Year in review: 2008 output (fandom and professional)
This time last year I made two separate "output for the past year" posts, but my fanfiction was so sporadic in 2008 that it boils down to "click on my 30 Kisses tag and look at the last five entries". (That's five Haru/Rin fics, ranging from ~700-6000 words; two are set during the series, two are after the main events of the series, and one is post-series. I think. ^^)
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On the professional side, this is my list of published adaptations for 2008:
At the moment I only have a few series actually running (Sgt. Frog, Shinobi Life, and Phantom Dream, with a few more starting next year), but I really like all of them. ^^ If you're not already a fan of Frog it's a bit long to start dabbling in, but Shinobi Life is fun shoujo, and Phantom Dream is particularly interesting because it's Takaya-sensei's first title; she wasn't as skilled a writer (or artist) as she was on Fruits Basket, obviously, but she's starting to find her voice and the themes she likes to use. (I also think vol. 2 is noticeably stronger than vol. 1.)
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Other than that, I wrote a bunch of reviews for Manga Life, all of which are linked from my professional blog (which I'm hoping to keep better-updated next year), and read something like 385 volumes of manga. As for anime, I saw very little--maybe 20 or 25 episodes all told. Kinda sad.
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On the professional side, this is my list of published adaptations for 2008:
- CLAMP no Kiseki vol. 12 (translated by double_dear)
- Genshiken Official Book
- J-Pop Idol vol. 1
- Phantom Dream vol. 1
- Sgt. Frog vol. 14-16
- Shinobi Life vol. 1
- White Night Melody vol. 1
- J-Pop Idol vol. 2
- White Night Melody vol. 3
- Zig*Zag vol. 5
At the moment I only have a few series actually running (Sgt. Frog, Shinobi Life, and Phantom Dream, with a few more starting next year), but I really like all of them. ^^ If you're not already a fan of Frog it's a bit long to start dabbling in, but Shinobi Life is fun shoujo, and Phantom Dream is particularly interesting because it's Takaya-sensei's first title; she wasn't as skilled a writer (or artist) as she was on Fruits Basket, obviously, but she's starting to find her voice and the themes she likes to use. (I also think vol. 2 is noticeably stronger than vol. 1.)
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Other than that, I wrote a bunch of reviews for Manga Life, all of which are linked from my professional blog (which I'm hoping to keep better-updated next year), and read something like 385 volumes of manga. As for anime, I saw very little--maybe 20 or 25 episodes all told. Kinda sad.