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Had there been a mod about when I saw it I would have sent them a PM and asked if they'd edit your post. But there wasn't, so the only thing I could do was send you a message and hope that you were online. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Yeah, I ordered a copy of Abenobashi from Play and had them send it to ayase's address. He mentioned a problem with Play accepting his card. He's sending a cheque as payment, though, so I haven't actually bought anything. I would do the same for you if one day Play decided that your card was no good :P

I'm sure you'll enjoy Dexter, being a fan of Death Note and all. It's a strange feeling, actually rooting for a serial killer who really enjoys his work...

Okay, I'm going to sit down and watch some Kare Kano. The last couple of episodes have annoyed me, what with the shift of focus away from the main couple and the ridiculous recaps at the start of every episode. If it doesn't improve it''s getting dropped.

Oh, and I keep forgetting to mention that I already own a copy of Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms. Bought it from TBD a while back. Thanks for the link, though.

Here I am again! Played Tales of Vesperia for an hour and now I'm back staring at my monitor. Oh well. On the plus side, I noticed your post at AUKN and had a look around for the Second Spin promotional code you used. I found it and then I ordered Devil Lady. So thanks... I guess :P

But seriously, I can't order anything else for at least a couple of weeks unless I'm spending Paypal funds. I have enough anime and games to last me months, so it's just a case of exercising some common sense and willpower. Don't you have online access to your card transactions? I check every couple of days to make sure there's no suspicious activity on my account, and also to keep track of how much I'm spending.

Planetes. Well, as I say, it does become less episodic and much more dramatic. I do agree with you about Tanabe; her sreechy idealism is annoying and almost resulted in me dropping the series. Everything else I liked. It's such a change of pace from most other anime with its adult characters and more subdued approach to storytelling.

Dexter is some way above Eastenders in terms of quality :P I'm not into American TV either, but Dexter is unlike anything else I've ever seen - it's both compelling and disturbing. The acting, particularly Michael C. Hall in the title role, and direction are top notch. The first two series are out on DVD and you should be able to pick them up for around £15.

You've been spending a scary amount of money on manga. Everytime you post on AUKN about your latest purchase I wince a little. Of course, my cash is spread more evenly across various types of entertainment.

Speaking of which, yesterday I ordered Tales of Vesperia on a whim. Let's hope it doesn't fall apart at the half way point like Tales of the Abyss. Now that I think about it, actually, the whole game wasn't that good at all. Luke was okay at first but was soon pussywhipped by the other characters, of whom only Jade was interesting. And I never could work out that Field of Fonon bollocks.

Uh, okay, enough of that. I bought Sword of the Stranger because I like buying stuff. I don't mind paying extra for theatrical quality anime and it's good to support the producers and distributors. If I enjoy the film I can always download the HD version and watch it on my tiny 4:3 monitor. If I REALLY enjoy it I might have a total spaz attack and order a Blu-Ray player... but that probably won't happen.

You could always order the first Eureka Seven set from DVD Pacific. With the cheapest shipping it comes to around £20, and the DVDs themselves are under the customs threshold. It is annoying, though, I'll give you that. Me, I'm happy with my singles and artboxes -- they really are quite sexy. Also got two t-shirts, two double CD soundtracks, and volumes 1 and 5 of the manga.

E7 is actually pretty good. It's kind of like what I expected (or hoped) Gurren Lagann to be, with more characterization and quiet moments to counterbalance the action. And Talho is fucking hot. Need to watch some more.

Heh, not exactly "busy", no. I have been trying to finish a DS adventure game called Lux-Pain. It goes on and on and on. But by the time it started to bore the shit out of me I'd already invested ten hours, so I have to see it through. I don't finish enough games. That said, I have managed to squeeze in a few episodes of anime.

Air is wildly popular because fanboys and girls (but mostly boys) spooge all over Kyoto Animation's adaptations of Key visual novels. Lots of cute girls and predictable weepy romance gets their juices flowing. I like Kanon but, seriously, it has flaws and is no masterpiece. You'd probably find that boring too.

I have to get ready to go into town (joy) so I'll respond to your other points later. Feel like shit at the moment, tbh.

Receiving the GTO books in that condition must be especially galling after you'd specifically asked about it (assuming, of course, that the question is yours). You could leave a neutral. Thing is, it's reasonably old series now; those books would have been published five or six years ago. Unless you store them in plastic comic book sleeves, as I do many of my old books, some damage and/or yellowing is inevitable. That doesn't excuse the incorrect description, but as you say, he's only made a few quid from the deal.

I'm not sure what you mean by bending edges... I store DVDs on my small Argos units and stack my newer books horizontally on a larger unit (the older ones are in box inside a wardrobe). It's a bit of a mess, actually. If I had a more space I'd have several large shelving units and display all my manga and DVDs. I cannot fathom how you manage to find space for all the books you buy!

As for your other points, I'll get back to you tomorrow. I'm so fucking tired I feel dizzy.

Kannazuki does have all the elements that otaku fanboys wet themselves over. One the one hand I see it as shameless pandering, and on the other something that's not meant to be taken entirely seriously. I'm not sure if the latter excuses the former, though. So the boxed version went for £15? Well, that's about what I paid for it, but when you subtract fees and postage, selling it hardly seems worthwhile. It might, therefore, be a keeper.

Ghost Hunt was originally a light novel series aimed at a female audience. From that a shoujo manga was adapted, then the anime. It's actually one of the things I'm wary about: plain girls swooning over pretty boys annoys me just as much as when the genders are reversed. And the animation is by JC Staff, a studio who churn out so many shows that the quality invariably suffers, and whose designs always look bland to my eyes. But the novels are written by Fuyumi Ono, who also wrote the fabulous Twelve Kingdoms, so we'll see.

I read the second volume of Train Man in about 20 minutes. Either there's not many words on the page or it's incredibly awesome. Probably the former. I also have my doubts about the story's authenticity; the part where the dog attacked the woman's skirt was like something out of a shounen romance. But it's cute and fluffy, a nice piece of esacpism, so I don't mind. And I agree that the lack of resolution lends the whole thing a sense of magic and mystique.

That's what life's about for most people: boredom and misery broken up with the occasional moment of joy. I should think that even the happiest, most positive people feel like crap at times.

I like the sound of Phoenix's packaging, but I'll wait for your opinion on the series before buying. ANN, I recall, weren't that impressed and their views are usually in line with my own.

And that's a great bargain for FMA. You could always sell your duplicates but, seeing as the whole series went for under £30, I don't know how much you'd get for them. I see that you also nabbed four volumes of GTO for under £9. That's not bad considering I've recently bought five volumes at £5-6 each. It's getting on my nerves again, though, with the verbose ramblings of annoying side characters, but hopefully the focus will shift back to Onizuka for the remaining few volumes.

That's the thing, sometimes I am compelled to write something simply because the way I would say it is totally different. Although I hear that I make some anime and manga seem like they descended from heaven and came on earth. My stance is, if I liked it and it deserves the praise, I'll praise the hell out of it. I still don't really think friends come into play. But that's my personal experience, since I only have probably three friends on my lists that read my reviews and two of them don't bother to read unless it's for something they've seen already and the chances of that are slim to none.

I do it myself. Although I don't read reviews on MAL, shockingly. I read a couple, but most of the anime reviews I read would come them THEM anime reviews or official review sites. I do follow some reviewers on MAL though, simply because they usually have intelligent or humorous things to say.

Ah yes, but it seems MAL is also populated by people who don't even bother to look at your profile before adding you. My lovely little Yotsuba&! manga shot should ward them away, but surprisingly, after putting it up, I got three random requests in a row. I don't know if people are messing with me or what.

I am not exactly an affable person; I'll be nice if I want to and I'll be polite always and whatnot, but I am not one of those goody two-shoes on MAL who befriends everyone and gets a lot of sympathisers. So I would prefer to think anyone reading my reviews and liking them are doing so not because of me but because of my words.

Haha, my posts on the forums have been:

- short
- stupid
- pointless

I go there for fun. There is part of me that is intensely silly and annoying and I set that part of me free on the forums. A lot of people think I'm an idiot there, but I don't mind, since if they took a minute to look at who I was, they'd notice I'm not a (complete) fool. It isn't a front. There are just different sides to me, and some rear their heads in certain places more than the others. Besides, I could probably launch into philosophical or intelligent conversation on the forums if I wanted, but that would just bore me. It honestly would!

My problem with what I type is that I rarely think it through. It goes straight from thought to words without any halting in between for examination. I know a lot of people like to be deliberate about what they say, but I am not so frugal with my words and yes, I get a little rambly.

Ooh, I take about twenty minutes to an hour depending on the review I'm writing. Although anyone could probably tell I do a rush jobs on my writing. Well, it's pretty evident in any of my writing: fiction, non-fiction etc. I do things quickly. If I slow down or stop I lose my entire train of thought.

I've been thinking about it and I realise that having someone hate me on MAL isn't a bad thing. It just sucks for that person, since it means they obviously think about me and I am important to their life in some way. It's sort of life-affirming, curiously enough. Nobody has said anything about my reviews yet, though I heard I write terrible recommendations from two people. If anything, if someone told me my reviews sucked, I wouldn't be angry. In fact, I'd probably hound them down to tell me what was wrong so I can improve. I'm always seeking to get better, and reading my reviews from last year to the most recent ones, I'd say I got a hell of a lot better. The old ones are embarrassing to read for me.

Heh, it does make sense that I'm not a hermit. In the time people spend sleeping or eating or watching TV or reading books, I watch anime. When I'm not watching anime, I'm in the mall or I'm in a bar chilling. I kid you not. I live in the mall, like any good girl should. And my social life is most active between the hours of nine p.m. to five in the morning. I watch my anime whenever I have free time beyond that. In fact, I'm supposed to be going to a little island for vacation and I'm turning down the offer. Why? I am not pale enough, so I want to stay indoors and watch some anime and be a bum.

Really now? Then Xinil changed the system, since it happened last year; I ended up, as I said, accidentally voting for one of my reviews and the counter went up. And as I mentioned, I reposted the review. I don't like the idea of even voting for my own review. It seems so cheap. And there's no way I can be smug about my reviews if they aren't part of fair play. Last year, in fact, I think someone was rampaging to get rid of the top 10 reviewers, and my reviews had suddenly got like 20+ helpfuls on them in the span of days. Like, nearly all. I didn't think it was possible, since they were reviews for things people didn't know anything about. I ended up deleting my reviews and reposting them so the counters set back to zero. It doesn't seem like the spammers are back, though now I got a different sort of "fan". The kinds that hit all my reviews with several unhelpfuls.

They probably changed the system now, but I'm not risking clicking "helpful" on one of my own reviews for the experiment. Heheh, dupe accounts. I don't know how anyone finds time or patience to do that. My own account is a pretty busy place :\

Ooh, I see. But TTGL is gar, and men love their... gar.