I would say I’ve achieved this goal. I’m now at 27 series I’ve started but haven’t finished, which is more than the 22 I had a year ago. But only 7 of those are completed series, and really it’s more like 4 since I plan to finish 3 of them by end of year. (I did also officially drop 3 series.)
For 2025, I think I’ll set two very basic goals:
- Read two actual novels dammit! I haven’t actually finished (and barely attempted) an actual novel (non-LN) in two years. Admittedly it’s been a rough two years, which is why I read so much manga and not even many LNs this year, but I want to try to make my reading a little more balanced. The most obvious candidate is to finish 博士の愛した数式 | L34, which I paused at about the halfway point, but I don’t want to use that as a cheat which is why my goal is two novels instead of one. That said, I have very few novels on my radar, so I don’t really know what I’d read.
- End the year with fewer physical unread manga than I start it with. Right now the count is 37 volumes (
I will update this number after the new yearupdated), excluding a few from series I’ve dropped and a premium edition I don’t intend to read any time soon. I will of course buy more physically, most likely in the range of 40-70 volumes, so I’ll just need to read a little more than I buy.
