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So you really dont want to read this, except maybe the first paragraph.
Thing is: I'm seriously considering going out and buying Pandora Hearts now that its published in the US (sadly by Yenpress, but I digress...). I know most everyone is all like "OMG PANDORA ♥S IS LEIK SOOO AWSUMMM" (forgive my girly texting sterotype) and I've gotten good reviews from friends, but I'm just not sure. I guess I'll just read a chapter or so online to see? Anyway, leave your opinion. Please. I beg you.
(By the way, I dislike Yen Press mainly because of their price: Their manga usually costs $10.99, but the books are pretty thin. I can see paying that much for Maximum Ride - that book is pretty huge, but I saw Hero Tales and it was puny and cost the same? WTH? I mean, the quality of the actual manga is good, quite unlike Del Rey who charges the same for pretty low-quality translations of all my favorite series [*sigh*], but still.)
Anyway, you can stop reading now. The rest is just ranting to get it all outta my system. but hey, If you wanna laugh at it, go right ahead, my friend.
Next. If it were me, I would put out manga when its supposed to be put out. A new Mia Ikumi title is *supposed* to be available today, but my bookstore (the one of the two that usually does not fail me is this regard) did not have it. (Fiddlesticks.) I'm aware that Most books are not going to be availabe at one's particular store on the exact day the website says it will be released, and maybe I'm just impatient, but if your going t post on your official website the release of a book by a certain 14-year-old's favorite mangaka two months in advance, I think you have time to send the book out to stores early. Curse you, Del Rey Manga. For this and much more.
Like for making me pay exactly $10.72, after tax and after my member's discount, for all my favorite seires even though you screw them up! I mean, Kitchen Princess, Kamichama Karin (chu), Tsubasa, Shugo Chara, and now Only One Wish! Why must you torture me so?! Why must you translate them ickyly (Amu Hinamori quote: "Just.. just go anywhere!" Really? Why not "Just get out of here!" Sigh), and then *accidentally* switching the words in two different character's speech bubbles? Seriously. Theres this magical thing called DOUBLE-CHECKING. You should really try it. Or triple-check. OR QUADRUPLE-CHECK. PLEASE. I beg you. Make the book worth my $10.72.
*sigh* I feel better already. But yes. There is more.
Why, Yen, why oh why are you publishing a graphic novel adaptation of TWILIGHT?! DO YOU HATE ME?! Because, after all, manga ultimately ends up as anime, and thats ONE THING WE DONT NEED! Our nation's young adult book sections are already overrun with worthless vampire crap, PLEASE do not contaminate our manga and anime! ITS ALL I HAVE LEFT, goshdarnit. All I have left. After all, Its becoming increasingly difficult to find new good book series that isnt about vampires (or, if it is, one thats any good), so please dont make me dread going into the manga section, too. Oh, yes, Im aware of Vampire Knight's popularity, but I am fairly certain tha was written long before good ol Stephanie decided to write that abominati- I mean awful book.
Anyway, Now that all this is out of my system, I hope everyone has a safe and happy new years. Dont drive drunk and dont go out after 3 am, cuz thats when the crazies are out. ~
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