Get a Caught Up on July Anime

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Ready for summer 2024 anime? Check out the source material for some of the series airing soon in our July catchups!

When Yuki, a struggling VTuber, accidentally forgets to stop streaming and goes on a drunken tirade, she's convinced her agency will promptly axe her. To her surprise, not only does the incident go viral, she's encouraged to completely reinvent her online persona! Find out how far Yuki goes in VTuber Legend, and watch the anime soon!

Dahlia has experienced a lot of hardship: She died from overwork in Japan, suddenly lost her father in her new life, and now has her engagement broken off a day before the wedding. She decides that she needs a change in her new life. As a magical toolmaker armed with knowledge from modern day Earth, it's time for the world to see Dahlia in Bloom! Make sure to check out the anime too!

Adventurers fight monsters and protect the peace. Noor has been training to be one all his life, even though he only has a useless skill. What use is a simple "parry" when heroes have exquisite swordsmanship and magicians can throw giant balls of fire? Well, when you can say "I Parry Everything," that changes things. Now the question is whether anyone can convince Noor of that! And see all the action in the anime, airing soon!

Now, we have a collection of other stories to read! Can a crass, jaded gamer inhabiting the body of a villainous saint become more saintly than the real thing? See if she can fake it until she makes it in Fake Saint of the Year! In a collaboration for the history books, a sumo wrestler reincarnates as a villainess and must save the kingdom from its now-evil protagonists! Check out the epic story of the Grand Sumo Villainess! Finally, The Saga of Lioncourt is a reincarnation story where a modern person is forced to survive in a world of medieval war. Gird yourselves for this violent dark fantasy.

Members can read over 30 volumes on catchup this month! We hope you enjoy this selection as well as our announcements at Anime Expo!

Fring

Highly, highly recommend Fake Saint of the Year. It's a finished series with just 4 volumes and is literally hilarious. I first signed up just when translations were getting started and it was my first big, happy surprise series. The final volume focuses less on the comedy and more on giving everyone the ending they deserve, but it's a really great story.

I Parry Everything is also very funny, but it really just has one joke and, at some point, it feels like everyone is going to started getting tired of Noor's himbo energy.

kuali

Three familiar names on this list, I see!

VTuber Legend: How I speedran every fetish in existence while drunk out of my mind! This is probably pretty niche as series go, but personally, I love the hell out of this one. My favourite straight up comedy series on the entire site, despite all the pop-culture references I miss each volume. One of only three series (alongside Bookworm and Apothecary Diaries) to have gotten a mention in my post signature.

Dahlia in Bloom: My investments in food, alcohol, and toe socks manufacturers are gonna make me money no matter how much thinly veiled advertising I have to cram into this series! - While I can honestly say I don't enjoy this one as much as VTuber Legend, it still cleared my purchase threshold fairly easily. The genre - crafting isekai - is popular enough. As my alternate title suggests, though, it spends a lot of its page count on food, drink, and socks with individual toes on them, and as such, the pace can be pretty slow at times. But if you don't mind it breaking off for pages at a time to try and make ~~the author's investments appreciate~~ you hungry and thirsty, there's a sweet (if slow) story in there, hidden behind all the alcohol.

Edit: While its not on catchup this month, if you do end up liking Dahlia, there's a spinoff series - Lucia and the Loom - that JNC translates, as well. If you like the main series, you'll probably enjoy Lucia's view of the plot, too.

And then, there's I Parry Everything - a OP fantasy adventure series that bills itself as being built around a central gimmick - the MC has godly defensive powers, but no offensive ones - but actually revolves around a central joke - that the MC (and most of the rest of the cast too, come to think about it) is an utter moron. If its funny to you, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I do VTuber Legend. I dropped it after the first book.

rkkn

@kuali said in Get a Caught Up on July Anime:

Edit: While its not on catchup this month, if you do end up liking Dahlia, there's a spinoff series - Lucia and the Loom - that JNC translates, as well. If you like the main series, you'll probably enjoy Lucia's view of the plot, too.

Or possibly even if you don't end up liking Dahlia. If you end up thinking "you know, this could have been a good story if it weren't mostly about food and drink," then Lucia may have what you need.

gustavosousil

This month I can finaly read and discover why various people recomend DAHLIA(it was recomend together with Tearmoon and Apothecary Diaries of good titles to read avaible via J-Novel), I hope the spinoff get on Catchup before November, because from the Synopsis I would need to read the main series to understand the story.

GeorgeMTO

@gustavosousil I think that Lucia is perfectly readable without knowing Dahlia, but it's also only 1 volume expired (v2 currently in prepubs) so if you catch up on Dahlia, you'd only have to buy (or rent) the one volume right now in order to catch up on it too.

xdrfiredogx

@gustavosousil You really don't. I read the synopsis for Dahlia, it didn't catch my interest at the time, and I promptly forgot about it. Then I read the entire first volume of Lucia from cover to cover without ever realizing it was a spin-off... I only realized it when I finally went to comment on the forum thread for it! 🤣

I did go back and read Dahlia afterwards and quite enjoy it. I'd be hard pressed to say which one I like better but Lucia is probably my favorite character between the two series.

radiantmemories

Nice to have Dahlia on catchup during the same month the anime is coming out. Quite an enjoyable series (with a misleading title) about a magic tool maker coming into her own. The romance is definitely sloooowww burn though. Nothing else quite to my tastes this month, but I do quite enjoy Dahlia.