Thanks, I'll try! I'll talk with you when I get back, yeah?

Hey Ames, sorry you couldn't get me via email. If the @eeeperschoice one doesn't work, send me an email via the gmail one. I'm always glued to that. I've sent you an email to your eirtakon.com address. Let me know whenever you read if you got it!

- Phillip

Stay online as physical shops have overheads that online shops don't. Physical shops have to pass the costs onto you. I shop at either Amazon or Robert's Anime Corner. In terms of the physical shops, keep an eye on Twitter and things like Best Buy deals and stuff like that.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for that, Shannell! Please send us a link whenever you post up your podcast review.

Hi Alastair! First up, I've made your correction about the date into the post. Thanks for that. I don't know where I came up with 1999 but there ya go.

Secondly, I didn't include Usopp because other than his fight with one of the Arlong Park pirates, I didn't get that much of an impression of him. Maybe it's something that comes to the fore in subsequent volumes, but I didn't want to write about what seemed to me to be the comic relief character in this arc, as comic relief characters are harder for me to pin down. Hopefully, I'll be able to do better justice to the character the next time I tackle the manga.

And yes, I definitely need to read more of it! ;)

Thanks again for the comments! We always look forward to getting them.

Thanks for the comment! And yes, I know it's got it's limitations but the sheer absurdity of it all gets it a pass in my book. Also, I've still to post the last third of the review. Stay tuned for it!

I will. But I won't be blogging or podcasting about it per se. It looks like a good show, though.

I am slowly learning how awesome One Piece is. On the surface, as I said, I dismissed it as "just another Shonen Fighting show". But it really is a title with hidden depths.

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, you are spoiled! But that's OK because you know what it was like before the dark times. Before the Empire!

I hope there's a change in European policy too, lad.

I do take on board your point about the Japanese being the sticking point but as long as US companies keep kowtowing to them, they'll see no reason to change.

Thanks for the comment! They are always welcome!