Whenever a girl rejects me for a lunchtime date, Kinokuniya is usually the place I go to sulk in Romance/Comedy manga. Today was no exception.
But I had other motives for going there, because I wanted to see if the R.O.D. Vol 2 copy I ordered had come in yet. Turns out it was there, so I bought it. Ah, the perils of geek love, when your heart is broken and the only thing complete in your life is the set of volumes you own of your favorite manga series…
I also picked up Volumes 1 and 2 of Sorcerers and Secretaries, a complete set in itself because the series is only two volumes, economically sound and short enough to enjoy during a HSC year. It’s sulk-a-riffic if you’ve just had your heart broken and it deals with a romance between a fantasy writing woman who retreats into her fantasy world when life is too much, ignoring the people who love her for the sake of pursuing a dream guy who isn’t real and just one of her imaginings… oh dear… This is scarily starting to sound like what I would be like if I was born a woman or had a sex change… I write fantasy books and retreat into them when the world is cruel as well, the main heroine even wears similar glasses to me…
Excuse me while I hit the Twilight Zone panic button. There we go. Nice big flashing lights and loud noises. This doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying the series, and it’s really enthralling, it’s just a scarily accurate mirror of what my love life is like, only I don’t even have any girls interested in me like this heroine has boys interested in her. Quite simply I’m going to do some reading.
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