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This Monster Wants to Eat Me | Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi by Sai Naekawa – Chapter 1 ≋ Wanting to Die, She Waits for the Sea 

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This Monster Wants to Eat Me Vol. 1 is a weird and disturbing concept... but we're hooked

This Monster Wants to Eat Me Vol. 1 is a weird and disturbing concept... but we're hooked #comics #manga #graphicnovel

Hinako, a high school student with a dark past, lives alone in a town by the sea. Haunted by a constant sensation of drowning, she can barely go through the motions of her tedious life…until the day a monster tries to eat her! After passing out in the struggle, she awakens to find she’s been rescued by a beautiful mermaid. However, salvation comes at a cost―the mermaid’s protection will last only…

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A Monster Wants to Eat Me by Naekawa Sai 

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YURI POLL ROUND 1

NOTE: A Monster Wants to Eat Me contains depictions of body horror and touches on sensitive topics such as suicide. Read at your own discretion.

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GL Manga Recs:

Summary: Mizuno, the daughter of a mayoral candidate, is desperate to escape the suffocating pressure and scrutiny of smalltown life. Chayama, the heiress of the tea company Chayama-en, is adamantly walking down the path laid out for her, despite being forced to atone for her family’s apparent misdeeds. Yet in the bubble of the school’s third floor guidance counseling room-away from rumors, watchful eyes, and their feuding families-they’re simply Mizuno and Chayama, two teenagers who find comfort and hope in each other. But when the outside world tries to tear them apart, the two must find a way to protect their relationship and, more importantly, themselves…

Review: This was such a good read!!! They live in a hell hole and basically find solace in each other and it's just so good. I recommend this a lot! Do look up the trigger warnings for this.

Status: Completed

Yuki and the Authoress by Yuu Nagori

Summary: Young cafe worker Yuki dreams of romance and a life far more wonderful than her own, but has no way to do anything but hope for the future – but a chance encounter with the beautiful, mysterious authoress Azuma Beniko, a woman who seems to know love like the back of her hand, might change the very way she looks at the world…

Review: They're so cutee!!! I genuinely wish it didn't get rushed near the end but I still liked it a lot.

Status: Completed

This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Naekawa Sai

Summary: “I’ve come to eat you.” So softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand. Hinako lives alone in a town by the sea and possesses an unusually delicious body that is irresistible to nearby monsters. To ensure that she matures to the best condition, Shiori seeks to protect Hinako—all so that someday, she can devour every piece of her. What will become of Hinako’s feelings as this looming unjust death closes in on her…?

Review: I have so many thoughts about this manga! It's doomed yuri and has horror elements! The characters are also very well written! I highly recommend this! However I do recommend looking up the trigger warnings before reading this.

Status: Ongoing

If We Leave on the Dot by Ayu Inui

Summary: Yukawa comes into the office and always hangs up her coat on the rack; most others just sling it over their chairs. That may be because Yukawa is proper, but maybe because she loves receiving handwritten notes from her coworker Mizuki. Until recently, Yukawa only knew Mizuki and her sweet vanilla scent from afar, but one day she was able to befriend her after a mix up with their coats. Since then, Mizuki communicates with Yukawa and asks her to go out after work via pen, paper, and coat. They never make plans ahead of time, nor do they even know each other's phone numbers. As Yukawa navigates her feelings and learns more about Mizuki, will their relationship blossom into more than whatever it is right now?

Review: This was soo adorable! It's an office GL. It's very wholesome. They communicate a whole lot and they start dating very early on so there's lots of dating content!

Status: Completed

Kurai Mori, Shiroi Michi by Chiyu Yoshida

Summary: In a small, lonely country town, a depressed young woman has a bittersweet encounter with a blind girl.

Review: This felt very incomplete. I wish it had more of a better epilogue but it was still a good read.

Status: Completed

Mizuiro Cinema by Hiyori Otsu

Status: Completed

Summary: Aqua Blue Cinema is about an actress and a girl she meets through unusual circumstances.

Review: A very cute read!

If you want more GL recs:

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A monster wants to eat me by Sai Naekawa

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spent the night rereading A Monster Wants to Eat Me by Naekawa Sai

god it's so good. it might honestly be the best angst yuri currently running. and Hinako and Shiori are such compelling characters, they're both so selfish, but you can understand exactly why they feel the ways that they do.

incredible series, i can't wait to see how it all ends

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Stuff I Read In June 2024

bold indicates favourites

Books

Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler

Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

Yuri/GL

A Monster Wants to Eat Me, Naekawa Sai

That Time I Was Blackmailed By the Class' Green Tea Bitch, Xian Jun

My Sister's Best Friend, My Lover, Fujimatsu Mei

Childhood Friend, Big Love, Kanno Fumi

An OL at Her Limit and a College Girl, Obata Rui

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (Vol 4), Sakaomi Yuzaki

Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, Yodokawa

Sora and Haena, Jackbull

Short Fiction

Does a Bee Care? Isaac Asimov

Silly Asses, Isaac Asimov

Buy Jupiter! Isaac Asimov

A Statue for Father, Isaac Asimov

Rain, Rain, Go Away, Isaac Asimov

Palestine

The Right To Exist, Rana Issa [link]

Ugly Enjoyment, Nadia Bou Ali [link]

On October 7, Gaza broke out of prison, Mariam Barghouti [link]

Queer &c.

How to get Fucked by a Trans Woman, lily bloodguts [link]

Why Be Nonbinary? Robin Dembroff [link]

Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman, Katharine Jenkins [link]

Toward an Account of Gender Identity, Katharine Jenkins [link]

Why the Trans Inclusion Problem Cannot be Solved, Tomas Bogardus [link]

Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion, Talia Mae Bettcher [link]

Trans Identities and First-Person Authority, Talia Mae Bettcher

Through the Looking Glass: Trans Theory Meets Feminist Philosophy, Talia Mae Bettcher

Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin, Susan Stryker

Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinities, Shay-Akil McLean [link]

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone

Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex, Judith Shapiro

History/Theory

Anti-Blackness as Disavowal and Condition: Rethinking Foucault’s “Carceral Society”, Melayna Lamb & Tia Trafford [link]

1492: A New World View, Sylvia Wynter

Against the Logic of Submission, Wolfi Landstreicher [link]

Other

Who’s Behind All the `Pussy in Bio` on X? John Herman [link]

Why Do We Keep Inventing the Magical School? Tanvi Chowdhary [link]

Pants Scientists and Bona Fide Cyber Ninjas: Tracing the Poetics of Cyberpunk Menswear, Esko Suoranta [link]

Graffiti, Through Grief and Discovery, Clement Gelly [link]

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omg! yuri recs???

extremely dangerous question to ask me! allow me to say way too much... I'm only gonna offer 10 recs so I don't go completely crazy on you

1. The Moon on a Rainy Night by Kuzushiro is a yuri i think EVERYONE should read. It's about a girl and her deaf classmate getting to know each other and slowly catching feelings for each other. It's incredibly thoughtfulabout queerness and disability in a way I haven't often seen in manga. (and it's just super cute in general).

2. I Don't Know Which is Love by Tamamushi Oku. A lesbian goes to college and is popular with women for the first time in her life. She's got five potential love interests each with a connection to one of the five senses. It's goofy and has some light fetishes.

3. Cheerful Amnesia also by Oku!!! I swear this one was made in a lab for me. A girl gets amnesia and when she sees her girlfriend again upon waking up she's immediately head over heels AGAIN. it's super cute and low stakes despite the whole memory loss thing.

4. Superwomen in Love by sometime. Villainess falls for the hero so hard she ends up changing sides for her. This is perfect for dorks who love superheroes (like me) but who also think there should be more women who kiss in their manga.

5. She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki. I feel like everyone already knows this one but on the off chance you don't: domestic slice of life about women falling in love over shared meals. Very few stories have made me feel seen the way this one does.

6. Monthly in the Garden with my Landlord by Yodokawa. "Landlord!?" I hear you say but fear not this is basically just a cohabitation story. Woman ends up living with a retired idol she knows nothing about and they slowly fall in love. Can you tell I like slow burns?

7. Whisper Me a Love Song by Eku Takeshima. Another really popular one but I love it so much. Typical high school romcom stuff but it does that thing a lot of manga do that I really like where the story just keeps going after they get together. The drama with the side characters and the lesbian love triangles/squares/pentagons are good fun.

8. This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Sae Naekawa. This one only has one volume out in english so far but I am. deeply obsessed. A girl who wants to die meets a mermaid--who wants to eat her. But she can't just kill her right away, after all food tastes better when its had time to ripen. A darker yuri (at least for my taste) but so so so good.

9. There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... by Musshu. I think girls should be this messy in all manga actually. A girl gets to high school and really wants to make friends and the most popular girl in their class takes an interest in her. Romantically. And now she's just trying not to fall in love with her. Very chaotic but im obsessed with it.

10. The Summer You Were There by Yuama. A loner ex-bully is befriended by her bubbly (but secretive) classmate... who then asks to date her. Do you want to be sad? Do you like tragic yuri? Insane that this author also wrote one of the most tooth-rotting and wholesome yuris I've ever read (The Girl I Want is So Handsome).

This is not an exhaustive list but I have already said too much

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i have no idea how popular this manga is but i thought i’d recommend it cause i haven’t seen it mentioned that much! it’s called a monster wants to eat me by Naekawa Sai and it’s super super super good. it’s pretty dark and features a lot of sea monsters + themes about the sea. the art is absolutelyyy gorgeous, like holy shit. plus it’s gay af 🤭 anyways! go check it out. i’m thinking of doing some more yuri recommendations among my delusional ramblings about castlevania and i’ve read way too many yuri manga/manwha/manhua to even remember so maybe i’ll make a masterlist based on genre and things like that. It can be found on Mangadex and Dynastyscans (which is super good and what i use to find new yuri). Just search up “a monster wants to eat me dynastyscans” or “a monster wants to eat me mangadex”.

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Commemorative illustration for the Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology Reload by manga artist Naekawa Sai

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Tagged by @sunshowerdandelion tsym!

rules: tag nine people you want to get to know better!

favourite colour: red. scarlet or burgundy especially.

currently reading: A Monster Wants To Eat Me by Sai Naekawa and Please Bully Me Miss Villainess by Chise and Ciwei Mao Yuedu.

last song: Just Be Friends by Dixie Flatline.

last movie: Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song. Meh in comparison to the VN, but I adore the soundtrack to all three HF movies.

last series: Doctor Who Classic, was watching some of (er, listening) to some of Troughton's early serials.

sweet, savoury or spicy: All three. Been on a spicy kick lately. One of these days i'll actually try mapo tofu ramen.

craving: Something chocolate.

tea or coffee: Tea. Coffee is a bit much for me most of the time. I like it dark when I do have it.

Tagging @studentofetherium @estoult @aokozaki @midibuttons @self-loving-vampire @thirteen-jades @loopingpyre @pissdykebutch @astraltrickster

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Yen Press Starts Off 2024 with New Licenses

Yen Press Starts Off 2024 with New Licenses #manga #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Yen Press has announced nine new titles joining its June 2024 lineup, including seven manga (A Sinner of the Deep Sea; Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra; Sister and Giant: A Young Lady Is Reborn in Another World; Penguin Highway; Senpai, This Can’t Be Love!; Sword Art Online: Kiss & Fly; This Monster Wants to Eat Me), one novel (Demons’ Crest), and one artbook (Visions 2023__Illustrators Book). A…

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‘This Monster Wants to Eat Me’ Manga By Sai Naekawa Teases Anime Adaptation http://dlvr.it/TDRPzZ

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YURI POLL ROUND 2

NOTE: Run Away With Me, Girl contains explicit sexual content, and touches on sensitive themes such as homophobia, abuse, and dubiously consensual sex acts. A Monster Wants to Eat Me contains depictions of body horror and touches on sensitive topics such as suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

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There has been quite a few new mermaid manga and I'm welcoming them all.

Sai Naekawa: This Monster Wants to Eat Me My favourite of the bunch at this point! Wonderful atmosphere of summer and horror (less extreme than in The Summer Hikaru Died though). Shiori is mermaid who wants to eat Hinako and Hinako welcomes it because she doesn't want to live anymore. Shiori won't eat her just yet though, saying Hinako isn't "ripe enough" yet. Yuri Shiori is a terrifying mermaid, not like the mermaids in the following two series. (and not to be That Person again but totally being That Person again: war era wataei... and just look at their appearance lol. It's more about similar feeling not all details)

Akihito Tomi: A Sinner of the Deep Sea Ok, if you want beautifully drawn mermaid bodies, here's your manga. It was serialized in Harta magazine, so I hope that already sells it for you. Jo's peaceful days under the sea get disturbed when her best friend Ryuu is imprisoned for revealing merfolk's existence to a human because she fell in love. There's a lot of Just Vibes but the story kicked in gear in the latter half. It's also veeery easy to ship Jo and Ryuu but I don't think anything will really happen?

Yoshino Fumikawa & Miya Tashiro: In the Name of the Mermaid Princess Honest fantasy shoujo which doesn't get licensed nearly enough these days. Mio is a princess but she's something not allowed in her kingdom, an unhuman, a mermaid, so that's been kept hidden. Due to some events, Mio decides she doesn't want to hide anymore and that leads her to an adventure. There's romance and many guys surrounding Mio plus some politics regarding the unhumans and humans.