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Originally Posted by Orca Misaki II

MBU Page 21: FIRE BOMBER!!

- The band Fire Bomber is more fully introduced.
- Introduction of the Melord, from which Duo will deploy at Kilimanjaro.
- CPO Lilia Flauberl (ZAFT) introduced.
- First use of a Windam.
- First actual meeting between Duo and Kamille.
- Maverick, AKA Captain Dyson, the Wild Eagle, returns.

Summary: In the end, Rei, Saito, James, and Kai all end up staying at the ORB Day Festival, although Kai never meets

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Giants/Patriots Superbowl. Two teams I really don't care about. However, I will be rooting for the Patriots since they played such a great game today. I'm sure a lot of New England fans will be thirsty for vengeance, five years ago these teams met here, and if I recall correctly that was the year the Patriots had their perfect season ruined at the very end of the road. It should be a fun game.

In other sports news, it looks like the Republican election process might hold my interest ...

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Yesterday I read all of Spice & Wolf II by Isuna Hasekura and Keito Koume (ISBN 978-0-316-10232-2). See "What a Beautiful Sky..." (August 2010) for my very brief review on the first volume.

Reading about the franchise, we are well past the peak of the S&W hype. Or at the very least, Japan is. The two anime seasons aired in 2008 and 2009, respectively. The original run of the light novel series, the basis of the whole franchise, has concluded recently. Luckily for ...

Updated 26 Mar 2011 at 8:15 pm by Katajainen

Tags: comics, light novels, music, spice and wolf, youtube

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Yesterday I finished reading "Kapteeni Britannia" (ISBN 978-952-233-067-3). The book is a Finnish-language hardcover collection of comic stories about Marvel's Captain Britain -- more specifically, containing the "Jaspers' Warp" storyline written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Alan Davis, originally published from 1982 through 1984.

"Jasper's Warp" makes for a very enjoyable reading experience, somewhere halfway between "Superman: Red Son" and ...

Updated 9 Mar 2011 at 12:16 am by Katajainen

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A few comics deserve to be listed here. Too bad I cannot spend much time on my diary these days.
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Finished a week ago:

KIO, SHIMOKU [2005]: Genshiken. The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. 1. ISBN 0-345-48169-0.

A must-read for every comics enthusiast who wants to understand what the Japanese otaku subculture looks like from inside. Dōjinshi and statuettes, boys who never get girls, sweating at crowded comikets. In addition ...

Updated 14 Jan 2011 at 4:04 pm by Katajainen

Tags: comics, genshiken, lewis trondheim, music, youtube

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