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A small not unpleasant melancholy all yesterday, caused I think by going through my Saiyuuki guzu/ freebie files to find properly resonant homoerotic stickers to adorn Tav and Kiro's wedding poem. They come from ancient copies of Animage, mostly, in a 'Yes Virginia there was a time when I had a subscription to Animage and bicycled down to Sanko every month, or every few months, to pick up my copies' way; and there was a time when my main squeeze was an anime that featured prominently in Animage, which consequently offered many posters and postcards and seal sets of the anime version of the guys. All this happened in some sunny far off era, eight years ago, when I still copied my raw tapes for people because there was no other way then to get hold of them. That's all gone now, become infinitely distant and hence dear. I can't even remember when I cancelled my Animage subscription. Probably when

shiny_monkey came home in '06 and I no longer had a source for the stuff.

But those little stickers capped from the second season closing credits and all the pre-Kamisama episodes reminded me of what it was all about, way back when.

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^__^ ... makes me fell all nostalgic now ... hee!!!

Has it been that long?! Gosh ...

Ah, the VCR. A machine one must tiresomely wind and rewind. And these days everyone watches anime on their computers, though I've often wondered just *who* are the generous souls who get the ep off Japanese TV and transform it (how, I've always wondered) into an e-friendly product and sub it within hours and put it up on the Net? That kind of devotion-- hell, that kind of Japanese fluency-- didn't exist eight years ago.

It has been that long. Even from here eight years seems a long time, though four years ago was yesterday.

Luckily nostalgia is an ever renewable resource.