At the beginning of the month, Saori made a note on her blog about a manga she won in another blog's contest. The manga itself is Made in Spain, which of course piqued my curiosity and made me go to the publisher's website.

Among the titles NowEvolution is printing, Nomadas caught my eye. A little tinkering in their site and a couple of e-mails later, the book was in it's merry way. Their final e-mail was that they were going to send some more promotional stuff via snail mail. Whatever it is, why couldn't they send it in the same envelope as the book is beyond me

In any case, the book is now with me. Picked it up early saturday morning. Yay!.

That's the main guy, Zhyre, on the cover. It will be 5 volumes apparently. The story's flow was a bit jumpy and things were confusing at times. Nothing that can't be fixed with another read (and I tend to re-read them a lot anyways). Interesting enough to make me keep an eye out for the next one.

Which reminds me that I also have to pick up the second Looking for the Sun volume... but for the Sweatdrop titles I like to take advantage of the free shipping, so I actually have to buy the dollar equivalent to £15.00 or more. Adding the first volumes of Rainbow Carousel and Ambient Rhythm works perfectly. I only have to save up a bit, which is hard considering...

1- The bills I have to pay. Electricity consumption doesn't seem to decrease, despite our attempts to actually reduce consumption. And with the subsidy killed, the electric bill increased more. By Frith, May last year I was paying around $115, and this year it's $140. We're barely home during the day, dammit! Water and phone bills are within reasonable levels. In fact, for the phone bill I only pay the set minimum fee since we rarely use up the basic 100 minutes.

It's the electricity one I'm really worried about.

and 2- It's Reborn doujin season. I just pre-ordered the hard copy of the Vongola History Lesson, which will have extras exclusive to the hard copy, and then there's a G27 doujin that looks interesting.

Speaking of Reborn, if both Dino and Squalo managed to sneak into the Choice battlefield, I wonder if Gamma sneaked in as well. He'll probably want to see the whole thing through to the end and rescue Uni. And he did see Byakuran's huge holographic face over the shrine, and he probably had enough time to get there.

Now, regarding the whole Funimation thing. To make a long story short, Funi had a deal with Toei and Fuji TV that would allow them to stream the subbed version of the most One Piece episode an hour after it japanese airing. In the States and Canada, of course. Such a deal would apparently start this weekend, with One Piece 403. Turns out that someone got into Funi's servers and leaked the episode on Saturday, before it even aired in Japan. This has made Funi stop all One Piece streams for the time being, until the matter is resolved, because it also means problems for Toei and Fuji TV.

Personally, I don't care about One Piece itself. And, though I don't love or hate Funi, I'm still annoyed over the whole Reborn thing, but I'm still hoping there's a dvd release that I can buy. Apparently it won't affect the Reborn subs (I learned that Funi is the one subbing it). But I still think that leaking an anime episode instead of waiting for the legal stream (or the rip of the legal stream, for those of us who are region locked) was pretty low. Nothing to gain from that, and all the people supporting the legal stream got affected

As we say in spanish: Pagaron justos por pecadores.

Hopefully this thing will get solved. I'd hate to see the series I like be affected by this.

And tomorrow is the new President's inauguration. I really hope I'm wrong about him.

Feeling: calm

Now playing: 88 (LM.C.)