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With that said, Merry Christmas!

I hope that you'll also have a wonderful Year of the Snake.

I hope that you had a wonderful birthday as of late and I really gotta check out Ghost in the Shell: Innocence some time (RIP to Atsuko Tanaka and at least she had a role in Valkyria Chronicles).

I've been so busy with knifemaking and art that I almost forgot about Fafner The Beyond.

I hope that future Macross movies that Den of Geek told me about years ago will start getting released next year. I actually can't wait for Year of the Dragon to end if it means better movies will be made.

One movie from this year that I would recommend to my busy North Carolina friend is Gundam SEED Freedom. Having read so many manga I've never heard of.

I may play around with my charcoal pencils soon enough.

Happy birthday!!! Hope you have an amazing day :)

Not sure if video games or JRPGs are your thing, but I would sure love to see Armed Fantasia (the Wild Arms spiritual successor) get released around my 36th birthday. Too bad Bee Train won't be around to adapt or make a standalone story based on that spiritual successor of an underrated wild west franchise. The only Wild Arms anime is that standalone Twilight Venom and that was back in Y2K.

I thought the animations (movements in general) in that Wild Arms 3 intro was flawless and that's what I'd like to see more often in anime. The character designs in that game were way ahead of its time. IMO, the 90s didn't end until 2003. In general! More neo-western stuff would be great to see.

The first three Wild Arms are basically a western/steampunk hybrid. They were a new kind of western overall. Kind of like Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Outlaw Star were several decades ago.

All of a sudden, I'm remembering that Christopher Cross song and that is the kind of song I would play when reading Copperhead.

Said shoujo fangirl or Elise would love to see the return of Wild Arms under a different name too. Will be 38 next month and she's been watching anime for a very long time too. She deserves Armed Fantasia on her birthday.

It would be Hyper Police and I can't wait to get into Saga some time. Five other indie comics at least that are potentially similar as well.

I also can't wait to read at least 12 other indie comics that are also potentially similar to either Solty Rei or Twilight Venom (Wild Arms in general as well). Definitely around Year of the Snake or next year. After I finish my Devilman kick as well and I'll get into alternate Devilman stories much later (I only need the original, Shin Devilman, Devilman Lady, Devilman Saga and Violence Jack)

We know that there are more indie comics than just Witchblade, The Crow and Hellboy. All of which have adaptations and Witchblade got two.

Anyway milady! So what do you think stories centered on outworldly creatures catching bad guys in a dystopian futuristic world where humans are at the brink of extinction?

Definitely one of the best things about the 2003 anime.

My supertomboyish, big Virgo friend that likes some of the same light novels as you told me that she hates Brotherhood because of the jarring slapstick humor. So she prefers the 2003 anime and those first two PS2 games' stories. She generally loves sci-fi, psychological and unconventional anime, same with manga.

Megumi Toyoguchi should have had a chance to reprise her role as Winry in Brotherhood, but at least her acting roles are mixed. Kids should know her by now as Dawn.

Other than that, my German-American friend would totally agree with you about Greed.

Sagittarius women seem to have keen interest in art by the way. Said shoujo fangirl or Ellie that I've known for a decade is easily drawn to very beautiful manga art.

I wonder what she thinks of the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth remake and shoujo is easily her specialty.

Huge CLAMP nerd as well. She should also read Hyper Police between work hours as well because the demon ladies working as bounty hunters are relatable and the artwork is like flawless. I can easily relate to Natsuki's struggles in a racist world that hates talking demons trying to live a humanly life.

That same tomboy loves the fact that Hyper Police's adaptation has Yuko Miyamura and Kotono Mitsuishi (having reprised her role in the recent Gundam SEED movie) in the cast. Yes, huge EVA nerd as well. She loves the Rebuild movies more than literally everyone else.

Most people think that those movies are all style and no substance like the don't know modern blockbusters.

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Welcome back milady! Didn't know you were online right now. Anyway, what do you love most about Greed? My German-American friend told me that she loves that character. Same age as that one shoujo fangirl and Potterhead that is working overtime while reading manga that I haven't seen in three years. Born on December also.

Aside from shoujo manga, that same shoujo fangirl in her late 30s also loves FMA, the manga, that is. She also loves the standalone stories in those PS2 games that Square Enix brought to America decades ago. Crimson Elixir has the best story out of that FMA game franchise.

I look forward to reading indie comics after Oh! My Goddess. Transmetropolitan should be as interesting as The Crow and Witchblade (I love that Gonzo adaptation). Wanted also sounds very interesting which must be cooler than Avengers. Even League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was cooler than Avengers and the MCU.

Good morning milady!

I haven't seen Bravern yet, but it looks a lot like Sunrise's Yuusha franchise and its got some Dai-Guard vibes too. I might check it out after I finish reading Ah! My Goddess, all 48 of those volumes.

Omoide Emanon sounds interesting and the plot also sounds cryptic, kind of like Armored Core (a mecha franchise that I easily put over Gundam). I might get into that some time after I finish Ah! My Goddess.

So what do you love most about Omoide Emanon? I think that's the manga my long time, semitomboyish friend from North Carolina is into besides a bunch of manga I've never heard of.

Aside from Silent Möbius, Hyper Police and Venus Wars (said semitomboy knows Yoshikazu Yasuhiro via Gundam: The Origin) are some of the most obscure manga I've ever read. Even Sorcerer Hunters was that obscure for me.

Other graphic novels that I can't wait to read are Wanted, Transmetropolitan, Saga and others that I've seen in an article about comics that deserve movie adaptations. Why League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was featured there is beyond me and everyone knows what that is.

You're welcome! Thank you for liking it as well!

Hello again milady! How are you doing this month?

I got this 80/20 Japanese book and I love it. I still love that Oxford: Japanese Verbs and Grammar though.

I'm also about 40% done with Silent Möbius QD. After that, I may re-watch some old favorite anime, finish Witch From Mercury and maybe check out the fourth Ryo-Ohki OVA. I also want to see if there are any other interesting RAW manga and some non-Japanese graphic novels (can't wait to check out Transmetropolitan, Wanted, Saga, etc).

One thing that never change, is that I'm still a huge fan of Yoko Kanno.

Truth be told, I haven't and I'm not usually into isekai stuff.

I don't remember who said mecha is predictable, but that person is mistaken. So far, isekai is the genre that I find very predictable. I didn't even like War On Geminar which was nothing like Tenchi Muyo. Whatever AIC was thinking and War On Geminar was way more boring than Garzey's Wing. Garzey's Wing may be isekai, but at least it isn't harem like those light novel adaptations and Tomino is a decent writer. Somewhat of a pioneer for the anime industry.

One reason why I watched Vision of Escaflowne years ago was because I'm a big fan of Maaya Sakamoto. Her music is like a lullaby to me most of the time. My friend said the ending was rushed, but I find the last ten Kurogane no Linebarrel chapters to be much more rushed (if the finale were better, then I would have rated it a 9/10).

If I want a complete fantasy, then I'll play Alter Code f (best remake ever and Naruke-sama's music is the best; too bad the Japanese copy wasn't available; unlike WA2, this remake has furigana in the script or dialogue). Which I'm slowly replaying while getting to the Silent Möbius QD chapter finale.

Speaking of Silent Möbius, I'm actually the hang of reading it in its respective language, Japanese. In Japan, 藍菁 (some Cantonese which I confused for essential kanji some months ago) or Lum Chang would literally mean indigo turnip. :D

It was hard to read that small katakana or furigana next to those two Cantonese characters. So yes milady, I don't know Cantonese except for the fact that Jackie Chan speaks that southern Chinese dialect. Everyone in northern China (some southern Russians are more familiar with Mandarin being so close) speaks Mandarin, the true basis of jōyō kanji and Korean.

I would probably learn Mandarin over Cantonese and Southern Min someday because of its strong connection to jōyō kanji.