Good day, readers of the Natively, I hope you are all having another grand day flipping through pages (or swiping if you are a digital reader)
It’s already September. I can’t believe it. It’s amazing how fast time flies when you are having FUN reading! 
I finished the fourth book of ヴァンパイア大使アンジュ lately. The story definitely picked up from this volume. The first three books were basically just your normal Japanese slice of life school bs with the occasional 精霊 incident. With the fourth volume, it goes full fantasy and turns in to this all-out demon war in Europe. Honestly, it gets a bit dark (and violent) for a kids book at times (at least compared to the ones I’ve read so far). Like, in the first volume, the grandfather of the two main characters suddenly dies, in the fourth volume their relative’s grandfather ALSO suddenly dies (it was stated that both her parents were killed earlier), when the vampire village gets attacked, she witnesses a vampire boy die and turn to dust right in front of her. Though, I guess you can still tell its kiddy from how unrealistically positive the characters are right after tragedy. The plot has also been getting a bit ridiculous lately: Main girl finds out she actually has the power to suck powers away (imagine kirby if they were a vampire). She then unintentionally sucks away the power of her fairy friend, almost causing them to die. Turns out her grandfather (who died in the first volume) had a twin brother (who died in the last volume), and his granddaughter actually has the same the power, but instead of sucking abilities from just being around people(?), she can actually suck them up through 吸血. So, get ready for this one… she sucks away the main girl’s ability sucking ability(wtf???) and that reverts the sucking done by the main girl (because it just does???) so now the fairy is fine again.
I also finished some short stories earlier today. It’s nice to get that quick dopamine burst from finishing a “book” in a couple of minutes. Maybe I’ll actually read some m*nga soon. 
I just started 西の魔女が死んだ | L27, another book selected for me by Natively in the recommendation thread (you guys should really use it more!!!), I’ll make sure to talk about it once I get deeper in.
So, what are your reading goals for the new month? I just want to get a finish up ヴァンパイア大使アンジュ and maybe get a couple more easy high purple/low orange books out of the way. I basically want to clean out my “backlog” (my wishlist is obviously not my backlog) before October since I already know I will be exclusively reading 吸血鬼 books for that entire month.
