dropping Bleach, checked the most recent chapter because I heard weird shit happened ( Read more... )

So conflicted about this week's One Piece. On one hand, it's perfection as usual from a story/character sense, and I loooove the creative use of powers. On the other hand...

( some light spoilers in the process of discussing pacifism and feminism )

Sometimes I feel like one of the few people on the planet who likes Nami & Robin's timeskip designs. (I liked their pre-TS designs too, esp. Robin's.) I mean yeah, One Piece isn't perfect when it comes to female characters -- though it's way, way, wayyyyy ahead of most other shounen/seinen series I can think of -- but the "fanservice" is not one of ( Read more... )

1. Detective Conan: I caved and read Chinese scans.

Woodpecker case really did turn out as nice as I hoped. <3 I loooooove the Nagano team so much. I do wish Yui would get to do more though (Gosho has this bad habit of introducing badass female characters then reducing them to foils or love interests to the dudes [still relatively active compared ( Read more... )

OK, the OP franchise has some of the best music ever. I mean, it's not distinctive the way Hiroyuki Sawano or Yoko Kanno are (or Yuki Kajiura for that matter, though I'm not as much of a fan of her stuff) or Kenji Kawai. But it's pretty damn SOLID, probably because they have tons of money to throw at it, but what really gets me is the sheer range ( Read more... )

So yeah, like I said last year, caught up on the series late Jan. 2013 after several aborted attempts. Almost 800 chapters in, and the darn series has yet to let me down ( Read more... )

1. Bleach: over the past few months the series has successfully graduated from "fun to hate" to "utter snorefest." Okay not totally true, it was already a snorefest, but at least for a while it was fun to hate on the ridiculous asspulls ( Read more... )

1. Liar Game: One more chapter to explain the underlying backstory. Doubt it'll be satisfying, and I've griped about this final arc a lot -- but the brilliance of the earlier arcs will always make up for any flaws that started surfacing in the last two arcs ( Read more... )

One Piece has totally awakened a latent collector's fever in me. XD I've never had much of an active interest in figures (I like/admire nice ones, and still remember the Beanie Baby craze* and various other toy fads, but it's never been something I really "felt"). But this franchise has such amazing figures -- I seriously lust after them all ( Read more... )

Spent the past two days rereading One Piece in hard copy. Yay Viz's gorgeously designed box sets. :D ( Read more... )