my moral standing is lying down

I finally finished Beck! Episode 25 played fine, but 26 was a motherfucker! It would play a couple of minutes, stop. Then I tried to play it again, and it would play from a few seconds after the place where it stopped -- for a minute or two, then stop. Repeat process. So I missed a couple of seconds every few minutes. I know I didn't miss too much of the story, but it really broke up the mood of it. aslfjaslashdfljsk! It's such a good show, I really adored Koyuki, but was so disappointed in the way it ended. It wasn't a bad ending, I just want more, dammit! And the whole thing with Ryuusuke (is it Ryousuke or Ryuusuke?) being all secretive and unfathomable sometimes bugged me. A lot. Probably because I liked Koyuki a lot more and just felt cheated out of seeing him because I had to watch Ryuusuke being stupid.

Also watched two episodes of Peach Girl. I had started reading the second half of the manga (which the Americans have called "Change of Heart" even though it's all under "Peach Girl" in the Japanese), so I kind of know what happens later in the series. Boy am I glad. I really, really like the series, but I know that if I didn't know what happened later I'd be horribly upset by the evil Sae-chan! What a bitch! Momo likes Touji and Sae does anything and everything to make Momo feel bad, even besides trying to break them up (and they literally just started going out)! I really like Momo, though, she's got guts and sense -- she doesn't fall for Sae's traps initially, only when she sees what really does look like incriminating evidence. Anyway, I wish I could read the first part of the manga, but since it was licensed quite a while ago, it's near impossible to find it on IRC, and just as impossible to find it in a bookstore to be able to read it there (I'm *so* not paying $10/volume to buy over 6 volumes!).

I've watched up to episode 16 of Wild Striker and I almost wish I'd seen this one before seeing Whistle!, because Whistle is so much better (so far) and even though I'm enjoying WS, it makes me roll my eyes a lot more than it might have if I hadn't seen Whistle. But I'm still enjoying it enough to continue.... provided Angelica gives me the next bunch of episodes because once I get to 19, if I don't have more, I might end up stopping! (Oh, btw, Liz dl'd episode 32 from IRC for you -- she's so nice! So, when you get home, give her a call and if she's home she can AIM it to you since it's on the home computer.)

I have also downloaded episodes 10 and 11 of Tsubasa Chronicle, but haven't seen them yet. And I'm going to try and get back into dl'ing manga from IRC. I really miss it, but I hate not being caught up, and especially 'cause we lost a lot of manga when our computer crashed in February. =(