random babble, mostly manga(SHOCK!)
Nov. 18th, 2007 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreIn the non-manga arena: tonight is the church Thanksgiving meal. This will be Thanksgiving meal #2 of 4. The first was work, the third will be with Dad's family on Thursday and the fourth Mom's family on Saturday. Thank goodness it was agreed on year's ago that the Saturday meal was a no-turkey meal.
In other news, megaupload is evil and keeps cutting me off after one or two eps of Utawarerumono, making me wait 8 or so hours before I can have another(yet another argument to stick to my "dvds only" thing...) If they announced a thinpak tomorrow I'd just wait the 4-5 months until I could get it(since I'm getting it anyway...) I'm on ep 12 now and it's great, but one I think I'm better off waiting to really talk about until I finish. I'm having to pace myself because of megaupload's meanness, but as soon as I get the whole thing...
Also, the online manga community has let me down thrice in the last week: no scanslations to be found for Night of the Beasts, Qwan or Hikkatsu! Strike A Blow to Vivify? I can find scanslations for every endless hearts and flowers and giant eyes love triangle shojo and every endless shonen action manga, but those? Nowhere to be found. Not even raws. (Though, if anyone with mightier googlefu than mine wants to be nice and try...?) At least I did find Togari, though I don't plan to read ahead there atm, just use for posts and maybe icons. I have also decided to catch up with Bleach. No idea what chapter/volume I left off at, so I'll just skim until I get to where I was.
[And since I'm talking a lot about downloading stuff: I utterly despise reading manga/books and watching anything but youtube vids on my computer screen(though I have nothing but love and respect for scanslators and subbers.) Especially reading. I do it only to feed addictions, or if there's no other way to get it. If I download it, I consider myself committed to buying the licensed version when/if it comes out. The only exception is if I get completely fed up with something, at which point, I'll drop it...this has happened exactly once, and as I'd already given the US publisher a ton of money, I didn't feel real guilt over not paying for EVERY volume I read...]
On the printed manga front:
1. I have vols 2-6 of xXxHoLic and vols 1-3 of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle waiting for me. Do I need to read them in any specific order(since I know there are crossovers) or can I just catch up with xXxHoLic and then worry about Tsubasa?
2. Anyone want me to try to create a comprehensible, semi-logical explanation of the plot of Hikkatsu! Strike A Blow to Vivify? I feel compelled to pimp it more and since I can't provide scans...
The High King's Tomb by Kristen Britain
Fire and Sword and Sovereign by Simon Brown
The Green Man by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling(Anthology)
The Dream Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Through a Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold
Eternal Nights by Patti O'Shea
Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies by Moss Roberts
Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
Graphic Novels and manga:
Basara Vol 23-24
Black Cat Vol 10
Bride Of The Water God Vol 1
Canon Vol 3
The Darkness: Compendium
The Darkness: Levels
Dokebi Bride Vol 4-5
Genshiken Vol 1
Hayate the Combat Butler Vol 4
Her Majesty's Dog Vol 7
Hoshin Engi Vol 3
Land of Silver Rain Vol 5
Negima Vol 15
Night of the Beasts Vol 5
Nodame Cantabile Vol 1
Platinum Garden Vol 5
Rose Hip Zero Vol 3
Skip-Beat Vol 7-8
Togari Vol 3
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol 1-3
Vagabond Vol 25
Vampire Knight Vol 3
Vision of the Other Side Vol 2
xXxHolic Vol 2-6
Yoki Koto Kiku
Zombie Loan Vol 1
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Date: 2007-11-19 07:18 pm (UTC)Well, heck, I'm just reading xxxHolic without Tsubasa, so I say, go for broke, go for xxxHolic!
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Date: 2007-11-19 07:37 pm (UTC)