Wow, I feel like I don’t often see manga listed at that high a level; I’m curious if it actually falls that high.
I’ve been jumping around quite a few books lately, though none are really new; just been working my way through series.
- Flesh&Blood 12: finally starting on the next F&B book. I took a couple months’ break in order to read through some of the 外伝 stories the author’s written for the series; there’s an absolute ton of them. Anyway, this book starts at a really exciting part of the current arc and is the first book with a new (and the current) artist, so there’s lots of reasons to be excited.
- Flesh&Blood外伝 女王陛下の海賊たち: speaking of the F&B 外伝 stories, this contains four of them. I’ve finished two of the four in this book; I’m hoping to squeeze in #3 at some point, but #4 will have to wait a bit. I’m reading the short stories after the volume they were released, so I won’t be able to get to #4 until after finishing F&B 13.
- 告白: reading with the mystery book club. Good stuff, good stuff. It also feels like an easier read than our previous book club books, which I’m grateful for. This next reading section is really long, so I might need to start early. @.@
- レバダン・希望の花 6: I’m close to finishing this series (it’s 8 volumes total). It continues to be a fun one; I’m curious what the last arc of the story’s going to be, since the villain I thought would be the final boss appears to be, for the moment, defanged. For those who read my earlier recommendation post, the art does improve; it’s not distracting in the least, and hasn’t been for a few volumes at least.
- ファイアパンチ 5: I’m actually reading this with my English book club; I thought it would be a good series to read along in Japanese, and I was right. Easy read, fast paced. I’m kind of looking forward to being done with it though, honestly. It’s entertaining, but I’m not really sure how the author’s going to resolve things in any good way. There’s 8 volumes total, and I have a feeling everyone’s going to have a bittersweet ending, if even that.
- 吸血鬼ドラキュラ: Reading alongside Daily Dracula and @DIO-Berry. Just taking this one slow; I really appreciate not needing to worry over it, haha. This one should wrap up sometime in November, iirc.
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D.Gray-man reverse 2 四十九番目の名前: the eternal hanger-on.
I should’ve finished this way back in January, but here we are. I’ll either devote a weekend to it or make it a priority after I finish up レバダン and ファイアパンチ. I honestly want to read it, but F&B keeps pushing it to the side.
Hmm. This is way more than I usually like having on my plate, but there’s just enough “I’m only reading this every once in a while” that it kind of balances out, I think. Once I finish レバダン I need to pick another series from my manga backlog. Might be time to finally try out that fancy “What should I read next?” thread. 
