Nearly there again.

Wow, I actually updated the blog! In my latest manga review, learn more about Geshumaro's I Want a Gal Gamer to Praise Me, a story of a shy high school student who hires a pro gamer coach, only to be surprised by the arrival of a fashionable and cheerful gal! 🎮❤️✌️

I know the year's almost over when it's time to order my next Doraemon desk calendar and planner.

I didn't even know this got an anime adaptation. I'm so out of the loop. 😭

I love the manga. Judging by this review, the anime seems to have captured its absurdity. Good.

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.

I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

Gotta love buying things at 1 AM, immediately falling asleep, and totally forgetting about it until you check your email 8 hours later.

Guess I made my final RightStuf purchase last night... 🫣

Cleaning out my parents' basement and found this relic

I bought a new bookshelf yesterday, which means it's time to once again rearrange my collection. Here's a start. Not sure what I want to do with the middle shelf yet.

The whole NPC content thing legitimately disturbs me. I truly do not see the appeal.

New from me! Wrote about Mamoru Aoi’s ongoing manga about a couple experiencing a teen pregnancy! The series has quietly been building up to be a stunning and meticulous tale on body autonomy:

https://blacknerdproblems.com/the-appeal-of-gentleness-the-push-for-agency-in-my-girlfriends-child/

Daicon Film / General Products / Gainax

This is such sad, sad news. Mangaka Nami Sano dies aged 36, a month after her cancer diagnosis, still working on manga. "This ended up being a fun life. I am now going to a more free world. Goodbye."
Live your life. Do everything you can in the time you have. Please, please, take this one chance.

Got some hall shots back from a photographer I met at Otakon. I'm absolutely losing it over the dakimakura background 😭

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

It's wild to me how mainstream anime and manga has become in the US.

In high school, I was too scared of saying I was a fan, unless I was with my friends.

Now, I see kids wearing anime merch nearly every time I go out.

I wish things were like that back then. Maybe I'd have been more confident.

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