As some on Twitter may recall, December marked my official one-year anniversary as a manga reviewer. I've been blogging about manga since late 2007, but it was December of 2008 when Kate Dacey e-mailed me to ask if I'd be interested in joining the crew at Manga Recon. Having declared several times before then that "I don't write reviews!" I was not especially confident, but I plowed in anyway and it's been a fantastic year. My first review subject was volume thirteen of Claymore for the December 8th Manga Minis column. I'd like to think I've come a ways since then.