I got a box full of manga on ebay. It was a mystery box! I was so so excited, because I didn’t know what was going to be in it, so it was a good surprise! Well, I knew it had some RK and some FY because that was all that showed in the picture on the auction, but that was enough to make me buy it. Now I will say what was in it.
o 10 (ten) RK tankouban. TEN OF THEM. Only three of which I already had. Even one that I didn’t have would have been worth buying the box for, so you can well imagine how pleased I was wis this.
o Several FY tankouban. Don’t remember how many. Six, I think. I gave them to Fiddychan immediately.
o 2 Hime-chan no Ribbon tankouban. Neither is #1, so I expect, with my limited Japanese, not to understand anything :D
o One Good Morning Call tankouban. I have never even heard of this manga before. Again, no volume #1.
o 2 Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne tankouban. Another title I’ve never heard of. Volume 4’s totally got a catboi on the front. Yum. Hopefully the cute catboi will be present, because again I did not get any volume #1.
o 2 Time Stranger Kyoko tankouban. She looks hot on the cover of one and totally ditzy on the cover of the other. Assuming it’s the same character. Woo! There is a volume #1 here!
o A single volume of the Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa movie-manga. No, not the real manga, but a color comic that is just shots from the movie wis talk bubbles added. It’s well done, but, really, how pointless!
o Two western-release volumes of Shaman King. As one of them is #1, I read it yesterday before I went to bed. OMG SO CUTE. And also so so desperately slashy. I mean, seriously, those guys waited for each other for 600 years and I’m supposed to think they were just friends?? Plus Amidamaru’s “become attached” to You, whom he goes inside (I don’t care that You’s only 13), and he’s an incredibly hot long-haired genki samurai! I will get more of this title immediately (the other volume is #3)
o One volume of Saiyuki. It’s #4, so of course I’m not going to read it yet. But I suppose it really is about time to figure out what everyone’s talking about wis this series, so I’ll pick up the first volume next time I’m at Media Play. It does look like teh hotness from the items on the cover.
o One volume of Naruto. Suppose I’ll catch up to this one too (it’s #3). All in all, the person who sold me this stuff has done an excellent job ensuring I will buy more manga. Mayhap it is a cleverly disguised corporate ploy? Hmmm.
o 6 Shounen Jump magazine items. These are disgustingly westernish, but I will still look through them as much as I can stand.
And the grand total price? $19.98 I am so so pleased wis this. So much excitement and joy upon me. So much new manga!!! The tankouban will take me ages to read, but a million love for furigana so I actually can read them. *dances* OK, enough of this post.
omg, all that for less that $20? holy crap that’s a good deal! (unless it is a ploy, but then as long as you’re happy, who cares?) XP
Hey, even if it were a ploy, I would not complain… I’m always going to be buying more manga anyway, so cheap previews to give me direction are pleasing things. But, yeah, it was a good deal!! ^________^
direction is always a good thing, especially when its cheap! i just end up going ‘oh, that looks neat.’ but then again, i’ve only just branched out beyond rk. ^_^
Oof. That’ll put a damper on your afternoon.
Poor Heero.
…I wish they’d work things out! XD
I forget..who’s the floppy one?
They’ll be OK eventually, I promise. Moments like this can only make them stronger.
“The obnoxious floppy guy” is Jar-Jar Binks, of course :D I personally rather liked him, but I’m well aware that the rest of the world disagrees with me, heh.
d^_^b Super.
Ohhhh..right! I thought he was funny. Not too annoying.
And he looked pretty good on the council. All grown up. ;p
Loved the way Duo described Anakin! It is so true!
Wish Trowa would come out and say how he feels about both Quatre and Duo to Duo. Maybe it would make things easier with Heero and Duo. ^_^
but if trowa did that, where would the *angst* be?! XD
Seriously, what was wrong with Anakin? I had a huge crush on Vader when I was younger, and then it was utterly spoilt further on down the road.
I envy Heero getting to watch all of Star Wars with Duo. I bet it would be so much fun to see the whole thing through Duo’s eyes. :-)
It’s interesting that Heero’s feelings about Trowa have started to change. I guess we have to thank Quatre for that!
I think I would also like to watch all the Star Wars movies with Duo, if only to hear what he would have to say about anything and everything in them XD Oh, Duo… why are you so adorable…
*ahem, assumes Wufei’s voice to address a very serious infarction)
how could Heero have put those train wrecks Lucas likes to call “prequels” before the sublimely, timeless wonderfulness that is the original trilogy? (which is still plenty flawed) *inner starwars fan dies*
Aside from that… whoa! I wish they’d gotten more in depth over the “your mother is a bitch” thing, especially from Duo. I don’t feel like his reasons for name calling got the justice they deserved (and, this is a horrible generalization but..most people can probably identify with Heero anyway, so the “they’re just people” sentiment could be elaborated more than “my bad” Duo probably looks at a lot of things differently than most people with his up bringing, yeah?)
I also thought it smacked (in a good way) of typical man “well, things were said and we sort of cleared the air without really doing/saying much” (or just typical “family problem”… in my experience anyway) But I’m also very pleased that Heero and Duo didn’t let it turn into something truly ugly, so that’s good (and I’m dying to see Heero’s mom’s reaction to Duo escorting Heero to Relena’s wedding :DDD)
I saw Star Wars first when I was 14 (for my 14th birthday, actually), and became a raging fan for the next four and a half years. It wasn’t a long period of time, but it was intense; I’m still trying to get rid of some of the eight million pieces of Star Wars junk I collected back then.
Anyway, yeah, the prequels were so bad. If Wufei were to venture that opinion, I would have to agree with him. But, then, looking back, I no longer have a terribly high opinion of the original trilogy either XD
Yes, they definitely had a guys’ argument. We’ll get a tiny bit of Duo’s thoughts about it in the next part.
You know I’m liking the fact that they can argue, but because they have to remain close, they were able to clearly express their feelings and not dwell in an argument. As for the small bits of throwing us off about Duo’s feeling for Trowa, bad, bad Kuroiyousei. LOL! Great chapter. *^_^*
Yeah, a little argument really isn’t all that bad for them at this point; it just demonstrates certain things :D Thanks for your comments!
omg this was too funny. But poor Heero having to deal with his mother again. That does really suck. Hopefully both Trowa and Heero get up the nerve to tell Duo what they need to xD Kinda awkward lol
Definitely awkward, especially because of the misconceptions… Heero thinks Trowa isn’t telling Duo that he’s involved with Quatre because Trowa knows Duo is still in love with him, whereas in reality Trowa just feels guilty about being distracted from the whole curse-breaking process by his new relationship… and Duo isn’t asking Trowa about it because he thinks that would amount to teasing and that Trowa isn’t in any condition to be teased right now (even though Quatre teases him all the time). Poor everyone! Well, except Quatre, really XD
Awwwww. Wow, I love the fact that they actually got into an argument!! That’s great, it shows that they’re not just glossing over some of the hard stuff. And now I’m realizing that as an orphan and also as a person relegated to a “child’s toy” – Duo must have a very odd point of view about parents. *nod* And go Heero, for standing up for his mom even though she drives him crazy.
Also – I can totally see Heero and Trowa actually becoming friends once this whole thing is all over. You know, assuming some people actually realize what “communication” means. *laugh* And Trowa’s horrified reaction to watching the movies made me giggle like crazy.
I thought it was fairly important for them to have this little ‘argument’ for a number of reasons, one of which was, indeed, because tense conversations like this almost always happen in relationships, and I wanted to show how they would deal with such a thing.
And I agree — Heero and Trowa should become good friends eventually. I think they will get along extremely well, in fact. But, yes, some communication has to happen first XD
Trowa is not a movie person, and definitely not a five-movies-in-a-row person, heh.