I’ve been wanting to post this all week:
If some of you were able to watch this year’s incredibly boring Oscars until the Best Foreign Language Film award, you’ll remember that the Spanish film “Mar adentro” (”The Sea Inside”) won. I highly recommend seeing this if it’s showing in a theater near you. It’s one of the most beautiful and sincerely touching films I’ve watched in a long time and puts all the American films that won any awards or were nominated to shame!

I survived the trip to Frankfurt yesterday! The drive back home was quite difficult because it was so cold, the roads seemed like frozen rivers and it was snowing quite heavily. But we made it back all okay!

I read volumes 3 and 4 of Itsuki Natsumi’s Demon Sakuriido on our way to the concert. I’m starting to become very very fond of that manga. I really liked the first volume, was hooked by the second and now I’m just loving it :)

I cannot praise Itsuki Natsumi enough for being such a versatile mangaka. Whereas Yakumotatsu is this dark historic horror epic, Demon Sakuriido appears to be much lighter on the surface but damn, those characters with all their dark pasts and their secret angst are breaking my shoujo manga fangirl heart!
Also, her character designs are getting more and more gorgeous with every new installment. The male characters are irresistibly handsome!

Oh and that staff member of a large “manga scanlation information site” who quoted my post about Aikawa Natsu’s retirement from the manga world as “some rumors” needs to check the definition of “rumor.” If Aikawa makes that statement in one of her own books and I own and read that book and humbly post about it here, it can hardly be called a rumor. If that person had had the courtesy to include a link to my post, readers of that site would have realized it’s a fact and not “some rumors.”
(And I’ve been wondering why I’ve been getting all these Google hits from people looking for Aikawa Natsu… I believe about 99.999% of the users of said site don’t even know her manga. And the staff member just included it in his post after he’d found my post on Yousei Hyouhon and Sugar Princess which he also quoted in that news bit. Oh well. Shikata nai wa ne.)

…are made to be broken. Had to go out several times every day of the weekend ;_; And it just won’t stop snowing. We’ve been getting new snow every day for almost a week now. Driving poses an almost fatal danger in this sort of weather so I don’t know if I’ll make it to Frankfurt alive tomorrow (Feeder!).

I’ve become a pathetic blogger. I keep leaving out important details of my life. Is it laziness? Is it lack of time? Or paranoia? Maybe it’s all three things or maybe it’s something completely different but either way, I’m no longer raving about things as much as I used to in this place even though there is so much to rave about!
-Idlewild have a wonderful new single out and their new album is released next week!
-Starship Operators is the best serious SciFi anime since… mhhhh… Mugen no Ryvius.
-I got my copy of HanaYume 6 with the first installment of Yuki Kaori’s Yousei Hyouhon – Fairy Cube - yesterday. There’s death and gore on the first and the last page. What’s new pussycat? (But yes, it’s a really cool manga so far. More info to follow?)
So much for life-changing things, ha.