Been a While!

I didn't quite reach my goal of thirty Manga-A-Day posts. I made it to twenty-five before getting swamped with work. However, several of the posts covered more than one book so I'm only counting it as a half-failure. Plus, I plan to resume now that I'm back from MangaNext, the other distraction I had from posting. I'm going to start with a quickie review of what I've read in the past two weeks after this post just to keep my manga-a-day posts separate.

I got a table last minute and spent most of the past weekend sitting and selling buttons. I didn't do anything much con-related. I went mostly so I could visit with my friend Elina, and we left the con every day at 8 to go eat and I never had the energy to go back and try to join in on anything. I'm kind of curious what happened staff wise because I saw almost none of the same faces from last year.

The highlights were:

1) Hero-worship from the hordes of teens and tweens who shopped my table. I spent most of the time away from my table responding to calls of "HI, Button-lady!" getting bowed too. It was surreal. At one point a girl asked me in a hallway if she could hug me, and after she did ran away crying "I hugged the Button Lady!"

2) I got an Arcee Transformers Gashapon at random in the dealers room. Arcee is one of the few "girl" Transformers, and the only that became a cast regular. She was never made into a toy because her character design was made for the movie first and couldn't actually transform if produced as is. They did make a toy of the motorcycle version of her, but it's just not the same. I always wanted an Arcee toy, and now I got one and I got it on my first try in a blind Gashapon set! She doesn't transform, but she is pink and blocky, just like in the cartoon.

3) The cute and much too young guy who did magic tricks and flirted with me on Sunday. He was probably all of 19 or 20, but flattery is nice to hear from time to time. Plus, he was cute in a Momo from Kimi Wa Petto kind of way. And his magic tricks were really good!