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Day 26

Dark Kingdom, Black Moon Clan, Death Busters, Dead Moon Circus, or Shadow Galactica?

Dead Moon Circus, definitely! I love Nehelenia, the Amazon Trio, and the Amazoness Quartet -- Zirconia's kind of "eh" -- and the development of the villains is one thing SuperS season unquestionably did better than the Dream arc of the manga. In my opinion, they're the best villains in the entire series.

Days To Come )
Now, onto the sad news: the American publishing division of Tokyopop is shutting down at the end of next month, meaning no more manga from them. They weren't my favorite company, but I was in the middle of collecting a couple of series from them: Suppli and The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to finish them, but I'm actually not as upset as I thought I would be. Suppli came out on such a random schedule that it was almost like it had been dropped anyway, and Secret Notes is so episodic that even though it would be great to get the last volume, it's not necessary. (That reminds me that I still need to get the second volume. Hopefully it's as episodic as the first!) Still, I have my fingers crossed that somebody else might rescue their licenses.
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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. ^_^

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Yes, I did end up splurging again on manga, just like I predicted. *laughs* But it was a guilt free splurge. My parents' tax refund came in, so Mom gave me and my sister fifty dollars to spend today at the mall. That meant I didn't have to dip into my savings after all. Yay!

The loot:  

Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden Vol. 6
NANA Vol. 9
Suppli Vol. 2
xxxHolic Vol. 11
Yurara Vol. 4

That was pretty much everything on my list, except for the one volume I really wanted: the last Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound. :( Oh, well, I'll get it eventually.

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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.

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