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Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 6
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 1
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 5
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 4
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 3
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 2
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 6.5
By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund.…
Reader’s Corner: Housekeeping Mage from Another World, Frieren (Vol. 3), and Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle
Piano Duo for the Left Hand, Vol. 1 Akari is the school’s princess, a piano prodigy of unprecedented talent. Why would she have anything to do with Shu,…
Reader’s Corner: A Condition Called Love (Vol. 1), Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle (Vol. 3), and More Valentine’s Day Picks
Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! Serendipitously, this week’s light novel and manga reviews mostly all center on romance, with a few digging into a deeper kind of love as…
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin, Vol. 1
By Fehu Kazuno and Jun. Released in Japan as “Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku” by GC Novels. Released in North America by Cross…
Reader’s Corner: Fool Night (Vol. 2), Pink & Habanero (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 7)
Subaru faces not one witch but half a dozen, the banished hero moves one step closer to reuniting with his sister, the plants of a dying world take…
Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside
Reader’s Corner: The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement, and Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle
I love the numbers reflected in our reviews this week: 1, as in the initial volumes of four series we review this week. 5, as in the volume…
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin
Information for the light novel series, Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin. The official English release is from Cross Infinite World.
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin
Information for the light novel series, Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin. The official English release is from Cross Infinite World.
Reader’s Corner: The Eminence in Shadow (Vol. 6), Dandadan (Vol. 3), and Love’s in Sight! (Vol. 1)
Before there was Chainsaw Man, there was Mermaid Rhapsody, Little Sister’s Elder Sister, and Tatsuki Fujimoto other one-shots. We look at another collection of his early manga today,…
Alice in Borderland, Chainsaw Man, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Eminence in Shadow, The Executioner and Her Way of Life
Reader’s Corner: The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Vol. 2), Wandance (Vol. 6), and Jungle Juice (Vol. 1)
What setting most strikes your fancy? Would you love to inhabit an elegant but haunted mansion? Attend a school full of super-powered mutant students? Walk to and from…
Reader’s Corner: Issak (Vol. 7), The Mandalorian (Vol. 2), and SHY (Vol. 6)
May the 4th (give or take a few days) be with you! We’ve got the latest manga volume of The Mandalorian this week! Oh, not a Star Wars…
Reader’s Corner: Ima Koi (Vol. 5), The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Vol. 6), and Call the Name of the Night (Vol. 1)
A quick glance at our Reader’s Corner selections for this post, many of which are debuting today, reveals part of the reason why manga continues to grow in…
Cross Infinite World Licenses Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin
Today on Cross Infinite World’s Twitter account, they announced they had licensed the light novel series Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin
Reader’s Corner: Honey Lemon Soda (Vol. 5), The Remarried Empress (Vol. 6), and The Uncanny Counter (Vol. 1)
It’s a big day for manga, manhwa light novel releases, and we’ve got reviews for you of a number of those hitting shelves today! Romance, slice-of-life, fantasy, and…
Reader’s Corner: Steel of the Celestial Shadows (Vol. 1), Dandadan (Vol. 6), and Cat on the Hero’s Lap (Vol. 1)
Welcome to Reader’s Corner, your little cubby on the Internet where you can curl up with a manga or light novel and just get away from it all.…
Reader’s Corner: SHY (Vol. 3), Touring After the Apocalypse (Vol. 3), and Marvel Comics: A Manga Tribute
Considering our status as a Christian ministry, readers are often surprised by the series we cover on this site, which include ecchi, graphically violent, and yaoi and yuri…
Reader’s Corner: The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl (Vol. 4), No Longer Heroine (Vol. 6), and Itaewon Class (Vol. 1)
Happy Release Tuesday, everyone! This week, we’re serving up reviews of fantasy series and modern-day high school romance, which have become par for the course in today’s manga…
Reader’s Corner: Helck (Vol. 5), Imitation (Vol. 1), and Sengoku Youku (Vol. 2)
This week, we feature releases from a variety of manga and light novel publishers with DENPA, Yen Press, VIZ Media, TOKYOPOP, and Seven Seas all showing up in…
Reader’s Corner: Sakura Saku (Vol. 1), Helck (Vol. 6), and Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible (Vol. 10)
Looking for action? Boy, do we ever you have covered. Copious amounts of gun-blasting and sword-wielding battles fill the volumes of manga and light novels this week. But…
Reader’s Corner: Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 6), Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 1), and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World (Vol. 2)
Flowers aren’t all that’s blossoming this season. Love is in the air as well! But to bloom, challenges must be overcome, like all those involved with imitating your…
Reader’s Corner: WcDonald’s (Ch. 1), Villains Are Destined to Die (Vol. 6), Mint Chocolate (Vol. 1), and God Bless the Mistaken (Vol. 1)
February may be a short month, but it was still packed to the brim with new releases! We cover a bunch in our reviews below (and a few…
Reader’s Corner: Insomniacs After School (Vol. 6), The Remarried Empress (Vol. 7), and Unnamed Memory (Vol. 5)
A plethora of releases come out today, and we’ve got you covered, fam, with reviews of a number of them, including series about magical world receptionists, a witch…
Reader’s Corner: Overgeared (Vol. 1), Zom 100 (Vol. 12), and Takopi’s Original Sin
What if the villainess and villainess fell in love? What if you moved into a rental maintained by a pop idol? What if you were stranded on a…
Reader’s Corner: The Remarried Empress (Vol. 5), Tearmoon Empire (Vol. 3), and Marriage Toxin (Vol. 1)
Happy 2024! Let us help you welcome you to the new year with a plethora of manga, manhwa, graphic novel, and light novel reviews, including those for a…
Reader’s Corner: The Do-Over Damsel (Vol. 1), Alice in Borderland (Vol. 7), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 3)
This week we bid adieu to Hachiken, Mikagi, and the rest of the loveable farm kids of Silver Spoon; give a rare review of a volume we didn’t…
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Reader’s Corner: Touge Oni (Vol. 1), Your Forma (Vol. 4), Glitch (Vol. 1), and Game of Familia (Vol. 1)
Happy autumn, dear readers! Today, we’re helping you fall into the season with recommended reading selections, including a trio of newly launched releases and brand-new volumes in several…
Two on Ice and Fool Night
This episode, we’re talking about Elck Itsumo’s Two on Ice published in Shonen Jump digitally. Then we...
Reader’s Corner: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Vol. 1), My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 4)
Need recommendations for manga and manhwa to gift this Christmas season? No need to worry—we’ve got you covered this week with new and recent series that would make…
Reader’s Corner: In the Name of the Mermaid Princess (Vol. 1), Ima Koi (Vol. 8), and The Secret of Friendship
It was the day after Christmas and all through the dojo, a lonely echo resounded, so how about some shoujo? Yes, another Christmas has passed. We hope that…
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Reader’s Corner: SHY (Vol. 4), Dandadan (Vol. 5), Tamon’s B-Side (Vol. 1)
In this week’s Reader’s Corner, we cover several series that have moved beyond their introductory material, including the newest volumes of Dandadan, SHY, and Rainbow Days, as well…
Reader’s Corner: Solo Leveling (Vol. 8, Final), Akane-Banashi (Vol. 1), and Zom 100 (Vol. 11)
Solo Leveling comes to an end, Zom 100 falls to a low point, Akane-banashi premieres in print, and much more in this week’s Reader’s Corner! We also review…
Reader’s Corner: Bleach (Vol. 1), Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 4), and Shortcake Cake (Vol. 12, Final)
Everything old is new again! This anime season has seen the return of classics like Urusei Yatsura and Bleach, so we thought…why not cover the latter as a…
Reader’s Corner: True Beauty (Vol. 2), A Pale Moon Reverie (Vol. 1), and Me and My Beast Boss (Vol. 1)
In today’s column, we journey into a story from a long time ago in a galaxy far away, investigate folklore and myth while getting tangled in possibly supernatural…
Reader’s Corner: You and I Are Polar Opposites (Vol. 1), Touge Oni (Vol. 3), and The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love (Vol. 1)
OP isekai’d heroes, young men who can’t help but be attracted to the heroine (er, villainess), and…a cat? This week’s reviews are for a diverse group of light…
Reader’s Corner: Oshi no Ko (Vol. 6), Zom 100 (Vol. 14), and A Sign of Affection (Vol. 8)
We feature a slew of new releases in our reviews this week, including a side story manga volume of Goblin Slayer, the first volume of Sword Art Online…
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Reader’s Corner: Alice in Borderland (Vol. 2), To Strip the Flesh, and Golden Gold
Horror and the ancient world weave in and out of the manga and light novels we’re reviewing this week, with moments that will make you squirm and others…
Reader’s Corner: Witch Watch, FMA Fullmetal Edition Vol. 15, and Earthchild, Chapter 1
Witch Watch, Vol. 1 Adolescent witch Nico is thrilled to move back to the city and start high school, though she’s most excited to be paired with her…
Reader’s Corner: Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 2), Issak (Vol. 1), and The Way of the Househusband: The Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping
Romance and violence are sometimes bedfellows, but we’ve separated them for this reviews—we’ve got shoujo, school romance, and the like with the most recent volume of Sunbeams in…
Reader’s Corner: Ima Koi (Vol. 6), Even Dogs Go to Other Worlds (Vol. 1), and Villains Are Destined to Die (Vol. 3)
Are you a dog person or a cat person? Hey, we don’t discriminate here on Beneath the Tangles and to prove it, this week we’re reviewing manga that…
Reader’s Corner: Akane-banashi (Vol. 5), A Condition Called Love (Vol. 7), and Snowball Earth (Vol. 1)
We are now caught up with Akane-banashi! Check out our review of volume five below, along with reviews of a selection of new and recent releases, including the…
Reader’s Corner: The Villainess Stans the Heroes (Vol. 2), Looks Are All You Need (Vol. 1), and I Luv Halloween (Vol. 1)
We’re leading off today with the first volume of a ghoulish original English language manga series that have become a cult favorite: I Luv Halloween! Written by the…
Reader’s Corner: Sword Art Online: Kiss and Fly (Vol. 1), Naruto: Sasuke’s Story (Vol. 1), and Dark Moon: The Blood Altar (Vol. 3)
New Sword Art Online and Naruto manga series, the next volume of Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, and a brand new story set in the world of Unnamed…
Reader’s Corner: Imitation (Vol. 2), Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 3), and Looks Are All You Need (Vol. 2)
What is the essence of being a muse? Are looks all you need? And what conjecture exactly is associate profession Akira Taktsuki making? Spoiler: the volumes we’re covering…
Reader’s Corner: Issak (Vol. 6), The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl (Vol. 3), and Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible (Vol. 12, Final)
Every so often, we make it to the final volume of a light novel or manga and have to say goodbye. Today, we bid adieu to Kubo Won’t…
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