I ordered WA vol 1 along with the last few Reload books this time; I'm hoping it'll stave off the withdrawal until Volume 7's published :)
Is the anime of Saiyuki worth sticking with? I found the first episode on YouTube and got irritated by Goku's flailing and the "Cities of Gold"-style characters.
Antique Bakery's on my recommendations list - I'll probably get around to it sooner or later, although I'm not keen on the cover art.
I love WK to bits, mainly because it was my first (snerk), but I do feel sorry for the (deep and complicated) characters for being stuck in such a poorly-realised series (I can see Meta!Schuldig bewailing his fate, with a perfect hand:staple:forehead expression). I can see why people choose to ignore various parts of canon. (Speaking of canon, is Side B out in English at all, or is it a matter of hunting down scans online?).
YNM is beautiful, I love both the manga and the anime, and really want to find out what happens In The End (and also more Tatsumi backstory...), but it does seem to be going on with no real end in sight; stories happen and new ones start, and it just isn't moving on. And it does attract teenybopper fangirls; there's a dearth of good fanfic, and I'm not sure why. There's certainly enough holes in the story to fit in some good, meaty backstory, and I can't work out why nobody's written it. Grrr.
I'm downloading your happy!anime right now :) y brain's complaining about anme needing to be Japanese and not set in England or France, but I'm sure I'll get over that :)
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Date: 2007-02-24 11:08 pm (UTC)Is the anime of Saiyuki worth sticking with? I found the first episode on YouTube and got irritated by Goku's flailing and the "Cities of Gold"-style characters.
Antique Bakery's on my recommendations list - I'll probably get around to it sooner or later, although I'm not keen on the cover art.
I love WK to bits, mainly because it was my first (snerk), but I do feel sorry for the (deep and complicated) characters for being stuck in such a poorly-realised series (I can see Meta!Schuldig bewailing his fate, with a perfect hand:staple:forehead expression). I can see why people choose to ignore various parts of canon. (Speaking of canon, is Side B out in English at all, or is it a matter of hunting down scans online?).
YNM is beautiful, I love both the manga and the anime, and really want to find out what happens In The End (and also more Tatsumi backstory...), but it does seem to be going on with no real end in sight; stories happen and new ones start, and it just isn't moving on. And it does attract teenybopper fangirls; there's a dearth of good fanfic, and I'm not sure why. There's certainly enough holes in the story to fit in some good, meaty backstory, and I can't work out why nobody's written it. Grrr.
I'm downloading your happy!anime right now :) y brain's complaining about anme needing to be Japanese and not set in England or France, but I'm sure I'll get over that :)