Angel Sanctuary is Love. And Domain Stuff.

(Warning: there may be spoilers. I am in too much of an agitated state to check and mark out spoilers. If you haven’t been following Angel Sanctuary, what have you been doing? Get on it right now.)
It is done. Finished. Complete.
I have accumulated all 20 English volumes of Angel Sanctuary. The whole collection.
I am elated.
And devastated.
What will fill the void in my life now? What shall I do with the time I spent looking forward to the next volume? How can I live knowing that the series ended? That Setsuna and Sara will go cavorting into the distance and most of the admirable angel population is in some sort of stasis and/or wherever angels go to when they die? (”Admirable angel population” = Alexiel, Lucifer, Raphael, Jibrille, Rociel, Zephkiel) And for that matter, where do angels go when they die? Like some happy place? The heaven after Heaven? Nowhere?
I’ll admit my eyes moistened a little at the end. Not because of any corny lines Setsuna was delivering (not the biggest fan of Sets, or Sara, or Kurai, though quite a big fan of almost everyone else) but because I was getting that feeling of ending, of good-bye, but I wasn’t ready. I’m never ready. I wanted it to last forever, document the rest of the convoluted history. Except steer the focus away from Setsuna. He’s weird.
But I must say, the last two volumes held the best scenes in the book. Alexiel and Lucifer are my favorite AS couple, no question. They’re just so meant to be, and they’re damn hot together. (Is it weird to say that two manga characters are hot together?) And can you say Heaven’s Power Couple? And then they finally got to be together in the end. Yay. Belial must not be happy.
Oh, speaking of which, I have completely revamped and updated my domain, and it now features a layout containing what I consider the scenes that made Angel Sanctuary the BEST MANGA EVER (!!!). Yes, this is what I have been doing for the past few days; in a change of pace for me, I have taken a break from making things for other people at nD and decided to work on my own sites. -le gasp- Now I’m trying to get in on the whole “we’re so well-known on the web that people visit our domain sites for no discernible reason!” group. That’s pretty much what I’ve been surfing the past few days. And I want to get a mind-boggling collection of links too! So if anybody reading this wants to link exchange domains, just hit me up or mention it or something. It’ll be something fun and relatively brainless for me to do in my last days of freedom. (Read: before school starts again.)
Oh, and I’m also offering hosting too, if there are any takers. *crickets chirp*
So back on point, the end of an era, the period in my life where Angel Sanctuary dominated my manga reading list. Yes, now it will be one of those ‘oldies but goodies’ gathering on my shelf, unless I wish to undertake a reading marathon and go through all 20 volumes at once. (Which happens, sometimes, in my life that is not a life.) I usually try to draw things out as long as possible to delay the imminent end, but with books it has to come sometime. I wish they made it into a video game. That way I never have to finish. Like how I haven’t yet officially completed KHI/II because I am, in both, trying to max out my files. I haven’t finished FFVII, FFX, or FFXII yet either, but that’s just because of inertia. And anyways, when I finish, games just lose their appeal. I don’t put any stock in replay value. I do things, once. That would explain why I am so upset that my Gameboy has taken it upon itself to erase my save files on Pokemon. I wasn’t maxed out yet!!!!
I digress again. The point of this post is simple. Angel Sanctuary ended. I am sad.