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Welcome to 2020! I meant to make a post before the end of the year, doing my usual year-end fanfiction reviews and making a list of my top fifty favorite anime of the past decade, but, oops, I forgot! Well, better late than never, right?

First off, Top 50 Favorite Anime Series Of The Decade!

1. Yuri!! On Ice (2016)

2. Fruits Basket (2019)

3. Shirobako (2014)

4. My Love Story!! (2015)

5. Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2016)

6. Bakuman (2010)

7. Space Brothers (2012)

8. ReLife (2016)

9. Oh, Maidens In Your Savage Season (2019)

10. Chihayafuru (2011)

11. Sailor Moon Crystal (2014)

12. Card Captor Sakura Clear Card (2018)

13. Tiger & Bunny (2011)

14. Bloom Into You (2018)

15. My Roommate Is A Cat (2019)

16. Yamada’s First Time (2010)

17. A Place Further Than The Universe (2018)

18. Yona of the Dawn (2014)

19. Zombie Land Saga (2018)

20. Death Parade (2015)

21. Your Lie In April (2014)

22. Major 2nd (2018)

23. Sound! Euphonium (2015)

24. Amagi Brilliant Park (2014)

25. Snow White With The Red Hair (2015)

26. Haikyu! (2014)

27. The Promised Neverland (2019)

28. Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun (2014)

29. Hinamatsuri (2018)

30. Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits (2018)

31. Orange (2016)

32. Given (2019)

33. Free! (2013)

34. Recovery of a MMO Junkie (2017)

35. Ancient Magus’ Bride (2017)

36. Sakura Quest (2017)

37. Love Stage!! (2014)

38. My Hero Academia (2016)

39. School Babysitters (2018)

40. Kaguya-sama: Love is War (2019)

41. Hanasaku Iroha (2011)

42. How To Keep a Mummy (2018)

43. Interviews With Monster Girls (2017)

44. Idolish7 (2018)

45. Flying Witch (2016)

46. Kiss Him, Not Me (2016)

47. Another (2012)

48. Bunny Drop (2011)

49. Tanaka-kun is always listless (2016)

50. Golden Time (2013)

Honorable mentions go to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Kimi ni Todoke - From Me To You, Natsume's Book of Friends, and Kobato. I only counted series that started between 2010-2019, so these didn't make the cut, despite airing partly between those years.

Now, fanfiction reviews! I answered three different year-end review questionnaires on my Tumblr, so I'm just going to link to them instead of copy and pasting. This entry is already getting long enough!

Set One
Set Two
Set Three

My review of the fall anime season and my choices for the Top Ten Anime of 2019 will be posted sometime in the next few days...hopefully.

Current Mood: hopeful

Fall was a pretty good season, anime-wise.

Zombie Land Saga - I never expected to love a show about zombies so much, but Zombie Land Saga is downright hilarious with just the right amount of absurdity and heart. Plus, the idea of zombie idols is kinda brilliant. I thought IDOLiSH7 was going to be my favorite idol anime of the year, but this show surpassed it. I'm really hoping it gets a second season. It ended at a good point, but the final scene was definitely a sequel hook.

Double Decker! Doug & Kirill - This show started off really strong, but lost a little steam near the end, although I still really enjoyed it. And I have the say, the character designs were simply gorgeous!

Tsurune - Tsurune started airing a little later than most of the shows this season, so it still has a few episodes to go, but if you were a fan of Free!, then you'll probably also like this show, which is basically an archery-version of Free! Not that that is a bad thing in my book. Archery isn't quite as exciting as swimming, but Masa is really hot...

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san - It's always been a bit of a dream of mine to work in a bookstore, so it was fun to watch this series and see what it is like. Some of the customers that showed up were hilarious. I also enjoyed picking on all the censored mentions of real-life companies and manga series.

Ace Attorney - Decent season, I guess, but suffers from the same issue as the second half of the first season in that Mitsurugi was barely in it. I just can't really get into these other prosecutors.

Sword Art Online: Alicization (continuing) - Word of warning: Episode 10 is really tough to watch. Even censored... Well, it's disturbing. But the overall storyline so far is pretty good, and I'm looking forward to where it will go. I think this series is supposed to last for several seasons, which is pretty rare nowadays.

As for next season, I'll be continuing with Alicization, of course, and I'll probaby catch up with the second season of Mob Psycho 100 once I finish watching the first season on Toonami. Looks like there's a new season of B-Project, too. New shows that look promising are Domestic Girlfriend, Promised Neverland, Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen, and Dōkyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Hopefully Crunchyroll will get at least some of them.

And now, for my Top Ten Series of 2018! There weren't any series this year that I would rate a perfect ten, but I think all of these are worth checking out.

* means I didn't watch the show while it was airing but picked up later due to good buzz.

1. Zombie Land Saga
2. Major 2nd
3. A Place Further Than The Universe *

4. Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card
5. Hinamatsuri *
6. My Hero Academia
7. School Babysitters
8. IDOLiSH7
9. The Ancient Magus' Bride
10. Double Decker: Doug and Kirill

It was a good season, although I'm disappointed that Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku didn't end up on Crunchyroll. I guess I can just get the manga that just came out in English anyway.

As for the rest:

Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card - Loved it! Yeah, most of the episodes were filler and the ending wasn't very conclusive, but I'm like 95% certain that we'll get another season when the manga is closer to actually ending, so it didn't bother me that much. I just enjoyed seeing all these wonderful characters again!

My Hero Academia (continuing) - Seriously keeps getting better and better!

Major 2nd (continuing) - There were actually two baseball anime this season, and of the two, this one seemed more suited to my taste, so I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did because I totally loved it. There's something almost nostalgic about it, even though it's set in the modern day. Maybe because it's a sequel to an older manga series, Major? But absolutely no knowledge is needed to enjoy 2nd, since it's focused on the kids of the main characters of the original series.

Comic Girls - Yet another "cute girls doing cute things" type of show, but it really was cute! A little more fanservice-y than these shows tend to be, but it didn't bother me. Still really funny and, well, cute!

Idolish7 - Just a few episodes carried into this season (although there was a small break in between), but, yep, definitely the best idol show I've seen. I'm happy to hear the news that there's going to be another season!

Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory - I was really looking forward to this, and it was pretty good, but it definitely didn't need a recap episode every fifth episode. It was also a bit disappointing that most of the season focused on new (though pretty interesting) characters instead of my old favorites. It ended at a weird point as well (probably because of the recaps), so fingers crossed we'll get more at a later date. I want to see the end!

Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS! - This sequel series introduced a new group since the old group graduated in the OAV. I liked the new characters okay, but the original group had more chemistry and more distinct personalities. Still, a pretty fun show!

Darling in the FRANXX - Eh. It started off pretty well last season, but definitely lost steam along the way. Didn't help that there were a couple of episodes that consisted of the seiyuu just talking about the show instead of an actual episode. I believe one of the seiyuu was diagnosed with a serious illness during taping which might explain why that happened, but the show had bigger problems than that...namely that the whole backstory just didn't make much sense and the leads lost pretty much all their personality when they became an official couple.

As for the summer season, there are slim pickings when it comes to new shows. I'll be watching the continuations of My Hero Academia and Major 2nd and the new seasons of Free! and Attack on Titan, but the only new series that has caught my eye is Holmes of Kyoto. Oh, well, I guess it'll give me a chance to watch some of my backlog, which is nice.

Current Mood: dorky

I actually haven't finished this season yet, but I've watched enough to say that I really liked everything I watched...with one notable exception.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - This was my most-anticipated show this season, and it absolutely lived up to the hype for me! Love, love, love it! The animation may be a little slicker and the guys may no longer have those ridiculously broad shoulders that were so popular in the 90s, but otherwise it doesn't feel like any real time has passed between this sequel and the original series. They even got most (maybe all?) of the original cast back and reused a lot of the same background music from the first series. My only real complaints so far are that the actual cardcapturing hasn't been very exciting and I have no idea if the second movie is supposed to be canon or not. (The show itself can't even seem to make up it's mind!) Those are pretty minor things, though.

School Babysitters - Oh, my, word, this series was seriously the CUTEST! I could have lived without the older brother who hits his little brother, slap-stick-style, and the kinda-creepy teenage boy who gets nosebleeds because he thinks babies and toddlers are just so cute, but if you ignore those two problematic things, this show is just full of the WAFF-y goodness.

IDOLiSH7 - I've watched a few idol shows over the past couple of years. They were usually pretty good, but nothing memorable. This show, however, I could actually see myself buying to rewatch if it continues to be this good. It's genuinely funny and touching, the music is great, and the guys' personalities are developed enough that I can actually remember their names (most of the time)!

The Ancient Magus' Bride - I don't think this second half was quite as strong as the first half, but I still really liked it...with the caveat that I have yet to watch the final episode. I've heard that a lot of people feel like the ending was rushed since the anime caught up with the manga and they had to do an anime-original ending. Unless it's, like, Kare Kano bad, though, I don't think it'll ruin how I feel about the rest of the series, which was great.

March comes in like a lion - March's pacing has always been a little disjointed, but I think the fact that the show went on break for a couple of weeks while the Olympics were airing made it feel more disjointed than usual. Still good, though.

DARLING in the FRANXX - This was not on my original to-watch list, but it sounded kinda interesting when I checked out ANN's Preview Guide, especially since mecha series aren't very popular nowadays. It's pretty good so far, but I don't see it becoming, like, Evangelion/Rah-Xephon/Full Metal Panic-good. We'll see.

Maerchen Maedchen - This series... Well, I'm not sure what really happened. The production was apparently very troubled, leading them to take two weeks off to improve the quality of episode 9. That meant they had to end with episode 10, even though it was meant to be a twelve-episode series. I haven't actually watched those two episodes yet, but just knowing what happened, that can't be good. It wasn't even that great in the first place, despite having quite an interesting premise (magical girls based on fairy/folk tales). What a shame.

As for next season, I have sooooo much I want to watch, I'm not sure I can fit everything in my schedule! I'll definitely be watching the continuations of CCS: Clear Card, IDOLiSH7, and FRANXX, as well as new seasons of My Hero Academia and Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory (*squee* finally more FMP!). Brand new shows I might check out if available for free streaming are: Tada Never Falls in Love, Comic Girls, Devils' Line, Piano no Mori and Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku. I want to watch Lupin the Third: Part 5 and Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online, but I think I may wait and see if they're picked up by Toonami first since Toonami aired previous seasons of those shows. I'm on the fence on Steins;Gate Zero... I liked the original series well enough, I guess, but I'm not in any rush to watch more. I'll probably save it to watch at a later date.

One series I WON'T be watching, despite my usual compulsion to complete a series, is Tokyo Ghoul:re. I forced myself to watch the first two seasons that aired on Toonami and hated almost every minute of it, so, nope, not going to torture myself any longer. Gonna cut my losses and stay far, far away!

Current Mood: sleepy

After a pretty blah summer season, I'm happy to report that the fall season was much, much better!

Recovery of a MMO Junkie - This series wasn't even originally on my radar, but after reading the reviews of the first episode during ANN's Preview Guide, I thought it sounded interesting and gave it a shot. I'm glad I did! It was nice to see an anime romance centered on people around my age for once, and it was just really cute and funny. Loved it!

Anime Gataris - This is more along the lines of what I wanted last season's Gamers to be - a show about a geeky subject that focuses almost completely on said geeky subject, instead of romance. And the last few episodes? Crazy, but in the best meta way.

The Ancient Magus' Bride - I've always been a little tempted to pick up the manga for this series, but I have to admit that the initial premise turned me off a bit. Thankfully, the anime allowed me to check the story out for free. Even though the premise is a bit problematic, it is actually handled pretty well, and I love how well-researched all the obscure magic stuff is. Also, some of the scenes were just stunning. Continuing into next season.

March comes in like a lion - This new season was much stronger than the previous seasons. I liked that it didn't focus so much on shogi tournaments and more on the characters, especially the sisters. Hina's bullying story, in particular, was quite moving. I think this is continuing?

Kino's Journey - the Beautiful World - - I watched the original series that came out about ten? fifteen? years ago and remember really liking it, but this sequel/remake was just okay. The Kino in this series is almost a different character than the one I remember.

Elegant Yokai Apartment Life - I really wish this series had focused more on the title "Apartment Life" instead of lead character Yushi's boring school life. Honestly, I'm not sure what the point of having him live with a bunch of yokai and learn magic was when it rarely affected the plot...

Love is like a Cocktail - It was cute. Basically all you can say about a three minute short!

Black Clover - I was watching the Japanese version, but when Toonami announced they were going to air the dub, I decided to stop and switch over to the English version, so I'm way behind. Toonami hasn't even gotten to the episode where I left off yet. Still, considering how incredibly ANNOYING Asta's seiyuu's voice is, I don't mind. The episodes I did see were pretty good, though.

And my ranking of My Top Ten Anime of 2017:

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2nd season)
Sakura Quest
Recovery of a MMO Junkie
Natsume's Book of Friends 6 - I actually didn't watch this when it was simulcast because I needed to watch all the previous seasons first, but I really loved the whole series.
Anime Gataris
The Ancient Magus' Bride
Tsudere Children - This was another show I didn't watch when it was first airing, but checked out later due to good buzz.
My Hero Academia (2nd season)
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2nd season)
Love Tyrant
March comes in like a lion

Not much has really caught my eye for next season other than Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card. (So, so excited! And I just bought the first manga volume, too.) Other possible picks are: Gakuen Babysitters, Marchen Madchen, and Takunomi. Maybe Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls since I watched the first season way back when.

Happy New Year!

Current Mood: cold

Some of this stuff I bought with the eBay gift cards I got for Christmas; others I bought before Christmas but didn't get the chance to squee about.

First off, a supercute wedding plush set from Korea! Got a great deal on them. Just a couple of weeks before I bought this set, another set sold for about $75. I ended up only paying $25!

( Lots of pics )

Current Mood: dorky

CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura Manga Gets New Anime Project

Ooh, cool! Not only are we getting a new manga sequel series, we're getting a new anime, too. No word yet if it's going to be a series, an OAV, or a movie, or if it's going to be based on the original series, the sequel series, or even an anime reboot of the original manga a la Sailor Moon Crystal and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, but whatever it turns out to be, I'm really looking forward to it.

Current Mood: curious

Y'all might be tired of me showing off my collection, but I can't help it! And I actually got some non-Sailor Moon items for a change.

First off, a rather timely purchase with the announcement that CLAMP is planning a new Card Captor Sakura short story -- two absolutely ADORABLE Sakura figures. The slightly larger one on the left is a Girls Memories figure I bought from the Crunchyroll store, while the smaller one was another one of those annoying Petit Chara blind boxes that I found at Books-a-Million, but this time I didn't mind since of the six figures in the series, five of them were Sakura and all of them were just the cutest, so I was pretty much guaranteed to get one that I wanted. (And I wouldn't have minded the Tomoyo figure either.)

Next up is a purchase I'm REALLY excited about, since there's not a whole lot of Kaleido Star merchandise out there, and even less available from American sellers on eBay, so she was a very lucky find. *squeals* Granted, it's kind of a strange pose (I think it's supposed to be a pose from her famous Golden Phoenix act), and the base is rather scratched up, and I'm not sure why they decided to color the top of the costume blue when the one she wore in the actual show was red...but it's LAYLA FREAKIN' HAMILTON!

( Sailor Moon merchandise )

I have a couple more things coming in soon, but I'll wait to gush about them when they get here!

Current Mood: excited

First off, a reminder that those Petit Chara Sailor Moon and Mercury figures are still available for sale, although if I don't get any takers here by the end of the month, I'm thinking about putting them up for sale on eBay. I should also point out that the two extra Moons I have for sale are actually slightly different than the put-together one that I'm keeping in that the ones for sale have both their eyes opened (like the pic on the box). Same for Mercury: one is the same as the put-together one I'm keeping, but the other has both her eyes closed, with blush stickers on her cheeks.

Now, onto this 30 Day Anime Challenge I found on Tumblr, which is a little different than the one I did previous. Gonna do it all at once, though, just 'cause.

( Meme! )

Current Mood: lethargic

Found this fun manga meme at a review blog I like to read, so I'd thought I'd bring it over here.

1. What was your first manga? Sailor Moon

2. What is your most expensive manga? Assuming that we're talking about individual books and not boxsets, then probably the Azumanga Daioh omnibus (from Yen Press). The retail price was $24.99 according to the cover, although I know I didn't pay that much. Still, I imagine I still paid around the $15-20 range for it.

3. What was your least expensive manga? The manga I got for free as gifts, obviously! But sticking to manga I paid for myself... Well, I actually bought the two volumes of The Flower of the Deep Sleep off the Amazon Marketplace for only a cent each, but I still had to pay shipping on them, so they ended up being $4 each. Still a pretty good deal, though not amazing. Hmm, I vaguely recall paying a dollar (or maybe $2?) for a manga on clearance at Half-Price Books, but I'm not sure which one it was... Call Me Princess, maybe? Yeah, I think that was the one. It's something I probably would have never picked up unless it was that cheap. (Just checked the price tag that's still on it -- $2.49, but I still don't think I paid that much for it.)

4. What is the most boring manga you own? Miyuki-chan in Wonderland -- pure fanservice, and not even that sexy. Still, it was CLAMP, so...

5. What is your favorite manga series? Fruits Basket! Although if NANA was ever completed, it might knock FB from the top spot.

6. What is the most relatable manga series you own? Kimi ni Todoke, definitely. I identify with Sawako like "woah"!

7. What is one manga you own that is based off an anime? As in the anime came first? Umm... I don't think I have any. I guess the closest would be Story of Saiunkoku, since the anime and manga were both based off the original light novels. (And I'm pretty sure the anime came before the manga.)

8. What is your rarest manga? Well, I don't know about rare in the general sense, but one of the most difficult volumes for me to find was Name of the Flower, Vol. 1, since I had the misfortune to order it right before CMX went out of business. I searched for around eight months for a decently priced used copy. And I still don't own print copies of Red River Vols. 15-17, but I have digital copies, which is good enough. (If I found those print copies for really cheap, I'd probably pick them up, but I'm not going out of my way to search for them.)

9. What is the most reprinted manga you own? I have no idea, really. I guess if you interpret the question to mean which had the most editions, then Sailor Moon might count: chapters in Mixxzine/Smile, Chix Comics editions (the single-chapter floppies), the Tokyopop graphic novels, and the new Kodansha graphic novels. (And I actually own most of those.)

10. What is the most popular manga you own? I imagine it's either Fruits Basket or Death Note, depending on which demographic you're talking about.

11. What is the most damaged manga you own? No question, the Tokyopop GNs of Sailor Moon. I've got pages falling out of a few of those.

12. Which manga has the most amazing art? I'd say A Bride's Story has the most amazing art in a technical sense -- Emma from the same mangaka is really beautiful as well -- but my heart really lies with Yuu Watase's style. CLAMP is no slouch themselves, especially when Mokona's the lead artist, like in Card Captor Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth.

13. What is the oldest published manga that you own? Well, I know that Sailor Moon was the first manga I bought, but I don't think it's the oldest published, especially if going by when it first came out in Japan. Looking at the dates at MyAnimeList and Anime News Network, it looks like the oldest would be Let's Stay Together Forever, which came out in 1989. (Have no clue about American publishing dates.)

14. What is the newest published manga you own? Looks like Vol. 3 of Yukarism. (This time, talking about what was released in the U.S.)

15. What are some of the most recent manga you have purchased? The aforementioned Yukarism Vol. 3, Meteor Prince Vols. 1 & 2, Utsabora omnibus, Skip-Beat! omnibus (with Vols. 31-33), Arata: The Legend Vols. 21 & 22... Those are the ones that I remember off the top of my head.

I tag anybody who wants to do this!

Current Mood: geeky

Inspired by The Mike Toole Show column at Anime News Network, I thought it would be fun to make my own "Anime Alphabet", listing the titles of my favorite series I've watched for each letter of the alphabet. Feel free to make your own list if you'd like!

A Aria

B Black Butler (I briefly considered going with Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon instead, but since I had a few B English titles to choose from, it seemed unfair to go with a Japanese title for this letter.)

C Card Captor Sakura

D Death Note

E Evangelion

F Fruits Basket

G Ghost Hunt (I debated about putting Ginban Kaleidoscope here instead, but I decided to stick with licensed series.)

H Hare + Guu

I I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

J Jigoku Shoujo (a.k.a Hell Girl -- I had to cheat a little with this one and use the Japanese title to find one that started with a J.)

K Kaleido Star

L Le Chevalier D'eon

M Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

N NANA

O Ouran High School Host Club

P Princess Nine

Q ... Yeah, I've got nothing. If I included manga, I could use Queen of Ragtonia... Oh, apparently when you translate the Japanese title of Excel Saga (Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel Saga), you get Quack Experimental Animation Excel Saga, so that'll work for Q in a convoluted way!

R Rah-Xephon

S Super GALS

T Tiger & Bunny

U Ultramaniac

V Vampire Knight

W Witch Hunter Robin

X X (as in the CLAMP series)

Y Yamada's First Time (but I also considered Yona of the Dawn, only excluding it because it's not complete at this moment)

Z Zero no Tsukaima (a.k.a Familiar of Zero -- Again, as with J, I had to look at the Japanese titles to find one that started with Z.)

Current Mood: cold

Yesterday I finished watching the anime of Say "I love you" to determine if I wanted to take advantage of the current sale Right Stuf has on the DVD set. My final decision was that it was good, but pretty faithful to the manga which I'm already collecting, so there wasn't much point in buying the anime as well. That's not the point of this post, though. The thing I really want to mention is the opening theme. The first time I heard it, I thought it sounded like the singer/songwriter behind some of the songs in two of my favorite anime Fruits Basket and Princess Tutu, Ritsuko Okazaki, but I kinda brushed that idea to the side, since I knew that Ms. Okazaki had died about ten years ago and most anime OPs nowadays are intended to sell new songs. Well, curiosity finally got the best of me, so I looked up who sang the Say "I Love You" OP and it turns out it was a Ritsuko Okazaki song!

Even better, that's not even the only Japanese singer I recognized yesterday. Every year, I try to watch all the anime Christmas episodes I own (don't think I'll accomplish that this year, though), so last night I watched the Kobato. Christmas episode, followed by the two Card Captor Sakura episodes. It struck me that the singer of the Kobato. OP and the third CCS OP sounded similar, and, yes, it turns out they're both Maaya Sakamoto songs.

It's weird, since I usually don't pay that much attention to OPs/EDs, yet I was able to randomly identify two different singers on the same day. Granted, Ritsuko Okazaki had a very distinct style and voice, so it wasn't that had to tell it was her, but, still, I'm pretty proud of myself.

Current Mood: pleased

Man, today I'm especially glad Viz is rereleasing the original Sailor Moon anime. I just got finished with my annual Christmastime rewatch of the S movie, which I only have on video, and I think the tape is beginning to go bad. When I first put it in, the picture was absolutely horrible, jumping everywhere and making it very difficult to watch. I finally remembered to fiddle with the tracking, which helped for a little while, but near the end it started going wonky again. Ugh, I seriously cannot wait until I can finally replace it with a new DVD! I wonder how Viz is planning to release the movies... All three of them sold together in a boxset, released after the rest of the series? Sold individually, around the same time as the respective season is released? Or maybe they'll include them as an extra in the half-season boxsets? It sure would be nice if I could get a new copy of the movie before next Christmas. I don't think I can stand rewatching that tape again next year... And now I'm rethinking my decision not to replace my Card Captor Sakura collection (combo of VHS and DVD) with the new rerelease. It probably would be best to replace those tapes, too. I was hoping Right Stuf would include the new boxsets in the holiday sale, but no such luck, so I guess I'll just have to keep my eye out for a decent price (or hope they're under the Christmas tree).

(FYI: If you haven't bought the first SM boxset yet (or maybe want to buy another set to give as a gift), the Blu-Ray/DVD combo set is included in the Right Stuf sale and going for only $49.99, which is a pretty great deal.)

Current Mood: annoyed

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-05-01/cardcaptor-sakura-complete-series-out-august-5th

NIS America is rereleasing Card Captor Sakura in a premium Blu-Ray collection and in three standard DVD collections! I'm on the fence on whether or not I want to double-dip on CCS. On one hand, I would love to have the entire series on DVD -- my current collection is a mix of DVDs and videos -- but on the other, $180 (total for all three of the DVD sets) is a lot to pay for a series I already own. Maybe if I had a Blu-Ray player, I would splurge on the $250 premium Blu-Ray set since it also comes with a spiffy looking hardcover artbook, but I don't know... Maybe I can ask for it for Christmas? In any case, this is awesome news for newer anime fans who have never had the chance to experience CCS! (Now, somebody just needs to rerelease the original Sailor Moon anime. I wouldn't hesitate to double-dip on that!)

Current Mood: sick

Chapter 19 of Melting Ice has been posted at the usual places. I've also begun posting Against The Rules over at AO3. For some reason, I completely forgot about it when I posted the rest of my stories there!

Another double dose of meme questions:

23. Best manga/anime villain

He may be the protagonist of his series, but I gotta say the best manga and anime villain in my opinion is Light Yagami from Death Note. He utterly fascinates me with his belief that he is on the side of justice, despite the fact that he becomes one of the most prolific serial killers in history. That dichotomy within him makes him an interesting character to observe and puts him a cut above most other villains, who tend to be evil just because. Plus, he's definitely smarter than the majority of anime/manga villains out there!

24. The best long manga/anime series

Manga - Easy, a tie between Fruits Basket and NANA. (Criteria: Over twenty volumes.)

Anime - Kaleido Star, of course! Honorable mentions go to Super GALS, Card Captor Sakura, Fushigi Yuugi, Sailor Moon, Fullmetal Alchemist (both series), and Code Geass. (Criteria: Over fifty episodes.)

Current Mood: full

How did I get sucked into watching the Summer Olympics? I was only going to watch the opening ceremony. I don't care about the summer events; I prefer the winter events. Well, okay, there was a brief time when I was younger when I had a mild interest in gymnastics, but it didn't stick for very long. I haven't watched a competition in years. Yet here I am, glued to the TV set every night to watch gymnastics and swimming! I'm blaming my brother-in-law. :P When we visited last weekend, practically all we did was watch the Olympics since my sister was so busy with her schoolwork.

Oh, well.

I'll get back to the 30 Day meme tomorrow, but for today, I'm taking a break to do another meme that I snagged from s samuraiter

( Fanfiction Meme )

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10. A manga/anime that makes you fluffy and happy when you read/watch it

All the way through? I can think of plenty of series that have a lot of happy, fluffy episodes (Card Captor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Ouran High School Host Club, Ultramaniac, and A Little Snow Fairy Sugar immediately come to mind), but they have their more drama-filled episodes as well. Hmm, maybe Aria? It's been a while since I watched it, though, so I can't really remember. Either that, or Azumanga Daioh. Those two are probably the closest to being pure fluffy happiness.

Current Mood: blah

Getting a little behind on this thing...

06. Your favorite character

Helios from Sailor Moon, obviously. Did anybody expect me to say otherwise? :P But that's kind of a boring answer to this question, so how about naming my top five male (excluding Helios) and female characters from anime and manga? (In no particular order)

Male Characters
Shigure (Fruits Basket)
Yasu (NANA)
Touya (Card Captor Sakura)
Harima (School Rumble)
Matsuda (Death Note)

Female Characters
Sora (Kaleido Star)
Ran (Super GALS)
Shurei (Story of Saiunkoku)
Yuko (xxxHolic/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Balsa (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit)

( Days To Come )

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Snatched from

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( It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas )

Current Mood: good

Guys, I just the best deal on a Christmas gift for my mother. I knew she wanted season five of Supernatural, so I decided to see if there was a good deal on it at Amazon. Well, I'll say there was! The seasons 1-6 boxsets are going for $12.99 each. With a price that fantastic, not only did I snatch up the season five she asked for, I picked up season six for her as well. She's gonna be thrilled.

And apparently I'm getting a really amazing gift this year from my parents, so now I'm totally curious about what it is. I know Mom was talking about getting me a new TV a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think that's it, since none of the packages she brought in from shopping were big enough. I don't really need a new one, anyway. My current TV works just fine; I have no complaints with it. Maybe a Blu-Ray player? But again, I don't really need one at the moment. As long as they keep putting anime out on DVDs, I'm happy. (I didn't make the switch from VHS to DVD until Pioneer stopped releasing Card Captor Sakura and Sailor Moon SuperS on videotape, and I imagine it's going to be the same with Blu-Ray.) A gaming system would be pretty cool, I suppose, but what I'm really hoping for is a MP3 player, especially since I recently read an article that said that they're planning to stop producing CDs by 2013. I mentioned that to Mom last weekend, so hopefully she got the hint. *crosses fingers*

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