I hope this is the only instance of a takedown of this magnitude for a while, but I fear the publishers are now smelling the blood in the water now that the Mangadex team have folded to pressure once. Worst case scenario they get repeated takedowns and vanish over time, or shut down like Batoto. I guess this will just repeat the cycle of; community manga site gets popular -> popular community site gets taken down -> surge in use of aggregators -> aggregators increase ads -> community gathers around new popular site. Rinse and repeat, as manga publishers refuse realize what Gabe Newell has known for decades, piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

I hope Iriya manages to keep his mouth shut and we don't get too much drama around their relationship getting revealed some time in the future. Still, there's only 12 chapters left so I guess this has to wrap up somehow. Hopefully the TL can keep up the pace for the remaining chapters and finish this series without going months between each chapter.

That felt very rushed. Or well, pretty normal for a timeskip ending I suppose, there wasn't really much of a plot anyway. Wish we could have gotten a bit more though.

Certainly one of the endings of all time.

It's going to take more than 2 months to cleanup whatever is going in the manga. Chapters are randomly getting redrawn and totally changed all willy nilly. I've more or less given up on it.

Pretty sure this statement breaks multiple laws of manga.

I can see why the TLs said they weren't a fan of this arc with the slightly forced double love rival thing going on. It's a bit tedious when every chapter there's seemingly progress, and then it ends on a "but what about the other girl/guy" vibe.

He needs to be sent to horny jail, NOW!

They're really planning for the future huh?

Tsuchiya is a gift that keeps on giving.

It's like watching a slow motion video of two powerful magnets slamming into each other.

Me seeing it's a chapter with Tsuchiya:

It's a bit of a tough read in the beginning as Ichikawa is extremely edgy and chuuni. But, he mellows out pretty quickly and has great character growth through the series. I really recommend reading it if you're into school romcoms, it's pretty light on the drama. The chapters are short, but packed with a lot of easily overlooked small details.

Everyone knows the normal thing to do when pretending no one's home is to make rocket noises.

I gave up years ago. When a minor character is introduced in one chapter and then is not even mentioned in over 100 chapters it may as well just be a new character at that point in my opinion. The main cast and major supporting characters has always been solid in Komi-san though.

Didn't expect a Mastodon "cameo" in this weeks chapter.

Narita drowning his sorrows with alcohol water. Glad to see his change as a character, really didn't like him in the beginning.

I guess I'll have to look into self hosting my library again on my server. Any tips for which software/stack to run?

Support for downloading from most major sources going forwards like Mangaplus and various aggregators (and I guess scraping out the last data from Mangadex before it's gone) is important. Or some other kind of automation for updating and downloading new chapters on release and other metadata.

Preferably something headless running in Docker (web GUI optional), and the ability to sync to Mihon is crucial. I've been looking at Kavita, Komga, and Suwayomi but haven't decided yet.

Ah, I didn't know about the Dandadumber and Kagurabachi community (I'm used to just browsing the broader manga subreddit before abandoning Reddit). I'll crosspost each to the appropiate one. Thanks!

She's very expressive, you can make a lot of reaction images every chapter.

An unexpected and quick axe. The overarching element driving the plot got "solved" by blowing up Earth. I guess the mangaka drew themselves into a corner by solving every conflict in a few chapters, going "Haha, actually everyone is a good guy", and not really building on the larger political conflict back on Earth.