Spending more talk on the manga sounds good to me.  Here in the U.S., =
Dark Horse is about to start the "Terible Master Urd" series, where Urd =
(temporarily?) goes to the dark side!

Also how about the Fan Fiction around the net?  I very much enjoyed "OH =
MY GOD" by Brett Handy.  What do the rest of you think of this or other =
Fan Fiction?  Those of you who haven't read it can download it from =
various places, including Peter Ward's Urd Shrine WWW page.

On the subject of other Anime, I saw two fan subtitled episodes of =
"Magic Knights Rayerth (sic?)" at the last meeting of the local Anime =
club.  I liked it.  In it, three middle school girls are teleported from =
the Tokyo tower to a fantasy world where only they can defeat the evil =
forces and rescue the sacred, childlike princess (reminds me of the =
Never Ending Story movies).