manga

at university, i was member of an anime society. anime is Japanese animation. we met once a week for 3 hours, and then twice a week the second year, to watch anime. we saw some superb stuff. and there was manga too, the book version of anime. i read some, but promised myself never to start buying them (i said the same about videos, but now have 3 complete series, and 2 half ones...). except i then found out about a place to get them, and next thing i knew, well, i'm trying to finish 2 series, and i've got some random ones, and one complete series.

then, when in Japan, i found out about dual language manga, which is written in Japanese and English. it was a great and interesting way to practise Japanese, so i bought the only one that looked interesting to me, Fruits Basket. and i loved it! problem being, there was only one, and in the 7 months i stayed thereafter, number 2 never came out.

imagine my surprise, then, upon returning to Europe, to find the whole series, readily available to me in French. had to buy the 1st one again, cos here you get 2 in 1, so to speak, so that i now have 2 books, which would have been 4 in Japan. i disgress. point is, i am insanely happy and cannot wait to lay my hands on the rest of the series, albeit slowly, otherwise i'll 1) use all my money and 2) run out of crazy 'cute' stuff to read.