Manga Thoughts: Genshiken Second Season 12

After nine volumes of manga about an eccentric university club of manga, video game, and anime fans, two anime series adapting a fair part of the story and including some OVAs of its "story within the story," a disreputable spinoff anime making changes to the show-within-the-show that did include some OVAs adapting a bit more of the main manga, and a short manga version of the disreputable spinoff, Genshiken came to a close. With picky manga-buying habits when that happened (mostly because of the constant scandals ginned up over various companies retouching the art to water it down for North American sensibilities, something Del Rey Manga, the company releasing Genshiken, had made a point of saying it wouldn't do), I did wonder about how to fill the space taken up by a standout title. Then, though, to what seemed the surprise of others too, Kio Shimoku started the Genshiken manga again, with new characters added to continue the story.
( A long, strange trip from there )