One of the things that makes going to Gymboree on Thursdays worth enduring is the fact that it’s right next door to a comic book shop. After The Shake gets her fill of fun then I walk about 20 feet and get mine.

Today I went and got this there. I’ve been wanting to read it since high school, but only now did I pick it up. I just never got around to it, though in my defense, I don’t think it had been translated and published in English back when I discovered the series.

Heck, I had a real bitch of a time trying to find just about any anime/manga that I was interested in back then. I remember how excited I was when I found a bootleg VHS copy of Rayearth (not Magic Knights, just plain Rayearth) at a comic shop. It was the same place where I picked up the first volume of Vision of Escaflowne when it came out on VHS. It wasn’t until several years later that I found the rest of the series (also on VHS) at Suncoast. Of course, by that time, everyone was into Japanese Animation so it wasn’t as cool anymore.

Well, I’m off to read my new book do homework. *cough* Or… exercise. Or something.