No. 6.
I finally finished the No. 6 anime. I'm probably the only fangirl who is both dedicated enough to follow no6city and law-abiding lazy enough to not watch subs and not subscribe to Crunchyroll and thus watch it on a one-week time lag.
And I even managed not to get spoiled this past week. Aren't you proud of me?
I don't really have anything to add to the reactions at the discussion post over there. But I would like to point out something I said a month and a half ago:
I'm disappointed that it's only slated to run 11 episodes. Kind of indicative of how they're treating it: one of those dark, BL-ish stories where they'll play fast and loose with the plot and then end it on a dissatisfying note.
Did I call it or what?
I still want to read the novels, but it sounds like they might not be much better. It's okay, I will learn to love No. 6 as both a series that is awesome and has moments that turn me into jelly, and a series whose ridiculousness you just have to mock -- with the help of a snarky fan community. Sound familiar?
I am a little worried about my special order for the novels at the moment. So I ended up not going to Kinokuniya in SF, but I went to the SJ store and was going to pick up volume 8 that I found there, but I decided I didn't really like the format much, and they were so much more expensive, so I decided to go for the bunko. I have no idea how far along those are, but I figure by the time I finish volume 6, there will probably be more waiting for me. I placed a special order for all 6 right before Labor Day, so I should be getting the postcard any day now. But I'm worried that somehow they screwed up my address, and the books are sitting there behind the counter, and they'll send them back to Japan before I find out about it. :( I might call them tomorrow to check, except I hate calling them because their English is generally fine but they have trouble when you spell things out. Maybe they'll be able to find it if I just give them the order numbers.
On a related note, I discovered a best practice for special ordering that I might as well share here: giving them a list of ISBNs is the best way to tell them what you want. No confusion, no lengthy back and forth about titles and authors. They just type the numbers in and confirm.
Versus what I used to do: "Hi, I'd like to special order a volume of a manga called 'Elixir.' Um, but the kanji is 'kenja no ishi.' It's by Akino Matsuri. Her given name is read 'matsuri' but she actually uses the kanji for 'Mari.'"
I'm babbling, and it's past my bedtime, so I'll go away now. I've noticed I tend to become glib after finishing a series and overdosing on fandom. Or maybe just overdosing on fandom.
And I even managed not to get spoiled this past week. Aren't you proud of me?
I don't really have anything to add to the reactions at the discussion post over there. But I would like to point out something I said a month and a half ago:
I'm disappointed that it's only slated to run 11 episodes. Kind of indicative of how they're treating it: one of those dark, BL-ish stories where they'll play fast and loose with the plot and then end it on a dissatisfying note.
Did I call it or what?
I still want to read the novels, but it sounds like they might not be much better. It's okay, I will learn to love No. 6 as both a series that is awesome and has moments that turn me into jelly, and a series whose ridiculousness you just have to mock -- with the help of a snarky fan community. Sound familiar?
I am a little worried about my special order for the novels at the moment. So I ended up not going to Kinokuniya in SF, but I went to the SJ store and was going to pick up volume 8 that I found there, but I decided I didn't really like the format much, and they were so much more expensive, so I decided to go for the bunko. I have no idea how far along those are, but I figure by the time I finish volume 6, there will probably be more waiting for me. I placed a special order for all 6 right before Labor Day, so I should be getting the postcard any day now. But I'm worried that somehow they screwed up my address, and the books are sitting there behind the counter, and they'll send them back to Japan before I find out about it. :( I might call them tomorrow to check, except I hate calling them because their English is generally fine but they have trouble when you spell things out. Maybe they'll be able to find it if I just give them the order numbers.
On a related note, I discovered a best practice for special ordering that I might as well share here: giving them a list of ISBNs is the best way to tell them what you want. No confusion, no lengthy back and forth about titles and authors. They just type the numbers in and confirm.
Versus what I used to do: "Hi, I'd like to special order a volume of a manga called 'Elixir.' Um, but the kanji is 'kenja no ishi.' It's by Akino Matsuri. Her given name is read 'matsuri' but she actually uses the kanji for 'Mari.'"
I'm babbling, and it's past my bedtime, so I'll go away now. I've noticed I tend to become glib after finishing a series and overdosing on fandom. Or maybe just overdosing on fandom.