Animedragon

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While not the first manga I bought it is the first, and only, original Japanese manga I've bought. I got all five volumes from a Japanese bookshop in London and each has a nice glossy full colour card dust jacket. I can't read Japanese but I did find the English translations for each volume on the Net and printed them out. This must have been before the English version was available as I wouldn't have brought them if I'd already got the English version. I did subsequently buy the English editions, I think they came out about a year later.

Dedicated

Welcome to the forum. Pull up a cushion, or a chair if sitting on the floor isn't your thing, and make yourself at home. As to favourite anime, my all time favourites are Clannad and Clannad After Story. My list of other favourites varies from time to time because I like so many series, currently my list includes Card Captor Sakura, Fushigi Yugi, Magic Knight Rayearth, EF A Tale of Memories, Saikano, Yuru Camp and Kanon.

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It's cloudy, dull and raining. I knew the warm sunny weather wouldn't last long.... ...our British weather is (in)famous for it's ever-changing nature. Which is why it's the number one topic of conversation.

Fashion

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I'm rewatching Hyouka and finding it as enjoyable second time round as it was the first time. I really like the interactions of the two main characters, Hotaro Oreki is focused on what he calls 'saving energy', which most people would define as 'being lazy', however like a true lazy person he will always weigh up the effort required to do something against the effort of refusing to do something. Then there's Eru Chitanda, a bright energetic girl with an insatiable curiosity and desire to know answers to any mystery she encounters. When Chitanda utters the phrase "I'm curious" you can see the terror strike into Oreki's heart as he knows that her insistence, and her sweet smile, will obliterate any resistance he has and that the line of least effort is to go along with her scheme. As for the mysteries themselves, they're not all that mysterious but they are well presented and believable as the sort of mysteries that high school students would encounter.

Restoration

Expulsion

Still warm and sunny.

Yesterday

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Grand Canyon

That's odd, I'm sure I posted this earlier today but it seems to have disappeared into an alternative world. So I'll try again. The character I most relate to is Rin Shima from Yuru Camp. Like me she's an introvert who is happiest doing her own thing in her own time on her own. But, also like me, she's not anti-social and she will join in with other people and go out with them if she's asked and given the opportunity to decline and is not forced to join in. She is softly spoken and is willing to share her knowledge and interests with people if they're interested, but she won't force herself on people although she does care for her friends, often quietly and sometimes secretly.

The character I most relate to is Rin Shima from Yuru Camp. Like me she's an introvert who is happiest doing her own thing in her own time on her own. But, also like me, she's not anti-social and she will join in with other people and go out with them if she's asked and given the opportunity to decline and is not forced to join in. She is softly spoken and is willing to share her knowledge and interests with people if they're interested, but she won't force herself on people although she does care for her friends, often quietly and sometimes secretly.

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I've now finished watching both seasons of Yuru Camp, the Yuru Camp movie and the Room Camp shorts along with the bonus episode featuring Rin and a three wheeled bike. This is such an excellent series and I hope the rumours of a third season being in production are true. At times I wondered if the series was more about outdoor cooking than camping because the girls certainly like their food (especially Nadeshiko) and seemed to spend almost as much time planning their menu as they did planning their camping trip. But their main aim was to have as much fun spending time together as friends and doing what they loved doing. Even Rin joined in on occasion, which proves that introverts aren't anti-social loners, they're willing to join in with a group but are just as happy with their own company and doing their own thing. The one thing they really don't like is other people forcing them to join in.

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