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Hmm, looks like NYCC was pretty good in terms of manga. :> And just the chance of Viz completing Hikaru no Go in DVD boxsets was mentioned, so I'm happy about that.

Looking forward to:

CMX: (Might be interested in these. But I would have to order because Borders doesn't carry CMX much)
-Lapis Lazuli Crown
-Broken Blade

Del Rey:
-Night Head Genesis (Yaaaaay!)

Viz:
-Natsumi's Book of Friends (Natsumi Yuujinchou)

Bandai:
-Gundam 00 manga properties
-Gundam 00 DVDs (supposedly being released in July-ish)

For those interested in Hayate the Combat Butler anime, apparently the decision was made to release it sub-only. Guess they are: hurting right now, or because of the economy, Best Buy not carrying much anime right now, or no way would a dub on a 52 ep series like this would make any money. Pick what you want.

Yen Press:
-Yotsuba&! (...maybe)
-Also maybe on Spice and Wolf (It's been hyped up enough I may give it a try.)

Maybe some more, but right now that's enough. ^_^

ETA: ehehe, I apparently missed this one: (from here. Good place to read up on panel reports and he goes to conventions and reports live.)

15:22:17 <bay|NYCC|Funi> d grayman
15:22:20 <bay|NYCC|Funi> season one, part 1
15:22:28 <bay|NYCC|Funi> available march 31st, ep 1-13, $60 MSRP

And this one:

15:29:30 <bay|NYCC|Funi> full metal alchemist ova collection... available late summer 2009
15:29:40 <bay|NYCC|Funi> dvd... it will be priced right..
15:29:50 <bay|NYCC|Funi> it will have all the stuff the JP dvd had

August?!?!? Ahhhhhhhh! Well, I guess, if I can't wait, I could go visit that site. Maybe.

"Then of course Kanda will show up, looking cross..." And on the next page, Kanda appears...looking a bit cross. Ahahaha. I get that line so much more now, sarcastic_elf. Seriously. *snicker*

D.Gray-Man is seriously good.

Today!

I am caught up with the English releases of Tsubasa and xxxHolic. I read Aventura v. 2 yesterday so I'm caught up with that one. I was behind five books for Tsubasa and I think 3 or so with xxxHolic, though I did re-read two of them to get me back into the series. Now I need to get Tsubasa v. 17 and read that, then I will be completely caught up until vol. 18's release in July. Woah, there's a lot going on Tsubasa. Vol. 16 was definitely a huge plot twist. And there's xxxHolic's plot...that seems to be slowly drawing to a close of sorts, and entangling more with Tsubasa's.

Tonight I attended my sister's graduation from the local community college. She's now a graduate nurse and will be taking her certification exams in June to become a registered nurse. The whole ceremony took about an hour and fifteen minutes. Not bad. And! There were fireworks afterwards! I got a few pictures that sorta came out okay on my phone.

Maybe my economic stimulus is in my bank account. I would like to pick up some shoes before Walmart switches them out for another style. They're comfortable and I can use them for viperwoman's wedding.

Oh! Does anyone know when AltaVista's Babelfish was eaten by Yahoo? I just went to there today and it redirected to a Yahoo Babelfish.

(Psst. sarcastic_elf! I just found out that xxxHolic vol. 13 is being released in Japan on June 23rd. It'll be a while before we get it.)

CLAMP!

CLAMP!

CLAMP!

WTF!

( Tsubasa v. 18 spoilers )

I am totally getting this artbook. Hopefully Sasuga Books will have it at A-kon. If not, time to order it.