What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)

I finished all old LotGH:

• Series Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1998) whichʼs mostly about Reinhard von Müsel & Siegfried Kircheis.
• Series Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden (1999). The first fourteen episodes are about Yang Wenli, the last two are mixed between the Empire and the Alliance. The rest are about Reinhard von Müsel & Siegfried Kircheis.
• Movies Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai and Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden which are basically started right before main the OVA.
• Movie Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougon no Tsubasa which you can skip because thereʼs almost nothing new and whatʼs more disturbed me — very different and shōjo drawing.

All above happened before the main OVA which already have been watched by me a long time ago. Iʼll try to finish the new LotGH within the next week.

I found a pretty awesome manga app called Tachiyomi. It is both a reader and a finder/downloader, which gives access to dozens of sources. It also synchronizes with tracking sites like MAL so you have a permanent reading history.

Problem is, those websites have storage and transfer quotas, so the manga are not in high resolution, which is not a problem for the vast majority reading on smartphones, but is sometimes a subpar experience on my Android tablet.

Then I learned that I can use the app on local files and everything works the same, so I downloaded a high-res version of Monster, split the volumes into chapters (required), adequated them to the app's folder structure, and uploaded it to my tablet.

Using ranger and the command line it was not so bad, but in the end I managed to avoid most of the solutions created by the app and made reading manga almost as impractical as it was before it :P

On another note, Hinamatsuri is a perfect blend of comedy, action, and slice of life, and Monster is pretty bleak