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Seiyu to Yoasobi Season 8 Signing Off
When I wrote my Language Learning Reflection #2, I talked about how one of the things I was doing a lot of in 2025 was watching Seiyu to…
Reading Log: February 2026
It’s the end of February already, and I feel like my streak of getting the backlog down has probably come to an end since this last week has…
Reading Log: January 2026
It’s the first reading log of 2026! January has been relatively quiet, and I came down with a cold at the end, so I’ve done little else but…
Reading Log: December 2025
It’s the last reading log of the year! It feels like it has been a busy year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how my yearly stats have…
A Language Learning Reflection #2
When I wrote the first Language Learning Reflection at the start of 2025, I hadn’t intended to come back to it with a follow-up. However, since I wrote…
Reading Log: November 2025
November means Scotland Love’s Anime time \o/ That does mean less reading (in theory anyway), but I think on the whole it has been a good month. I…
Reading Log: October 2025
Last month, I was celebrating Summer being over, but really October ended up being busy as well. I guess more from catching up with everything I missed over…
A Ten Year Review: AUKN Edition
As I write this on October 23rd 2025, it has been ten years since my first AnimeUKNews review was published. Which I think makes for the perfect opportunity…
Reading Log: September 2025
Summer is over \o/ Gone is the busy season, too-hot days, and here comes autumn. I say this every year, but I am a creature that loathes the…
Reading Log: August 2025
Another month of the year has gone by in a flash. Another extremely busy one at work, but I have managed to fit in a lot of reading,…
Reading Log: April 2025
April came and went in a rush. Work was busy, so I feel like my ability to read or do anything else decreased quite a bit. Especially since…
Reading Log: February 2025
It’s the second reading log of 2025, in which I am determined to make a proper dent in the backlog. And frankly I think I have managed that,…
Reading Log: January 2025
It’s the first reading log of 2025! This year I am determined to make a proper dent in the backlog, which to be fair I say every year…
A Language Learning Reflection
In March of 2018 (almost seven years ago!), I decided to start learning Japanese. At the time, I was growing increasingly annoyed about the lack of availability of…
Usotoki Rhetoric Drama Review
Usotoki Rhetoric by Ritsu Miyako is a manga series I fell in love with four years ago when I picked it up in 2020 due to being a…
Reading Log: November 2024
I have no idea where November went. It vanished in a haze of SLA, friends visiting and being ill I guess. Just one more month of the year…
Reading Log: October 2024
October reading log time! Lacking a good opener this time, not a lot of note has been happening beyond trying to catch up on various things I fell…
Reading Log: September 2024
Work continued being busy into early September and just as I got free I came down with a cold, so although I really wanted to get through some…
Reading Log: July 2024
Reading log time once again! Not a lot to share in the way of a preamble this time around, mostly been busy with work and last week I…
Reading Log: June 2024
If like me you have no idea where June went, don’t worry you aren’t alone. One minute I was dreading the start of the warmer portion of the…
Reading Log: May 2024
Already time for the May reading log. The more the months go by the more I don’t see the backlog ever going down, so I’ve somewhat stopped worrying…
Reading Log: March 2024
March has been a pretty busy month, between my birthday and a weekend trip away as well as work starting to get busier there hasn’t been as much…
Reading Log: April 2024
April reading log time! As always, doesn’t feel like I’ve read as much as I could or should have done to make any dent in the backlog, but…
Reading Log: February 2024
We’re at the end of February, already! A quiet month for me all told, but some exciting stuff coming up in March. With that said let’s jump into…
Reading Log: January 2024
First reading log of the year! Time to see if I’ve gotten 2024 off to a good start or not. I’ve been doing well with my gaming habits…
Reading Log: December 2023
Final reading log of 2023! This one gives me an excuse to share shiny charts, charts which completely embarrass me I must say as the backlog has only…
Reading Log: November 2023
Christmas looms and it has already snowed before we even hit December 1st. The year has rapidly run away, not helped by this month being busy with Scotland…
Reading Log: October 2023
Spooky season is here, well, at least at the time of writing. Perhaps not by the time you read this! I spent a lot of time either under…
Reading Log: July 2023
Getting into the busy season at work now, which means a lot less reading time but a lot more money to sink into buying books… Let’s see what…
Reading Log: June 2023
Six months through the year, the backlog continues to tower but it was a quieter month for new arrivals so I’ve been playing catchup with my reading while…
Reading Log: May 2023
It has been a busy month! Lots of new manga and light novels arriving, and work picking up again. I’m hoping to have read away a little bit…
Reading Log: April 2023
Made it through April somehow! As usual, work got busy over Easter and I spent a good chunk of time gaming as I aimed to (and achieved) finishing…
Reading Log: March 2023
Three months into the year, unbelievably. A difficult time for manga fans in the UK as Kodansha revealed US exclusive K Manga. Although I suppose that at least…
Project Skip the Books
Finally, time for this blog to be used for something that isn’t just the monthly reading log! Last year I gave myself a new project because I realised…
Reading Log: January 2023
The first log of the year! This year I’ve decided to change things up a bit and split all the one-shots I read into a separate count since…
Reading Log: November 2022
Almost Christmas time again aaaa. November has been a quieter month on the whole, so for once I feel like I’ve read more steadily than usual. Let’s get…
Reading Log: September 2022
Out of the busy season and into a relatively calmer month. I feel like I read less this month than usual, perhaps because I was playing Soul Hackers…
Reading Log: August 2022
This month has continued to be busy at work, but despite that, some silly part of me agreed to a bet with a friend where I need to…
Reading Log: July 2022
Into one of the hottest months of the year and busiest times at work, but hopefully despite all that I’ve made some progress on keeping that backlog down!…
Reading Log: June 2022
Given the backlog went up last month, my bare minimum this month is to have reduced the count of that. Let’s see what happened.
Reading Log: November 2021
Just one more month of the year left! Time flew by so fast, I have no idea where November went! Hopefully, all my energy went into getting the…
The Woes of Self-Confidence in a Creative Industry
I open this post with a warning that there are spoilers for A Sister’s All You Need Volume 11 as well as more minor spoilers for Animeta and Pet Girl of…
Reading Log: September 2021
Unexpectedly September continued to be busy at work, so I didn’t get as much read as I usually would. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at what I managed…
Reading Log: April 2021
Another month, another reading log~ This past month I decided to go all-in on binging How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, so it’ll be interesting to see…
Reading Log: March 2021
Another month of the year down! However, March includes my birthday so it’s a pretty bad time of the year in terms of my backlog growth. Let’s find…
Reading Log: January 2021
It’s the first reading log of a new year, so now I need to desperately try to remember to type 2021 while I slowly crumble under the sheer…
Reading Log: September 2020
Now we’re headed into October the weather is starting to be colder, which is the perfect time to sit around and binge books! The amount of books in…
Reading Log: October 2020
Now we’re headed into October the weather is starting to be colder, which is the perfect time to sit around and binge books! The amount of books in…
Reading Log: August 2020
August has been a busy month as I finally returned to work properly and therefore had more money to irresponsibly spend on new books… Let’s see what I…
Reading Log: July 2020
July was another continuation of the war of light novels and actually I finally cleared off the backlog of 2019!* Now let’s see what all I read this…