Manga buying

[louiselux]

Today I got RG Veda, a new CLAMP manga. It has manly warriors with girly hair and mystical claptrap. I love it and I'm only four pages in, so I think I must be overcoming my feelings about CLAMP art. I also got Peacemaker Kurogane, a samurai story, because the cover was pretty and showed a  swordsman wearing nailpolish (I own my shallowness), the art is interestingly spare and sort of angular and the characters were snarky. I looked for Saiyuki 8, which I thought might have made its way here seeing as it's out already in the US, but no joy yet.

In other news I have a hangover and the dreaded Woman's Time began today. So I'm planning on spending the entire evening with Angel season 4 and I'm also making a recipe from my River Cafe cookbook - taglietelle with fresh asparagus and a sauce made from creme fraiche, an egg yolk and parmesan. The sauce is slighty tricky to make because it needs to be made in a bain marie and with constant stirring but it's absolutely delicious and is like a thin, smooth fondue.

We saw some perfect Crowley shoes in Jones today - black lace-ups in snakeskin (not real) and very sharp looking but M wouldn't buy them, although we did drool for a while.

Comments

[tochira.livejournal.com]

RG Veda in English! Wow, I need to find that. It's one of CLAMP's older titles, but I never looked at it before. (Now, of course, some of the characters are getting a new spin in their Tsubasa series and omg the art is yummy.) It's been re-issued in Japanese, too, in smaller volumes with new cover designs.

[cygny.livejournal.com]

I have all volumes of RG Veda in French and although it's shiny, if you can find Clamp's Tokyo Babylon, you so need to get that! Last volume of that one is simply mind blowing. At least it was for me when I first read it and I still get goosebumps just thinking about it.