The blog Manga Bookshelf regularly hosts what they call, "Manga Moveable Feasts," which are essentially blog carnivals for specific series.

This week, people who blog about manga have been writing about Sailor Moon. You can find link round-ups of the various posts here. I especially enjoyed Sailor Moon and Femininity.

In this roundtable post, ( Read more... )

Inspired by
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I am no stranger to Sailor Moon, although this is the first time I'm attempting to write about the show in any great detail ( Read more... )

Came home from work today feeling emotionally drained and first-day-of-lady-time-ish, so I laid down and finished my epic re-watch of the Buffy series.

Can Season 7 be my favorite?? I think it might be? It's so hard!

So then, my order for seasons is 7, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4, 1. Seemingly random order?? Maybe.

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I haven't been posting much about my Buffy re-watch lately because I feel like in the later seasons, I blogged enough that I've already said what I needed to say about things ( Read more... )

Has anybody read any of the Buffyverse novels? I see used copies of the Buffy/Angel spinoffs in bookstores all the time, and I am always tempted to buy them ( Read more... )

It's a bit remarkable to me how swiftly my rewatches are going. I think that Buffy is a really emotional show, and my first time through, I was really taking my time to let everything sink in. (Well, that plus finishing college, etc.)

[Link to Season Three rewatch is hereI really liked 14/22 of Season Three's episodes. Unfortunately for Season ( Read more... )

Watching Topher Brink suffer through his "moral crises" is like listening to Whoopi Goldberg struggle to explicate the difference between "rape" and "rape-rape."

Other people have already written extensively about why this episode show is made of fail ( Read more... )

[Link to Buffy Season Two rewatch is here.]

Specific EpisodesOut of 22 episodes, I really enjoy 14, and by "enjoy," I usually mean emotionally satisfying, significantly advancing the plot, possibly an intense character study that does not feel cliched, and none of the uncomfortable "This is really cheesy" plots. This is a lot of episodes! In ( Read more... )

I think that I've been reading new books/manga/etc. and watching new TV shows steadily for a couple of years now. And this is weird behavior for me, as my tendency throughout life in general has usually been to reread my favorite books obsessively ( Read more... )