Fool Night

For the last few months, I’ve been having trouble reading books due to migraine. This happens for stretches of time, and I need to just wait for my brain patterns to shift. In the meantime, I’ve been checking out some comics and manga instead.

Fool Night is an ongoing seinen manga (i.e. aimed at adult men, as opposed to shounen manga for boys, which gets a lot more attention in the west) that’s available to read on the Viz manga app…although, annoyingly, a huge chunk of the middle chapters aren’t online for some reason, meaning you’ll need to seek out fan translations for them.

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Reject Book, Embrace Manga

I’ve been unable to read books for most of the summer due to migraines, so in search of the good kind of brain stimulation I decided to get back into reading manga. I used to be pretty into it during my teenage years and my early twenties, but for whatever reason I fell off pretty hard in recent years.

Thankfully, accessing manga is a lot easier and cheaper than it was back in the day—in fact, Viz’s Shonen Jump app offers a subscription that will get you more manga than you could probably ever read for less than three smackeroonies a month, which I think we can all agree isn’t a lot of smackeroonies even if you find yourself somewhat smackeroonie-deficient.

Here’s a review of the first three manga I picked.

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