Catching up on comics...

I'm way behind. I know I should never buy more comics or manga until I finish what I have, but I haven't read anything I've bought in ages. I own every issue of Shojo Beat, for example, and stopped reading it when I left for college because mu mother forgot to ship them, and I just got really darn behind.

There are 25 individual manga volumes I own that I have not yet read, including volumes of Fruits Basket, +Anima, Ouran High School Host Club, Dramacon, Trigun, a few of Clamp's shorter works, and Saiyuki. Aside from Trigun, I did have a habit of reading any shonen or Mushishi volumes I bought on the spot, because shonen can be finished quickly and Mushishi is just that good.

I was fed up. I also had those three years of Shojo Beat to catch up on, and two years of Shonen Jump. And let's not forget about all of my Torchwood and Doctor Who comics I've yet to finish.

So I started reading. And reading. And in the past day, I finished all but three of my back issues of Jump, and I have a pile of all the manga I want to finish before the school year starts so I can finally finish four series that I started in high school (Dramacon, +Anima, Fruits Basket, and Clamp Detectives) and find some new thins to read.

Now that I actually look at my manga pile, the only manga I own that are still continuing are:

Fullmetal Alchemist
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Mushishi
D-N-Angel
and Saiyuki Reload

I can remember when I used to follow ten different series at once! Most of them finished (+Anima and Fruits Basket, though I have yet to read the ends for each), some of them I simply stopped collecting (Bleach -I read it in Shonen Jump now- and Tsubasa). Some both (Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin).

I'm bringing a few volumes of manga with me this weekend (8 total) and hopefully I can polish all of them off.

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