This is just an update on what I am doing right now. Lately, I’ve been having hardware issues with my own computer, so episode 27 of Innocence Seekers: April Light was delayed. The issues I had to deal with involved random, sporadic crashes affecting both Windows (which bluescreened) and Linux (which just hung) once every few days, which I tracked down to a possible processor issue (analysing both Windows kernel crash dumps and Linux oops and panic logs suggested a bad register in the general-purpose register file causing bit 47 to be set to zero, causing kernel address references to become noncanonical and resulting in a #GP; note that bits 47-63 must be identical for address references). I considered getting an entirely new computer (considering I had it for two years), but decided to just replace the processor so I could one day give it to my nephew once I get a new computer (of course, that will also mean a new SSD for this one). So far, no crashes, and that means episode 27 is now out.
A bit of trivia on the crashes: once I had the computer crash before I got the opportunity to save my work on episode 27. Fortunately, this was on Linux, so it was just a hang, rather than a blue screen, and my work was still displaying on the monitor, so I was able to use my tablet to take a picture of the monitor before hard resetting (or power cycling; I can’t remember) the computer.
On anime, I still haven’t found anything to watch next season (other than Comic Girls), other than what’s on Amazon or Netflix (which I’m highly unlikely to watch anyway for certain reasons relating to the streaming services themselves), so it is possible that I’ll let my Crunchyroll subscription expire (I’ll keep my Hidive subscription regardless, though). Speaking of Comic Girls, there was a prescreening of the first two episodes on the 14th, and it also featured Hikaru Akao (Kaoruko) and Kaede Hondo (Koyume) as guests. Still no news on the opening and ending themes, though.
I noticed that in the latest issue (as of writing) of Manga Time Kirara Carat, there was no new chapter of Dropout Idol Fruit Tart, and it appears that this was unplanned (from what I can gather, Hamayumiba simply failed to submit the new chapter in time, if at all). Although, to be honest, I don’t know what is going on.
Coinciding with the release of the May issue of Manga Time Kirara MAX, cloba.U’s Magic of Stella tie-in flash game Star Liner has been updated. Regarding the magazine itself, well, the front cover, drawn by Kaori Hanzawa, is just so cute (by the way, the fourth volume of Comic Girls will be out on the 27th).
This issue also marks three years since Utau Aizaki made her debut as a manga artist. Here is part of the opening page of the first chapter of Tsubomi Arrangement, and to compare, here is a sample of the latest chapter of Why Did I Enter the Art Course!?. What surprised me the most, though, is that for these three years, she was in high school (she only just graduated a few days ago), meaning that she was probably only 15 years old when she began her career (I don’t know her birthday, so I may be wrong).
That will be all for now.