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Having worked to death as a corporate office worker who was never able to take any breaks, Azusa was rewarded by being reincarnated as an immortal witch. She decided to just live a laid back life, but it turns out even small chores worth no xp can level you up to epic proportions when you do it for 300 years! Now that she's revealed to be the most powerful witch in the land she faces challenges, requests, and a bunch of other problems (even though she just wants to drink tea!) and in the process gather an adorable found family. This is 300% cute and adorable and possibly the coziest thing Wing has ever read!

CW: This book discusses topics including (teen) suicide and drug use, and a key part of the plot involves characters trying to figure out whether their friend had committed suicide.

After the mysterious death of their mutual friend, Alea and Sam, two teens who had nothing to do with each other must team up to find out why Steven stepped out of the airlock of Outpost Zero, the remains of a generation ship crashed into an icy planet, into certain death. In order to solve this mystery they must explore the depths of both their home, their history, and the stories of their families. Outpost Zero explores what happens when a civilization (possibly the last civilization) is trapped in a domed town and how they can keep living even when the world is collapsing around them. (Hm, seems relatable.)

Kafka is part of a cleaning company that cuts up dead monsters and disposes of them once the anti-kaiju defense force neutralizes them. He's all but given up on being a hero after repeatedly failing to join the defense force in his 20s, but thanks to new regulations raising the age of eligibility and a chance encounter with mutagenic kaiju poop(?) Kafka now has one last chance to fulfill his childhood promise of protecting his world. Kaiju No 8 may look like a standard battle shonen manga, but between the superbly written characters (yes, even the women!), the 32 year old protagonist, and stunning art, it starts above everything else in the genre right now.

The premise is simple: two people who stop time with their orgasms have sex, stop time, and then rob banks. But it takes about three panels for the reader to realize that it's anything but simple. Told in a somewhat non-linear fashion the story plays with time and the fallibility of brains and feelings, and with other characters with similar superpowers this first volume leads to a six volume adventure that deals with a whole plethora of romantic and sexual relationships. And also financial crimes.

The protagonist dumped his boyfriend and in his sadness got sucked into his video game console. There he tries to find his way home while his favorite video game characters "console" him by having hot sex with him. Look, this is just really well drawn mlm porn with some paper thin plot and jokes and sass connecting the sex scenes. And it WORKS. Signed, a lesbian who enjoyed the hell out of it.

Three busy senior girls need an excuse to hang out, so they have supper club every Friday night with their friends. Jackie Morrow did a great job melding an array of teenage problems and friendship and recipes and family traditions into a book that feels like a warm pot of soup.

A starship captain with his own agendas is doing One Last Job for the fleet in a world that's basically Star Trek in hell: demons, ghosts, and dead gods roaming the universe eager to consume the flesh and souls of mortals. Armed with a ship full of exorcists, mathematicians, mutinous backstabbers, and tech powered by literal gods, Captain Rigg is going to do whatever it takes to get to the outer darkness.

This is a nice adaptation of a novel, which in itself is an adaptation of many stories and folklore of Appalachia. It is, in some sense, a pretty standard affair: family moves from big city to the countryside, and then spooky things happen to them because they don't know not to go into the woods. It's not particularly spooky or complex for adults, so works pretty well on the younger audience it's intended for.

What happens when a pie-baking, house-tidying, Southern vlogger goes and plays hockey in a college far away from home? You get a heartwarming tale of acceptance and confronting expectations and overcoming fear and... romance? Told through panels resembling 16:9 "video" stills this is a cute and unique story about a boy who's far from home and got a lot to learn.

There's a magical world full of girl bunnies and girl goblins and girl horses and only girls get to travel there and wait isn't our protagonist a boy? This twist on a portal fantasy brings an entire school's LGBTQ alliance club into a world made by our protagonist's mother and it's a no holds barred exploration of gender and feelings. There aren't just metaphors here, there's also honest healthy conversation and confrontation of fear and guilt and all the other fun stuff. It's got genderfeels as heck, and while there are times when it gets a little Trans 101 honestly the world could use a bit more of that!

Cheer Up reads like a classic movie about teens. There's a central conflict involving belonging and teamwork and romance and self-discovery in a high school, but instead of whatever the heck we had in the 80s and 90s we have protagonists who are queer/trans. This book isn't here to change the world or is about an agonizing coming out experience. It's a cute story about teenagers, one of whom just so happens to be taking puberty blockers. It's a story about the proper growing up experience that many of us never got to have and that many can have in a gentler world.