This weekend I made a trip up to Auckland to have a look at Doujin Overload, an attempt made by a small anime shop and aspiring anime artists to cultivate a culture of doujin creation similar to the one in Japan, where the Comic Market comes to mind.

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Somehow I just keep going back to watching Shugo Chara Season 1. Its just so memorable, you want to live it over and over again. In all honesty, I think that season 1 was still better than season 2. Making season 2 any more exciting or memorable would be quite a tall order considering the amount of fillers aired so far, and how incongruous the story has become. Not to mention the stupendous amount of ads and merchandise commercials that surround their airing these days (and the horrible Sentai-style Heart Unlocks >.>;). I want my old Amu back...

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