A Month of Wednesdays: July 2026

BOUGHT: Now That We Draw Vol. 5 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The previous volume ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, with high schooler and aspiring manga artist Uehara Yuu overhearing the other two points of the series' emerging love triangle discussing him in the hot spring next to the one he was soaking in. His cute childhood friend turned sensei (and successful manga artist) Love-chan asks his classmate, crush and manga muse Miyamoto point blank: "How do you feel... ...about Yuu-kun?"Overcome with emotion, and not wanting to hear her answer, he plunges his head beneath the water. And stays there. For four minutes! He needn't have bothered, as her answer was far from conclusive. "I don't know," she said, and then went on to explain that in elementary school, there was a boy that all the girls liked, but her reaction at the time was simply, "What's so great about him? Manga characters are way cooler." That didn't change much as he grew up, and, despite Uehara's virtues, he couldn't be farther away from the "super-sadistic arrogant jerks" of doujinshi that turn her on...although she doesn't share that last bit with Love-chan.Holding one's breath under hot water for four minutes is,...