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Reading+Listening Log 2024.09 - September

Previous: Reading+(Watching)+Listening Log 2024.08 - August

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Reading languages: German, English, French, Japanese, not listing which was what. (There’s also been some feeble attempts at Chinese, but that was more music.)

Titles are as I’ve read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads unless there is something worthy of note to it

Cursive titles have been completed

If it says a volume number, it may mean it has been finished or is still in progress

Some notes’ content may be subject to repetition here and there, as I also copied some older notes from casual conversations over and didn’t go through any rounds of cutting things down.

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SEPTEMBER

A new Jeweler Richard volume has come out. I have still not read the last one… And I do remember whining about messing up the date of that one's digital release in October 2023. Which means, It's been over a year now I started these logs, and I am somewhat amazed that they have kept on this long.

(classified) level one has now been vanquished. There are things I'd want to ramble about it, but it'll still have to wait. Here is hoping I still remember all of it…

Also, a non-weeb/otaku read since a long while. And I immediately regretted it...

Light Novels/Web Novels/Asian Novels:

Everyone Loves the Cannon Fodder Rosmei Preview Fushi no Kami v1 Sasaki & Peeps v1 The Apothecary Diaries v3 The Blessing of Liefe: Leave This Magical Letdown Alone! v1 The Eminence in Shadow v3 The Executioner and Her Way of Life v1 The Isolator LN v5 The Saint's Magic Power is Omipotent LN v1 Your Forma v5-6

Western Novels:

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän // Max Frisch

Manga:

A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires (Manga) v3 A Side Character's Love Story ch52-57.4 Ano Natsu ga Houwa suru. ch21.2 Are You Okay with a Slightly Older Girlfriend? ch23.3-29.1 Asahina Wakaba & Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend ch1-7.1 Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 (Manga) v3 BL Game no Shujinkou no Otouto de aru Koto ni Ki ga Tsukimashita ch20 Beast Tamer ch7-19 Buta no Liver wa Kanetsushiro v3 Closer Heartbeat ch8-29 Dahlia lässt den Kopf nicht hängen v3-6 Daijuukou to Unicornis no Otome ch16.2-17.2 Domestic na Kanojo v18-20 Duchess in the Attic (Manga) v3 Firefly Wedding ch11-23 Girl Crush ch66-67 Goodbye, Overtime! This Reincarnated Villainess Is Living for Her New Big Brother (Manga) v2 Haikyu v42-43 Hallo, ich bin eine Hexe und mein Schwarm wünscht sich einen Liebestrank von mir v4ch20 Harebare Biyori ch26 Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch12.1 How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer ch17-29 How a Single Gold Coin Can Change an Adventurer’s Life ch16-20 I Can Go Adventuring by Myself, Mom!: The Son Raised by the Strongest Overprotective Dragon-Mom ch1-2.1 I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! (Manga) ch1-3 I don't want to work anymore ch22-22.2 I'm Not Even an NPC In This Otome Game! ch1-4.5 I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic (Manga) ch7-11 Kemutai Hanashi Skimming up to ch31.1 Kijima-san & Yamada-san ch24.3-25 Kimi ni wa Todokanai ch42-43 Knitter's High ch30.2-3 Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch84-87 Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai ch16.1 Living With My Brother's Wife ch75-89 Mr. Mallow Blue ch31 My Housemate Sano-kun Is Just My Editor! ch3.2-9.1 Okazari Ouhi ni Nattanode, Kossori Hataraki ni deru koto ni Shimashita ~Usagi ga Iru no de Hitorine mo Sabishiku Arimasen!~ ch29.1 Reincarnated as a 15-Year-Old Queen: I’m an Ex-office Worker, but the Young King Is Interested in Me?! ch1-2 Seraph of the End ch131-140 Shinde Miro to Iwareta no de Shinimashita. ch13-16 Shojo Null ch2-33 Shuumatsu Touring ch39.3-40.2 Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch78 Strawberry Love ch8.3-12.1 The 6th Loop: I'm Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game ch11.3-15 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten ch14.1-215.3 The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World ch1-3 The Emperor's Caretaker ch1-6 The Eternal Fool's Words of Wisdom: A Pawsitively Fantastic Adventure (Manga) ch1, v2ch7-12 The Ex-Villainess’s Unsightly Daughter ch1-6.2 The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan - The Alternative - ch1-4.4 The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! (Light Novel) v1p3 The Prince's Keeper: The Cursed Prince is Too Fluffy to Resist! ch3.2-6 The Royal Tutor v10-17 The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess ch4.3-9 Trying Out Alchemy After Being Fired as an Adventurer!: Frontier Settling? No Problem, Leave It to Me! ch3-8.1 Unnamed Memory ch39.1-2 Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi kaimaku3, 40.1-2 Yakuza Reincarnation v1-4ch16 Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi ch11.3-13.2

Webtoons:

A Royal Princess with Black Hair ch66-97 Can the Grand Duke and the Marquis be Friends? ch44-58 Fair Wind Scroll ch1-29 For Stella ch34-61 Ice Lamp: The Chronicles of Kira ch57-67 Moriarty's Perfect Crime ch1-8 Taberare Usa ch119-122

Music/Music Videos:

RADWIMPS - Suzume (Suzume No Tojimari) [Dante Levo and Kindred Remix]

Zhou Shen - 铃芽之旅

Zhou Shen - Shenself - 02 - 蜃楼 Mirage

Zhou Shen - Shenself - 08 - 缝合

Zhou Shen - Shenself - 11 - 没关系

Zhou Shen - 我的答案

Zhou Shen - 人是_ (电影《流浪地球2》定义主题曲)

Zhou Shen, Terry Zhong - 春雪

Zhou Shen - Endless Sailing（电视剧《三体》主题曲）

Zhou Shen - 永恒孤独（《三体》电视剧主题曲）

G.E.M. - 面壁者 (《三体》动画片尾主题曲)

谭维维 - 歌者《三体》广播剧最终季主题曲

咻咻满 - 《歌者 Singer》 Cover 【三体 Three Body Problem】广播剧最终季主题曲

咻咻满 - 《奇点》三体同人印象曲

Zhou Shen - 浮光

谭维维 - 3811 - 09 - 小娟 (化名)

TommyMuzzic - Different Kind Of Beautiful

TommyMuzzic - Different Kind Of Beautiful (8D Audio)

Alec Benjamin - Different Kind Of Beautiful (Piano Version)

Alec Benjamin - Different Kind Of Beautiful

Notes:

Fushi no Kami v1: I FINISHED IT. Good heavens, that took since spring to finish it. The world setting really isn't uninteresting, but all that Maika cheese was starting to get me cheese nausea. MC fellow is going to town now it seems, so here is hoping less Maika, and it makes for a more smooth read for me.

Sasaki & Peeps v1: That equally took several months. I'm not sure what it is, but while I find the plot lines not even uninteresting, reading it is a complete slog. I can't really pinpoint the why. What I do know what made me go from considering to dropping it to probably actually doing it is the end note with that neighbor girl. That's such a misguided conclusion she comes to, and it's not like anyone made any such advances or taught her that toxic way that you could say she was brainwashed, especially not from the MC to whom she is directing it now. It's…. ouf. The magical girl is equally just a bit ????, and it's unfortunately not too much the sort of ? that made me intrigued. Other than that, it's refreshing to have an isekai with regular switching back to present reality, but somehow the addition of psychics was reminiscent of the setup of The Isolator sans aliens kinda lowered that contrast of real world vs. fantasy isekai. Granted, it still managed to make do having all of it without feeling exactly cramped. I do wonder what made it such a hard read for me…

The Blessing of Liefe: Leave This Magical Letdown Alone! v1: The third of it those perfectly light romance reads following the two last month, and ouf. I think I ran out of steam there. MC is nicely badass, but the romance thingy kinda came out of left nowhere. If the male lead was introduced before his illustrated dashing entrance to find MC kneeling down looking for a memento trinket, to then turn out, they were childhood friends, then I must have completely missed it. The thing with having no "5-elements magic? -> defective" seems to be getting to be another staple trope? Where did it even come from originally? (Have to say, Dahlia in Bloom employs it in a much more interesting way.)

The Eminence in Shadow v3: I'm entirely not sure anymore what this even about now. Except there's Shadow doing whatever somehow badass and all his fangirls are being fangirls.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life v1: I had read some of the manga adaption in terms of tempo that one definitely reigns above the novel and probably also made it a bit of a drag to read. (Miss annoying Twin Tails did not help.) I was just considering feeling stupid for already stockpiling so many volumes when the end of the volume did raise some more interest again. I am rather simple-minded. Alternative timelines and time loops kinda reliably bait me.

Your Forma v5-6: Uh oh. I should have checked if there were more vols to come soon, because v6 is not just latest English, but also the latest JP volume. And v6 ends on such a bad cliffhanger! I recommend stopping after v5 until more volumes are out. That being said, it continues with its patterns of having an overly crimson red herring that no none seems to outright suspect, only for that one to have a double layer behind it. But v5 played that up with such ramping up the stakes and v6 completely escalated all and everything while dividing the cast into fragmented parties each with their own interests and priorities. There are so many side plot lines now, and it's juggling it while interconnecting it all and reaping some more payoffs from earlier volumes. So. When's volume 7 coming?

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (Man in Holocene): Oh hell darn it. I should have immediately recognized Max Frisch as the same author of Homo Faber. (Whom after that one I really had never wanted to touch again.) His works do leave a lasting impressing and footprint - and it's one I'd love to shake off if I could, because I consider it existential poison to the mind. The plots of those two titles are quite diffrent, but there is a common theme behind it. The futilness of struggle. Powelessness against your circumstances. The world. Life itsef. It'll all end for you at some point and the world will just go on, even with you out of the picture. It's a peculiar sort of gloom that is very earthly and all the more chilling for it, because it's too just a bit too realistic. And just so, so gloom. In this particular one your don't even have the kinda asspully incest inducing coincidence of Homo Farber. It's just about an old man, a widow living alone and not having any much connection to the people in the village, stuck in some real bad rainfall back in the 1980-ish, unstable electricity. And he's there, plastering notes, snippets of knowledge on the wall and slowly and steadily deterioates. What first looked like a descend to insanity because of being a man that really, really should not have been left alone, with struggling with isolation, desolation and pure boredom (this could also be about corona isolation) turns out to not be simple insanity, or not just that, but also dementia. And ouch. From Pagodas build from Crispbread to stave off the hours on the clock and night, to Genesis, Pythagoras, dinosaurs, local Swiss geography, an attempt to escape the place, abadoning halfway, books cut apart and out, chestnut cancer, and…. kitty roasted over fire, because. No real reason really. Beyond probably subtle desparing. There's just this whole sense of helplessness and the ending is just the daughter coming and talking to him like a child full of sorrow and then the place just goes on. Just without him. And there's the whole escape episode where he tries a mountain hike in the rain to go from that village over to Basel. And it's just "what does Herr Geisar want in Basel!". The sheer pointlessness of all. Like humans are pointless. Very much. Somehow we're strangely still there tho.

(Classified) v1 finished: There is a scene where the male MC goes like "How could I, to this day, not know about this?" and my first sentiment on that line was: Right, how did I not about this series? Not that it didn't cross my radar before, but never in a way to really make me pick it up before. There is a sense sense of alienation to the world, while still being perfectly integrated to its social structure, but still maintaining optimism and just doing your best bit by bit to improve the world and the lives of the people in there one way or another, is a mood that probably is just healthy. Also the female MC is still giving me all the aroace vibes imaginable. And (well of course T_T) the other MC has gone cheese infected. Pretty badly, too. But is in full blown denial for the perfectly followable reasons. Which makes this a sort of my second worst personal nightmare, and I was wailing a lot when that descended. I'd have loved them to continue what they had decided on, but maybe, it'll actually find a middle ground of how to reconcile one with the other. Could ramble a whole lot more on this, but it'd have to come end of the year.

Wandering Earth, Three Body Problem Wikipedia Pages: Well, it got there from the fan MV to the Wandering Earth movies and Zhou Shen's Mirage song the month before. And as usual these days I just don't get myself really to actually watch the thing (beyond the trailers anyway). So I read the wikipedia pages instead. And then I clicked on the author of the short stories it was based on and then landed on Three Body Problem. Which I wound up reading all the summaries, too. Sounds rather very interesting, so onto the book queue it went, but then I missed the timing to actually start it because JNC expiry deadlines. Oh well… Maybe still this year.

Domestic na Kanojo v18-20: v18: This buning cheese dumpster suddenly got queer, accompanied by a suicide story, which was kinda not trash, only to then follow up with some very horny-porny show-offs doubling down. And then it ends on a really creepy note. I think this may be the most packed vol so far of having multiple plot strings strung along. (The gay part actually ended wholesome, but looks like Miss Doomed to Suffer MC is getting the creep card, I'm starting to wonder if she is going down a checklist of everything cheese bad.) v19 while reading: Creep. Creep. Also, why shove that that mundane cheese side quest in, can we get the creep arc over already? CREEEEP 🤢 Blegh. The author has it in for Hina, does she? Okay, that sure escalated…. v20: near death netherworld drama, but of course. Also that Elephant Trumpet Rising to the Sky…. well, I give it, the visual presentation was pompous and it does its job to lighten the mood. Also Hina has just signed her final death by cheese suffering-sentence after all. Everything in that world truly is in to torture her, including herself. Everything after…. is being back to to roots that is its dumpster ecchi antics trash form. Can't say it is all that interesting in terms what follows, I mean, this is Natsuo's harem member 4 or 5 or something, and she clearly stands no chance anyway…. And as for the main trio. Just really, bigami is your solution. Even if it's not lawfully allowed, just do it already. How come nobody's even contemplating the idea? (Especially when it actually already made that queer side quest trip.)

Haikyu v42-43: That last game in their school days was honestly…. kinda boring to me. That after time skip felt a bit more fresh. Not much to the ending anymore, but still some volumes. It's nice to see not just soem short epilogue, but a whole arc about folks being adults later on past the school setting.

Kemutai Hanashi Skimming up to ch31.1: I was following it on pivix, and while I had a vague idea that there were more chapters you could buy single I stuck to pixiv, because the slow release there kinda just sit well with how it has this contemplative nature. And I am buying the print books anyway. (Which are also ahead of pixiv as of v4.) Turns out, it's mainly released on some other plattform and over there's it's vastly more ahead. With yet too little time to read through it all, I skimmed through it and there's a whole bunch, like a real whole that can be said and then some more that can't be said yet, so just this one thing for now: I mentioned this in my rambling of ch12 (the final chapter of v2 btw) before. This series's use of black for a mood is spectacular.

Like spectacular.

Breathtakingly so. (I gulped somewhat hard at that scene.)

Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata ch84-87: Oh my gosh. I also did not have too much time to carefully read at first and I got a cheese arrow strinking me down, when skimming it (funnily the same happened for Hiura, but for diffrent reasons), but upon actually properly reading it, it goes on about some youthful existential crisis while also reminding you that it's still a RomCom, a compf fluff one at that. The Swooning arc is forthcoming! (Probably)

Seraph of the End ch131-140: I'm not entirely sure what I am reading here now. Beyond the two MCs kinda trolling everyone. Also Mahiru is having some more screentime and she's still cool and can her sister please stop trying to steal the show.

Shojo Null ch2-33 (finished): This showed quite some potential, but somehow it seems misplaces with Jump. It felt more like it would be more fitting at a place where series like Eden it's an Endless World would feel at home. There are some panels and pages that have quite striking artwork, but then it at many places tries to be an action manga and that's not something the author excels at, at least not yet. Felt rather stiff and more trying and succeeding there. Other than that the ending came fast, downright anticlimatic and while it still manages to have a somewhat round ending, it also feels more axed than not.

The Emperor's Caretaker ch1-6: MC who knows what she wants. art that isn't to shy to have a whole deal of a wardrobe and ornaments. You have my interest. Also looking like having upcoming amounts of cheese. … I will wail about that when it comes to it.

The Royal Tutor v10-17 (finished): Finally read down that pile. After it all: It was boring for me. It's trying to have some sort of compfy humor, but the humor just completely falls flat for me. If one liked the beginning mood tho they'd likely continue to like it. It doesn't really ever stray much from that specific mood.

Unnamed Memory ch39.1-2: Reaching the climax of volume 2's novel. Tinasha smirk towards Lanark after she grabbed the spell from him is just cool. Quite curious how badass the coronation will turn out~

Yakuza Reincarnation v1-4ch16 - Euh. Nope. Not for me. Lots of Beating them up and I kinda got vibes from Wind Breaker just more bloody and deadly and isekai and old geezer instead instead of yourthful puberty. Considering WB wasn't at all for me, I guess that one will remain dropped.

Yomei Ichinen to Senkokusareta Boku ga, Yomei Hantoshi no Kimi to Deatta Hanashi ch11.3-13.2: Darn it, some chapters expired on me again, so more gaps skipping it be… But color me surprised. This is the trope of terminal illness girl leaves guy behind whose world was turned upside down, but then looks like it's ALSO terminal illness guy leaves girl behind. (Who was the best friend of terminal illness girl, so her world gets toppled twice of sorts.) Curious where it goes now.

A Royal Princess with Black Hair ch66-107 (finished): The MC rocks. She so completely rocks. The plot itself is decently round and okay, nothing too outstanding, but Eucienne is just such a great character. Kinda trolling, kinda ridiculous, in her way just upbeat, has wits, is strong and steadfast and quick to act, has a heart full of steadfastness and kindness, while inbetween being a natural and a perfect actress she is pretty, elegant and just badass. I mean just look at this perfect smirk!

And paired with a guy who can keep up with and handle her. How nice that it even gets pointed out at the end as the one big firstmost thing why they are such a good match. It's also nice, that despite the obligatory cheese upcoming, while it may have used a bit of a timing asspull to seperate them, it also skipped over the awkward feelings have changed and by the time they meet again they are perfectly in synch as ever and more than anything they actually know it. No big awkward needs to figure an if out, rather just a short why. So the whole confession stuff at the end is more a thing of a matter of course (she did literally decided to not even try become empress and come back to him), no drama and then it's also seasoned with their usual snides and bantering. Most importantly it was kept crisp and short while adorned with some self-aware humor. Me likes. Somebody take those characters and put them together with some stellar plot, please? ._.

(The only thing that may have irked me, is that it had the need for the obligatory kisses and paint it as the grand curtain lowering climax. So much great build up and then it just has to find its goal in that? Tho the last chapter somewhat mitigates it, as Eucienne kinda goes and half crashes her own wedding. That's pretty cool.)

September's Music: Some more from last month continuing and 浮光 came back from earlier the year. 春雪 came in new and struck a pretty strong chord for several days on loop. Upon looking up the lyrics, it was of course another cheese song (something one sided, but anyway). After that I hit upon some songs of Three Body Problem, which, it turns out were in my to check out playlist already anyway. (It feels like Zhou Shen seems to pop it in and out of just about anything Chinese media by now.) The drama has some tracks of his and Endless Sailing is a terrific case of Enrish to behold. The Chinese version 永恒孤独 definitely sounds a tad better also I do wonder why love songs? Does the book have any? The summaries don't sound that way. Anyway even as such it's refrain line "Please don't answer" is kinda haunting while it also relevance to plot of Three body Problem. I have no idea wherefrom G.E.M.'s 面壁者 is – doesn't look like it's from the drama, but some animated thing? It has a nice melody to kinda just sink into. And then there's Tan Wei Wei/Sitar Tan's 歌者 and also that cover version from 咻咻满 (how bizarre that the cover video is the only place to find some english subs). What a terrific earworm. The first lines/refrain just keeps stiking in my head. "I glanced upon my love / I flew by her side / I presented her with a gift / which is a small piece of solidified time". Maybe it's because I had just learned "gift" from 春雪 and that made me understand the lines pretty much without having to do too much looking up, once I actually listened for the words? Not that I wanted to believe it, because, darn it. Another love song again? (Also why, does this series really have a lot about it?) Also yet again a song that isn't part of the drama series, but rather some radio drama's final season's opening theme? I did find some Chinese audio book reading on youtube, but doesn't look like it's this one. Anyhow tried some more Tan Wei Wei und then 小娟 (化名) struck out melodically, but upon looking up the lyrics it's. Uh. A song about domestic violence referencing some real murder cases. From whining over love songs that's a bit of a cold bucket of water… Then by the end of the month dropped Diffrent Kind of Beautiful by pure coincidence. Just another random play from youtube, but the moment I listened to it was basically when some certain other classified news dropped and it's also been around the same hour where I discovered that other plattform with all those up to date latest Kemutai Hanashi chapters. And while I was skimming those I wasn't perfectly listening to the song either, but the title line stuck and it's melody was a stragely fitting mood for this series, as were some fragments of its lyrics. "A diffrent kind of beautiful / …/ the kind that makes me turn around / … / The kind that takes my breath away and leaves me without air / maybe I'm delusional, it's just that kind of beautiful / … / I was hoping that I'd run into you here / but now I'm stumbling / and I can't seem to figure this out / … " Whiiiich, is a bit of a mishearing of it, and the gaps that I didn't pick up at first totally just make it another (one sided) cheese song, but what I selectively did pick up there in that moment kinda is felt exactly fitting to what Kemutai Hanashi is (specifically had to thing of the scene ch15).A whole series about stumbling and "I can't seem to figure this out", about a diffrent kind of beautiful. Breathtakingly so, a kind that makes me turn around.

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