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Wow I’m excited for ToC. Possible Roku cover? It seems hard to believe. Also first placement for Animal Signal, and Kinato possibly ranking above 2B and DttF? Please Saito, keep Kinato around! I’m liking Animal Signal a lot, it’s very cute, but worried it might get stale with the episodic...

#31 1. Animal Signal 2. Ichi the Witch 3. Someone Hertz 4. Roku 5. Class 2-B Not really feeling Cannon Master. The setting is neat and the art is nice, but it’s a little too goofy. And I think the premise of “my apprentice is ultra powerful but doesn’t know it, what am I gonna do now?” could...

Animal Signal is very charming and funny. This was a good chapter, and I think each chapter has been better than the previous one. Kokone is really cute and the art is good. I think there’s maybe some potential here for a hit.

On the Himaten vs Nisekoi topic, I enjoyed both series a lot, but I do feel like the ending of Himaten is kind of lame. I know there will always be people rooting for the Onodera and Honoka type characters, but to me it’s kind of juvenile to be so focused on the childhood friend character just...

I’ve really enjoyed all of Kinato. This arc is fun and Terasu is cute. But I’m trying not to get my hopes up despite the decent sales given the poor ToC and no color page. The way that Kinato has gone from a nobody to a capable warrior very quickly is kind of giving me Otr vibes where it was...

I think this is well put. I agree it’s not really about the subject matter being unpopular, it’s just not very good. Your points about the wrestling are spot on. The MC really needed some kind of memorable signature move other than just punching and yelling go to hell. And the aliens really...

This is a meta commentary on Alien Headbutt, but the more I’ve paid attention to online discourse and ToC the more I’ve noticed a phenomenon where western fans latch on to mid series and axebait and insist they are under-appreciated masterpieces. I kind of understood it with Otr because of the...

I thought the last chapter of Gonron revealing that the sister is sort of in a mirrored situation to Gonron was more interesting than anything else that happened in the series. It was at least kind of an interesting twist that she is apparently not in any danger and that the usurper king has at...

#17 Great 1. Nue’s Exorcist 2. Someone Hertz 3. Ichi the Witch Good 4. Kinato’s Magic 5. Hima-ten Okay 6. Under Doctor 7. Hero Girl and Demon Lord 8. Shinobi Undercover Bad 9. Alien Headbutt 10. Mage Next Door 11. Gonron Egg I’m really feeling the absence of Kagurabachi and Modulo! I...

The new batch feels overdue, all of the series on the chopping block have really overstayed their welcome to me. Gonron - 15 pages, not even trying anymore Osoegawa - They abandoned the entire premise so that Osoegawa could shoot a laser beam. I’m sure there will be some final twist where he...

I thought this was a great issue. I read through the whole thing on Sunday, usually I leave most of it for Monday/Tuesday on my morning commute. Great 1. Ichi the Witch 2. Someone Hertz Good: 3. JJK Modulo 4. Kinato’s Magic 5. Nue’s Exorcist 6. Himaten! 7. Kagurabachi 8. Hero Girl/Demon Lord...

Doesn’t he have assistants? Why is there no background or anything, just stark white? The earlier chapters weren’t this bad. Maybe he just can’t keep up, but I wonder if maybe it became obvious this wasn’t going to last very early on and now the author is just going through the motions. The...

I know I’m preaching to the choir but I’m so bored with Shinobi Undercover at this point. It’s become so formulaic, and it also reminds me of one of the problems with Otr where every time someone unleashes a special power it involves filling up the entire page with fire/steam/water/whatever...

Really enjoyed Iikagen Kizuke. The girl was cute - Komi knows how to draw em. Would happily read 300 chapters where they hold hands in chapter 298. Please serialize!

I’m kind of indifferent on Otr, I like reading it but it’s definitely very bland and lacking something extra. Something I try to remind myself, and I wonder if this also explains some of the perceived editorial bias, is that a core audience of this magazine is young adolescent boys and Otr...