Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
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).
Witch Hat Atelier is not only a manga or a story for me. It’s pure and unadulterated art. I absolutely love it.
I have the Boox Leaf and yeah, it’s great. I mainly use it with Mihon and Bookwalker. I buy my manga volumes mainly on Kobo’s webshop now and put them on my Komga server to read with Mihon’s Komga extension.
Regarding the page turn button, if yours is anything like mine, it’s just a volume rocker to Android. So, if the other apps don’t support turning pages using the volume buttons, then yeah, it won’t work.
E-Ink displays are clunky, but once you get over that, it’s a much better experience then a phone or tablet imo.
It actually is configurable on the Boox page! You can set it to be a volume rocker, turn page buttons, or for scrolling. I guess I haven’t tried setting it to scrolling to switch pages, but I doubt that would work either.
Would be nice to see a more advanced configuration utility like the steam deck has; there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to push the button to simulate a swipe!
Make sure to check out [email protected] where @[email protected] posts manga chapter discussion threads and artwork. I imagine that activity over there will ramp up during the show’s run as well.
About Witch Hat Atelier, I am cautiously letting myself get excited about the anime coming up next year. I haven’t read the manga source, but both Gigguk and Mother’s Basement recently put out episodes talking about how fantastic the manga is; comparable to Frieren or Dungeon Meshi.
Yeah, those videos are part of what made me want to read the manga. So far everything that Geoff has said about it has been completely true. Hard to say if I can say the same for Garnt, but that’s likely just because he spent more time talking about the magic system and I’m only 7 chapters in.