{"id":445,"date":"2006-09-14T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/09\/14\/you-know-you-spend-too-much-on-manga-when\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T01:42:15","slug":"you-know-you-spend-too-much-on-manga-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/09\/14\/you-know-you-spend-too-much-on-manga-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you spend too much on manga when…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dropped by Kinokuniya to place an order for Zero no Tsukaima<\/strong> vol.2 and 3 today and pick up the October Issue of Newtype. As usual, I ended up with unexpected expenditures.<\/p>\n

\"Money!\"<\/p>\n

Let me tell you a story.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\/me walks past the new releases.<\/font>
\nMe<\/strong>: “ZOMG Honey & Clover final volume!”
\n*Honey & Clover Vol.10 get*<\/em>
\n\/me walks past the magazine shelf.<\/font>
\n*Newtype October get*<\/em>
\n\/me walks to Japanese counter to place order.<\/font>
\nStaff member A is busy attending to another customer (who, coincidentally, is from my school).
\n\/me waits.<\/font>
\nStaff member B<\/strong>: “Excuse me, are you Mr. (my name)?”
\n\/me goes wtf?<\/font>
\nMe<\/strong>: “Ermmm… yeah.”
\nStaff member B<\/strong>: “The book you ordered has arrived. Do you wish to collect it today?”
\n\/me looks at the book. It’s Genshiken Vol.8.<\/font>
\nMe<\/strong>: “Okay, sure.”
\n\/me takes a few minutes to fish out the correct order slip from my wallet.<\/font>
\n*Genshiken Vol.8 get*<\/em>
\nStaff member A is done and I finally get to place my order.<\/p>\n

You know you spend too much on manga when you have six Kinokuniya order slips in your wallet and the counter person knows you by name.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m somewhat disappointed with Honey & Clover<\/strong>‘s ending. Somehow it lacked the impact that I expected. The ending is… unfulfilling-ly realstic. That’s how I would put it. The unrelated short story \u00e3\u20ac\u0152\u00e6\u02dc\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u201a\u00aa\u00e3\u0192\u0161\u00e3\u0192\u00a9\u00e3\u20ac\u008d (The Stars’ Opera) that was included as the last chapter is quite good, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I dropped by Kinokuniya to place an order for Zero no Tsukaima vol.2 and 3 today and pick up the October Issue of Newtype. As usual, I ended up with unexpected expenditures. Let me tell you a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14],"tags":[127,235,275,88,60,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}