Stuff

Sorry for not posting anything for so long… My only excuse is, well, laziness. I was going to write this last night, but I was too busy watching British telly and Food Network.

Anime

OK, I haven’t really been watching much lately, except the stuff that comes on Adult Swim on Saturday nights. All I have to say about that is that Death Note is very close to its end, Code Geass is kind of cheesy, and I’m disappointed that the Pizza Hut references were edited out in the American release. Anyway, I’ll have a proper review very soon, because Lucky Star volume 2 and the final volume of Kanon are both being released tomorrow.

Manga

Both Yen Press and Del Rey have announced manga anthologies, titled Yen+ and Faust respectively. This is great news, because so far the only English-language manga anthologies available in the US so far are Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat, which aren’t really marketed towards hardcore otaku. Yen+ will have titles such as Bamboo Blade, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, Sumomo Momomo, Soul Eater, Night School, Maximum Ride, and others. Faust will have both manga and light novels serialized, such as the novel xxxHOLIC: Another HOLIC, from which there will be an excerpt in the first volume. These anthologies will be released in July and August respectively.

Music

A while back, I heard a certain iTunes commercial, which featured Coldplay’s song “Viva la Vida.” Now, I’m sure you’ve all seen the commercial, considering how frequently it comes up, but if you haven’t, you can find it on YouTube. Anyway, I googled Coldplay soon after seeing the commercial, and found that this was the only song by them that I liked very much. (I also discovered that their cover band, the Coldplayers is, in my opinion, slightly better than them, but I digress.) So, when their latest album came out, I checked it out, and found that most of the songs were pretty good. So I bought it. Apparently, this latest album is a big departure from their old ways, perhaps because Brian Eno is producing it, and it has create a bit of a schism in their fanbase. Personally, I think their newer work is better, but that’s probably because I was never a fan of them to begin with. Just my two cents.

Food

There’ve been a lot of frozen yogurt places cropping up lately, and I must say that I prefer Fraiche to Red Mango. It bothers me that there are no wet toppings at Red Mango, like fudge or fruit sauce. I don’t think either place has fudge, but at least Fraiche has fruit sauce. Another thing is that Fraiche has plain yogurt or chocolate, whereas Red Mango has plain or green tea, and chocolate beats green tea, hands down. also, I think the color palette of Red Mango (red, brown, and super-light pinkish brown) is weird.

So yeah, just some stuff.