Recent anime and manga I've been following:

La Corda d'Oro secondo passo special - Eee, I haven't thought about Corda much lately. This...only 2 episodes? I wanted to screencap a lot of scenes, but I was eating dinner while watching. :'D I can't get used to the summer uniforms and kept staring at Fuyuumi's to see how the music and normal department ones were different. First episode featured Kira a lot. He sure moves fast. Read more... )

One Outs episode 24 - Only one more episode until the end. ): The series can get a little repetitive, but I'll still miss it. I laughed a lot watching this episode. Usually, Toua's antics make me smirk or snort, but today I was laughing so hard. Read more... )

Bokurano 58-60 - Machiii. Ushiroooo. I think scanlations have mostly caught up with the Japanese releases? I only have raws up to ch.60. Read more... )

SHAMAN KING KANGZENG BANG - Okay, first, the Marco fight? Totally gives Marco the spotlight he deserves. Little Marco is cute and Lyserg in glasses is just lajdkl;fa;. And now, the "true" ending. It makes me rethink my old SK fanfics (oh how wrong I was with the Shaman King theory). And Horo Horo. Read more... )

Lately, I've also been rewatching and rereading parts of PoT to gather material for [livejournal.com profile] twistserve_tcg. I finally finished reading the series last week. I couldn't bring myself to read the last few chapters for the longest time. Part of it had to do with who had to sit out for the final match. X3;; And the other part was just feeling weird that the series actually ended (after following it for so long). All these cool new moves and new characters make me wish Konami would make a new Prince of Tennis tennis game like Form the Strongest Team. I absolutely love that game.
Just finished watching Nabari no Ou. I'm surprised at how much the series focused on Yoite and how little Raimei, Aizawa, and Tobari showed up later on. They seemed like major characters from the opening. Guess I'll be picking up the manga again, since I heard they diverge a lot.

While I was watching the show, I noticed that Yukimi sounded a lot like Inui. And I was right. <3 Tsuda Kenjirou it was~. I was pretty amused by how soft spoken both Miharu and Yoite were.

also, this is what I think a female Yanagi Renji would look like )

I also started watching One Outs, an anime that focuses on professional baseball. It's made me grin really hard (Toua is so manipulative). The pace is pretty fast. I don't think I'll get bored. At first Toua reminded of Akutsu from PoT (he didn't care about baseball except that he can make money from it), but of course there's also Hiruma from ES21. Toua seems to enjoy toying around with people. He makes the most outrageous bets and makes everyone think he's entirely confident in his own abilities. I'm really enjoying his arrogance. I haven't been this excited about an anime for quite a bit.

I got a hold of all 19 volumes of the manga, but I want to stay away from that until the anime ends. Must endure. It'll be hard!

Any other series I should be watching? I watched one episode of Shakuhaku to Yosei so far...I'll have to see if it gets more interesting.