Monthly Round-up: April

Not much in the way of anime again this month, but a decent amount of manga.
 
Anime I've Watched:

• Bleach - Still not finished this yet. Really should as I only have about 12 episodes left to go.
• Recorder to Randoseru - Meh. I reviewed this recently for Anime-Planet and summed the whole series up in one word: average. It was funny at odd times, but relies too much on one joke, which soon wears out its welcome.

Ongoing Anime I've Watched:

• Poyopoyo

Manga I've Read:

• Mononoke -Finally managed to finish reading the last few chapters of this. As much as I enjoyed this arc while watching the otherwise less-than-stellar Ayakashi Japanese Horror, I never quite got into the manga. I mainly put this down to only having one chapter every couple of months. Maybe I'd have liked it more had I read it all in one go. Likewise, I think the visuals worked better in the abnime, at times some of the manga looked a little... messy by comparison.
• Old Boy -This is unlike pretty much anything I normally read, but I really enjoyed it. I loved seeing how the conspiracy slowly unravelled and became more complicated. Definitely well worth a look.
• Monster Hunter Orage - This wasn't too bad, but a bit on the disappointing side for two main reasons. Firstly, the story was really rushed and all of a sudden it was at the final battle after little build up. Secondly, while reading it, it felt like an older Hiro Mashima work, with shadows of what would become Fairy Tail characters; except it was actually created a couple of years AFTER Fairy Tail began, so instead it feels more like a cheap knock-off of better works.
• Bakuman -I confess, I'm kind of bummed that Bakuman ended, but only because I'm goign to miss my weekly dose of this excellent series. In truth, it's better they stopped it when they did as otherwise I think it'd be going too far - a little like Bleach after the Aizen stuff, though annoyingly Kubo's new arc is getting pretty good. I really could gush about this series all day, btu I'll save that for another time.

Ongoing Manga I've Read:

• Bleach
• Vinland Saga
• Ao no Exorcist
• Naruto
• One Piece
• Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to
• K-On!
• Beelzebub
• Good Ending
• Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth
• Gin no Saji
• House of Five Leaves 
• Otoyomegatari
• Shinryaku! Ika-Musume