The sale continues until Dec. 28th, so I do have plenty of time to think it over, but I would like some opinions to help me make up my mind. Thanks!
The sale continues until Dec. 28th, so I do have plenty of time to think it over, but I would like some opinions to help me make up my mind. Thanks!
The reason why I didn't have time to post it at AO3 is because yesterday Mom and I went to the movies -- we saw Hope Springs, which was pretty good -- then did a little shopping. Of course, that meant manga for me! At Barnes & Noble, I picked up Sailor Moon Vol. 7, Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden Vol. 10 (finally, a new volume!), and the first 3-in-1 omnbus edition of Skip-Beat, which I've always wanted to read but thought was too long. Actually, I still think it's too long, but you know me, I'm always a sucker for an omnibus... *laughs* We also went to Half-Price Books. For once, though, they didn't have anything I was interested in, so I decided to satisfy my craving for bargain-hunting out-of-print manga on the Amazon Marketplace. I ordered Vols. 4 & 7 of Othello, Vol. 6 of Doubt! (all three missing volumes from series I bought previously at HPB), and Clannad: After Story Collection 2. (You may remember that I got the rest of the series for ridiculously cheap during Right Stuf's holiday sale last year.) Also bought some newer manga: Arata: The Legend Vol. 9, Kimi ni Todoke Vols. 8 and 9, and Kobato. Vols. 2-4.
So, yeah, I'm going to be in manga heaven for the next couple of weeks. ^_^
I'm getting really bad about doing my meme questions, so today will be another two-for-one. They're related anyway.
19. A manga/an anime that you disliked at first but came to enjoy later on
Hmm, this is a tough question. I guess I would have to say the manga series Phantom Dream did get a lot better later in the series. I didn't really care for it at all in the beginning. As for anime.... Maybe Gundam Wing? It was a bit of a struggle to get through the first half, but past the recap, I enjoyed it more, although I never really came to love it. It's a pretty average series.
20. A manga/an anime you started out enjoying but ended up not liking as much
Ah, this question is much easier to answer! I've already mentioned Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic in reply to a similar question from this meme, but for anime, it's gotta be Kare Kano. It was so, so good until the last couple of episodes! Unfortunately, the ending is so terrible that it's tainted the rest of the series for me.
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall...
May. 2nd, 2012 05:12 pmMirror, Mirror is a really fun movie. Mom and I went to see it this afternoon and pretty much had the entire theater to ourselves, which was cool. The only other people there were a couple of pre-teen girls. (No idea why they weren't at school, though. It's not a holiday, and it seems rather late for it to be spring break.) I liked that Snow White actually stayed awake the whole movie and was a bit of a kick-butt action girl. Julia Roberts also made a wonderful evil Queen.
Since we were at the mall, I also stopped by Barnes & Noble to pick up some new manga: the final volume of xxxHolic, Vol. 4 of Sailor Moon (of course!), and Vols. 1, 3, and 4 of Story of Saiunkoku. Unfortunately, they didn't have the second volume -- boo! -- but I doubt there's that much difference from the anime. (I hope, at least.)
On a final note, fans of Spirit of Fire should expect a nice little surprise to (hopefully) be posted within the next week... *is vague*
On a mad search
Nov. 25th, 2008 11:18 pmSo, Mom handed me one of her credit cards today and told me to use it to order about $70 worth of Christmas presents for myself. I was hoping I would be able to order the last volume of Le Chevalier D'Eon that I needed from Right Stuf, but not only were they sold out of it again, it's apparently no longer available for purchase from them. That meant I had to try to find a copy somewhere else. (There was no way I was going to buy the upcoming boxset when I only needed one DVD to finish my collection.)
I tried all the usual places. Barnes & Noble wasn't selling it. Overstock.com wasn't selling it. Best Buy is still selling it, but it's currently on backorder and selling for about $25, more than I really wanted to pay when I had bought the rest of the DVDs for the same price at Right Stuf. Finally, I got lucky at Amazon.com. Amazon.com itself didn't have any for sale, but there were some copies available through the Marketplace, and one of the sellers was actually the head of Right Stuf (shawnek). I've never ordered anything from the Marketplace before, but I figured "what the heck?" and ordered a new copy from the aforementioned shawnek for about $11.
Not only that, but since
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Can it be Christmas yet? Please?
It's all Mom's fault. Seriously.
Mar. 3rd, 2008 08:51 pmAnd I was doing good, too. I didn't buy a single manga in February.
But then, last Saturday, Mom asked me to order her a book from the Barnes & Noble website that she wanted and said I could order a book as well. Of course, I wasn't about to pass up an offer like that, so I ordered Vol. 4 and 6 (which I bought with my own money) of xxxHolic.
Buying one volume was fine, I told myself. With those two volumes, I would finally have the first eight volumes of xxxHolic, which I thought would tide me over for a while.
I was wrong.
I just had to tempt myself by going to Right Stuf. I tried to resist the urge, but it was just too strong, and, of course, they were having a sale.
Seven Emma volumes for only $6.66 each. (I also ordered Vol. 2 of Yurara, which I was missing.)
Needless to say, my spending wallet is empty yet again.
I'm too weak.
Missing volumes
Jan. 20th, 2008 05:05 pmWhat really annoyed me though is that Waldenbooks didn't have Emma either. After looking for it at my last trip to Barnes & Noble, I was so hoping that Waldenbooks would have it. :( It's strange that neither had it in stock, considering that I've heard a lot of good things about it. Seems like it would be a pretty popular title, but I guess it's possible that it is so popular that they can't keep them in stock (although I don't think I've ever seen it at either store). Oh, well, I suppose I can just order it through Right Stuf if I have to.
(Edit: I'm so glad that I decided not to get Marmalade Boy. I was very tempted, since it's by the same mangaka who wrote Ultramaniac, Cherish, and Kimi Shika Iranai, but I knew that it was a rather old title and it was missing some volumes. Turns out that Right Stuf no longer sells it and the B&N website only has previously owned copies, so I dodged a bullet there. It would suck to buy a portion of the series, only to find out you couldn't buy the rest (although I may look into these previously owned copies at B&N).)
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.
*scratches head*
I just got an e-mail from somebody who claims to like my story Against All Odds. The problem? My story is called Against the Rules; Dejana's fic is Against All Odds. And since the e-mail was rather generic, I have no idea whether she really meant to write to me and just mixed up the titles, or if she, in fact, is a fan of AAO and for some reason thought I wrote it. *laughs* I guess that's what I get for choosing a title so close to Dejana's story.
In other news, I'm really ticked off at UPS. I was supposed to get an order in today from Barnes & Noble -- I ordered Figure Skating: A History and Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. from them -- but when it never arrived, I checked the tracking online to discover that they couldn't find the house. Grr! And this isn't the first time it has happened. For some reason, UPS hasn't been able to deliver our packages the last few times stuff was sent through them, despite the fact that they never had a problem finding our street before! Talk about annoying. Now Mom's going to have to go all the way to Baytown to pick it up there. :( I was really looking forward to reading them today, too.
To round things off, today's
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What are the five most interesting adversarial relationships?
1. Kyo/Yuki (Fruits Basket)
2. Rei/Mr. Hino (Sailor Moon)
3. Harry/Snape (Harry Potter)
4. Ryo/Izumi (Princess Nine)
5. Miaka/Yui (Fushgi Yugi)
Another good day
May. 3rd, 2007 04:04 pmThis morning, Crystle called me the minute I woke up to ask if I wanted to go to the mall with her, since our plans for yesterday got canceled. I never pass up a chance to go to the mall, so of course I said yes.
Well, normally when I go to the mall, I tend to stick around Barnes & Noble and Lane Bryant, occasionally going upstairs to check out FYE and the comic book store, so I wasn't used to checking out the whole mall. (Really wish I had thought to wear more comfortable shoes. :( My feet are killing me.) It was actually a good thing that Crystle dragged us (Hunter and Ethan were with us, too) all around the mall though, because she convinced me to try on some things at New York & Company that I never thought would fit me, and they actually did! I bought myself a boatneck pink shirt and a gorgeous black, white, and silver floral-print blouse for about the same price as a shirt I was considering buying from Lane Bryant. Whoo!
Since I also seem to be in a manga phase at the moment -- Paradise Kiss and my missing volume of Aishiteruze Baby came in yesterday from RightStuf -- I decided to pick up the omnibus edition of Tsubasa Resevoir as well, which was a really fantastic deal: the first three volumes for just a couple of dollars more than the individual volumes. From what I saw flipping through the book, the artwork wasn't really my type, but, hey, the price was right, so I figured why not check it out. Besides, it'll be interesting to see Sakura and Shaoran in a completely different story.
Definitely a fun day. ^_^
A long, but fun, day
Apr. 21st, 2007 07:12 pmToday was pretty awesome. ^_^
First off, Mom and I went to go see Blades of Glory. Hilarious movie. I did get a little grossed out a couple of times to the point of feeling like I wanted to throw up, but the rest of the movie was so awesome, I didn't really mind. I already can't wait for it to come out on DVD so I can watch it again.
After that, we did a little shopping at the mall, which of course meant a stop at Barnes & Noble. Since I finished watching the Paradise Kiss anime last night (very good ^_^), I really wanted to check out the manga, but, unfortunately, they didn't have it in stock. :( So I decided to grab all the Aishiteruze Baby volumes they had, which was all of them except for the fifth one, instead, and I'm really glad I did. I've only read the first couple of chapters so far, but I already love it. It's so CUTE! ^_^
We then headed to Best Buy. Incredibly enough, they had the Magic Knights Rayearth boxset I was thinking about ordering from Right Stuf for fifteen dollars cheaper, which then got discounted another 10% thanks to a coupon Mom had. (Can you say awesome?) I also got the new Hayley Westenra CD I have been dying to get, and Mom bought the Firefly boxset as well (yay!).
The rest of the day was spent going to various other stores -- I didn't get anything else -- and having lunch at Cici's Pizza, but that wasn't the end of my great day. When we got home, the Fruits Basket volume I preordered a while back finally came in! That was just the cherry on my sundae. ^_^
In fact, the only bad thing about today was that while we were gone, my best friend Crystle, who is back in Texas for a visit, came by the house. *sigh* Oh, well. The gang's getting together next weekend for a sleepover, and we've made tentative plans to do something during the week as well, so we'll get together eventually. I just really wish I could have seen her today. I can't wait to see her and Hunter again, and finally meet little Ethan.
I can't believe I did that!
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Hehe.
Now, onto the real subject of this post. Today, I got my B&N order, and I was dismayed to learn that instead of the Angelic Layer boxset I thought I ordered, I accidentally got the first disc with a box instead. Dummy Yume! *sigh* I can't believe I did that. I'm usually careful about that. Now I have to send it back, wasting that wonderful 40% off coupon I used it on. :( On the plus side, though, my Charlotte Church CD is awesome.
Man, I should have waited...
Dec. 18th, 2006 10:53 amWell, today I got a one-day coupon in my email for 25% off one item at the website.
Yep, you guessed it. If I had just waited until today, I could have gotten the boxset cheaper at the website. *sigh* Well, at least I don't have to worry about it not coming in before Christmas, although it probably would have anyway with the usual three-day free shipping.
On the plus side, though, I did get a couple of things for me: a Charlotte Church CD called Tissues and Issues that I've never been able to find anywhere else, and I used the coupon on something I'm not sure if I'll keep for myself or give to my sweetie as a Valentine's/first anniversary gift, so I'm not mentioning it here.
Yume is sad. :(
In happier news, my dad paid me $140 for typing up his inventory, so I think I'm going to go ahead and get that Planet of the Apes boxset for Mom despite it being more expensive than I originally wanted to pay. I think I'll probably get it from Best Buy, though, which has it for about seven dollars cheaper than the B&N website.
I also got my dad his Christmas present -- a white dress shirt to go with the nice pinstripe pants Mom got for him -- so once I get the boxset and maybe buy something else for Dad since the shirt was only $13, I will officially be done with Christmas shopping.
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Nov. 29th, 2006 10:49 pm
Yep, I did it. ^_^ The story is ...not very good, but the important thing is that I actually finished. Wahoo! Hopefully, now I've trained myself to be a little more faster with my writing from now on, although I still don't know what I'm going to work on next. I want to write a Kaleido Star short, but I can't start that until Netflix gets the last disc -- which came out earlier this month -- in so I can know how the series ends. :( So, for now, it looks like .moon's holiday challenge is top priority, but that should only take a day or two at the most to write 2,000 words. (I have been writing 2,500 a day this month, after all. ^_^) I don't know what I'll do after that.
Anyway, today Mom and I also went to Humble do a little more Christmas shopping. I bought a scrapbook for Crystle and got a gift card from B&N so I could order the Planet of the Apes boxset for my mom, but the stupid website raised the sale price from last night of about $25 to $43 today. Grr. I'm not paying that much of an increase, so it looks like I'll just have to hope that it'll go on sale again before Christmas or think of something else to get her, which sucks because it was the perfect gift. :(
Also bought a couple of things for myself with the $60 I got for my birthday: the Witch Hunter Robin boxset and Il Divo's new Siempre CD.
My poor wallet is beginning to feel a little empty. *laughs*
Right Stuf...stuff
Sep. 15th, 2006 08:43 pmI ended up ordering Fushigi Yugi, Fushigi Yugi: Eikoden, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, the A Little Snow Fairy Sugar special, two I! My! Me! Strawberry Eggs discs (other two were sold out, so I'll either go to Best Buy or the B&N website), Cybuster (for the boyfriend ^_^), and an Indigo CD. (Indigo is the band who sang the ending themes to Someday's Dreamers and Ai Yori Aoshi, and I've looking for a CD.)
I still can't believe this sale! I saved about $500! How cool is that?
In other news, I feel like a very bad friend because I just realized Crystle's birthday was last month. >.< I don't know what it is, but I always think her birthday is in October instead of August. I'll have to remember to get her a card this weekend.
I have such a great boyfriend
Aug. 12th, 2006 08:04 pmRemember how disappointed I was when the last time I was at Barnes & Noble, they didn't have the manga volumes I wanted, then I end up using the gift card I bought to order those volumes to get the Kaleido Star boxset instead?
Well, samuraiter just sent me two of those manga volumes I wanted. ^_^ I was only expecting one -- Someday's Dreamers Vol. 2, which I was dying to read -- but he also got me Fruits Basket Vol. 14 as well as a complete surprise. Whee!
What did I do to deserve such a wonderful guy?
In other news, when I buy a lipstick called "Classic Red," I expect the color to be... well, actually red. NOT dark pink.
Grr.
I wish I could find the color I used to wear in high school. That was the absolute perfect red. *sigh*
The search continues.
Girls' Day Out
Jul. 27th, 2006 08:46 pmFirst 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.
I finally got the manga I ordered from Barnes & Noble last week. It took a while (I ordered it last Monday, but they didn't ship it out until Thursday for some reason), but so far, it looks like it was worth the wait. ^_^
I got the last volume of Ayashi no Ceres, Volume 17 of Fushigi Yugi, and the first volumes of both Absolute Boyfriend and Someday's Dreamers. I've only read Ayashi no Ceres and Someday's Dreamers so far, though.
Great ending to ANC. It wasn't what I was really expecting, but then again, this is one of the few series where I managed to keep fairly spoiler-free. (Not for a lack of trying, though. It was hard finding spoilers!) I mean, I knew about Tooya and basically what would happen at the end for the main three characters (Aya, Tooya, and Yuhi), but the stuff about Kagami and the Ceres/Mikagi relationship took me completely by surprise. It's really a rather deep series when you think about it. I was impressed.
As for Someday's Dreamers, I had already read the scanlations, so basically I was curious as to how well they translated it. It wasn't that bad, actually. Fairly accurate, although sometimes I thought things should have been worded a bit differently to better match the characters' personalities, especially with Oyamada-sensei. And apparently they're translating Ginpun's name to Gin Fun and mages are called "magic users", but I guess that isn't too bad. At least they're not calling magic "Special Power" like they did in the anime. All in all, I have no major complaints. ^_^
I can't wait to read the other two. I flipped through them, and they look gooood. I must say that Riiko from Absolute Boyfriend looks exactly like Aya from Ayashi no Ceres. People are always saying that Watase Yuu's characters all look alike, which is somewhat true, I admit, but man, those two could be twins! (Or would that be triplets, since Aya already has a twin brother?)
The Bank of Yume
Feb. 28th, 2006 09:40 amSo, Laura's car finally died on her. It's been dying a slow, painful death practically ever since she bought it. There was always something wrong with it, and quite frankly, I'm surprised that it lasted this long (about four or five years, I think). Anyway, she has to buy a new one, so I'm loaning her the $500 I had saved up.
I don't mind, really. Actually, I was the one who offered to do it. My mom wanted to give her some money to help her out, but we don't exactly have a lot of extra cash laying around and I didn't want my parents to take out yet another loan, so me loaning her the money was the best idea. It's not like I really need the money for anything at the moment. I still have a $50 gift card from B&N I can use to buy the Someday's Dreamers manga, among others, so I'm pretty much set for at least a couple of months. (Yes, I have simple needs. ^_^)
It just really amuses me how I'm always loaning my family money. Somebody stole our bank card number and bought an expensive cell phone with it, causing our checks to bounce? Here's $300. A bill's higher than you thought it would be? Take a hundred. Dad needs money for gas? $10? Sure.
*laughs*
I really am the Bank of Yume.