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

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've got the entire series in English manga-wise. Remind me before our epic trip of epicness next year and I shall bring my copies with me.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I read Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle but stopped at chapter thirteen. I really couldn't get into it. T_T

Since I barely have time to keep up with manga titles that never end, I might as well watch the anime version instead, no matter bad it compared to the manga. :/ Hey, at least Inuyasha did end!

Awww, I'm sorry that Cardcaptor Sakura is giving you such a hard time. DX I hope you can acquire it whatever means necessary.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Aside from the whole "falling into the pit of despair that is realizing I have so much JUNK in my room", I've actually really just been...playing video games. XP And working. It's a nice way to de-stress, although I know what it's like to just work (and even do artsy things for work) and not have any time to do something fun. It's very draining...

Ha to your $60! I know I whine that Avatar is too expensive, but back in the day I parted with $80 just to get one half-season of Slayers - on VHS! It's no wonder I have always been really picky about what anime/manga series to get into. It's just too darn expensive! I really don't care for super long series either, exceptions being Twelve Kingdoms because it is just that awesome. Plus, I have to respect the author for setting it aside to pursue other things instead of writing it into the ground. Sometimes it would be nice if other authors would do the same.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

*snort* Ping-Pong Head...

Sounds like something people would throw at Ikkaku. /geek

I try to avoid the long runners myself. I stopped buying Inu Yasha after awhile (partially because my interest waned slightly). Of course, I'm fangirling Bleach ATM and who know WHEN that'll end... My wallet hates me...

Of course, higher prices in Canada don't help matters any.