I read the TokyoPop translation of vol. 3 (eeeeeee!!!! Good translation of the Burial arc!), got vols. 4-5 from the Chinese manga rental store, promptly went out to Kinokuniya and bought 6 in Japanese, and then spent a few hours getting the raws of the remaining chapters because EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )

Really, this is just an excuse to use my shiny new icon! Yay ikkou love! Yay Sanzo waving a gun around!

I noticed more random and fun things this time around! I adore Minekura and how she sneaks these little things in.

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As Elliott on Scrubs would say: Frick. Frick frick frick.

I thought I could not possibly be more obsessed than, oh say, two hours ago, but then rilina sent me the raws and text of ch. 18-20 of Gaiden and OMG TEH ANGST!

I think the last time I felt like this, I was reading Dunnett.

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Go me! I read the whole thing in Japanese without the help of my trusty electronic dictionary ( Read more... )

I read less than last year by a bit, probably by a lot volume-wise, because so much of this year was manga, which I read much faster. I am too lazy to separate out my manga read, and so I just count a volume as a book. I also still haven't figured out how to do LJ entries on manga -- sometimes I do entries on a chunk of volumes, sometimes I do ( Read more... )

I started reading this because many people were talking about a) how good it was, b) how good the art was, and c) how good it was ( Read more... )

Gah, just finished Saiyuki. Want more! Wah ( Read more... )

Note: So far I have only read up to Saiyuki vol. 4. Spoil me and die. Or, er, get virtually glared at an awful lot. *virtually glares*

My mom was super nice and gave in to my repeated requests (aka, annoying whining on the phone) to buy me all of Minekura Kazuya's Saiyuki in Chinese and mail it to me. Joy! It's very interesting rereading it in ( Read more... )