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Yeah, I tend to have trouble with getting things then taking my sweet time watching them. Back when I simply bought less anime, this was never a problem, so I should totally stop buying so much. Some things are must gets though, like Rose of Versailles, I love older things! And of course I have some things on here to watch too, yikes.

I am much better with manga. For ongoing things, I'm a little less proficient, but with things I got complete sets of, they're usually not waiting for too too long. Few months at most. House of Five Leaves has been waiting 3, oddly enough. For episodic manga, it's no problem, but for shonen and stuff, I haven't read Tegami Bachi since like v7, but I have up to 11 (blame things on sale). I rarely buy ongoing things without having rented them or have them be by Fumi Yoshinaga or Osamu Tezuka, so I'll rent enough to know if I want to collect it or not, so I don't feel I'm ever doing pointless collecting. The only thing I have unread volumes of that I don't feel bad having them be unread is Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga, because it's written entirely in fakespeare and it makes remembering where I was after finishing reading it incredibly difficult, lol, so even if it'll clearly take a while, I'll wait until it's complete and go from the start. It's really good, but damn it takes me 1.5 hours per volume, that's not normal!

I'm trying to watch like, two normal length (26 ep) series a month, that should help my backlog significantly, if I can ever get the hell of the internet. For when I'm being wishywashy, I have all the DVD backlog entries on here, and I use a random number generator to pick one.

Well I've got anime and manga to sell again, thought I'd try you first again!

Manga:
Genju no Seiza 1-3, 5, 6
Punch! 1-3 (complete)
Raiders manhwa 1-9 (complete)

anime:
Kyo Kara Maoh seasons 1 and 2
World of Narue
Best student council
Blassreiter DVD

Oh I can always suggest more bad ideas for you to obtain, don't you worry!
Hikaru no Go is awesome, get it before it's hard to find
Maison Ikkoku is the best romcom ever
From Far Away was a bit like Basara-light, also really good
Sanctuary is also a political thriller bromance like Banana Fish is. And I've seen a pretty cheap complete set on eBay (less than $100). It is flipped, it was the era, but the story is by the guy who did Fist of the North Star and the art is by Ryoichi Ikegami, known for doing epic art.
To Terra is set to go OOP later this year, 3 vols long and easy to obtain now, so get it. The anime is different enough for it to also be worth buying (it's a Bandai so it's going out too). Skip the movie
Twin Spica, you own that already, right?
All the Fumi Yoshinaga stuff is awesome, she's one of my favorite mangaka! I don't normally do yaoi, but hers, yes, I'll buy anything with her name on it.

I feel like a lot of people remember the pumpkin scene with Eiji, that's also cute. I also like a lot of the bandaging scenes, like the one where Eiji flips Ash off, to everyone else, he's the scariest guy ever, but there's Eiji, flipping him off and insulting him in broken English. That reminds, me, I really liked how the translation made different dialects and broken English so obvious, only made me like it more imo

Yeah, the special ops did come in rather late, but I think Blanca also came from that, that was awesome. I still think the cheesiest scene in the whole manga was when Jessica suddenly asks Max to marry her again. Cheesy, but so damn adorable that I totally didn't mind. I suspect part of the special ops was The Worf Effect in which you make badasses lose to make the villain seem more threatening. Although here it works because Worf always loses, but Ash spent the entire series up to that point being incredibly badass. So seeing him have trouble made it work.

Yeah, it did end really shortly into volume 19, but at least the side stories were Banana Fish related, I feel like in most shojo, you get unrelated ones. Speaking of volumes of side stories, Basara ends halfway through volume 25, and from then on, side stories (of what I would call varying quality, though the final final epilogue was nice). But the second one really gave more closure for me, and we got to see Sing as an adult! And hilariously tall!

But then I realized that I believe the hospital is the last time Ash and Eiji really see each other iirc, or the last one where they really got to connect one more time. I actually rather like characters like Eiji, the calming agent if you will. Tohru Honda is one in Fruits Basket, Noriko is one in From Far Away, and Sehara is one in the One Thousand and One Nights manhwa (also a bromance, I must admit, I have a thing for bromances)

lol, sounds good!

I can say that I cried at the end too, big time! Happens so rarely, but I do love doing it.

Man, I think I'm done with my OOP manga hunt for now, since From Far Away arrived the other day (I already read it, it was awesome!), and I got Basara back in January. Well at least for the shojo line, I'll have to think about the other lines.

Glad you're liking Banana Fish so far! It took me a bit to get used to the designs, but yeah, I totally love it now. Around vol 6, Ash's hairstyle changes to be more bishie, I do think it looks better though. I find that often with longer series, the art tends to change over it, but Banana Fish is remarkably the same throughout. You'll notice major art changes with Please Save My Earth, that's one of the most dramatic I can think of.

Of course, I tend to just tear through manga if I find it awesome, I finished Banana Fish in like two days. I didn't have all of Firefighter at the same time, but what I had, I tore through that too. I actually held off on the last arc until I had the last volume because I knew I didn't want to pause in the middle of something so cracktastic and that there are no scans online. Actually, since Banana Fish can be quite dark and depressing, going with something that gives you warm fuzzies like Firefighter does is a good thing to read afterwards I think.

Oddly enough, it looks like they published volume 1 of Firefigher three times. There's a red flipped version, an oversized "special edition" that's basically just unflipped and oversized (I have that one) , and the normal sized one you have.

It's a shame that no more of Akimi Yoshida's series have come out over here. I know France got Yasha and its sequel, I just want anything. I think she's doing a josei series now, every Vertical poll, I always go "anything Akimi Yoshida", I'd love to read more of her things. There's not even complete scans for Yasha. I would still suspect Banana Fish to be the best though, heh! Also, Banana Fish was ridiculously popular in Japan (overtaking Black Jack in a popularity poll once, Black Jack always being popular), and the action scenes in the manga were awesome. It somehow got multiple stage plays, but never got an anime, and I have no idea why as I think it would be a fantastic anime. Though ever since To Terra got a 2007 adaptation, I now hold out hope that old series can get new adaptations.

Oh, so I just learned that they gave you a time limit of 30 days on the first one. I should say the second game has no such time limit, the objective of the game is the Katamari principle of collecting as much crap as possible, this time to repay Hocotate's debt. And it really doesn't seem to care how much time you take to do it. I saw one save file had 31 days, so yeah, seems fine. Definitely makes the game less stressful. Also, you get Louie, and having a second man so that you can split up and have one stand guard while the pikmin knock down a wall and the other go kill things is great! I was also happy when I could just use Louie or Olimar to go punch the lights out on the king Bulbmin so I could steal the small Bulbmin, so Olimar can kinda fight. So far, it seems like I can beat any boss with 20 or so Pikmin, carrying around a large group on boss fights just gives them more stuff to stomp on. And I need to reserves to carry the loot while I'm at it.

In P2, a day lasts about 20 minutes, and no time passes when in caves. And when the day ends, as long as all the pikmin are under your control, you automatically go back to the ship for end of day. I dunno how it is in 1, but that's how it works in 2. And sumo purple pikmin (worth the strength and weight of 10) and poison white pikmin were added, but they're a precious commodity, lol.
The third game is for the Wii U, which I do not have. I'm still debating if I should get a PS3, but wait for PS4 news might be good, probably cause PS3 prices to drop soon. But I want that bitchin God of War red PS3, I like the color red! But a 3DS, now that Pokemon XY has been announced, that is a definite system seller for me. I though God of War 3 would be for PS2, yet it somehow did not. If I get another job, this won't be an issue, dammit!