Possible Revamp Coming Soon

I know it's been a very long time since I was here.  There was a huge upheaval in my personal life, and believe it or not, I'm only now feeling like things are falling back into place.  Another reason I backed off from this blog was due to a severe sense of disheartenment.  For a while it felt like every time I'd review something, the publishing company would fold shortly after.  Tokypop severely downsized their titles, go!Comi disappeared almost overnight, and DC did away with their manga line, CMX.  A lot of other publishers disappeared, too, and some merged, dropping titles right and left.  (I'm looking at YOU Del Rey/Kodansha!  Toto was a cute series!  What gives?!)

Anyway, as a manga lover, these were all severe blows to me, and in many ways it invalidated a lot of the work I'd put into this site.  After all, what good is a library-based review for a book that's out of print and can't be purchased via distributors?  I'm not going to take those reviews down because they still represent my writing and my work.  And who knows, maybe someone will still get some use out of them.  In the meantime, I would like to start working on reviews again.  Since half of my collection is technically defunct, it will take me more time to sort through what's still in print and what's not.

Right now I'm planning to work on three different selections - Darker Than Black, Boy Princess, & Kitchen Princess.  I was trying to balance it out, and give y'all some shounen and some shoujo, with a little shounen-ai thrown in for good measure...until I realized I don't have all that many shounen series.  And the ones I do have are the SUPER popular ones like Naruto and Bleach that you can find reviews for pretty much everywhere.  Anyway, I can't promise to keep it balanced, but I will do my best based off of what I currently own.  Thank you.