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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-07-24 03:16 pm
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Bookstore run at lunch...

...spoils of war:

Bleach 20
D.Gray-man 6
Hellsing 8
And Immortal Rain 1, solely because the description of it in the crack!poll was too crackalicious to pass up.

Off to a meeting where the topic is: budget. Joy.
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[personal profile] oyceter 2007-07-24 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Bwahahaha! Immortal Rain!

Ok, it's not actually very good, but it has a cross nailed on the immortal hero's chest and a head in a jar!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Head in a jar! I hit that point and thought of you! XDD

[identity profile] heyoka.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
DGM 6? Crap. Hmm, hopefully Viz will have it at their booth this weekend.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I read it last night and was all "Uhhhh...wtf?"

[identity profile] heyoka.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually read the scanlations a while back, so I'm pretty much prepared. But yeah, the series hits a major "WTF" slide and...still hasn't come out of it, that I can tell. @_@

[identity profile] lady-ganesh.livejournal.com 2007-07-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, I think I remember that. Oddly enough, I dreamt I went to Borders looking for this last night, and it wasn't there.

[identity profile] eldanis.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, Immortal Rain! Couldn't help commenting, since it's one of my all-time favorite series. Which maybe makes me pathetic, but I'm okay with that. Just how pathetic? The most recent volume was on the very top of my list of manga-related things to look for when I was in Japan - it even came before All Things Minekura. No joke.

My recommendation: even if you aren't terribly impressed by the first volume, at least flip through volume two if you get a chance. For some reason, the art gets WAAAY better after the first volume. I think maybe it takes Ozaki-sensei a few chapters to get the hang of her character designs or something. Once she does, though, I think it's beautiful - the characters and linework have a sort of sweet grace about them.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-07-25 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:D OK, will give at least volume 2 a chance. Yeah, the art was striking me as more on the order of a first-time series, but the notes said it was the mangaka's third series, so I was wondering a bit about that.
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