Aria vol 3 is out and in my hands. :D

Also got FMP! v6. Looks like more Fumoffu? than Panic! though.

So is there anyone on Neo-Venezia who isn't in love with Alicia?xd (Besides Akari, who seems to be platonic with everybody.) Even Akatsuki, for goodness sakes. This is hugely entertaining. More fodder for my website!:grin:

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..the Big O II box set will be out tomorrow. can't wait to hear them all speaking Japanese.:D Also the final volume of Azumanga Daioh - with the Maya pin!!! Plus Chr(o)no Crusade (I shall NEVER get used to spelling it the R1 way) vol 2 came out last week, so I officially have a backlog of stuff waiting to be bought!

Plus street date for Aria vol 3 is tomorrow as well. *sigh* I wonder why ADV Manga put such a huge gap between the first 2 volumes and the third. There was a similar delay for Chr(o)no Crusade - the first volume came out in May and the second voume came out last month. Come to think of it, it's been a while since Full Metal Panic! vol 5 was released, too... Who knows what else they publish that I don't read that suffered a similar delay.

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With all the rampant street-date breaking that's being going on with manga releases lately, I rather naively expected to find Aria vol 3 on the shelves by now. But alas, no luck. Maybe I'll try B&N today.

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Finally! I found a comprehensive release schedule thingy on Anime News Network. Best of all it shows all upcoming manga releases from all companies in one place.

I'd been looking for something like this for a long time, and was beginning to fear that I would have to make it myself. ^^; Yay ANN!

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Aqua *looks* like it would be easy to translate, but it actually has lots of fun SF terminology that has made me realize that my J/E dictionary isn't nearly big enough.

However, there are some things I can tell without actually having to read. Like Akari actually has been up to the floating island where the salamanders do their weather control thing. Also, that Akatsuki's nickname for Akari is actually "momiko" = "little sideburns", not "pigtails" (benpatsu). xd I still say that he likes her though. :luv:

I was surprised that Akari was so quickly promoted from trainee to apprentice - by the end of the first volume of Aqua. But I really want to make her winter uniform.

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