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Well, I succumbed to fate and bought Super Mario Galaxy 2. A lot of the music is just slightly different from the corresponding music from the first game, which is a little uncanny valley, but it's still awesome. Every galaxy is its own little showcase of cleverness. I checked out the critical reviews last night with a little hesitation, but it turns out that they somehow loved it even more than the first one.

I hear the new chapter of FMA is out. I'm not going to be available tonight, so I'm kind of hoping it doesn't get scanlated just yet. While I'm here, though, I should mention for the benefit of those who haven't been keeping up: this will be the last chapter of FMA. It is ending this month. So if you fell behind during the Briggs arc or whatever (which, I would have too if it hadn't been for Armstrong), or were going to read it but wanted to wait until it was over, now is a great time to catch up. Something tells me the spoiler warning period is going to be short.

One of my coworkers a few cubes over is singing to herself. Why would you do that?

Back when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was just a twinkle in J.K. Rowling's eye, my friends and I predicted that the only way Snape could survive the series would be if literally everyone else died. In that scenario, the last two books would be called Harry Potter and the Final Battle and Severus Snape and the Graveyard at Hogwarts.

This penultimate chapter of FMA is called "The Final Battle."

( _____ and the Graveyard in Amestris? )

I dunno, I don't really have much to say about this chapter ( other than that... )

The Viz translations are back to a six-month release schedule. Nooooo! But I guess I won't mind having new FMA to look forward to after June.

I'm going to try to finish Ace Attorney Investigations today, but definitely sometime this week. (Spring break wooo) Right now I'm on Middle, Part 3 of case 5. It's so damn good. So. Damn. Good.

I have made a triumphant return to livejournal! Posting, that is, not reading--I never miss a day of all your lovely posts. ♥

Anyway!

( I see what you're doing, FMA. )

FMA:B 27 has been, perhaps, the most badass clip show ever conceived. I am not kidding here; the art is fantastic, the framing device focuses on characters that could always use more screen time, and one of the clips is the scene where Roy shows off his ridiculously godlike abs. It's brilliant. There are even new opening and closing sequences, which I love to itty bitty bits and am totally going to memorize the music to, like I did with Again, but UNLIKE Again, these sequences are unlikely to overshadow the episodes themselves. Not that they don't have their merits--check it out, my icon is from the new opener! :DDD

So while I'm talking about FMA, I might as well elaborate a bit on my original post about chapter 100.

( spoilers )

This chapter was about ( spoilers ).

When I was talking to clodia_risa the other day, she suggested that the FMA: Brotherhood people were only phoning it in until the storyline started to diverge from the old anime, at which point it would drastically improve. After watching this episode, which covers chapters 17 to 19, I suspect she's right.

I had a Chipotle burrito for dinner. I don't even like Chipotle all that much; it's their stupid new radio ad campaign that's getting me. I'm just driving along, minding my own business, when one of those ads comes on, and it's not like they're doing anything exciting; it's just guys talking about what they put in their burritos, and I'm all "mmm, sour cream" and the next thing I know, I'm like, oh god, I want a burrito. I am so mad at myself right now.

The new chapter of FMA is out! Even though the wait seemed shorter this month (as it does when you spend it marathoning the anime and then doing a full reread of the manga), it still couldn't come out fast enough. Oh, hey, according to an interview Arakawa gave, the ending is going to be a bit farther off than she was planning. Yay! So maybe it'll be more than a hundred chapters. Anyway, reactions to the new one!

( Excellent, this chapter pissed me off in the beginning rather than at the end, like the chapters of FMA that piss me off usually do )

A definite improvement over the last couple chapters. Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that the story's winding down.

( Lots to say this month! )