Petronia

Amazon Japan package arrived tonight. The route it took is a saga unto itself I really don't have the gumption to get into. =_=

* GetBackers 37, with the postcards
* New Petshop of Horrors 3
* Ono Natsume, La Quinta Camera
* Hoshino Lily, Nurse ga oshigoto <-- of course U.S. Customs had to open the shipment that had this in. =_= It's too hardcore for me, which is saying something.

(You have no idea how much I've been waiting for this amazon.co.jp shipment.) Plowed through the new Petshop of Horrors on the metro and during lunch break. Matsuri Akino is in fine fettle, I'd write a thoughtful review of the stories but I think the bit with, uh, Eva Braun's kirin** broke me. X_X;;;

...Well. The first three stories are from '04, and are in the Usual Manner except D's shop is now on the something-th floor of a Chinatown-themed shopping mall in Shinjuku Kabukichou, with a view out the windows and everything. ^^; It's still bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. The last story is from '99 (the original series having ended in '98), Matsuri sez it was one of three she wrote dealing with D's grandfather's past but something unclear happened to the other two. Sounds like fallout from the original magazine folding. Leon is briefly mentioned in that one, in the sense that D has to skip town (Berlin) in a hurry to stay a step ahead of him. XD;;



** The truth of the matter being that Blondi the German shepherd did not die of cyanide in Hitler's bunker. That is it looks like a German shepherd in the pitchurs but the camera plays tricks as well as the human eye as is v. well known.