Of Swords and Parasols

Right now I'm about 2/3 through the first Twelve Kingdoms book, by Fuyumi Ono(who's also the author of the books the Ghost Hunt manga are based on) the novel series the anime was based on.  Now, the anime is one of my absolute favorites(incidentally, anyone who's been told not to watch it and the words "Fushigi Yugi" were in any way involved with it needs to ignore the rec...whoever first came up with the idea of comparing the two was nuts...the similarities begin and end with "girl gets transported to a world based on asian mythology."  The worlds, characters and stories are as different as they could possibly be and the only genre they both fit into is fantasy)  but the books is worlds beyond the anime, which is a pleasant surprise, as I was just hoping for something readable enough that I'd get through them so I could read the novels that didn't get to be adapted into the anime.  (My experience with translated japanese novels has been rather shaky)  But this?  This is great.  And deserving of it's own post.  And it's making me want to rewatch the anime.

I love this icon, but rarely have a good excuse to use it, so I'm just using it cuz i feel like it.

Still haven't made up my mind about "Lady in the Water."  Guess I'll see what others say and then decide from there.  

I've been eyeing the anime wall scrolls at Waldens for a while now, but they've never had anything I actually wanted.  Then i looked on a whim today and they had 4.  One of the early cast of Naruto,  a really, really pretty one of Kaoru and Kenshin(looked like it was based on the "Reflections" OVA)  a nice Sesshomaru one and a pretty wicked looking Inu Yasha and Sesshomaru one.  I only got the Naruto one for now, but will eventually have them all...I have very bare walls, currently.  Partly because by the time I got unpacked, school had started and there was no time to hang my stuff up for a few months, and partly because I've been too lazy to go get myself a hammer and nails.  Will have to fix that part, soon.

I also found out that the goth store in the mall has some anime stuff.  I checked it out and it was extremely loud and cramped and I'd never go in there again except that, even though none of the anime stuff they had appealed to me, they did have some pretty cool fairy stuff, including what appears to be a new Brian Froud book.

Between 2 batches of comics and my reading future volumes of Naruto online(which I fully intend to buy as they're released, barring an extremely severe change in finances or future extreme suckage, neither of which seem to be in the future)  there isn't an emormous lot of stuff in this update, but hey, I feel like it...