I desperately needed some cheering up this evening. So here are some things that cheered me up when I saw them in the July issues of Hobby Japan and Dengeki Hobby.

( Warning: Very image heavy behind the cut. But worth it if you like awesome things THAT ARE AWESOME. )

I really need to make another Haruhi scans dump. I have such a backlog piled up, it's not even funny.

Great article, BUT.

Look at the picture at the top of the article.

Look at the way that they cropped it.

Um, yeah.

The text of the article, for mainstream coverage of manga, is pretty fantastic. The author has obviously done the research, and it shows. Shounen is manga targeted toward boys. Yay, they got the definition right! "Kids" (gender-neutral) read Bleach. That's right, too - the Bleach fandom draws in people from all over the gender spectrum, in both the English-speaking world and Japan.

But... that picture.

Why, oh why, would you cut off the heads of the two main girl characters in the series, so that we're left with just Ichigo scowling, while two beheaded women behind him?

That's just... weird.