Oh, Azumanga Daioh, why do you tease me so? That one scene with Yukari teasing and singing to Minamo about a “love letter” (she never says who wrote it, or who received it) inspired me to write this:

Sounding Off, Signing Off (Fanfiction.net link)

Category: Anime/Manga, Literature
Author: WillyFourEyes
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Tags: azumanga daioh, fanfiction, love letter, minamo kurosawa, yukari tanizaki

How weird. I was expecting there to be a really big downpour this afternoon, but I managed to get to the mall and back within two hours before anything bad happened. It’s still pretty cloudy outside, but there hasn’t been much rain yet here.

From today’s excursion, I managed to salvage Mai-HiME Vol. 6, Mai-Otome Vol. 3, and box sets for Full Metal Panic! and Gunslinger Girl. Suffice to say my DVD player will be very busy this week. In hindsight, I probably could have saved myself money by grabbing the Gunslinger Girl episodes individually from iTunes…they only cost $2 there. They’d probably be gone within a few months, though, so I think getting the actual DVDs might be better for me in the long run.

On the literature side, I got the Azumanga Daioh omnibus, which packs all four volumes of the manga into one gigantic 600+ book. It’s drawn in yonkoma (four-cell comic) format, which should still make it an easy read. Along with that, I also picked up Ouran High School Host Club Vol. 4 (in anticipation of Friday’s announcement of the anime version’s release) and Chibi Vampire Vol. 2 (while simultaneously lamenting Geneon’s collapse, which left the anime version of Karin unfinished). No boredom for me this week, no, sir!

Category: Anime/Manga, Shopping
Author: WillyFourEyes
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Tags: azumanga daioh, full metal panic, gunslinger girl, karin kanzuki, mai-hime, mai-otome, mall, ouran high school host club, vacation, weather

Okey-dokey. I’ve put up a few more stories in the last week that I’ve simul-posted on LiveJournal, two of which are 200 words or less. One is from Azumanga Daioh, centering around a little dream-like episode of Osaka’s, because she’s goofy like that. Another is from Suikoden, where Viktor and his Star Dragon Sword get into a little argument (yes, the sword can talk). I could get used to writing short vignettes like that. Then there’s my big in-progress Mai-HiME fanfic starring Mai and Natsuki. There is lots of kissing involved (16 chapters so far), but it’s all PG-13 stuff, because I suck at smut. I realize I made a few factual mistakes in previous chapters, so I’ll have to go correct them tonight or early tomorrow when I get a chance.

EDIT: The original version of this post linked to HTML pages that no longer exist on the server. The links have been changed to a place in the “Fiction” section of the blog.

Category: Anime/Manga, Literature, Video Games
Author: WillyFourEyes
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Tags: ayumu kasuga, azumanga daioh, drabbles, fanfiction, mai tokiha, mai-hime, natsuki, serials, star dragon sword, suikoden, viktor, writing