essss. Band 17, die Story zu Wolbach und Megumin - bzw eine weitere Story über sie. Beide Charactere sind so meine Favs und geht sehr viel um diese beiden im Verlauf. Hinzu kommt noch ein schönes Full-Color Zweiseigies Bild (sogar 3, wenn man das Reguläre am Anfang hinzuzählt).

Ein Teil, den ich sehr gefeiert habe. Mal schauen, wie es im nächsten weiter geht!