Sunday, February 06, 2005

Book 5 and the Superbowl

Read The Opera House Murders, Book 1 in the Kindaichi Case Files by Kanari and Sato. This is a fun mystery series put out over here by TokyoPop. It follows Hajime Kindaichi, grandson of a famous detective, as he himself becomes one. The story is pretty clever and the art is nice with some good attention to detail. There are several volumes in the series, I believe about 10 of them are out at the moment with another couple due this year. It's easily one of my favorite manga series. This first volume involves a series of murders that mimic the plot of The Phantom of the Opera. Kindaichi's childhood friend Miyuki has invited him along on the theater club's trip to an island hotel. And one by one they start dying. Good stuff.

Watched the Superbowl. Best commercial goes to the FedEx/Kinko's commercial featuring Burt Reynolds. The game itself was for the most part boring (mostly due to there not being a team involved that I really cared about one way or the other), but the end picked up some. I hoped the Eagles would win, but alas it was not to be. There's always next year. Go Rams!

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