So, I finished reading Angel Sanctuary yesterday. The ending was quite amazing, and I ended up crying a lot, which is unusual because I don't cry much when I read things. It was just so awesome and so heart-breaking and yet uplifting and just beautiful, and by that point I'd spent so much time with the characters--sharing their adventures, their feelings, and their hardships--that I just couldn't help it.

I also watched the Angel Sanctuary anime, but it just couldn't compare to the manga. I shouldn't expect a three-episode OAV to compare to a twenty-volume manga in the first place, especially since the OAV is meant to be an introduction to the manga rather than a stand-alone anime, but it had so much potential to be a full series! The art and animation were attractive, the plot was relatively close to the manga, the Japanese voice actors were well-cast (though I might just be convinced that this is true because Takehito Koyasu was in it), and I think it would have been fairly popular despite some of the controversial themes of the series (incest, for example).

Since I finished Angel Sanctuary, I've read a couple of short horror manga: School Mermaid and Jisatsu Circle. School Mermaid was disappointing, but Jisatsu Circle was kind of interesting. It seems that I still haven't found my ideal kind of horror manga yet. I want something that'll scare me, like the Silent Hill videogame series, but I don't know if it's possible to find that kind of horror in manga form.

I'm also starting to casually read Urusei Yatsura, which is much longer (some 300 chapters! T_T) but not nearly as serious as any of the other manga I've read lately. I'm a pretty big fan of Ranma ½, and since Urusei Yatsura is written by the same manga artist, I've wanted to read it for a while now.

I remember mentioning that I wanted to write about my laptop the last time I updated, so I'll brag a little bit about it today. The fashion department at VCU requires that I have a laptop, and originally I was planning on getting a Macbook Pro, but since those are expensive, I decided to get a Dell Studio 15 instead. It looks like this:
It's pretty, isn't it? I'm not generally a big fan of leafy prints like this, but I really liked the colors. I'm still not used to the widescreen monitor and the touchpad mouse yet, but those things don't really bother me. I just hope it won't be too difficult to draw on this resolution after I install Photoshop.

Ahhh...At some point I really need to update my website and stuff. It's been so long. That may have to wait for another day, though. I'm off to go draw some pretty pictures now.

For now, I will leave you with this Youtube video of Schellen. I miss them.

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