To an extent, think work friends versus the kinda friends you meet at a concert, or at the gym. It's not necessarily a "different" personality as much as shifting behavior and topics a bit. In short, I'm gonna talk a little different around my young engineering friends vs the guys I've known since high school.
It makes me deeply uncomfortable to entertain the thought that "the paper towel industry" is an entity out to manipulate me.
I've been reading Shoukoku no Altair. I started it years and years ago and just never finished it. I forgot how much I loved the art style. Also, still plugging along a very slow going One Piece re-read, meant to have caught up by now but I only just finished Enies Lobby.
As someone who usually lurks on most forums, it's a combination of not really being completely comfortable with the culture and group dynamics of smaller communities, and also just never feel compelled to add something. Usually I just see someone else has said something pretty close to what I was thinking and I just shrug and say "eh, close enough" and move on.
You might be being a bit too harsh on Voyager. They aren't as good as The Visitor, but Living Witness and Blink of an Eye are both really great and have always stuck with me.
It seems more like they "claim" to not recognize China. When in reality they very much recognize the government in Beijing. Kinda hard to claim you "don't recognize" a government you have bilateral agreements with.
Shame you didn't really like Green Blood, not an enormous fan of it, but I was always enjoyed reading it. I guess more accurately I'm just a sucker for the art style.
I found the second volume of the old Tokyopop Blame! release in some secondhand bookstore. I was DEEPLY confused after reading it.