Petronia

Saraiya Goyou (House of Five Leaves): ( now up to episode 6 )

Gente: ( this part was written a couple of weeks ago )

Later I was reading this Neville/Draco fic by helenish (recced by elfiepike) and it just wouldn't appear in my head as other than Ono Natsume art. orz|| One supposes she does a good line in pale boys in aprons and understated domestic angst.

Hoshino Lily's May and Ono Natsume's December. -_- I never buy anything else anymore. It's kind of disturbing. At least I fixated on mangaka who're prolific (or is that a bad thing).

Although seriously a second tankoubon of the basso yomikiri from Opera has to come out RIGHT NOW or I'm going to end up dropping 3,000 yen on back issues and NO. Not even to find out what's going on with the Tada Yumi story.

...Maybe I should buy them so I can scan in the stories. (AS IF)

Same publisher as the mag that runs Aoi Hana (death by cute). Unbelievably Hoshino Lily is doing something for them that I assume isn't BL. And... and the mangaka drawing that gothloli project of Ikuhara Kunihiko's I was complaining about. Nice to know I'm part of an identified target audience although I have no idea what the parameters are ("women in their 20s to 30s who like Yoshinaga Fumi", maybe? Ironically I've never gotten around to reading Yoshinaga Fumi).

SBR 11 is out now, GB 38 is out end-of-month, Ikuhara's thing is out never. I should probably get Vassalord just so I can dotdotdot at it.

P.S. Amazon in its infinite wisdom has gotten rid of the economy shipping option entirely, so now you're locked into express shipping and paying for it. Freebie time is over, folks!

I'll add canis_m-style metadata later, just need to get the blurbs written as I'm way backlogged and the list is beginning to appear daunting. XD;

( Higuri You, Gorgeous Carat Galaxy )

( Hoshino Lily, Aishichatta no )

( Ono Natsume, Ristorante Paradiso )

( Nekota Riko, Marunouchi Rhapsody )

basso, "Orso e intellettuale": Italian politician BL manga. No really. Like 75% of the tankoubon is about Italian politicians, 20% is about gelato, and 10% is about Italian politicians and gelato (percentages sum to greater than 100 as some respondents chose more than one answer). Relative to this, breaks imaginable upper boundary for toshiue uke and then some. Remind me to talk about this one in greater depth as is too out-there not to talk about.

Italy is getting to be a theme. Maybe it will be to '06 what Germany was to '05?

Music dump! Mini-theme is "stuff that sounds like 80s pop", but not in the usual way. XD

( Cut to save space. )

Started JoJo pt.4. There's this Out Hud song called "Hair Dude, You're Stepping On My Mystique"... no, actually that's the punchline. It's an instrumental. XD

( Minor observation on beginning of pt.4 (not really spoilers but cut out of principle) )