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My Taste is Better Than Yours Episode 26 – JUMPing to Conclusions: Weekly Shounen Jump’s New Serializations

This week we launch a new feature on My Taste is Better Than Yours: JUMPing to Conclusions. Whenever WSJ launches a new round of series, it’s a pretty big deal. As such, I thought Samu and I should weigh in with our first impressions of the new manga on the block (plus a sendoff for …

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Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 21

Status quo for Orb this week, pretty much. Better than the first few episodes after the timeskip, but I’m still quite detached from the events happening on-screen. Things aren’t as ridiculous as they were, which is good. But they’re quite conventional, which I don’t think is a great look for this series. To fall back …

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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) – 30

This was an excellent episode of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, well up to the series’ usual standard. I would say it was pretty atypical in a number of ways, though. Rather than languid it was a taut, lean narrative. Most of the straight-up detective episodes have been less compelling than the slice of life ones, but …