Berserk

[img_assist|nid=2306|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=171|height=200]Well, have the following anime and manga inbound or pre-ordered from Amazon:

• Berserk manga - Volumes 21 and 22.
• The Twelve Kingdoms Volume 4 - Skies of Dawn novel
• My Neighbor Totoro (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• Ponyo (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
• Evangelion: 1.11 You Are Not Alone [Blu-ray]

Quite a bit of news going around about this violent series by Kentarou Miura, which was adapted into an anime series in 1997. First is the news of a possible hollywood adaptation (along with Garefoot Gen and Baki the Grappler).

Got quite a few new acquisitions in the past week. First of all, what my girlfriend got me for my birthday1:

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I've always felt that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was one of the most amazing films to come out of an American studio. The book was one I've been looking forward to read for some time now.

Then I had the following come in from Robert's Anime Corner Store:

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• 1. Not young anymore at 30... Yet I'm still watching cartoons.

I had turned 28 on Friday and received volumes 1 and 4 of the Monster manga as gifts.[img_assist|nid=2095|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=150] I went ahead and bought volumes 2 and 3 of Monster to fill in the missing volumes and volumes 2-4 of Berserk to continue it (getting both series and a Haibane Renmei t-shirt from Robert's Anime Corner Store).

I am a couple of days late on this (pulling quite a bit of time on making sure a customer's server is working fine after a code migration), but here's my current list of what I've been watching:

Hasn't been too long since I've done one of these, but I probably should force myself to do this at least once a week. I'll try for every Friday evening, if possible.

Well, here's the list! (Oh, possible spoilers ahead!)