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I've been meaning to try Triangle Strategy one of these days... but then I remind myself that I generally don't enjoy SRPGs. I buy them thinking, "This time it will click with me," and then I never finish the game I'll wait for a good sale, I guess... then I won't feel as bad when I stop playing part way through

I zipped through all the available chapters of Martial Master Asumi last night. I like it a lot! I will definitely keep reading it every week I like Nito, great main characters. Also, I totally would have picked the girl with the glasses too This reminds of lots of the things I liked in Neru: Way of the Martial Artist. Hopefully Asumi sticks around longer. It's an interesting contrast having just read a ton of JoJo. They're both shonen, and they boil down to dudes fighting other dudes (and dudettes!), but in JoJo you have stands and supernatural powers, special abilities with sometimes complex rules and all that stuff that you have to remember, whereas in MMA you've just got people fighting the old fashioned way. Makes me appreciate the simplicity of more realistic shonen, even though I do still love the more fantastical shonen series too (HxH being one of my all-time favourites, Nen is cool as anything... but also rather complicated!)

Polished off Diamond is Unbreakable today. Very solid overall. I enjoyed it. I guess it still more or less follows the "and here's another stand user!" formula that I didn't like at times in Stardust Crusaders... I just tended to like the new characters and stands in Diamond is Unbreakable better than the ones in Stardust Crusaders. Now I'll give JJBA a little break, but I do look forward to starting on Golden Wind eventually. I'll take my first look at Martial Master Asumi tonight as my bed-time story

Yeah, the Braves are super duper good. But we've seen lots of Dodgers teams in recent years dominate the regular season and then come up short of a World Series. You never know what might happen in October! I do like the Braves' chances though. The Jays are mostly winning against the bad teams they're playing right now and are only 0.5 games back of a WC spot. I'm gonna be super bummed out if they miss a WC spot... but I'm feeling more hopeful right now, so that's good.

This week's episode of MIX was such a gut punch...

Chapter 87

So many new chapters today!! Fabricant 100 Tenmaku Cinema Gokurakugai Everything else was solid, just don't really have anything specific to comment on them...

Yeah it was a long wait for another episode of JJK. I enjoyed the new episode. Horimiya is probably AOTS. A few weeks ago I decided to give Ayaka another try. Still not loving it, but this week's episode was actually quite good. Jingi

I have added Martial Master Asumi to my list..! Hopefully I can start reading it this weekend. I'm only about 30ish chapters away from finishing JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable, so I've been pretty focused on that. I am enjoying Diamond is Unbreakable more than I did Stardust Crusaders. Good stuff.

Jays 2.5 games back of the WC race. Very annoying. But at least they won the first game of their series against the Nats last night. Their next 11 games are against the Nats (2), Rockies (3), A's (3) and Royals (3). It's a bit too much to expect them to win every game... but honestly, they really should run the table against these bad teams. That's what a good team would do. After playing the bad teams, they have four games at home vs. Texas. That could be very impactful in the WC race depending on how things go over the next week and a half.

Chainsaw Man #141 today Yeah, Shojo Null is super over-the-top. Pretty ridiculous stuff at times. But I am still liking it quite a bit!

Ohtani is sort of within striking distance of Judge's HR total from last year, so maybe he wants to go for it... Or at least ensure he still wins the AL MVP. But, yeah, I think he'd be smarter to just shut it down for the year. The team ain't going anywhere. The Jays lost tonight. This series against Cleveland is going to be the death of me if they don't win Saturday and Sunday. This team is killing me

Beat & Motion #14 -- What an incredibly feel-good chapter. It wasn't anything too elaborate, but I thought there were some really beautifully drawn panels in this chapter. Let's hang out again Shojo Null #4 -- OK, so the special police dude is a bit over-the-top... but that seems to make a good villain in this story. I thought the panel of him doing a line was hilarious I am intrigued by the new character introduced at the end of the chapter. Looks like Riaha and Marie have got a new teammate.

This week's new Chainsaw Man chapter was a good one. Hopefully we get back to more excitement soon and Denji gets his groove back. Feels like something big is about to happen.

I am going to watch and wait a bit longer before I celebrate the Yankees' struggles. At this point, they're not likely to turn it around... but I want to be really sure about that before I say anything

Hey man, glad to see you pop in here! Sorry about the bad stuff, that's a real bummer The good news is all great stuff though! My wife and I just pulled the trigger on our first house this spring. Moved in June 1st. It's a lot of money and a lot of work, but having more space has been great. Good luck on the house hunt.

Yeah the Rays and Yanks are hurting right now. But the Jays have played very poorly against all the AL East teams so far this summer. You never know what can happen!

Yeah man, that first chapter hooked me for sure Also at auto-correct (I'm assuming) turning Denji into Dennis in yer spoiler.

Yeesh, bit of a rough week for your M's, Eizan..! At least they got back in the W column last night. But those losses against the O's a few days ago, and then the walk-off loss to KC... that's tough. Good thing they racked up a nice little win streak before those losses. Getting closer to the WC race again.

No new chapters this weekend But we did get a new Chainsaw Man today

I totally forgot about Damian's mum! Gotta figure she makes another appearance soon-ish.

Yup, I wanted it super bad for Akane. But it's never that easy..! I've got two thumbs way up for both Wild Strawberry and Shojo Null You've gotta give 'em a look when you got a few minutes.

The Jays turned things up a bit over the weekend. Their AAA call-up (Davis Schneider) had an incredible big league debut. Look at his boxscores from the three games in Boston. Unbelievable stuff from a 28th round draft pick that nobody ever would have put much stock in! I really hope he sticks in the MLB. Super likeable guy. And, yeah, it is looking rather bleak for the Angels. I think they broke Ohtani. What else can he do? I suppose he'll be MVP in the AL this year, which is cool, but he seems like the kind of dude who just wants his team to win games more so than win individual awards.

Horimiya -piece- #5 Usually Sengoku and Remi are my least favourite characters, but they both grew on me a bit in this episode. Sengoku was still pretty annoying during the first half of the episode at the sleepover, even if his pathetic attempts to look under Miyamura's shirt were pretty hilarious But the scene with them walking home from school was rather charming. And then Kono getting Remi the cookies at the end More excellent comedic relief from Iura in this episode too. Dude is low-key one of the best characters in this series In other news: I am *so hyped* for the next few episodes of MIX. I'm not sure if the boys are going all the way to Koshien this summer... but there are still enough episodes left in the summer season that their run isn't over yet. The next game against Seinan is going to be epic.