This is mostly stuff I did in March. Not sure how to do these posts yet, so format is subject to change. Let’s goooooooo.
The Top Dungeon Farmer - sdcknight, Lee Ha-kyung, Lim Hyeong
This is my first real dip into webtoons and litRPG. I'm finding that while I still dislike the webtoon vertical format and remain iffy on litRPG, this comic is good enough to overcome that.
One day mysterious black towers appear all over the world as thousands of people disappear. An indeterminate amount of time later the people return from the towers, and surprise! It's a JRPG style dungeon filled with tons of loot! Only the randomly chosen “awaked” and those that can afford to buy extremely expensive invites can enter the towers, and our hero, NormalMan Sejun, dreams of becoming one of them. Luckily a portal opens up in front of him while he happens to be out grocery shopping, unlucky it was an accident and out of embarrassment the dungeon administrator leaves him trapped in a hole on the 99th floor to starve. Sejun will not starve, though, because he's got his groceries and has awakened to his fancy RPG class: farmer!
Almost immediately friendly fantasy critters are attracted to his little farm, the dungeon administrator starts offering him rewards in exchange for a share of the delicious crops, and he starts making bank selling magic weight loss tomatoes with the help of an adorable peddler cat, Teo.
The animals in this comic are sooooo cute, and I very much enjoyed watching Sejun’s little family grow from a bunny husband and wife, to their new children, Teo, some honey bees, a cute baby bear and his monster mom, and more. Though, after a certain point the cast starts to feel a little bloated. Multiple characters fade into that background working on the farm, but the characters that do get development are all pretty good. The other major criticism I have is Sejun McNormalGuy’s budding romance with the dungeon administrator, Eileen the super cute black dragon. THAT SHOULD BE ME! THAT SHOULD BE ME, DAMNIT!!
Joking aside, I'm enjoying this comic way more than I thought I would! The stakes get just high enough to be interesting while staying chill overall. In a stressful period of my life it's been a good story to relax with.
Chainsaw Man ending - Tatsuki Fujimoto
I Survived Chainsaw Man’s Final Chapter And All I Got Was This Endless Discourse Vortex.
Ok but seriously, I actually liked it. It felt rushed in the sense that manga industry deadlines are literally killing people, but like. I don’t know. It still compelled me for reasons I can’t quite articulate yet, and definitely can’t get into without rambling about the entire manga. It’s for sure something I’ll be thinking about for a while. I feel like it's one of those things that people are going to come around to in a few years. Fujimoto’s manga tends to do that. In any case, I'm fully locked in for his next story. I hope Fujimoto takes at least a year long break from this hell industry and switches to monthly releases when he comes back.
If you’re interested in reading/watching Chainsaw Man but are now trepidious over the final chapter I can still fully recommend part 1. The very end of part 1 sets up the existence of a part 2, but in my opinion it’s like a sequel you can ignore if it’s not to your tastes.
Karafumi ending - Yama Wayama
Let’s Go to the Family Restaurant! (sequel to Let’s Go Karaoke!) also ended recently. Stuck the landing much better than Chainsaw Man, too. I don’t wanna talk about it too much because spoilers for a manga that ended a month ago and hasn’t been officially translated yet, but *rings the dinnerbell* come get yer problematic age gap BL! The story’s great, the art’s great, complex characters, and it's an all around good time! Let’s Go Karaoke! is available as a oneshot manga, a live action movie, and a short anime. I highly recommend to all fujos of good taste.
Dokimon: Quest - Yanako RPGs
Soooooooo I finally started playing this game after rotting away in my Steam library for a while, and oh boy is it great! So of course the dev announced new story DLC is coming in a few months only 2 days after I started playing. I’ve put it on hold for now, but I really liked what I’ve seen of it so far! I’ll be back to talk about it in more detail after I actually beat it. Currently filling the void with Coromon, but I’m still too early into it to have anything to say.
After God - Sumi Eno
After God was a big surprise. I'd never even heard of it until one day a Tumblr mutual went crazy posting about it. I then proceeded to read all of it in 3 days. Humans are fighting (and losing) the battle against eldritch gods that poison the landscape, and view humans as playthings at best. Merely looking at them will kill you. They don't even show up in video, photos, radar, or any other way you could think of to perceive something, so humans are literally fighting blind. Enter Waka, a teenage girl out to avenge her dead Girl Best Friend Shion, who committed suicide via going into a god’s territory. For some reason Waka has a god trapped inside of her, and she plans to use that power to kill every single one of them with her own two hands.
Since After God is a very twisty story and still on-going I don't wanna get too far into spoiler territory. Let me just say that the art is gorgeous, the fight scenes are awesome, the monster designs are very cool, the plot twists are crazy, and the story is absolutely filled with weird cats.
On top of all that, Tokinaga is the aroace representation I didn't know I needed, but now I can't live without. Random aroace man surrounded by people who desire him carnally and are willing to commit unspeakable atrocities to make him fall for them. Everyday he suffers torments beyond comprehension, and yet he stays silly. I don't like to recommend things on the basis “it has queer rep!” but Tokinaga is good enough I've gotta throw that in here.
Right after two of my favorite manga ended I now have something to keep living for.
Unfathomable - LITHOBREAKERS
Shortest game on this list. A kinetic novel about AI and dead internet. Very nice collage visuals.
Rescue Refused - Natasha Luna
Micro yuri visual novel. Made for the Only One of Any Asset game jam and with a 1000 word count limit. You have to replay multiple times to get the true ending, but since the game is so short skipping over old scenes is no problem.
PETRA-2000 - Izzie P
Short kinetic novel about a transgender spaceship and her asexual human girlfriend sexting and chatting. It’s actually super sweet. Contains NSFW text and images.
Neurokino Retrograde - DOMINO CLUB
Of all the little visual novels here this one is the longest. I think it took me about 40 minutes to get both endings? But that might just be because I was bad at the glyph matching puzzle. There’s also a chapter select option so you don’t have to redo the puzzle all 3 times. After a woman falls into a wormhole and comes back… Not Right, a shady government org contacts her ex of several years to try to determine if it’s still her or something else. Really loved the visuals in this one.
4/8/2026