I miss being an anime geek. I miss hanging out in the anime aisles in Suncoast, when we had a Suncoast, looking through the VHS series and trying to figure out which I wanted to buy next. I miss buying DVDs online, regular and fansubbed in Hong Kong, and watching through some subpar subtitles and loving everything despite that. I miss dressing up ( Read more... )

xxx-Holic, you are the god of making the mundane and trivial seem epic and angsty.

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Oh, xxx-Holic. Truly on this day you have ascended beyond this plane to the dwelling of the Gods of WTF. (I mean, Tsubasa aside, which has made CLAMP the stuff of mindfuck legend.) Let me get this straight. You are featuring a shamisen, an instrument which is, apparently, made from the skin of an uninjured cat. A CAT ( Read more... )

End of Egypt unit. I brought in two teddy bears for the kids to mummify: one they named Queen Neferbear, and the other King Tut. After I read to them about the mummification process, they went on their merry ways 'washing the body', 'removing' bear organs, dipping the bear in salt, wrapping it in paper towel bandages, anointing it with actual ( Read more... )

So, I read Naruto 436.

( my reactions under the cut )

AAAUUUGH WATANUKI STOP BEING SUCH A DOUCHEBAG ( Read more... )

So, I finally got around to reading the brand new, shiny, gorgeous Blade of the Immortal manga volume that I recently purchased, and may I just point out once again that I simply adore Rin? I think Rin is my hero. I am her super-fan. Which is odd, because I don't typically go for characters as emotional as she is. However, this girl is so gutsy, ( Read more... )

Ouran Host Club: Awesome this time. I like how they continue to have Haruhi being much more proactive about club events, actually structuring and setting up this new one herself.
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It was a great week for manga, but a wretched, wretched week for webcomic. It's as if the manga artists got together with the knowledge that the webcomics were going to suck so bad this week, and sent out some really great work to make up for that suckage.

Manga:

Nana: Dealing with Ren's death, the grieving of his friends and the people who were ( Read more... )