Reading Report: 21 May 2023
A light week since I've been really busy with school. I read a few volumes of なるたる, watched more ワンピース, and beat ドラゴンクエストトレジャーズ.
なるたる 2冊
By chance both volumes I read this week were pretty unconnected from the main story and even without an understanding of 竜の子 stuff they're basically good standalone stories.
🔮 Vol 5: About a love triangle that you find out was sort of resolved before Shiina even started getting involved. There are some heavy elements -- there are sort of two deaths, and a bit of emotional harm -- but it's relatively tame, especially compared to...
🔪 Vol 6: The volume where the ball really drops. Hiroko gets bullied at school by four girls, but finds some solace in her friendship with Shiina. Her home life isn't much better and her dad threatens to sever her ties with Shiina if she doesn't get perfect test scores. Eventually she snaps and her 竜の子 shows up, killing her mother and father. She also brutally kills all of her bullies. We see several deaths in gruesome detail, including partial nudity and sharp things going where no one would want. The 竜の子 is stopped from further bloodshed only by Shiina calming it down. At Hiroko's house, Shiina finds out her last victim is going to be Shiina's dad. She set it up this way so Shiina would feel like she had no choice but to kill Hiroko, since in her mind her life is already over. Shiina can't do it... but Hoshimaru can. Hiroko dies. Lastly we also get a cutaway to Akira having killed her dad(?) with the PushKnife guy's knife... hmmm
🏴☠️ One Piece: 12 episodes, up to 89
Mostly the main episodes on the nameless island. バクバクの実 guy, Chopper backstory, lots of snow. I like Chopper a lot.
🐉 I also finished ドラゴンクエストトレジャーズ. It was okay, but didn't really emotionally grab me apart from one tiny moment right near the end. I had fun but wish it was slightly more focused.
Life Stuff
School work is almost done. Just one more week to go. Tomorrow is the first of two presentations, and Tuesday is the second. I've been feeling a bit stressed out by it all and haven't felt like I have much time to rest. Hoping I can pace myself this week as I finish off the last things due next weekend.