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I just wanted to make a post talking about how I just cried my eyes out over yet another shoujo manga, this time Honey Hunt. Lots of good things about this manga. The author is the woman who did Hot Gimmick, which I never read, but I always loved the art on the covers. Second, it's about the entertainment industry, so hot guys who sing and fun acting jobs, etc. Can't go wrong. And clincher of clinches, the main character has pretty much been abandoned by her distant celebrity parents and is doing this job to surpass them and to try to find a place where she belongs. I told you I am easily drawn in by this type. It's very pathetic, yet also cathartic. Well, you know.

But then I realized I still haven't talked about Breaking Dawn yet, which I did read. Basically, in my own high-tolerance-for-crap way, I enjoyed it a lot. I was never even squicked. (Thank you for ruining my moral outrage meter forever, yaoi.) Also, I really, honestly, forever, with no reservations, love Jacob Black. Oh, those werewolves, they get me every time. I was glad he got to be a decent person again in the last book. I was ecstatic that he got an entire third to himself. He made a difficult arc bearable. And I am in the minority here, but I really enjoyed Bella's role in the third part. Once she was a vampire, it became a lot easier to just accept her Mary Sue status and get on with it. Also, the part of me that grew up with all those "each character has a different and exciting power!" shows (Sailor Moon, Captain Planet, X Men, off the top of my head) was utterly fascinated with the witness' various talents. New OTP: Garret/Kate ("If we live through this, I'll follow you anywhere, woman." "Now he tells me." ASDFGHJKL *melts*). With regards to Renesmee, I was okay with it. Not totally won over characterization-wise, but I thought the way Meyer used it to resolve all those plot threads was respectable.

So there you go. Mock me at will. I'm incorrigible. Didn't stop me from dying a thousand deaths by laughter as I read

cleolinda's commentary/re-cap. I might yet make a decent lolfan.

Also, the issue with Firefox did indeed vanish when I upgraded to Firefox 3. Though I miss some of my add-ons very acutely, I would rather have any kind of FF over IE. Thanks

splintercat and

wyvernrabbit for the advice.

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Yay for Mars love!! XDD

... Akuma de Sourou sounds strangely like that Taiwanese Drama Devil Beside You. ToT;; I dunno, I'm not much for the troupe of guy pulling shy girl's hair to get her attention type of stories. The only one I can remember off of the top of my head that I liked that kinda used this was Anne of Green Gables, and only because Anne got downright pissed off when Gilbert started acting like an idiot and, if memory serves, cracked a board over his head. *amused*

Omg Marmalade Boy. All that unnecessary angst, to find out they angst for years over NOTHING?!?!!? I wanted to strangle someone towards the end. I'd rather they have a tragic ending then that perfectly packaged pile of sugar high for an ending towards the end. (I mean, I love happy endings and all, but if you're going to make a big deal about the incest thing, I'd rather it actually be a real problem and not something that was just there to drag out the story for a million more chapters with a problem that never existed in the first place. It's kinda like when in Spicy Pink, we were told all along that the dude's ex was dead and that's why he's all angsty, and find out she was never dead in the first place!! Like, wtf? Dead people should stay dead.) I don't think I can handle Yoshizumi Wataru's stories very well. ^^;;

Oh I detest Yuu Watase. She has the most retarded taste in romance. (All her girls always seem to fall in love with non-humans. In Ceres the girl ends up with a cloth, no joke. In Absolute Boyfriend she ends up with a robot. And I'm pretty sure in Fushigi Yuugi she ended up with a fictional character in a storybook. Utter phail) Oh yeah, the spoilers for the ending of Absolute Boyfriend turned me off the series for good. The only series I ever semi liked by her was Ceres, and only because the main girl had an awesome twin brother with identity and incest issues due to a soul takeover by ebil!ppls. I kept on imagining the story being told from his point of view. It would have been a MILLION TIMES BETTER!!!

Oh~ I understand about Fruits Basket. I kinda had that relationship with Nobuta wo Produce, actually. It was just one of those stories that reasonated really well with my life, the three mismatched friends and wanting to be happy and not knowing what to do with your life and learning to fit better in 'school society' through help of friends, and even right down to the ending, 'cause the time shuuji had to switch schools I was going through that as well. XD Though I never had a show to watch when I had my personal share of extensive bullying problems. I kinda just... Handled it on my own, lmao. (And I didn't take it well. It was mostly me just crying all day long or pretending that I'm totally okay with everyone treating me like I was the plague reincarnated) Fruits Basket would have been nice to watch during that time. XD

That's for the Nodame links!! XD