I Must Go To College | Ex-Appblr 2017

if you realize you’ve been studying for hours: grab a snack to refuel your body and watch a sitcom to refuel your brain. then back to the books.

if you’re feeling stressed out: take some deep breaths, text your friends, maybe stare at a wall for a few minutes. gather yourself.

if you can’t seem to focus: get moving and get outside. take out the garbage, check your mail box, maybe walk your dog. just get moving and get fresh air. it’ll help bring you back.

if there’s something else going on in your life and you can’t get it off your mind: write down what’s going through your head, sort of like a diary entry. it’ll help you work things out.

if you’re just mentally and physically exhausted: set a timer for 25-30 minutes and take a nap. any longer and you’ll hit REM and you’ll wake up feeling just as tired. once you wake up, get some caffeine in you.

if the material is boring as hell: find another way to study. see if there’s a crash course video online about it or draw out what you’re trying to learn in diagrams and pictures to make it fun.

if people around you won’t shut up: listen to some music. soundtrack and classical music is always good because they won’t absorb you as much as music with lyrics. white noise (like ocean waves, rain sounds, etc.) also works.

Bilingual English-Japanese Manga

Bilingual Manga: Just a few titles with very few chapters but it’s a good place to try your hand at reading. I recommend Yotsubato: it’s fun, cute, good for beginners and there’s like a whole volume worth of chapters.

Manga Club: Global site with legal translated manga. Uses ticket system, so chapters could be either free for all, free for users or paid. Has slowly but steadily growing number of bilingual titles. Check out Chika’s Forest.

Free manga sites

ツイ４: various 4komas such as ハリネズミのハリー and ふしぎねこのきゅーちゃん. Very good site actually! Short bite-sized comics of various difficulty.

Ganma.jp: Lots of original works. Great variety of genres and art styles. Even though interface is quite chaotic, definitely worth a look. Tsubu Ganma has some 4komas.

Manga Z: out of print manga published with permission from authors. Lots of ‘retro’ manga. Reading online is free, pdf downloads are paid.

Pixiv: a well-known site where people publish their artworks, manga, novels and so on. Because of sheer amount of stuff here, you may want to look for something specific.

Some random individual works posted elsewhere

Ace Attorney 4koma and other fun stuff.

Fire Emblem Heroes 4koma

One Punch Man (original webcomic drawn by ONE himself)

Silver Kamuy: Golden Kamuy official parody with characters reimagined as old people plus some random original chapters

Popperakyuu: manga by Matsunaga Toyokazu (Castle of the Dragon, Bakune Young)

Online book stores. It’s a good idea to make an account on one of these for digital reading. Each one has an app that allows you to read downloaded books offline. Range of books they have is pretty much the same. Lots of manga freebies and some good limited time offers.

BookWalker: While global page only has translated manga and ranobe, Japanese page has all kind of books. Big downside is that some Japanese books are for domestic sale only (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻.

EbookJP: Japanese-only digital bookstore. Nice world-wide available app (ebiReader) with built-in store browser. Your best bet, hands down.

There are plenty of other Japanese-only bookstores like Booklive or Honto, but since their apps are region-locked I don’t recommend them unless you actually live in Japan.

Now, this should be more than enough for comfortable reading. But if you feel like browsing through some random websites looking for a perfect read, the list below is for you.

Innumerable amount of various manga sites. Mostly these sites are affiliated with various publishers or magazines, therefore may provide only partial access, like some introductory chapters and whatnot.

Pixiv Comics: this is where especially popular works from Pixiv end up when they get a proper release. Check out おじさまと猫.

NicoNico: Much like pixiv, a place where people can publish their creations.

XOY webtoons: This is a Japanese version of Korean Webtoon site from Naver.

Days Neo: site for young manga artist aiming to make their debut.

Mangahack: another place for young artists to share their work.

Kurage Bunch: original works. That’s where 極主夫道 is published!

Web-Ace.jp various works, here’s ‘I’m a spider, so what?’.

ComicWalker: lots of various original works, mostly free to read.

Comic Newtype. first chapters and latest chapters.

Morning-Afternoon-Evening: web comics and trial chapters.

Tonari no Young JUMP: trial chapters and one-shots. One Punch Man is published here.

Shounen Jump Plus: Trial chapters, one-shots and such.

Jump SQ: some trial chapters.

URA Sunday: first and last chapters. Here’s Reigen.

Pocket.Shonen magazine: trial chapters.

Web Sunday: trial chapters of works currently being serialized in Shounen Sunday.

Ganga Online: mostly trial chapters.

Sukima: same as aforementioned Manga club with the same ticket system, but Japanese.

Comic-Essay. manga based on personal experience: about pets, travel, hobbies and such.

Comic-Polaris. first and latest chapters.

so i don’t know where tf my art is headed these days but here’s something. ..

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