I had turned 28 on Friday and received volumes 1 and 4 of the Monster manga as gifts. 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). Monster was one of my favorite anime at the beginning of last year, perhaps the best suspense-thriller anime I've seen yet and has very well developed characters (Heck, how many anime series feature a 30-something year old neurosurgeon as the main character?). With Berserk, I largely just wanted to continue on with the events in the manga after what is portrayed in the anime.

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!)

I have the following purchases inbound to me:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena - The Rose Collection/The Movie Boxed Set (Anime)
• Berserk, Vol. 1 (Manga)
• Seikai: Crest of the Stars 2: A Modest War (Seikai Trilogy) (Novel)
• Steamboy/Memories (Anime)

I have the following on pre-order:

• The Twelve Kingdoms 1 (Novel)
• Kino No Tabi 2: Book Two of the Beautiful World (Novel)

I also have Full Moon Volumes 2-4 DVDs waiting to ship with Kino No Tabi.