Happy New Year! ~ 🙂
This will probably be another short one and not much of an update either, but I thought I should probably get this out while I still have that wee bit of momentum to do so before I go back to the unfortunate grind of working life tomorrow.
To be honest, I had actually forgotten about this blog. Can you believe it? Damn… I’ve been so busy with just, you know, surviving, living… that I actually entirely forgot about Manga, my life. for a few months. I literally only remembered about posting here today, while putting this collage together.
It’s an absolute given that I’m still reading lots of manga and immersing myself in that part of my hobbies, but I haven’t been in the right headspace to blog here in a long time now. Even now I’m typing this up in a rush as I spend the last few hours of 2022 as I always do, with my family.
Here’s my cosplay compilation from last year. In comparison I didn’t test anything new this year but actually managed to put together 2 new very simple cosplays for 2 different events, woohoo \o/
2022 summary collage:
As expected, I am —yet again— late to checking out this year’s Manga Taisho nominees. Hahahah dammit, forgot all about it until a month after announcements as usual /o\
I post a lot about it every year so I wont go into the details of the award (you can read that in my previous posts) but as a general introduction, the Manga Taishou「マンガ大賞」is an annual Japanese manga award limited to series with 8 or less volumes. It’s my favourite source of manga reccomendations (besides word-of-mouth from friends) and I can always 110% trust that every single nominee in this list will be a great read. I look forward to it very much each year!
Here are the 10 titles nominated for 2022:
The Manga Taisho website (in Japanese) updates every year, but you can take a look at the AnimeNewsNetwork article for more information on the above titles in English. Of course I’m going to gush about the ones I know about below, haha!
Continue readingHappy New Year to ya’ll!
I go through the annual ritual of alcohol allergy symptoms after downing just a tiny bit of champagne with my family as the clock strikes midnight. But now I am practiced so all I’ve got to do is to make sure I stay calm, keep my breathing steady, and avoid scratching my neck, ears and face, woop! And maybe take an antihistamine. No worries, being allergic to alcohol’s not all bad. I don’t like it much in the first place so it works out. It really could be worse.
Huh… It feels like 2021 was like an extension of 2020. I mean, you see all those memes where you blink in 2019 and it’s now 2022? Yeah, like that. Covid did a majority of that, haha! Almost 2 years, holy shit.
Continue readingI totally forgot to write this before the clock struck midnight so here’s me turning back the clock for this a bit, haha!
Here’s my cosplay compilation from last year. Once again, I didn’t go through with any full, new costumes. To be honest, I’m a little surprised I still found the energy and motivation to even makeup test anything in 2021. Life and everything in general really kicked my ass. A lot of things have happened and I’ve had a few different personal experiences that don’t amount to much on the outside, but I think it’s helped me a little on the inside. I’m happy for that.
2021 summary collage:
Happy birthday to me :)) Wow… I can’t believe this blog is already 7 years old.
Took the day off work today to do absolutely nothing as usual, like every other birthday I’ve enjoyed for years now.
Ok, I admit that’s a lie. Haha! I always spend it doing some of my favourite things, like reading manga/fanfiction, watching anime and sleeping. It’s the best. As I’m typing this out, I’ve got Season 3 of Golden Kamuy playing beside me. I truly love spending the day like this and hope I can continue to for as long as I’m alive.
Back to Manga, my life. though, I might forget to post a lot and have even less motivation to most of the time nowadays, but every time it gets to this time of the year, I can’t help thinking about how special this blog still is to me even after so many years.
Continue readingI’d actually shared this whole post on Facebook before realising how much I could not SHUT UP and decided, what the hell, I should just copy and paste here what I had written there /o\ I’ve also forgotten to blog in the last 2 and half months and almost forgot AGAIN to share this here before September’s over…
Once upon a time I tried to blog at least once a month, but alas, I’m letting myself slip huh… Not gonna lie, I haven’t been doing great recently. But that’s no excuse, I guess. Not to myself at least. I’m afraid if I let myself slip any more I might just give up on this one day and I absolutely don’t want that to happen. It’s nothing much, but this blog is still something that gives me joy and that I’m proud about 🙂 Anyway, about this series…
A friend informed me over dinner awhile back that the Kinou Nani Tabeta? (What Did You Eat Yesterday?) Jdrama is now on Netflix Sg and I was so friggin excited I got home and decided that night being more sleep-deprived than usual at work was worth it and binged 5 eps at one go.
To be honest, I haven’t caught up to the manga, but from what I’ve read, it’s such a GOOD slice of life series!!!!!!
Kinou Nani Tabeta, by Yoshinaga Fumi, is categorised as Seinen (from the magazine it publishes in) and follows the everyday lives of an established, middle-aged, gay couple living in Tokyo with a focus on their hearty, homecooked meals.
Ok, you know what? My blog’s already such a mess, I’m not even going to care about how sad a move on my part this is, haha!
So… here’s the problem:
Someone dropped me a message just TODAY via my Talk to me? section and I got so excited and sent this reply out via email, only to be told that the email address I’m trying to send to doesn’t exist. I’ve triple-checked the address and tried again but keep getting a Failure Notice mail /o\
I’d really, really like to get a reply and thank you to the person who went out of their way to send me a message asking for BL recommendations, so I’m just going to go ahead and post it here and hope with all my heart that they might see it.
To everyone else:
If you’re a BL fan, I hope you find something you might enjoy or have already enjoyed from the list below. I’m always open to chatting about manga and the like so feel free to Talk to me, or maybe find me on Ig.
To the warm soul who sent me a message almost 12 hours ago:
Thank you for the message! It’s always lovely to hear from other manga collectors of any kind and I’m so sorry I’m not able to give you a reply directly. I’m also not sure if sending another message via my blog might work, but you’re totally welcome to dm me via other sns instead, like maybe Instagram 🙂 I do hope the below reply gets to you.
06 May 2021, Rest in peace Miura Kentaro-sensei.
I’m not the only one who cried and might continue to.
Thank you so very much Miura-sensei. Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into your work. Thank you for the numerous, never-ending sacrifices you’ve made to give us the chance to see the world in your head. There’s no way for me to express how much Berserk means to me and just how grateful I am. I’ve gone through so many emotions, made and bonded with so many friends, experienced so many things in my life because of it… Thank you for showing us endless hope in the face of struggle through your amazing art and stories.
Thank you for creating my favourite series of all time.
I wish it didn’t happen this way, but I can only hope that you’re finally getting the rest you more than deserve.
Continue readingIn keeping up with that ‘month-late’ blogging again that I seem to have adopted for this year’s Manga Taisho posts…
Congratulations to Yamada Kanehito and Abe Tsukasa’s Sousou no Frieren on winning the 14th Manga Taishō award!!
The winner was publicly announced on 15th March and the award ceremony was held on 16th March.
I mentioned that I wanted to go through as many Manga Taisho nominations as I could before the announcement of the winner but I literally only had a week and, of course, utterly failed. Got the chance to read Sousou no Frieren though so it was nice knowing just how good this series is! It was an expected win, that’s for sure.
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Manga, my life. 