The return of the otaku — Return? Wait, was the otaku in me ever gone? … Don’t answer that.
I love vampires. I love vampire stories. I love good guy vampires, but not so much bad guy vampires. I love supernatural stories of any kind really, but my favorite will always be about vampires. For some strange reason (at least strange to me), I really didn’t care much for Vampire Knight when I read the first chapter in English in Shojo Beat magazine. It seemed quite interesting, but I guess it was just the wrong time. (Probably a good thing, too, because it must have been before Laura’s wedding. No one wants an otaku maid of honor at their wedding.) One of my coworkers, Mark, sends me a link about a knitted hat shaped like the head of the prince from Katamari Damacy and it turns out the pattern was in the December issue of Shojo Beat. Off I go to the bookstore like a good geek to pick up the magazine. I think during the lunch that day, we went to Nijiya/Asahiya to buy some stuff, and on a whim, I bought volume 4 of Vampire Knight because I saw it in the new manga section at Asahiya Bookstore. Unfortunately, as I was reading it I became much confuséd. Then I read chapter 6 and something major between 1 and 6 happened, *spoilers* that turned Zero into a vampire *end spoiler* and I was like, whoa!! I wanna know what happened!
And that is the otaku. Once I think, I wanna know what happened I kinda go all out nuts over it. I even dragged Dave to Anime Gamers (they had none, *sob*) and then to Kinokuniya Bookstore to get the first two books I was missing, since I got volume 3 from the Torrance Asahiya. Of course, I have all 4 volumes and currently desperate for more… must get Monthly Lala… >.>;;