Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread

Another week in the books. Let's chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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I (finally) finished my re-read of Kaguya-sama: Love is War this morning. Wow! What an amazing manga. Aka Akasaka is really good at writing fun characters and putting them in fun situations. A little less good at writing really serious stuff, which drags down certain parts of the manga, but only maybe 10% of it. Overall it's still my favorite romcom by a wide margin. Maybe when I finally read Wotakoi that'll change, but for now it's time to finish Daemons of the Shadow Realm/Yomi no Tsugai.
I started Daemons of the Shadow Realm when I was hanging out at the International Manga Museum in Kyoto. This one was written by the same mangaka who wrote Fullmetal Alchemist, and it shows! Anyways, I'm a quarter of the way through volume 2 and so far it's been fun. I guess I'll report back in a month or two once I've finished the 10 volumes I brought back with me from Japan.
I finished That's My Atypical Girl after someone recommended it here. It's quite good. I like how it deals with several heavy topics. Many manga have a tendency to make it a bit torture-porn-ish with topics like that, but this one stays grounded and almost a little detached, which fits well with the themes of the manga.
Not all plotthreads were finished up however, which was a bit anticlimactic. That also does kind of fit with the theme of the manga, but it didn't feel intentional.
Anyone else having problems with sources on Mihon? I had multiple cases of chapters (from various sites) coming few pages short for the last two weeks or so. Can't say I'm looking forward to searching for alternative sites with affected series.
- Bato in particular, but otherwise not really
  
  What other extensions do you use?
- Yeah, this has been my experience as well. A couple sources fetch all but the final couple pages. The cynical side of me wonders if this is a way to kick people off their api and make them look at the web view (so that ads load).
  
  I had the same thing happen when accessing them through a website as well (maybe they do the same due to ublock when that happens). I think, or at least hope, it's a technical issue since places with multiple entries for the same chapter can have some of the copies working properly.
  I'll probably start looking for alternatives, just in case.

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