Love Jossie vol. 6, starting to make a U-Turn back to Funky Town

Hot on the heels of Love Jossie #5 is #6 :D Heck yeah, making progress, peeps!
Where #5 was pretty much floating face down in the water, #6 started to get its spark of weird back. If only cuz the lady that did that mind fuck in issue #3 returned here to pee in the waters a bit haha. Her piece in #6 is no where as messed up as the one in #3 but it’s still weird and unhealthy…
As I’m writing this, there are now 9 volumes of Love Jossie out there. Hot damn! Glad to see the magazine is still hanging in there!!
But then again, how many volumes did Millefeui and Comic@loid get before going under?
Maybe I shouldn’t throw the confetti yet until we get to the double digits? Like I mentioned in issue #5, there had been a lull between the release of #4 and #5 to the point where I thought the magazine had been cancelled. But nope. Where there is smut, there is a way!

Before we start, I just want to say this tea I’m drinking tastes like ashy dirt. The hell David’s Tea. What part of this is supposed to be Chocolate Orange? It literally should be called “Smoked Dreams in an Ashtray” cuz there is no chocolate or orange here, only the taste of used cigarettes and crushed belief…

Love Jossie #5, did the cops report these guys because there was barely any steam in these reads?

Alrighty! It’s been awhile so let’s have some Love Jossie this weekend :D Sure I partly wrote this post back in February but eyyyyyyyyyhhhhhhhh. From what I can recall (and from re-reading what I wrote), Love Jossie #5 was pretty tame. Things REALLY calmed the fuck down since #3. To the point where there had been a couple months between #4’s release and #5’s. I thought the magazine had been cancelled but one day while browsing on BookWalker, what should pop up but Love Jossie #5 (back in Feb…don’t judge).

I’m not sure why the guy looks like he’s about to cry or why the lady’s shadowing on her face looks almost clown-like but you know, I chalk up anything weird and out of the ordinary due to Love Jossie #3. Everything will be because of Love Jossie #3…

On to the content!

Nakayoshi 08.2016

We have come full circle. I started with Sylph and Nakayoshi on this journey oh so long ago, and now I’m back. Blame the recent news about Cardcaptor Sakura for my return :p Even though I only ever read the first tank and random episodes of that horrible horrible version we got here in the US, I was interested enough to see what was happening with ol’ Sakura and gang. However, I was too late to grab the July issue as it sold out like no one’s business, and unfortunately, though it’s available digitally, Kodansha is a little shit and region-locks all their stuff (mags and manga) :/

Thus why we have the August issue! I ended up breaking down and going to Kino to get the issue because it had sold out on amazon.jp. Thankfully, since I only had this and stationary (was buying gifts to mail to friends ~), I didn’t seem to get too much attitude. No security following me and no smart-mouthed cashiers talking in Japanese, thinking I can’t understand what they’re saying cuz they’re saying it in another language (despite the fact I’m buying books in the language they are talking shit about me in but whatever ^^;).

But I might go back because I bought this super cute magnetic bookmark and I want to buy the whole gang (since it’s stationary, I should be ok). The magnets have various animals on them wearing some form of clothing – for example, I bought the one with a polar bear wearing a top hat…because, well, it’s a polar bear with a top hat :p But I was torn between that and the hedgehog with the scarf I think and the parrot with a bonnet. I’ll probably stop by after work to pick up some more because I like the way this magnet chills in the Nakayoshi mag ~).

(I have weird tastes ^^;)

Without further ado, let’s see what’s happening in Nakayoshi!