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Happy holidays! ♥ I hope you are all having a great time. Hopefully relaxing and enjoyable. :)

yuletide fics are live! Here's the collection. I received an amaaaaaazing Chihayafuru fic focused on Taichi coming to terms with Arata and Chihaya wanting him to be part of their relationship. I had a silly grin on my face the entire time I was reading because, omg, Taaaichi. XD;;

What friends have I who know my heart (5098 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chihayafuru
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ayase Chihaya/Mashima Taichi/Wataya Arata
Characters: Mashima Taichi, Wataya Arata, Ayase Chihaya
Additional Tags: Love, Love Confessions, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, First Kiss, Introspection, Future Fic
Summary:

When Arata and Chihaya play karuta, it's like they're connected not just to the cards but to each other, and when you watch them you're connected too. At least that's how it feels to Taichi. So he reads for them every chance he gets, like right now, and every time he does he knows there's no way for him ever to quit.

"No, we—" Still standing, Arata cuts himself off with an inhale. Taichi looks up at him but he doesn't continue.

It's Chihaya who says, "We have something to talk to you about."

There are a total of 6!!! Chihayafuru fics. I haven't even looked at what else is in the archive yet. *___* (But now I kind of want to read Chihayafuru again...)

I don't have any fic to post today in celebration, though now that Legend of Sun Knight V6C4 has been released over at Prince Revolution, the English fandom now knows about Metal's secret! (As well as Sun's and Judgment's secrets, wow, this is certainly a chapter of secrets... But haha, Metal's definitely left the biggest impression on me) I guess I can crosspost A Taste of More over at ffnet now. XD; Even though it is definitely not a fic that's very suitable for the holidays, pffft.

I am actually watching quite a list this season (for me, at least!) Listed in the order they air (Monday first). The question now is if I will be able to keep up. This is around the time when I start falling behind. XD;

Before this season started, I had my eye on Arata Kangatari and Karneval. I ended up not following Karneval (perhaps I'll catch up at a later date...), and Arata Kangatari is only so-so. I don't know how I ended up watching all these other series... and three mecha? What in the world... (I don't even like mecha all that much! But perhaps my tastes are changing.) I'm also belatedly watching Uta no Prince-sama and No. 6.

( Arata Kangatari, Hataraku Maou-sama, Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince, Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru, Devil Survivor 2, Chihayafuru, Kakumeiki Valvrave, Uchuu Kyoudai, Ore no Imouto wa Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai, Shingeki no Kyoujin, Suisei no Gargantia, Uta no Prince-sama, No 6 )

I've been reading as many Yuletide fics as possible, but I've only reached L in the alphabet... (I started alphabetically, though I did skip around for fandoms I looked forward to a lot). This is probably all I'll get around to reading before reveals. ): Time to return to writing!

I adored the following stories a ton. <3

( a few fic recs )

Bakuman
Finished watching season 2! Ending was awesome! Very touching moment at the end. Great place to stop. I've only just realized that Shizuka Ryu was completely skipped. Makes sense, since he doesn't impact the story much. I wonder if Shiratori's story will be animated? I'm thinking probably, since it throws a wrench into Saiko and Shujin's partnership. Nanamine spotted at the end! Totally looks like a bad guy. XD;

Chihayafuru
Oh gosh, this series. <33333 Episode 24 didn't feel like it was leading to an ending at all, so I wondered how it would be possible to wrap things up in Episode 25. I dearly hoped we wouldn't get an abrupt ending. The ending was pretty good and made things feel like they've come full circle with how we're starting a new school year. All the characters continue working toward their goals. I really feel like we've only caught a glimpse of their journey. There's still so much more, so I hope one day there will be a season 2 where we can visit these characters again. Especially Taichi. XD;

New Prince of Tennis
13 episodes was seriously too short. Also, all the good matches were cut!! I've heard that they'll be included as specials... but narrative-wise, it would have made much more sense to have them done when they were supposed to happen. Less disappointment too. This series had a ridiculous amount of still screens, but what can you do when there are so many characters... I wished characters on screen were at least all voiced... I thought hitting the shots in the forest was silly. It made no sense to me for tennis balls to come at them while they're running like that. It would take some timing for their opponents to be able to hit balls to them like that! I was hoping the series would expand on scenes, but instead it cut scenes out... the only expanded scene I really liked a lot was the ina-bauer one. Still... I'm hoping we'll get another season some day!

SKET Dance
...has not ended! \o/ Yay yay! Another year of SKET Dance! But episode 51 seriously felt like an ending episode, and if that had been the last episode, it would have felt perfect (which I think was probably the original plan when SKET Dance was slated for 51 episodes). This episode was all about Tsubaki. <333 He and Bossun write that ridiculous poster together. I can't stop laughing about it. And then, it was the "nice to meet you" part. My teeeaaars. Finally, the first opening came on, with scenes from the entire series in the background. Totally felt like the very end. Good thing it's not. XD I look forward to what the new opening will be~

Hunter x Hunter and Area no Kishi are still ongoing. Those will be the only two ongoing series from previous seasons I'm following now! I fell behind with Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, Poyopoyo, and Recorder to Randoseru (how did I manage to fall behind with a 3 minute per episode series...).

New season, I'm definitely following Kimi to Boku season 2, Kuroko no Basuke (sports anime! \o/ I've read a good chunk of the manga, Kuroko is unique~) and will probably follow Eureka Seven AO (no clue if it's an actual sequel or not of E7). Don't know what else I might check out and attempt to follow. Ooooh, but KENN is voicing one of the brothers in Uchuu Kyoudai (the premise sounds interesting too, two brothers wanting to become astronauts) so I might check that out. Other series I might check out: Hiiro no Kakera (I like otome games and reverse harems), Accel World (virtual worlds!), Ginga e Kickoff (sports anime!)... and then I have no idea what else. :3;;

Only Natsume s4 has started so far, but I plan on checking these out this season~

-Natsume Yuujinchou season 4 - 4 seasons! That's amazing. (I keep hoping some of these other series I followed will magically receive further anime adaptions, though it's so rare that it happens...). I've followed Natsume for 3 seasons already and loved it. No reason I wouldn't watch this. ;)

-New Prince of Tennis - Prince of Tennis is starting again! :DDDDD Aiba Hiroki is voicing Irie Kanata. The Shin Tenipuri manga is even more ridiculous than its predecessor... so I'm looking forward to how that'll get adapted, haha... I'm hoping that the matches will be more developed (and slowed down a bit) as they were kind of glossed over in the manga. And yay for more Tenipuri music~, because there is so going to be tons of new songs released because of this. I'm also going to be stalking the seiyuu because I see they're already talking about Tenipuri again. :)

-Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou / The Daily Lives of High School Boys - I watched the PV released before the season started and thought it was pretty hilarious. I think this will be good for lifting my mood. XD;

-Recorder to Randoseru - Another comedy/gag show. I don't know much about this, but apparently the brother is 11 and the sister is 17, but they do not look like their ages at all (the brother looks much older and the sister looks super young). Probably a lot of age-related mishaps and misunderstandings will result from this, which could turn out pretty amusing!

-Area no Kishi - OMG OMG Area no Kishi, I did not see an adaptation coming (I'm so many volumes behind on the manga... maybe I should start collecting it again), but oh gosh, this will be good if the anime follows the manga in any way! It's a very dramatic soccer series, with a punch to the gut in the very beginning of the series, though I don't know if the twist will be included in the first episode or not. If I remember correctly, it happens near the end of volume 1 (or was it volume 2...). But it completely knocked the wind out of me. This is no ordinary soccer series! (When I was reading it, I was enjoying the cute bond between brothers "let's play soccer together! :D" and then BAM. OMG.)

Zero no Tsukaima is getting a fourth (and final) season, but I'm so behind with it (I don't think I finished watching season 1). I did like Louise and Saito and the premise of a normal guy getting pulled into a fantasy world as a familiar, so I think I'll be catching up one day~

From last season, I only finished watching Kimi to Boku. Bakuman s2, Hunter x Hunter, and Chihayafuru are all still ongoing. I fell behind with Working s2 and only watched the beginning of UN-GO as well. Gotta catch up with both! Sad that they're both short.

If anyone has any recs, let me know. :D

Stuff I'm watching this season~. (Hope I don't fall behind, haha...) Planning to watch Kimi to Boku, Bakuman season 2, Chihayafuru, Working!! season 2, and Hunter x Hunter. Except for Hunter x Hunter, all the other series can be said to be slice-of-life series. That says a lot about what I like, huh?

Kimi to Boku

I've been following the manga and got into it in 2008. It was pretty much unknown back then, and I couldn't even find the manga in my bookstore! Back then, KtB was being serialized in GanGan Powered, a bimonthly magazine, and wasn't very well known. It got a bit more recognition after the serialization moved to GFantasy, but it still got very few color pages and furoku. When the anime got announced, GFantasy started advertising the series a lot, and now KtB is on consecutive covers of the magazine, getting furoku almost every month, and lots of people are talking about the series. Ahh, what anime does for the popularity of manga... well, I'm happy, since this means I'll get more merchandise of KtB when merchandise was pretty much non-existent before this!

kimitoboku_fan -> KtB community if anyone's interested~. Haha, there was 0 members for the longest time, but now it's grown to a reasonable size.

( more on KtB, thoughts on Bakuman, Chihayafuru, Working, Hunter x Hunter )