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[flemmings]

I see how you draw djs about Bleach. I don't see how you write fanfic. The characters are still visually impressive, emotionally minimal, and have the onstage time of summer lightning. Blink and they're gone. This may be the result of reading in tank rather than monthly, and maybe they'll all come back again for a huge company reprise. But at the moment I'm thinking fondly back to Hikaru no Go, whose pace and focus makes it look like Lawrence of Arabia next to Bleach's Star Wars.

The problem is that The Beguiling doesn't have vol 13. If I skip a volume of HnG as I did accidentally at one point, not much has changed. If I skip a volume of Bleach I may find myself in another dimension at the start of vol 14. And The Beguiling is the only store that converts US$ to Canuck at the current rate they bought it for from the publisher, not the laughably outdated figure given on the cover. 7.95US is not 12.95CD any more, you money-grubbing twits.

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[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

You could always pick it up at the end of the month in NYC. Or I could mail you a copy now.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I should say, I have a 20% off coupon in my purse that I was going to throw away ...

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the offer but I did find vol 13 today. Should read my mail before I go book-crawling. I would say, don't waste coupons, buy something else with it- but if it's only for VIZ manga I can see there might not be anything you want... ^_^

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! I get lots of coupons but there's very little I want - and other than Hikaru no Go, none of it's in English.

I picked up the character guide for HnG in Chinese, by the way. Quite naturally, it's a retrospective and completely spoils the entire thing, but it's also fascinating. I'm snickering over Hikaru and Akira's kanji names, I keep thinking 'shiny and sparkly are best rivals'.