about a Victorian maid. Sure there's a ton of silly anime with maid girls. And those are usually made to appeal to men. But My favorite comic is Emma (no connection to Jane Austen at all). It's a romance between a maid and a high class gentleman set in Victorian England. The attention to detail is amazing. The character drawings are not an incredibly detailed style but the backgrounds make up for it. The artist/author Kaoru Mori really does her research on the setting. I fell in love with it when I watched the anime version "Victorian Romance Emma" in 2005. It was only 12 episodes so until I read the comic I was under the impression that it ended sadly. But the comic does continue from where the first season left off.

Today I was looking at Newtype magazine and learned the is actually a 2nd season. I can't believe I didn't know! But there's no way to find it in English yet:(

You can find the comic on amazon and larger bookstores. There's 5 volumes out right now (not sure how many total. The lastest Japanese one I saw at Anime Central was #8).

Summersea from Etsy tagged me. So I have to post 6 random things about myself:

1. Everything in my living room is red and green (but no it doesn't look Christmasy at all since they are not bright colors).

2. I'm a huge procrastinator. What do you think I'm doing now?

3. I love gyouza/potstickers (Japanese/Chinese dumplings). I usually buy them frozen but I have tried making homemade gyouza twice this year. They were good, only both times I have messed up when it came to freezing them. The first time they stuck together and the 2nd time I tried putting plastic wrap between layers but they still freeze together. So next time I will freeze them all on a pan before putting them in a container.

here is the recipe: http://www.liu-family.org/potsticker/, but they are also good with spinach instead of cabbage.

4. I have a weak spot for costumes. The only problem is it takes me ages to finish them or I buy them and I am just not in the mood to alter them when they don't fit. So I have 1 costume and another skirt which will probably sit for months until I decide to finish them.

5. I've been watching Stargate SG1 almost every night for a couple months and now I'm on season 5.

6. I have a HUGE tea collection. Im not kidding. It covers half a kitchen cabinet and several tins on the back of the stove.

 hmm, I tag Michele-lee and TigerPixie :)

 Hi I'm Meredith of The Art of Meredith Dillman.

 Myspace, comicspace, enchantedfolk....so far this looks better than myspace :)