Shoju posted on: February 18, 2008 4:11 P.M. (PST)

Through another rough holiday season at my store.  Got back to playing WoW.  Been grinding ever since.

Anime thoughts:

Naruto - Watched up to the finish of Sakura vs. Sasori.  Probably won't watch until Jiraiya's death scene is animated.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Holy shit!  That was a nice ride.  It tied with One Piece as my favorite anime when I finished episode 27, and I still feel the same right now.

No other notes to write about anime for now.  I got sidetracked and dropped Shana 2nd, and I completely stopped watching Gundam00.  Might get around to getting Darker than Black and Lucky Star sometime in the future.

Manga thoughts:

Naruto - Since my last update, the one huge event that was legendary...Jiraiya's final battle.  Cheers to him and his accomplishments.  So sad for Tsunade though.  ;_;

Bleach - Shinigami's arrived to help out in the Hollow world.  Pretty "bleh" still.

One Piece - Zoro really took it up a couple notches when he defended his captain against Kuma.  Also, confirmation that Ace lost against Blackbeard and is imprisoned at Impel Down was really surprising.  Brooke's back-story was sad, but I didn't really connect with it as much as I did with the others'.

Air Gear - Actually not that interesting at the moment.  Agito/Akito revealing a third "person" isn't very epic.  Oh, but the little scene back to Simca was oh so awesome.  Some asswipe claims her as his, but she is still hoping that all of Kogarasumaru is safe.  <3

Fairytail - The last arc was short and just finished, but that little arc was fucking awesome.  Loki was revealed as being the stellar spirit Leo.  Lucy defined herself and showed that she's has the right be a member a Fairytail.  She demanded that the rules of the stellar spirits be changed because of Leo's situation, and the Stellar King came and granted leniency for Leo.  Leo is now one of Lucy's spirits.  I so badly want an anime for this series.  >_<

Comic thoughts:

Marvel - One More Day/Brand New Day blah blah blah, bitch bitch bitch, die die die.  I hated it too and hope Spider-Man gets back his old status quo soon.  Messiah Complex was pretty interesting.  I'm not that excited about Secret Invasion, but I think it may get my attention when I get the issues.  House of M was a good surprise read for me, hope Secret Invasion will be too.  All I really want right now is more Young Avengers stuff.  The recent Patriot issue was an awesome read.  I'm looking forward to reading more about Stature and Vision though.

DC - Batman and the Outsiders is now a must get and read as soon as possible series now that Batgirl is a member.  I welcome Cassandra's return and I already love her again.  I'm also keeping up with Robin with all the stuff he has to go through right now, he's a very interesting read.  When he actually considered Ra's offer of resurrecting his loved ones, he really took a new low.  Then Wonder Girl dumps him and a new Spoiler shows up.  Totally sucks to be him.  The end of the Sinestro Corp War was amazing.  The new Ion sucks, but I like that Kyle is just one of the guys now.

Other - Angel is a human!  What the fuck.  Never saw that coming. 

Miscellaneous:

Started playing a guitar since my last update.(Ibanez)  Got two new super awesome figures.(Ayu and Tsuruya)  Got two nice World of Warcraft figures.(Shaman and Warlock)  Got three Knights of the Old Repbulic figures.(Malak, Revan, and Nihilus)

I really love this image, and I've had it as my desktop wallpaper for a while now.

Current favorite songs:  Crushcrushcrush - Paramore, Hey Mamma - Kanye West