June 2019 Reading Calendar Breakdown

And we’re back. My week off was almost too rejuvenating as I came to terms with having a more relaxed release schedule moving forward. Even as I’m working on this and outlining a handful of other posts in the future, I feel that little nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that it needs to be ready for a next-day release. Luckily, it doesn’t. From here on we’re taking our time, relaxing, and putting more effort and care into our posts because we can afford to.

APADFTMOM Day 31: Thank You, and See You Soon

This feels like kind of a copout in the long haul, doesn’t it? My day 1 post was an introduction and my day 31 post is a conclusion. I doomed myself from the start by not making an actual content post right off the bat so fuck it, we’re capping it off in a similar manner.

APADFTMOM Day 30: Naruto, and Writing Compelling Rivalries

Ever since I started writing these posts at the beginning of May, I’ve wanted to write about Naruto. Naruto isn’t the worst series on the planet by any means, but recommending it and having that recommendation taken seriously are both a bit difficult due to its notoriety for being long as all hell and carrying the label of entry-level weeb material. Nevertheless, I’m of the opinion that any series regardless of popularity is worth a try. You never know what might hook you in and make you a lifelong fan unless you try. I could frame this post in any number of ways, but I have a very specific one in mind. Today we’re going to discuss why Naruto is worth your time, and we’re going to do that by focusing on Naruto’s rival Sasuke.

APADFTMOM Day 29: Tonikaku Kawaii, and Romance As A Spectrum

Over the past month we’ve slowly expanded a bit on two topics: My enjoyment of romance manga that keeps compelling me to write about it, and how romance manga is a spectrum. The genre of romance in manga splinters off into multiple specific subgenres such as wacky harem romcoms, one-on-one love stories, single parents learning to love again, and stories about the magic surrounding a first love, to name a few. I could write about romance for days because it’s such a broad topic that I have a lot of strong opinions about, but today we’re focusing on a series that’s part of yet another romance subgenre. Today’s topic is a story of two newlyweds titled Tonikaku Kawaii.

APADFTMOM Day 28: High Priority Reading: Claymore

If I have a chance to talk about my reading calendar, I’ll talk about my reading calendar. At the end of February I bought a calendar for the sole purpose of giving myself daily reading goals so I could read consistently while also finishing things that I had dropped out of laziness. It’s worked wonderfully so far and with the end of the month on the horizon, it’s about time to fill up June. For May I decided to buckle down and finish reading Claymore, which I started and dropped a few years ago for no particular reason. I loved it. We’re talking about it today.

APADFTMOM Day 27: Hadi Girl, and Directness In Romance

It’s been a hell of a week going over thirty years’ worth of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. To be honest I felt like taking a day off after that because we went in so hard on parts of that series, but I promised a post a day for the month of May. That’s actually not the worst idea for this challenge name. May 27th will be the day when we decided on a name, and that name is “A Post A Day For The Month Of May.” Let’s get right back into our regularly scheduled content with a nice short series. Today’s topic is Hadi Girl, a 30-chapter romance series by Akino Miyabi.

APADFTMOM Day 26: JoJo Week Part 8: JoJolion

And so our journey through JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure comes to an end as we reach the current point of the series. Throughout this past week we’ve directly compared each of its components against each other to see how consistent story structure in a multi-work piece does not mean the stories have to be the same. We’ve seen a wide array of personalities, motivations, and relationship dynamics that may be similar but are never the same. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has proven to be a machine whose parts can be swapped out at will without fear of it breaking. Today I’m honored to cap off our JoJo Week by going from 1890 America to 2011 Japan for the eighth installment of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, titled JoJolion.