Oct. 14th, 2008

miko2: Ranma disguised as a schoolgirl to fool Ryoga (Default)
One of my recent obsessions is the manga Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori. I was introduced to this by my old roommate Tom, who picked up the complete first season of the anime series sight unseen cheaply and from a dubious source. What he got was subtitled in English by someone for whom English was not their first language -- or possibly even their second. I suspect the translator was named Babelfish. Anyway, the horrible translation made a lot of the subtleties incomprehensible, but the overall broad humor of the show was very evident -- the show is absolutely hilarious.

I ordered the first two manga off Amazon that same night. One of the two companies refunded me immediately, as they didn't have volume 2 to sell after all. The other company never sent me anything. I waited some 4 weeks until I was past Amazon's very generous "must be delivered by" date, sent two e-mails to the seller, got no response, filed a claim with Amazon which got an immediate "Oh, sorry, is there a problem?" from the seller and then a refund.. and I ordered the manga again, first 3 volumes this time.

Those came a week ago, and I've already ordered the next four. The manga series is still coming out -- volume 12 is due out this Fall -- but I haven't seen it for sale at Borders or Waldenbooks. Probably Kinokuniya has it, but I haven't been there lately. Anyway, ordering it through my comic shop would take longer and cost more.

Fun series though!

[livejournal.com profile] chuck_melville lent me the first two seasons of Heroes on Sunday. I've watched three episodes so far. Already it seems to suffer from the "character who can't be killed gets to be maimed repeatedly in as many ways as we can think of" syndrome.

Also I already have a theory that the troubled Las Vegas mom isn't just being possessed by an alternate personality, but by her husband somehow.

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