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Prepare yourself. It’s near the end of the year and we have one more manga show before 2025 arrives. That means two final manga of the year to round out everything. Will they be worth the read or do they deserve to be shredded, burned, and flushed into the municipal sewer system? Causing befuddlement for the poor workers on the other end wondering why pages of Princess Ai keep clogging up the filters.
Tim has Futari Solo Camping. A title that’s very easy to misread if you’re only paying a little attention. Gen is a mid thirties dude who likes to camp and alone. On one such trip, he comes across a girl, Shizuku. Shizuku is college aged and just about completely unprepared to camp. So it’s the mangaka’s special interest in camping as communicated through these two. It gets a Borders.
Orani trauma wo at Ore ni Trauma wo Ataeta Joshi-tachi ga Chirachira Mitekuru kedo or The Girls Who Traumatized Me Keep Glancing At Me, But Alas, It’s Too Late. Yukito is a very sad boy. Girls have been mean to him by refusing to go out with him. He decides the best way to deal is to become cold. This changes how the girls see him and begin treating him a bit like a wounded animal. It gets a Read It Now.