Not much has really happened in the manga department during the time I took off. In fact, I’m probably still on the same exact chapter of Monster now as I was back in August. I feel like I need to be in the mood to sit down and tackle a chapter, but at the same time I don’t know what kind of mood that is. Elfen Lied was wrapped up in a disturbing manner that left me slightly unsatisfied, yet completely content. To-LOVE-Ru and Claymore have been kept up to date. I find Claymore to be pretty uneventful all around mostly because there is supposed to be a cohesive story, but I can’t be arsed to figure what happened last when a new chapter is released.

On the other hand two mangas have been digested. First, Rosario + Vampire, an ecchi comedy about a boy who winds up enrolling at a school full of monsters who despise humans. Overall it was a pretty good read. Each chapter had enough beef to it that I felt fulfilled reading it, yet each chapter (sans a few) were pretty stand alone with an overall story keeping everything connected. I watched the anime after finishing up and was thoroughly disgusted (enough to make me pass on season 2 of it). Bitter Virgin also found it’s way onto my completed list bringing along a pretty dark story about some high schoolers. It was long enough to tell the story with multiple twists and some shock factor (for a manga at least) yet short enough to keep everything to the point with little filler.

Hayate no Gotoku! has been started and up to date to fill in the void until season 2 of the anime is aired. Mx0 has also been added to the reading list with about 2/3 of it completed. This was basically picked at random and turned out to be pretty good.