Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 4]

Would you look at that? It's Monday! That means it is time for a new general thread. Feel free to use this thread to ask questions, make suggestions, give or receive recommendations, etc. Observations are also welcome, such as the observation that we have crossed 500 posts threshold since I made this community all the way back on November 3, 2023 with this welcome post. Thanks for all the great discussions and recommendations since then!

Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).

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Like I mentioned up in the post, we crossed 500 posts in this community since we started. I thought it would be fun to go back and look at the first post I made in this community, but instead, I was just reminded of all the drama with the ml instance. In hindsight, those concerns I wrote about in that post proved somewhat prescient. The manga community still exists on the ml instance, but looking at the metrics in the sidebar, activity has certainly been down, especially since the effective shutdown of the anime community.
While on the theme of observations about this community, I have been pleasantly surprised a number of times this past week when I have gone to post a recent chapter of a series I read, only to find out that somebody else has posted it before me. It is all too recent in my memory when it felt like I was just posting chapter threads to a vacuum. So, it really had an impact on me this past week when I have posted fewer chapters than ever (it felt like), but for a reason that I absolutely love.
Finally, I wanted to provide an anecdotal account of my migration to the mihon app from Tachiyomi (spoiler: flawlessly). For context, my library is modestly sized at 291 titles spread across four extensions with 245 of those from mangadex (as of writing). I had previously updated Tachiyomi to use the external repository of extensions. These are the steps I took to migrate:
I downloaded the mihon release and installed the apk.
When installing I created a new directory for mihon to use on my device to avoid any write/permissions conflicts that might arise by trying to use the same folder as tachiyomi

I created a manual backup in Tachiyomi
I imported that backup to mihon
I checked that I had the same number of titles in my library and spot-checked my read status on some titles to make sure that transfered successfully
I had to trust each of the extensions again in Mihon before I could use them
I made sure that I could browse titles and download chapters from each source
I uninstalled Tachiyomi (to avoid duplicating downloads)
I live happily every after with mihon
The last thing that I haven't been able to bring myself to do is to delete the old Tachiyomi folder structure. Well, in any case, I hope that you might find my account useful and good luck to those of you out there that are figuring out what to do post-tachiyomi.

Been sick for almost a week now, so I haven't been able to read too much since I was hit with terrible migraines and fever; this year's flu has hit me severely.
Still, I managed to get something done when I discovered this absolute gem called Even Monsters Like Fairytales.
It is a total twist on the villainess genre, and all the characters do feel like actual people. 11/10 from me.
- Hope you feel better soon! When I was sick over the winter holiday last month, I ended up reading art-heavy, dialog-light series because I didn't need to try as hard to read the text. I didn't have too many of those in my library, so I ended up finding quite a number of new things during that time. Glad you are enjoying something you found!