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Humble Bundle is at it again, teaming up with Dark Horse to bring you a huge bundle of 1970s manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

This bundle includes:

  • Lone Wolf and Cub, volumes 1 thru 28
  • Path of the Assassin, volumes 1 thru 15
  • Samurai Executioner, volumes 1 thru 10
  • Crying Freeman, volumes 1 thru 5
  • Lady Snowblood, volumes 1 thru 4
  • Color of Rage (single volume)
    You can get the entire bundle for $18; you can also get the first volume of each series (minus Color of Rage) for only $1.

    This bundle supports The Hero Initiative:
    The Hero Initiative is the first-ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strictly to helping comic book artists and craftsmen in need. Hero Initiative creates a financial safety net for yesterday's creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. It's a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment.

    Since its inception, The Hero Initiative has had the good fortune to grant over $700,000 to the comics veterans who have paved the way for those in the industry today.

    If you scroll down on the right hand side of the Humble Bundle page, you can also find an area where you can adjust how much of your purchase goes to which organization (the charity, the publisher, and Humble Bundle, respectively), with a minimum mandatory amount to Humble Bundle as the host.

    With most manga ebook volumes costing around $7 USD (sometimes fifty cents less, sometimes a few dollars more), you only need to be interested in three of the volumes available in the complete bundle to justify the cost—and the total bundle has 63 volumes! That's around twenty-nine cents per tankoubon.

    You can find out more information about the various series at the Humble Bundle link. Definitely worth checking out if even one of the titles catches your interest, IMO.

    This bundle will close in about three weeks.
  • Planner question

    Jan. 2nd, 2026 11:49 pm
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    Does anyone else in this group create their own planner? Not a BuJo, in that it's got a framework and elements of a commercially sold planner.

    my 2026 planner and tracker

    Jan. 2nd, 2026 08:41 pm
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    [personal profile] sixbeforelunch posting in [community profile] journalsandplanners
    I don't know how interesting this will be to people other than me. I'm not the most artistic or creative person, not by a long shot, but I've decided to share my current primary planner anyway. This set up served me really well last year. This year I've made a few minor improvements, and it's possible that some of these ideas will be useful to other people.

    The journal I'm using is the Panobook from Studio Neat. I love the wide landscape layout and the dot grid, and I can vouch for the quality of the paper. I use cheap ballpoint pens (I might experiment with fountain pens at some point, but I haven't yet), and also cheap markers. Neither bleed through these pages. The cover is sturdy, and the spiral binding is resilient. It's 50 sheets, 100 total pages long, which is enough for the entire year and then some. I stay on one side of the page, and then when I get to the end, I flip it over and start writing on the reverse side, so the spiral is always on the left side as I use the notebook. You could obviously just use both sides of the page as you go, but I found this works better for me. (If you're a lefty, in theory you could do the opposite and keep the spiral on the right as you go. The pages have no set orientation.)

    Image heavy below the cut. CN: brief mention of weight tracking. )
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    Fandom: 10 Things I Want To Do Before I Turn 40
    Author/Artist: [personal profile] linky/[archiveofourown.org profile] linkily
    Title: Fun After Work
    Pairing: Keishi/Suzume
    Rating: E
    Word Count: 1805
    Summary: Keishi offers to stay after work to clean up the office with Suzume, though in reality... he has other plans.
    A/N: Written for Yuletide 2025! I love this manga so much so it was a delight to get assigned it, along with re-reading it for writing this.

    Read on Ao3, Read on DW

    Digimon Beatbreak

    Jan. 1st, 2026 01:07 pm
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    Happy New Year!

    Hope you all reading this have a prosperous year.

    Anyone here seen Digimon Beatbreak? I've watched the first two episodes, and so far is alright, I guess. The tone seems to try and be plenty dark with Digimon outright attacking humans from the get go. I am still waiting for how characters develop in the series. At times it feels like it wants to outdo Tamers in pushing for dark situations.

    About the central Digimon used, at first the design of Gekkomon was a bit alarming when seeing it for the first time, thinking creators would go for more edginess than what Digimon in general ones already known for it in most designs, but once I saw him in action, he grew in me. Still prefer Gammamon's design in comparison, however.

    (That's because the triceratops is my favorite dinosaur, but I digress.)

    And then there's the rest of the cast in said Monsters. Not sure about it, seems most have a plain look to them, specifically ones like Wolvermon who is my favorite by far, but like I said, her look seems lacking.

    Still, she's my favorite of the ones shown so I drew some fanart of her:



    Anyway, I am pressing on till I can learn more about everything going on.

    Pluto sketch

    Dec. 31st, 2025 09:21 pm
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    Been feeling under the weather during this very last day of the year, seems my flu-like symptoms will kick in as they do yearly, despite me taking precautions. Anyway, have a Pluto sketch from the Manga/Anime series inspired by a story arc from Osamu Tezuka. I am about to finish with the Anime itself, and its pretty intense. You should check it too. Naoki Urasawa also worked on Monster as well.

    Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

    AMV: 9 to 5

    Dec. 30th, 2025 08:52 pm
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    [personal profile] lizardjay
    a-m-v.org link (requires account)
    google drive link
    youtube link (apparently for USAmericans only...)



    People from 248 other countries and territories, see the links above for both streaming and download. This is the first video I've had that's so strict with the licensing! (We don't talk about my earlier copyright strike, that was for the visuals anyway :D)

    This AMV has kind of been my 2025: I started it in January and have finished in December. It wasn't really a continuous effort though, I abandoned it between February and September. But we'll call it the whole year, because it feels like it T_T I spent SO long on this. I don't count time but it was EASILY thirty hours, or maybe more... Nothing in this video really warrants that amount of time, it was a lot of me puzzling between 12 different options for every single possible choice.

    Notes )

    Spy X Family Season 4 Delayed Release

    Dec. 30th, 2025 05:34 pm
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    Welp-

    Spy x Family Season 4 Gets Disappointing Release Date Update

    "In a surprising turn of events, TV Tokyo has refrained from officially renewing Spy x Family for a fourth season. While many expected an update to come out following the release of the Season 3 finale last week, the official X (formerly Twitter) page of the anime instead announced a special event, set to take place on November 8, 2026."


    Spy X Family Season 4 delay link

    bird journaling :)

    Dec. 30th, 2025 08:34 pm
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    I got into documenting neighborhood birds in 2025. What I did was take pics on my phone (if the zoom could capture them) and try to trace them on my journal (since I can't actually draw). Technology!

    Planner: 2025 Laconic (A5)

    Photos here!

    New Music Monday - 29 December 2025

    Dec. 29th, 2025 10:08 pm
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    The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

    Also - a reminder that our End of Year post is up!


    Say My Name - UFO (ATTENT!ON)
    Rolling Quartz - Masquerade
    CNBLUE (pre-release)

    New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

    Last week's MVs: 22 December

    Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

    [ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

    Sourcing German text in Princess Tutu

    Dec. 27th, 2025 05:53 am
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    German text in a torn book, from episode 17 of Princess Tutu

    This is a screenshot of Episode 17 (Timestamp 12:35 out of 20:41) of the cult classic metafictional fairy-tale anime Princess Tutu (2002).

    Long ago, I saw a post that identified the exact source of the text in this image. The source, according to the post, was a German book or literary journal of some sort, discussing a landmark piece of German metafiction aimed at children. That novel, Die unendliche Geschichte (1972) by Michael Ende, was published in English-speaking countries as The Neverending Story. Does that name ring a bell? According to a survey from 2006, the original novel was most popular and successful in Germany and Japan; most Americans, meanwhile, were more familiar with the 1984 film adaptation.

    The original post, unfortunately, was witnessed so long ago that I do not even remember if it was late 2000's or early 2010's, late-Livejournal or early-Tumblr. I have tried searching both sites. I have never been able to find the original post. There is a post about German in Princess Tutu on the old LJ community; it does not cover this episode.

    While lamenting my struggle with [personal profile] stepnix, he hunted down a lead: a German-language PDF of "books you need to know."

    Let's go down to page 27!

    Er, not what the PDF says is page 27. What the PDF says is page 29. We can actually identify some exact lines from the screenshot in this page!

    • und Fantasie. In Die unendliche
    • Poesie als Medien der Selbst- und
    • als wirksame Möglichkeit, Realität zu
    • wechselseitigen Einflusses von Vorstellung-
    • allem an der altersgerechten
    • Ziele orientierten Jugendliteratur

    Now, here's the issue: this PDF, according to the information on the sixth page of the PDF, appears to be a digitized copy of a booklet (or excerpt of a larger book?) published by Duden in 2011. Princess Tutu, meanwhile, aired on Japanese television in 2002.

    I sincerely doubt Ikuko Itoh, Junichi Sato, or anyone else who was working on the anime are secret time travelers. Which means that there must be an older source for this writeup on Die unendliche Geschichte.

    In the meantime, here's a Google Translate version of the quoted passage:

    The central theme of the young adult novel, which has become a cult classic for adults, is the relationship between reality and fantasy. In The Neverending Story, art and poetry assert themselves as media for self-discovery and understanding the world, and fantasy proves to be an effective way to change reality. The exploration of the reciprocal influence of worlds of imagination and ideas opened up new perspectives for young adult literature, which until then had primarily focused on adapting social themes and educational goals to suit the age group.

    Finally, though! Now when I say "there's a link between this anime and The Neverending Story", I have something to point to! Very useful for if anyone wants to write meta about that connection. ^_^

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