Sunday, March 28, 2004

Love Hina
Well, I'm at member number 87 right now, so to keep this possible rise of doom going, I'm making another post today. What about, though? Why, perhaps the most splendiforous romantic comedy manga series in existence.

The first thing that triggered my obtaining the entire Love Hina series was a little chat with Syk3 yesterday. He was telling me a little bit about the series, and his descriptions sparked a bit of interest. I have read a little bit of the first volume of A.I. Love You (From the same mangaka as Love Hina), and the art intrigued me (I'm telling you, dammit, it's the character design), so I decided to dust off my old Bit Torrent program and find the complete works of the Love Hina manga series.

It took me.. Five hours to download the entire series, I think. My parents were suspicious when I left the computer on for a few hours with a little sign that says "Stuff his happening. Touch computer and die". I wonder why.

Anyway, the download was complete by 11 last night, and I got up to page.. Eighty of the first volume, I think, before I went to watch the last bit of Saturday Night Live.

I'm up to page 110 of the first volume now, so I still have quite a ways to go before I could even try and make a review of this series. Let's save it for another day, alright?

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Also, I've been thinking about Anime Expo lately. All I saw last year (My very first convention outside of that crappy car one my dad dragged us all to) was the trade room. Of course, some of the coolest stuff was in there, like the Bandai preview movies and the Viz manga reading corner/room/booth, but there's so much more to do at AX.

Panels is the main other thing, really. At AX 2004 they're going to have quite the gaggle of guests there. Rikdo Koshi, creator of Excel Saga, is going to be there, as will the character design person from Lain and the story board directors of the YuGiOh and One Piece anime.. But Yuki Kajiura, the mind behind the .hack//SIGN and Noir soundtracks, is going to be there again. Now, if you haven't heard this from me before, Yuki Kajiura was the guest of honor at Anime Expo 2003, and I was really looking forward to the Kajiura concert- It was her first solo concert as well as her first concert in the United States.

But I woke up too late to get there in time to see it.

Anyway, my second cousin is getting married the Saturday of the expo. This is bad, as most of the good stuff happens on Saturday, and if we're invited to the rehearsal dinner I won't be able to make Friday either. This leaves Sunday, all by itself, unless it's also open on Monday.. Which they did last year.

There's so much stuff to do there, yet my parents absolutely won't let me out of their site. Not to mention my little brother is going to want to be there too, and even if my mom does let me go somewhere, it'll have to be with him.

I'm done complaining for now.
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