Juniper Berries, vol. III

Last night I watched "Gelato (Ice Cream)", the sixth episode of the first season of the "Gunslinger Girl" anime. GG is one of the best Japanese animated series I have seen so far: slow-paced when it comes to plot, but amazingly atmosphere-intensive.

On the 29th of December last year, I bought a few used comics albums, including the three volumes of "Le Monde d'Edena" by Moebius that were translated into Finnish as "Moebius: Jean Giraudin kootut fantasiat" ...

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Recently, I have returned to the "Sweet Blue Flowers" (Aoi Hana) manga by Takako Shimura after quite a while.

Most of chapters 27 through 33 have been totally hooking material -- I actually came here so as to be able to stop reading for now and spare the rest for later. I had forgotten how it is when Shimura lets her stories roll on for real. There have not even been any great turning points since

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Fumi's confession

in chapter 25, just steady steps forward, ...

Updated 29 Dec 2010 at 2:02 pm by Katajainen

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Today I finished reading the first volume of "Karin" by Yuna Kagesaki (in Finnish translation, ISBN 978-952-16-1216-9; better known to Tokyopop readers by the English title "Chibi Vampire"). In Finland, "Karin" has been published only since last year, and I think I recently saw a new volume at a convenience store. However, I am reading (barely) used books, sold to me by a young manga fan who would rather have money for some new video game than keep this part of his ...

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I joined the Danbooru community in August 2009, roughly half a year ago.

Selected current stats:

• privileged account -- level 2 starting from the bottom
• 9 note edits, most of them translations from Finnish
• 15 image posts, 12 of them rated "safe"
• 80 wiki edits, largely basic info on copyrights* and characters
• 107 forum posts, largely discussing tagging problems
• 1,000 tag edits**

The original ...

Updated 12 Feb 2010 at 10:04 am by Katajainen

Tags: comics, danbooru, ecchi, nbb, touhou

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