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Money to Manga
Dec. 15th, 2004 09:57 pmHad a birthday party with my family on Sunday, which involved occasionally interacting with my relatives, eating, and getting money and plastic money only good at one store.
(I've never figured out what the point of gift cards is. Give me the ten bucks and the money you would've spent on gas. Also the money equivalent of your time. And more money.)
But I digress. I wound up with $75. Yesterday I converted the money into a more useful form.
Manga. Pretty, pretty manga. I stayed at the store for about an hour and a half, checking out as many as I could.
I speed-read a horror manga called Spiral into Horror Uzumaki. The storyline is grotesque, and I know better than to buy that sort of thing, so the only way I'd get to read it would be in a store. Anyway, the stories are decent, although some of them verge on ridiculous (the final story involves a girl's hair turning into huge and rather silly-looking spiral curls) but they all have very disturbing imagery (that particular story ends with the hair sucking one of the girls dry and leaving her detailed corpse suspended by the hair, and a lot of the others were worse). It's quite inventive. The basic premise is that the town is cursed by a shape, the spiral.
The manga I did buy were continuations of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (I'm up to volume 4), Inuyasha (Volume 5) and Angel Sanctuary (Volume 4 - I'm up to the point I read in a scanlation), and...four new series.
Hey, I never claimed to have self-control, okay?
Anyway, the new ones are Cheeky Angel (a nine-year-old boy's wish accidentally gets him turned into a girl, and now, six years later, he's still stuck that way, and so pretty s/he's got every guy at interested. Very cute), Kenshin (a bit less kiddy than the anime), Fruit's Basket, and Kare Kano.
This means I currently have 14 incomplete series (I was going to buy the next volume of Demon Diary, but they only had one and there was a mark on the spine, and they were missing 3rd volume of Vampire Game...)
Anyway - the moral is Manga is Pretty. Go now and make purchases.
(I've never figured out what the point of gift cards is. Give me the ten bucks and the money you would've spent on gas. Also the money equivalent of your time. And more money.)
But I digress. I wound up with $75. Yesterday I converted the money into a more useful form.
Manga. Pretty, pretty manga. I stayed at the store for about an hour and a half, checking out as many as I could.
I speed-read a horror manga called Spiral into Horror Uzumaki. The storyline is grotesque, and I know better than to buy that sort of thing, so the only way I'd get to read it would be in a store. Anyway, the stories are decent, although some of them verge on ridiculous (the final story involves a girl's hair turning into huge and rather silly-looking spiral curls) but they all have very disturbing imagery (that particular story ends with the hair sucking one of the girls dry and leaving her detailed corpse suspended by the hair, and a lot of the others were worse). It's quite inventive. The basic premise is that the town is cursed by a shape, the spiral.
The manga I did buy were continuations of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (I'm up to volume 4), Inuyasha (Volume 5) and Angel Sanctuary (Volume 4 - I'm up to the point I read in a scanlation), and...four new series.
Hey, I never claimed to have self-control, okay?
Anyway, the new ones are Cheeky Angel (a nine-year-old boy's wish accidentally gets him turned into a girl, and now, six years later, he's still stuck that way, and so pretty s/he's got every guy at interested. Very cute), Kenshin (a bit less kiddy than the anime), Fruit's Basket, and Kare Kano.
This means I currently have 14 incomplete series (I was going to buy the next volume of Demon Diary, but they only had one and there was a mark on the spine, and they were missing 3rd volume of Vampire Game...)
Anyway - the moral is Manga is Pretty. Go now and make purchases.
