Dear god, there's the end!

[secondlina]

I'm a busy little bee. I haven't been online much lately and my number of posts/quality of drawings went down as of late. I kinda feel like I should apologize for that. But when most of your free time is consecrated to work or to drawing professional-looking things, time to draw *fun* things is so reduced. Insert here my eternal whine about lacking time. Seriously. It's my every other whine! *laughs*

Everybody else seems pretty busy too. I haven't seen many people online or posting. We are all trapped by things of reality it seems. I noticed more people tend to be online in the winter, because you're stuck inside... It's almost funny.

In other news, I decided to finish buying Tsubasa - Reservoir chronicles. I already own up to the 17th manga. I decided to stop buying them because even though I though the story was decent (okay to good in most chapters... but generally okay.) and the drawing style interesting, I was afraid this was one of those *DOOMED TO GO ON FOREVER!* series (like, say...inuyasha). And everybody knows I HATE stories that never end. However, the creators, Clamp, have stated that this series will end in 2009 in (most likely) the 26th book. They are stopping it to start a new shojo series. This encourages me to buy the rest of them and try to understand where there is like...3 or 4 Sakuras and Syaorans at the end of book 23...(something about...clones?).

I also officially gave up on CardCaptor Sakura. The english official releases are crazy expensive and/or unavailable. And the chinese bootleg is insanely expensive too (60$) for something that is most likely compressed to death (70 episodes on 8 DVDs? Heeeeelllloooo bad quality.) I think i'll stick to my somewhat illegal old downloads. The quality still sucks and i'm missing episodes but at least I didn't pay 60$ for something of most likely equivalent quality. I might still try to score the movie DVDs though. They aren't quite as hard to come by. I'll cross my fingers and hope someone picks up the rights to it someday. After all, Magic Knight Rayearth just got a special deluxe edition. Why not CCS? Maybe if it ride's on Tsubasa's popularity enough...

Poor little Sakura. you're a rare item now.



And with that, I bid thee Adieu.

-Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

For an unavailable series I can understand bootleg, but it really does run rampant. I'm still bitter that the 'legitimate' copy of Disney's Beauty and the Beast I bought on Amazon was nothing more than a bootleg. It looked like the real thing, but just fake enough that I knew the truth. I don't like robbing money from the creator.

Fansubs are an odd thing. People nowadays expect everything to be free. I even chewed out a kid that wanted to get all of the Slayers anime for free and was asking where to download it. Things like that just really make me angry because good companies have gone under for no better reason than people cheating the system and raking in the rewards for it. I personally like fansubs like in the case of the new Slayers anime where it's not out in English yet, and at the time we didn't know if we'd see an English release. Now that we do know for sure, I can't wait to get rid of my fansubs so that I can have higher quality DVDs to watch on the television. (I think another thing going against comics/manga being online is that it's a huge pain having to scan in all those pages! You often have to destroy the spine of the book in order to do so as well.)