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03. Your favorite mangaka

Yuu Watase, without a doubt. I have all her works currently translated in English, and even a few scanlated series which I would love to see licensed some day. I love her beautiful and sexy artwork, and her stories are usually to my taste as well. Ceres: Celestial Maiden is among my all-time top five manga, and I adore Arata: The Legend and Absolute Boyfriend. Fushgi Yuugi is great until the second part, which was unnecessary and obviously written just to satisfy demands from the publisher for more, but I have to admit I actually prefer the anime to the manga overall. Manga artwork is still better, though. I even have the artbook, 'cause, man, does she draw pretty!.

Current Mood: mellow

It never did snow. Pooh. Stupid weatherman, getting my hopes up. :P

Oh, well, here's a new review:

TITLE: Absolute Boyfriend
AUTHOR/MANGAKA: Yuu Watase
PUBLISHER: Viz
RATING: Older Teen (16+)
CATEGORY: Shoujo
NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 6
SCORE: 9 (great)
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: Chobits, Yuu Watase (mangaka of Fushigi Yugi, Ceres: Celestial Maiden, Imadoki, Alice 19th), romance, comedy, drama, science fiction

( "Absolute Boyfriend" Review )

Current Mood: disappointed

Good news from Right Stuf. I can email them another card's information, and they'll let me charge the order to that. Yay! I don't have to cancel my order after all!

Except...now I kind of want to. *laughs* I was looking through their in-stock manga inventory earlier, trying to see what else I could order if I couldn't sort out this mess (since most everything I ordered the first time is now on backorder), when I noticed how cheap the Death Note and I's manga were. Right Stuf usually sells them for $5.99 a volume, which is already quite a steal, but with 20% off that, I could get them for about $4.79 (if my math is right) each. At least the volumes that they had in stock.

But, you know, I think I'll just stick with my original order. I don't need to start collecting another series right now, no matter how good a deal it is. *laughs* Maybe next time, since I'll be finished with Full Moon wo Sagashite by then and Suppli's future is murky because of the Tokyopop restructuring. We'll see.

Oh, BTW, the last Absolute Boyfriend volume came in today. *dances* Haven't read it yet, but I can't wait to get to it. ^_^

Current Mood: happy

....because yesterday they sent off the Absolute Boyfriend volume even though Yurara is still backordered. Yay! That means it should be in by the beginning of next week, since it's a holiday tomorrow. Finally something new to read!

*does a happy dance*

I take back all the complaining I did about you, Right Stuf. I love you!

Current Mood: pleased

You know, I normally consider myself a very patient person, but it's been almost a month since I ordered the last volumes of Absolute Boyfriend and Yurara from Right Stuf, and I still haven't gotten them. :( According to my Order Status page, Absolute Boyfriend has been "Reserved for your order" for a couple of weeks now, but Yurara is still backordered. Gah! Can't they at least send me the Absolute Boyfriend volume so I'll finally have something new to read? It seems like forever since I've read a new manga volume! (Looking back, I think my last manga splurge was all the way back in April. Oh, my, two whole months without new manga!)

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be complaining. I ordered them with my Trigun DVDs, so I got free shipping, and I know they're just trying to cut back on their shipping costs by mailing the order in as few packages as possible, but I can't help it! I feel like a heroin junkie looking for her next fix. *laughs*

Well, hopefully the order I placed yesterday will be in soon. Right Stuf was having a sale on in-stock items, so most of what I ordered was, of course, in-stock: Vash and Wolfwood keychains (so cute!), NANA 10, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 17, and Full Moon wo Sagashite 3, 5-7. Only Vol. 4 of Full Moon and Vol. 12 of xxxHolic are backordered, and I'm crossing my fingers that they either get in soon or don't hold up the rest of my order.

I NEED NEW MANGA!!!!!!

Current Mood: disappointed

The Trigun DVDs I ordered from Right Stuf's Geneon sale came in today! I can't wait to watch it again.

Unfortunately, the two manga volumes I ordered are still on backorder. :( Oh, well, I guess that'll give me time to reread Absolute Boyfriend and Yurara before the last volumes come in.

Current Mood: good

Thanks to Right Stuf's current Geneon sale, I just ordered all of Trigun for only $40! *dances* I never thought I would find it so cheap. And, actually, with this purchase, I officially have all the anime series I've seriously been meaning to collect so far. Whoo!

I also ordered the last volumes for both Absolute Boyfriend and Yurara. ^_^

Current Mood: happy

So, thanks to

lunaludusand

mythopoet_blue's input -- thanks, guys! -- I decided that instead of getting the nine episode Fushigi Yugi OAV (which was a little too expensive for the $100 Visa gift card I used anyway), my money would be better spent on other things (namely manga).

I ordered:

Fullmetal Alchemist Boxset 3
Fullmetal Alchemist Boxset 4
Fruits Basket Vol. 19
Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound Vol. 5
Legend of Chun Hyang manga
The One I Love manga
Marriage DVD
Full Metal Panic Ani-Mini DVD

Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't start any new manga series until after I finished collecting Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound (which I'm finishing with this order), Absolute Boyfriend, and Yurara, but The One I Love and Legend of Chun Hyang are both one-shots, so I say that they don't really count. :P (Besides, they're CLAMP!) As for the last two, Marriage is a single-disc anime title that I've been eyeing for a while, since the summary sounded interesting and the price was right (only nine dollars, so even if it sucks, it's not big deal), while I mainly just got the ani-mini DVD because it was cheap ($.99) and I had a little over a dollar left on the card. *laughs*

Current Mood: tired

I had a touch of insomnia last night, so I decided to get up and inventory all my anime, manga, and related merchandise. This is the result.

( The Inventory )

Current Mood: impressed

Okay, so two of the manga series I've been reading are close to wrapping up: Absolute Boyfriend and Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound. Once I get in the volumes I recently ordered from Right Stuf, I'll only have to buy one more volume each for both of them, so I decided it would be okay to start collecting a couple of new short series -- the keyword being short. I even went to AnimeonDVD.com's manga comparison chart (which shows how any volumes make up each series) and made out a list of possible series to buy so that when we went to Barnes & Noble today, I wouldn't accidentally pick out something with a lot of volumes. I just wanted something with seven volumes or less, that's all.

Well, I found one of the series I wanted, a josei manga called Suppli that sounded really interesting. However, there's only one volume out so far, and I'm not exactly the kind of person who can leave a bookstore with only one manga volume. *laughs* The other series I really wanted was Emma, but they didn't have it, nor any of the other series I was vaguely considering.

Then I saw it.

An Omnibus Edition of xxxHolic. Three volumes in one twelve dollar book.

Before, I wasn't all that interested in reading it, but I just couldn't pass up such a good deal.

And now I'm collecting yet another long, on-going series. I'm insane. -_-;

Omnibus Editions are evil.

But oh, so good.

Also, it sucks that when we got home from our shopping and checked the mail, there were coupons for both Barnes & Noble and Best Buy (which we also went to, although I didn't buy anything). Why couldn't they come in yesterday? *sigh* Now they'll just go to waste.

Current Mood: crazy

*yawn*

Yes, I am up at 7:00. Mom didn't want to go to Midnight Mass last night, so we're going to the 8:00 mass this morning.

I want to go back to beeeedddd.

*yawns again*

Well, anyway, Merry Christmas everybody!

We opened our presents last night like we do every year. It wasn't quite as bad a haul as I thought it would be, considering. I thought since Mom knew she wouldn't be able to spend a lot of money this year, she would get lots of silly, cheap gifts that we didn't really want just so that we would still get a lot of stuff, but really the only useless gift I got was yet another journal. (She gets me one practically every year, even thought I only really use them to write down computer passwords and the occasional story idea. Oh, well. At least it's cute.)

Here's the rundown:

( Gifts )

I think that's about it. I'll edit this later when we get home from church.

EDIT: Okay, we're back.

Amusing little anecdote about Laura's gift: While she was here for Thanksgiving, Laura kept pestering me and Mom about what we wanted for Christmas because she didn't want to take the easy way out and give us gift cards. Mom gave her a list of movies she wanted, but I couldn't think of anything at the time. A few days later, though, I sent her an email with a short list of things she could choose from: Princess Tutu boxset, Diamond Daydreams boxset, or Blades of Glory. As it turned out, she had already gotten me Blades of Glory for my birthday gift (which I finally got last Sunday, almost two months after the fact). However, when it came to our Christmas gifts, what did she give me and Mom?

Gift cards. *laughs*

Granted, she did originally get Mom a couple of movies, but she had to take them back because Mom went ahead and bought them for herself, and she was planning to get me one of the boxsets I wanted, but she lost my email, but still, I thought that was pretty funny, especially since the one person she was planning to give a gift card to -- Daddy, who is horrible to shop for -- actually got a movie and coffee mug.

As for what I ordered with the $50 gift card, Right Stuf had an awesome sale on a Rumbling Hearts bundle that I couldn't pass up. Originally it was $90, but I got it for $20! O.o (I really wish I held off on the first FMA boxset. They had a sale on that, too.) I also got the FMA movie and the next volumes of Absolute Boyfriend, NANA, and Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound.

Current Mood: sleepy

Okay, so my sister got this coupon in the mail for one of her favorite clothing stores. I think it was something like get 30% off when you spent a hundred dollars or more. It was definitely a good deal, but either because there wasn't a store near her or her local store didn't have anything she wanted, today Laura decided to drive all the way to Humble to go to the store at Dearbrook Mall. *rolls eyes* Considering the price of gas, it probably wasn't even worth the trip, but, nonetheless, since she was planning to drop by here for a short visit after shopping, Mom and I decided we would just meet her there at the mall and save her at least a little gas money.

We just got back a little while ago, and, of course, me being me, I had to buy some manga. Spent more than I wanted, actually, considering I'm trying to save up money for the Season 2 Kaleido Star boxset. (Bad Yume! >.<)I originally only planned to buy Vol. 10 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, but they were out of stock, so I decided to go ahead and buy two volumes of the Ultramaniac manga instead. I finished watching the anime last weekend and fell in love with it, but since the boxset is over a hundred dollars, I figured that getting the five volume manga was a better investment.`Then, just as we were leaving, Mom pointed out an Omnibus Edition of the Magic Knight Rayearth manga that I failed to notice the first time I went through the store. I have to admit, the MKR manga wasn't something I particularly wanted; I already own the anime, and while I liked the first couple of chapters I read a long time ago in Mixxzine, it wasn't something I was really interested in reading. However, just like with Tsubasa, the Omnibus Edition, containing the first three volumes for under $10, was just too good a deal to pass up, so I ended up buying that as well.

So, yeah. I just started collecting two more series, on top of the six others I've already been buying! >.< Luckily, I'm almost finished with Absolute Boyfriend, and both MKR and Ultramaniac are short series that are already completely translated, but still...

I have a sickness. I really do. *laughs*

Current Mood: embarrassed

I just signed into my Right Stuf account to check the dates on my remaining pre-orders and discovered that Absolute Boyfriend Vol. 4, which was supposed to be officially released on Aug. 7 and is still on pre-order status according to the website, was actually shipped off a couple of days ago. Yay! I have no idea why they've sent it off so early, especially since it seems like with most of my pre-orders, I've actually had to wait a while to get them, but I'm certainly not complaining. ^_^ Hopefully my other two pre-orders will be just as timely. (Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound Vol. 3 is coming out July 31, and Fruits Basket Vol. 17 is another Aug. 7 release.)

Current Mood: giddy

Considering my last entry, I just had to do this meme.

Name five crossovers you'd love to read or write one of these days, no matter how cracked-out or improbable.

1. Sailor Moon/Grey's Anatomy - I think it would be really interesting if either Ami or Mamoru ended up interning at Seattle Grace, and the hospital ended up having to deal with the casualties of a youma attack, having no idea what was going on.

2. Card Captor Sakura/Ghost Whisperer - Melinda sees ghosts, Touya sees ghosts... It's a no-brainer. (See previous entry)

3. Sailor Moon/Witch Hunter Robin - I really do want to write this eventually. My idea has Robin, whose craft is fire, being related to Rei, a fact they discover when the STNJ starts investigating the Sailor Senshi, who they think are witches.

4. Someday's Dreamers/Harry Potter - A lot of HP crossovers from what I hear tend to be with series that don't really fit in with it, but Someday's Dreamers really would be a plausible HP crossover partner, IMO. Both series are about magical people learning how to use their powers, so I think they would complement each other well if done correctly.

5. Absolute Boyfriend/Chobits/Hand Maid May - *laughs* Yeah, I just want to see how somebody would handle a crossover with these three series about robots who look like people. I bet it would be a lot of fun. ^_^

5.

Current Mood: amused

Seriously, this sudden manga bug I've been bitten by needs to stop. In just the past couple of weeks, I think I've spent about $150 just on manga, which is so not like me. I'm a notorious tightwad, but...manga!

*glomps stack of new manga*

But, yeah, I bought some more manga today: Vol. 4 and 5 of Tsubasa and the first two volumes of NANA. -_-; I probably would have bought more of NANA, actually, but Waldenbooks didn't have the third volume in stock, so I decided to stick with just the first two for now. (Probably for the best.) At least I managed to stop myself from picking up the first three volumes of Card Captor Sakura they had, although they were very tempting. I already have enough series to finish collecting: NANA, Tsubasa, Fruits Basket, Absolute Boyfriend, and Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound.

Gah!

*hides $50 B&N gift card so I'm not tempted to order more*

In other news, Mom totally ruined her Mother's Day present. I bought said gift card so that I could order the Indiana Jones boxset she's been wanting online as a surprise, but the moment she saw it, she knew exactly what I was going to buy with it. *sigh* Since she already knew what I wanted to buy, I ended up just buying the set from Best Buy, which is why I still have the gift card.

Man, it's tempting me...

No! No more manga for at least a month, Yume!

Eh, it'll probably be gone by the end of next weekend.

I'm too weak.

Current Mood: crazy

...and I'm a Right Stuf -aholic.

Seriously, though. I'm still waiting on some back-ordered things from my previous two orders, yet when I bought another $100 Visa gift card (love those things) at the grocery store today, I just had to blow it all the second I got home.

How could I resist buying the entire Wedding Peach series when they were selling it for only $5 a disc, though? I also went ahead and pre-ordered the next Fruits Basket volume and the next two volumes of Absolute Boyfriend, so I don't have to worry about getting those for a while. Plus, I also got a cute Shigure plushie, an adorable Jonathan the Seal (from Kaleido Star) plushie, and yet another gift for Samuraiter, who is going to be so spoiled for our first Valentine's Day/first anniversary, it's not even funny. ^_^ (Yes, I managed to get all of that for under a $100. How great is this site?)

At least I now almost have all the anime series I've been wanting. Really all I need now is the Rah-Xephon boxset and Kaleido Star Season 2, which hasn't come out with a boxset as of yet (or been featured in one of Right Stuf's sales), and I'll be up to date until I find some other series I want. I kind of wanted the Noir boxset as well, but to be honest, I really just wanted it it for the music, especially the awesome opening song, so I think I'll probably just get the soundtrack.

Edit: Man, I just looked at the front page and realized that they were having a sale on VIZ titles this weekend, 40% off DVDs and 33% off manga. If I had known that, I could have gotten the Ayashi no Ceres anime for a great price. :( Granted, it wasn't on my wish list and I do have all the manga already, but still, I would have been interested. Also could have used the code on my Absolute Boyfriend pre-orders, but, eh, that's no big deal.

Current Mood: happy

Actually, the real meme, which I took from a variety of people, is "10 Characters I'd Have Sex With," but I'm not that kind of girl, so we'll just stick to making out. ~_^

And for this, I'm just sticking with anime/manga characters to make it easier on me to decide, although we all know that otherwise, Charlie Eppes from Numb3rs would be on the top of the list. *drools over David Krumholtz*

( In Ascending Order )

Current Mood: horny

Well, the outing was successful this time, but I have to say that it ended up being a rather disappointing day all around. I blame hormones. They put me in a bad mood all day long.

First off, when we got to the mall, we went to Barnes and Noble like we usually do. I wanted to get the new Someday's Dreamers manga, but they didn't have it. *sigh* I ended up buying a gift card instead to order it -- along with the upcoming Fruits Basket and Absolute Boyfriend volumes -- online, and Mom bought me the sixth Harry Potter book that finally come out in paperback a couple of days ago.

After that, we headed to the food court, where we had lunch before going to the movies. Mom really wanted to see Lady in the Water, but since I thought it looked stupid, we decided to see The Devil Wears Prada instead. While I really enjoyed it, Mom got bored halfway through, which made me feel bad since this was supposed to be kind of a birthday celebration. (Her birthday's this Saturday.) Anyway, afterwards, we went to a few other stores, but we couldn't find anything we wanted, so we headed to Best Buy.

To be honest, going to Best Buy was the thing I most looked forward to. I planned to buy the first season of Kaleido Star (what else?), but, again, they didn't have it. Nor did they have my second choice, the second season of Wedding Peach. (They did have the first season, which I almost got, but I really wanted the second, since I haven't seen all of it.) Luckily, they did have my third choice, the Evangelion movie boxset. I ended up getting that, but, because of the aforementioned stupid hormones, I was actually trying to keep from crying that they didn't have the Kaleido Star boxset.

Yeah, I was tearing up because they didn't have a boxset. *rolls eyes* Definitely hormones.

The rest of the day pretty much just went downhill from there. Not even The Mary Tyler Moore Show managed to cheer me up, and that show always cheers me up. I'm better now, but still... Sucky day.

There was one moment of brightness, though. Dad just gave Mom her birthday present, and it''s a new flat screen TV, which means I can rid of my little TV and switch to the old living room TV. Whee! Along with my reclaimed DVD player, I can now watch subtitled anime in the comfort of my own bedroom.

At least something good happened today.

Current Mood: grumpy

...absolutely hilarious!

If the rest of the series is as good as the first volume, then I think I might have a new favorite manga on my hands. ^_^

For those who don't know what it is about, the best way I can think of to describe it is very Chobits-like. (I don't think it's a coincidence that Chobits is currently tied with Ayashi no Ceres and Fruits Basket as my favorite manga.) The heroine is Izawa Riiko (the Aya clone), who doesn't have much luck when it comes to men. One day, she comes across the lost cell phone of a strange-looking salesman from a company called Kronos Heaven. To thank her for returning it, he offers her a discount on anything from the company's catalogue. Riiko's a bit hesitant, since she doesn't have the best luck when it comes to mail-order items (the first scene shows her measuring her bust size after trying out something she ordered through the mail), and tells him that the only thing she wants is a boyfriend. As it turns out, however, you can order one of those too. They're called Nightly Lovers, and basically, they're humanized robots. Riiko decides to try the three-day trial, and the next day, a naked man is delivered to her apartment!

I love Night, which is what Riiko names her new "boyfriend." He has a tendency to take off all his clothes and offer to have sex with Riiko -- she did specify him to be "horny" after all -- which means tons of fanservice for the girls for once. ^_^ And boy is he hot! Tooya might actually have a little competition. *fans self* Soshi, the other male lead who appears to have a crush on Riiko, is pretty cute as well. Love guys in glasses. *drools*

I want the next volume right now. *pouts*

I also read my new Fushigi Yugi volume as well, which was pretty good. I liked that it focused quite a bit on Chichiri, since he and Hotohori are my favorites of the Suzaku warriors. Hotohori got plenty of screentime, but Chichiri was usually in the background most of the time.

Current Mood: horny

My mom just got an email bulletin from B&N announcing that the first volume of Watase Yuu's Absolute Boyfriend comes out at the end of February. Yes! *dances* I'm so happy, and it's great timing since I only have one more volume to read for Ayashi no Ceres and two (I think) left for Fushigi Yugi. Now I'll have another Watase series to drool over. Whee!

*end fangirling*

In other news, I think I might be slowly getting through my writer's block. I managed to finish a (somewhat decent) Yui/Hideki Christmas scene and I'll probably finish an Ami scene tomorrow. ^_^ I also completed an entry for Kerry's challenge community that I'm actually rather fond of. I think I might go ahead and submit it to the archives after making a few tweaks. What do you guys think?

( Ami/Ryo ficlet )

Current Mood: ecstatic

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Entries tagged with absolute boyfriend

30 Day Manga/Anime Meme - Day 3

Absolute Boyfriend

Okay, this is the last time I going to talk about this...hopefully.

Right Stuf must have read my last entry...

Hello, my name is Yume, and I'm a manga addict

Yay!

Yay for Right Stuf!

Yet another Right Stuf order

Inventory

I'm a sucker for Omnibus Editions. An absolute sucker.

Merry Christmas!

My silly sister and manga

A pleasant surprise

Taken from Sophia

Anybody know the cure?

Hello, my name is Yume...

10 Characters I'd Make Out With

Girls' Day Out

Absolute Boyfriend is...

Yes!