{"id":2242,"date":"2023-12-12T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:39:05","slug":"books-manga-updates-to-ongoing-manga-ive-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/12\/books-manga-updates-to-ongoing-manga-ive-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Books (Manga): Updates to Ongoing Manga I&#8217;ve Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about several manga still being serialized, and want to provide an update on how far along they are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viz.com\/shonenjump\/chapters\/ghost-reaper-girl\"><strong>Ghost Reaper Girl by Akissa Saik\u00e9 (at viz.com)<\/strong><\/a> went on a hiatus from May 2022 until returning October 2023.  I hope this fun artist is back in full health!  I likely <a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/10\/28\/manga-ghost-reaper-girl-by-akissa-saike\/\">wrote<\/a> when there were twenty-something chapters: now, the latest Chapter is 37. Chloe Love is winning battles and scaring her demonic enemies, which is funny when you realize she is fighting Cthulhu mythos-y sorts of characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viz.com\/shonenjump\/chapters\/kaiju-no-8\">Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto (at viz.com)<\/a> <\/strong>had 54 chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/12\/manga-kaiju-no-8-by-naoya-matsumoto\/\">when I last wrote about it,<\/a> and now has 97!  The situation has&#8230; escalated into some very organized kaiju wars, and the defense forces may not be ready for monsters who can THINK.  Many chapters are a few minutes in a single battle in the greater war &#8211; there is a whole lot of fighting going on, and each character is pushing themselves to succeed for their own reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viz.com\/shonenjump\/chapters\/spy-x-family\">Spy x Family by Tatsuyo Endo (at viz.com)<\/a><\/strong> was at volume 58 <a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/14\/manga-spy-x-family-by-tatsuya-endo\/\">when I wrote about it.<\/a>  At the moment (in late 2023) there are 91 chapters published at Viz.com, and we&#8217;ve seen each member of the family at their most skilled at what they do, plus workplace crushes, actual hostage situations, and inappropriate brotherly love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still reading each of these, and look forward to additional issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about several manga still being serialized, and want to provide an update on how far along they are now. Ghost Reaper Girl by Akissa Saik\u00e9 (at viz.com) went on a hiatus from May 2022 until returning October 2023. I hope this fun artist is back in full health! I likely wrote when there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/12\/books-manga-updates-to-ongoing-manga-ive-recommended\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books (Manga): Updates to Ongoing Manga I&#8217;ve Recommended&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-manga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}