Manga Log

This week's manga log: Toriko, written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro.  

Description (courtesy of MyAnimeList.net):

Hamburgers that grow out of the ground like four-leaf clovers, mountain ranges carved out of ice cream, and warm servings of mac and cheese that stew deep within the stomachs of volcanoes fill the landscape. This world of delectable natural wonders has reached a prime age of exploration—the Gourmet Age! Citizens and chefs alike aspire to taste and prepare the finest dishes, while adventurers called "Gourmet Hunters" seek out delicious rare ingredients.

Possessing a unique set of skills, the wild and passionate Gourmet Hunter Toriko is infamous for discovering 2% of all known ingredients. Together with his friend Komatsu—a highly skilled chef working at a five-star hotel—Toriko strives to complete his Full Course Menu of Life. But it isn’t going to be easy; in order to obtain the most delicious ingredients, Toriko must battle against obstacles like deadly monsters, evil organizations, and food itself! 

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Next series: Grand Blue Dreaming, written by Kenji Inoue and illustrated by Kimitake Yoshioka. 

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Blame!, written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei.  

Description (courtesy of MyAnimeList.net):

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head.

Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.

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Next series: Toriko, written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. 

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Yona of the Dawn, written and illustrated by Mizuho Kusanagi.

Description (courtesy of Amazon):

Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Soo-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when she witnesses a loved one's murder!

With Hak’s help, Yona flees the palace and struggles to survive while evading her enemy’s forces. But where will this displaced princess go when all the paths before her are uncertain?

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Next series: Blame!, written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. 

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: To Your Eternity, written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima.

Description (courtesy of Kodansha):

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space, To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.

A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well …

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Next series: Yona of the Dawn, written and illustrated by Kusanagi, Mizuho

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: We Never Learn, written and illustrated by Taishi Tsutsui.  

Description (courtesy of MyAnimeList):

His late father always said that a useless man should strive to be useful, so to that end, third-year high school student Nariyuki Yuiga dedicated himself to becoming a high-achieving student in his school, despite his history of poor grades. In order to give his destitute family a better life, his ultimate goal is to obtain the special VIP nomination, a prestigious scholarship covering all future university tuition fees. Although Nariyuki could feasibly be a shoe-in for the nomination, he is constantly overshadowed by classmates Rizu Ogata and Fumino Furuhashi in mathematics and literature, respectively.

To his delight, Nariyuki receives the nomination, but there's a catch: he has to tutor his two star classmates, who are each hopelessly mediocre at the other’s subject of expertise! To make matters worse, the subjects they are horrible at are the same subjects they want to pursue for their future. As the time to submit university applications draws nearer, Nariyuki must find an effective tutoring method for the girls before it’s too late.

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Next series: To Your Eternity, written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima.

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, written and illustrated by Kaku, Yuuji.

Description (courtesy of Anime News Network):

The manga centers on Gabimaru, once exalted as the strongest ninja, but who has now quit his trade, violating the laws of his village. After being captured, he claims he has nothing left to live for. However, due to his superhuman levels of training, he has inadvertently survived multiple executions, from attempts at beheading to burning at the stake. The executioner Sagiri Asaemon tells him that he has lingering attachment to life, and issues him a mission to win his acquittal: to find the elixir of immortality.

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Next series: We Never Learn, written and illustrated by Taishi Tsutsui. 

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Mushishi, written and illustrated by Urushibara, Yuki.

Description (courtesy of Kodansha):

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.

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Next series: Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, written and illustrated by Kaku, Yuuji

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, written by FUSE, illustrated by Taiki Kawakami, with character designs by Mitz Vah. 

Description (courtesy of Kodansha):

Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he’s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he’s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero…

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Next series: Mushishi, written and illustrated by Urushibara, Yuki. 

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Battle Angel Alita, written and illustrated by Yukito Kishiro.

Description (courtesy of Wikipedia):

The series is set in the post-apocalyptic future and focuses on Alita, a female cyborg who has lost all memories and is found in a junkyard by a cybernetics doctor who rebuilds and takes care of her. She discovers that there is one thing she remembers, the legendary cyborg martial art Panzer Kunst, which leads to her becoming a Hunter Warrior or bounty hunter. The story traces Alita's attempts to rediscover her past and the characters whose lives she impacts on her journey. The manga series is continued in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order and Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle.

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Next series: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, written by FUSE, illustrated by Taiki Kawakami, with character designs by Mitz Vah.

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)

This week's manga log: Children of the Sea, written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi.

Description (courtesy of VIZ):

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.

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Next series: Battle Angel Alita, written and illustrated by Yukito Kishiro.

Music: "Eternal Youth" by RUDE. Please support him!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXHaVENo6E)