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I think Bakemonogatari is a good combination of supernatural and comedy with great atmosphere and visual style. Everything is so unusual too - humour mixed with drama, characters suddenly show unexpected emotions, simple chit-chats turn into deep profound conversations filled with immersive psychological atmosphere, and those weird camera angles coupled with the SHAFT's famous subtle eye-catching visual elements make me feel like having a psychedelic experience)) In short, I found it very unusual and liked it mostly because of that... btw I only watched the first 5 episodes). The second arc - the one with the "snail" girl? Yeah, it was slow at times but I still found it hilarious and the slow moments quite atmospheric. Anyway, I'm gonna wait when it's finished to watch the rest, but if the rest is as good I'll give it no less than 9.

About Leiji Matsumoto, try Galaxy Express 999 the movies - they are easier to understand and give a broader perspective of the whole series than the first episodes of the TV version (which is long and hard to find in the entirety so very few people even bother with it). The TV series of Harlock I think is great - very easy to watch and follow the story even though it's 42 episodes long. It's entirely subjective of course, but I more enjoyed watching through all the episodes of Harlock compared to the first Gundam TV I finished just a while ago, where all that mecha action, even though exceedingly dynamic, started to feel boring when there's hardly anything else besides it in each episode.
Guess that's all I have watched from Leiji Matsumoto. Hope his other series are no less interesting.

I'm watching Future Boy Conan now :) One of the oldest Miyazaki's works it seems, and by the first eps does remind Nausicaa and Laputa a bit. Very adventure-ish :D

I see you're watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Is it really as awesome as some people say? I also plan to watch it, but with so many things already waiting their turn I'm thinking if I should give it a higher priority..

PS: that cult movie Tetsuo: the Iron Man is getting another sequel. It’s called Tetsuo: the Bullet Man :)
And also that site, (http://twitchfilm.net), is where I mostly dig for news, reviews/previews of this sort of non-mainstream movies. It deals with anime a bit too.

Toradora is pissing me off more and more especially Taiga as I told you before. I took a short brake from watching Bleach to catch up with Naruto but I'm getting back to it.

I did something horrible few days ago.. I went against my life rules and created a facebook account.. I always considered it to be stupid and pointless but right now I see it's the best way to keep in touch with the people I've met in London since everybody has an account.. But still it's against my beliefs and now I realise how situations can influence and change our minds..

Hm.. it's very difficult to recommend you any fantasy books since I read mostly only polish fantasy (we have great writers). But my sister told me to try Ken's Follett "the Pillars of the Earth". I haven't read it yet but not only her but also few of my friends said it's a great book.
btw, have you heard of the Trudi's Canavan trylogy?

About Gundams, I'm not a fan of mecha at all and actually have been avoiding starting with this series for a long time ..it's kinda especially annoying when there are soooo many titles. Now I feel like the time has come to at least familiarize myself with the original - yeah, right now I'm planning to just watch this first one and be done with it. So far it's good - none-stop of fast-pace action plus hardcore mecha as I expected:) The old animation doesn't bother me at all since I've seen Captain Harlock (which is from the same late 70s) and liked it a lot.

I plan to check "God’s Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand" and "Fourteen" too, especially if you're involved with the releases;)
I just finished Gyo. Well, definitely more disturbing and very different from Uzumaki. How do they call it in english, "visceral"? Disturbing, disgusting, nasty visceral horror - something like that)) Despite of that, it's not just some gory zombie crap, but something more - it has this mystery feel and very dark atmospheric as well! Man, Junji Ito is a master!

Talking about horror manga authors, how about Suehiro Maruo? His stuff could be considered horror too - more psychologically disturbing and grotesque... GUROtesque:) but still horror. Very interesting drawing style too. And luckily, most of his works are available in english.

I hate when my teeth hurt too. I think it's one of the worst pains (along with the headache). But luckily I'm not scared of going to dentist simply because it's absolutely painless. When I was a kid I hated dentists with all my might but my attitude changed after I changed her. To tell you the truth I'm even kind of bored when I lay on the chair at the dentist.
Yes, a good bed is one of the most important things in human life. When you have a bad sleep, the whole day becomes crappy too. I prefer hard beds. The softer ones make my back hurt (i'm like an old lady XD). And i always sleep only on a very small pillow.
8 year-olds must be trully energetic. My sisters baby mostly drools himself right now and cries from time to time so he's not very absorbing...

London is such an interesting place that almost every day i was in a different place and I hardly managed to visit all the places I chose to see. Since I love museums and galleries these were the ones I've put the most stress on. You should go and visit London.. Seriously..

I'm still Trying to catch up with Bleach and Naruto since I couldn't watch a thing during my stay in London. I also started Toradora recently. Have you watched it? Man, characters like Taiga annoy me so much... She's tsundere treating the main character like her dog. I hate these patterns... Except from that it's pretty funny and relaxing anime.

Stephen King.. I've read couple of his books and watched some of the adaptations. My favourite is the Shining and Misery. Which ones did you borrow?

Hi there! I'm not sure if those two have been translated into english by anyone - I read them both in russian, my native language:) As for Mimi no Kaidan, I came across a russian scanlation (if you're interested it came be found here), and Oyayubi Sagashi has just been officially published here. Guess we just got lucky to have some rare things :3

both Shamo and Homunculi are awesome. I had it on my wish list for a loong loong time and one day just decided to read it xD
they're both awesome, but I seriously suggest you to start with Shamo, cause Homunculus has 10 vol out and there are no raws for this 10th vol. but mangaka started to do his usual monthly (or almost monthly) chapters and one of them has already been scanlated, so we have this 1 vol gap in scanlation and it's crucial for the plot. so for the sake of your nerves, I advice you to start with Shamo =)

> about the guessing,i think it was the 1st part of this post of yours: "posting another image will be a give-away hint, so the hint will be: it's on my list."
yep, you've got a point. it was really hard to find some hardly recognisable page from Bakune, cause mangaka has a very unique character design which is really easy to remember =)

yo, pal /(^_^)
be so nice and drop by once in a while in "Name that manga" thread. guessing game is soo slooow recently -_-"
we miss your good memory xD

Yeah, I was looking at his published manga.. I've had The Walking Man on my list for awhile now. Probably check that out soon. Most of it looks pretty interesting.