Otaku here. My favorite manga is (embarassingly enough, considering I'm male) Fruit's Basket. I've also been reading One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. I have Death Note on loan from the library and should be getting it soon - it sounds really good! Have you guys heard of a series called "Spiral?"

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton