Welcome to Litsy!

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Things are getting INTENSE for Laios and the rest of the dungeon party! We get a little bit of a backstory with the lunatic magician, along with some heavy themes in this volume. Can‘t wait to start the next one!

Once again, cannot understand why people are so vehement that this isn't queer, just because there's no kissing. I can understand deciding to read it as healthy intimacy between men, sure, though I think it goes beyond that -- but why shout down the people who read it as gay? Look at it. It's not an unfair reading.

Eleven's a lot of fun and a good foil for both Gil and Lizel, with his impulsiveness. He's very young compared to them.

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I‘m really enjoying this series and its characters (minus Yor‘s brother for numerous reasons)! The possibility of this little family adding a pet dog into the mix has me excited for the next volume!

It's hard picking a screenshot for this volume, because there's so much good stuff with Eleven. But there's this whole scene where Lizel shows how scary he can be, and then pets Eleven's hair and comforts him after...

Again, really don't understand how anyone reads this series as straight. (And also, how anyone reads Lizel as a fundamentally good person. He is *likeable*, but amoral as fuck.)

My memory of playing volleyball. I‘m shorter than Hinata w/small delicate hands. It never was anything less than torture trying to serve a ball.

Tiny, titty, weak & slow. Hated it & all my teammates hated me. Plus that time I dislocated my pinky finger trying to return a serve. 😩

Never completely healed either. I can still tell my pinky right hand is the one that got dislocated.

BUT…great series, what 782 volumes? Don‘t care; reading them!

As with Volume 1, so with Volume 2. Cute cats, as always.

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Give me all the teddy demons and eggplant seals (giant or not) 😍. This volume was hilarious and I enjoyed every minute of it! I can‘t wait to start on the next one.

I forgot how early Eleven starts trying to join the party! And I really don't understand how Judge and Studd's behaviour isn't supposed to be indicating crushes on Lizel... And I don't understand how this isn't a love declaration.

Getting back to my reread for comfort after bereavement -- Grandma passed a little after dawn on Tuesday, with me and Mum at her side. I miss her.

I was a bit underwhelmed with this one. Lots of action but the art seems rather primitive to be honest.

Only a little more research: This was the seed of Tezuka‘s better known Astro Boy, back to 1952.

“Astro Boy is considered one of the most important anime & manga series of because it was a pioneer in the industry…while also being the first Japanese animated series…effectively introducing anime to Western audiences.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.5/5)

Not gonna lie, my thoughts at the beginning of this book consisted of “what the hell am I reading right now?”. Once past the first chapter of the volume, I began to enjoy it a bit more and found it strange, but interesting. I didn‘t enjoy the suggestive parts as much (also what is with the grandma‘s appearance??) but I‘ll read the next one to see how the story continues.