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School is back in session which means this is gonna get a lot harder to keep going. I'll try to keep rolling but last year I got like 2 books done the whole school year >_>

Also I am pretty sure this project was at least slightly responsible for getting me to pick Disgaea 2 back up lol

Escaflowne was a super good guess, but alas we are not that far yet (I also wanna say we don't have the manga? Wifebolo really likes it but I think she's only into the anime IIRC)

.hack//Legend of the Twilight Vol. 1

Whatever happened to .hack? I feel like it was a really big deal with multiple game series and anime and manga and a CCG and then it just evaporated overnight. I liked the first game but never managed to clear the last level so I never moved on to the others. Every so often I think about getting back into it but then all I ever see in stores is, like, volume 3 of G.U. for 80 bucks. Sounds like a job for Let's Plays, but anyway manga.

This wasn't AS good as I remember it, but still a pretty fun time. Shugo and Rena are a brother and sister who win a contest to get Kite and Black Rose's avatars, and I guess that enough time has passed since the OG that their deeds have become shrouded in myth and legend. To be fair I remember virtually nothing about the plot of the smidge I played, so we're on even ground! Rena's into it but Shugo is more into girls. This volume is mostly expository stuff- Aria and the Twilight Bracelet are back and nobody really seems to know why, even people who lived through the first round of stuff. We meet our supporting cast- there's Mireille (IIRC a very blatant expy of Mistral), Orca (a female werewolf...wait wasn't there a dude named Orca originally?), Balmung (I don't remember what he was before but now he's an admin), and Hotaru (a pacifist Wave Master). We have a few seasonal events that don't amount to a ton but are still fun. Is there more to the legendary avatars than just cosmetics? Why are Aria and Data Draining back? Hmmm.

One of the things that jumped out at me was the fanservice. There wasn't a lot of it by volume (unless you count Orca's outfit), but it was rather gratuitous even by anime standards, and was all featuring pretty young characters. (again, with the exception of Orca) (well, we only know Rena's age I think, and everybody is behind avatars, but the avatars don't exactly look legal age either >_>) This was pretty sweet when I was in roughly the same age bracket, and less so coming back now that I'm twice everybody's age <_< On the plus side, now jokes that went over my head back in the day make sense! (Mireille just happens to have a [rare] dog collar handy; somebody gets accused of playing one-handed) I'm also wondering if we're getting an incest route- it looks like we're building to Shugo/Aria and Rena/Balmung (....wait how old is Balmung) but I am getting some distinctly beyond-sibling vibes too. >_> But yeah I have been realizing this summer that there is probably something substantial to the whole complaint about anime tending to sexualize minors. I'm willing to let it slide a bit for like 16-18 but it doesn't seem to stop there -_-

My rating: 7/10
Wouldn't mind seeing more of this and I like the artwork. Let's just have less fanservice and more getting around to the overarching plot.


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