Angst, angst, and more angst!!!

BABIES!!!!!! Did you miss your Chick? Oh, I'm sooo sorry that I was gone for so long. I'm telling you, that's what happens when you swear up and down that blogging would be so easy because life is...so.....slow.... and then BAM! She smacks you in the face with a bunch of invitations you'd be silly to pass up. But enough about moi, babies, let me tell you what I've come across. Now for all my chicks out there, a question was posed to me a while ago asking what I thought was a great anime drama. Now there are great anime action series, pretty good suspense series, ok sci-fi and horror that I will attest to, but drama? As much as I love Sailor Moon, that is not drama to me. Well, maybe Sailor Moon Stars, but that's for another day. In any case, I started researching, went online, found a few episodes of Nana. I remember reading Nana in Shojo Beat when it first hit newstands and I was kinda hooked on it. It serialized for a pretty long time in Beat and the story line got more and more complicated as the series went on. The series isn't even finished yet, the 15th volume is out in May.

Anyway, I start watching....and I am so drawn in I ignore my cell phone. (Oh, the horror!). It's perfect for when you want to forget your own troubles of money, college, boys and watch someone else struggle with it for a while. Can you imagine being 20, finally on your own, moving to a whole new city because of some guy, you get there and he almost immediately starts asking when you're going to move out, having to find a place you can afford while looking for a job, dealing with spending issues, relationship drama, meeting new friends? That's why I love Nana. This series takes all that post-high school angst and frustration and puts it in a format that you can understand. I'm on episode 13, the boyfriend of one of the main characters has just cheated on her, but she doesn't know yet. I'm giving it two more episodes before the ish hits the fan.