So.. what to say after you've just finished writting an hour long blog and within the last 2 sentences your shitty computer decides to spaz and freeze the page? I dont know -__- But I'm pissed. I don't even think I"ll have time to rewrite what I said because I have to go get ready to go on on a week long trip that I'll be leaving for in... an hour, at the moment, I have nothing readly. Yes, I'm a procrastinator.

So why haven't I updated in so long? Not that anyone cares, but I've just been busy with.. summer ^-^;

So what've I been doing in all this time? LOTS! As far and anime and mnaga go, I've read and seen loads more.

Some of the manga I've read are Demon Diary, Eerie Queerie, Snow Drop, Banana Fish...

AND DEATH NOTE!

Who hasn't read Death Note? LOTS of people haven't, it's only in the Japanese Shoune Jump but even that doesn't stop it from having a large audience of Enlgish speaking fans, LIKE ME! I read the first 29 chapters of the manga and was so hooked that I went and read text translations for chapter 30-34 while looking at the scanned raw pages of the manga...

Damn sun burn... I shouldn't have been out in the sun for God knows how long yesterday x_x I just hope I don't peal... I look like a lobster.

I just finished watching Naruto episdoe 84 xD Poor Sasuke, I almost cried! *sniff* It was sad in the manga but seeing it animated makes it x1000 harder to see!

Yes, I want the 3rd volume of Now!, now! that manga is really funny! I can't find volume 3 *sigh*

Just look at the main character, and you'll know why I wanna buy it!

(Ok, if you're a guy... maybe not so much)

So if you're a guy, maybe you'll want to buy it because of Rin, the leading female role:

 

I finished reading Kodocha volume 2... it was great, I think I like it more then the anime! It's not [i]as[/i] insane and hyper active as the anime and doesn't stretch everything out, compared to 9 volumes to 101 episodes, you do the math O_o It also doesn't have "Babbit", and doesn't have Sanna sinning, all good news in my books. I'll need to get the rest of Kodocha... SOON! Sadly, the single copy of volume 2 is all I've ever seen of Kodocha in stores T_T

Errr... I thought I'd throw this is to disturb a few Hayama fans...

 

I'm not sure what you're thinking, but I'm thinking, 'very gay' fits this pic well.... though

I like yaoi, so me thinking gay isn't too uncommon. If you don't think he looks gay in this pic, I'll be relieved, because I like Hayama straight :P

*Gasp* Kyou Kara Mao episode 7!!! *dies* I love this series. The ending to this episode was the best yet ^__~ I really wish they would get it subbed faster, but I don't really mind waiting, as long as I have my raws and a nice summary to clear up on what I don't understand.

Wolf...

Yuuri...

Is this best couple ever? (ok, well besides Sasuke and Naruto, and maybe besides Hikaru and Akira) I don't know, maybe more people like the idea of Conrad and Yuuri, I really haven't talked to many Kyou Kara Mao fans, but I have this *thing* for couples, where when they are rivals or they are always fighting, it just makes my brain click into a mode that makes everything equal that they love eachother and are in denial O.o

I bought MORE manga today... the people at the comic shop know me now O_O I found Kodocha for the first time ever! I've never seen it in stores before, and they only had volume 2, but that's okie because... well, I'm just happy I have it! I also bought Saiyuki volume 2 ^__^ I haven't read it yet, but I will soon.

IS KYOU KARA MAO REALLY ONLY GOING TO BE 10 EPISODES?!
I think I'll die if there aren't more T_T

YAAAAA! I haven't updated in so long, but hey, I've been busy and it's getting close to beach weather now. As far as the newer anime series go, Kyou Kara Mao! is awesome and Aishiteru ze Baby is super cute... most anything else has been put on the back burners as I have far too many things going to on attempt to keep up with 10 new releases every week. So all I'm watching now - as far as newly released episodes each week go - is Kyou Kara Mao!, Aishiteru ze Baby and Naruto. Wow... and that's about all the anime I'm watching at all! I just don't have time with it getting close to summer and all. Also... I went to a book store about... 30 minutes ago and still need to get over my happy shock, it took a whole of 5 seconds to decided which manga I wanted to get. THEY HAD FAKE VOLUME 7 IN!! AND IT WAS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC AND EVERYTHING SO IT'S BAND NEW!! OMG!! Ok, yea, I'm so happy about that... I didn't know FAKE vol. 7 had been released yet O.o I hadn't seen it anywhere else *cuddels it* As expected it's 18+ M instead of 16+ OT. I made my dad buy it just in case they actually cared enough to ask my age, haha... if only my dad knew what the hell he was buying me... Yum, I can't wait to *read* this one ;) I hope they haven't edited any of the pages or something... then I would be mad.

Speaking of book stores, I went in a Comic Shop about... 5 days ago (and bought a manga, I seem to be getting an ever growing number if manga by the week lately, but that's not the point) and while I had nothing better to do I looked over the 10 shelves of manga they had... but then, I saw this girl walk in and she (after looking through a few other manga) started reading FAKE volume 5! I was like 'OMG... she likes FAKE?!' not that that's bad or anything, but it was sort of strange seeing another person like it. Or who knows, maybe she just was reading it with no clue it's yaoi, but that's highly unlikely since she picked it out tons of other things to read.

I was also in a book store last night (see a pattern here?!) and I bought a manga... do I need to state that I bought a manga when I walk in a book store? I don't read books so manga is why I go in the book store. I noticed they had Gravitation volume 2 in stock, with about 10 copies, but no volume 1 or any other volumes in sight. How odd. I've also heard it makes Yuki out to have a surfer type attitude *shudders* so I may wanna stay away from trying to collect Gravitation in English, besides, I've read the manga scanlated up to volume 6 online ^__^

Hmmm... oh and I'm making a web site! I'll post the URL when I'm done, it'll be really crappy, I so can't do graphics for web pages... but all I care about now is the content, and it's going to be a site about Kyou Kara Mao!, which is my new obsession.

*cough* anything with shounen-ai is an obsession *cough*

After seeing the second episode of Kyou Kara Maoh it has to get it's own space when I review it. Honestly.... I love this series so far!

Kyou Kara Maoh:

9.5/10

Excuse me while I die of laughter. *ahem* Ok, this is great, my favourite of all the new series I've seen. It reminds me of Juuni Kokki or Fushigi Yuugi with the idea of someone being thrown into another world where they find out they are ruler of an empire. And not just any typical empire, the DEMON EMPIRE! The show has definite yaoi theme to it, which I love and find hilarious (watch the ending credits with the chibis chasing after Yuuri), it also has magic/sorcery going on... and then lets not forget the tone of bishounen! I've only seen one main female character in the series so far O.o The second episode is what made this go from an ok series to something I need to see more of... but I wouldn't be giving much of a review if I didn't actually say WHAT the anime's about.

Well this guy named Yuuri gets flushed down a toilet to another world (no I'm not on crack, that's what happened, I swear... stop looking at me like that!!!), and once there he meets a ton of good looking guys that inform him that he's the Demon King! And of course he thinks, like with any typical story like this, he must do some great task to be allowed home. His task? Kill all people opposed to him. Ah yes, just your typical task for the good guy, ne? Now as for the second episode *shakes head and can't wipe large grin off her face* just watch it! It involves Yuuri slapping a guy on the face who's named Volf because he insultes his mother for being a human. After he slaps the other boy everyone tells him to take it back but he says there is no way in hell he'll ever take it back because Volf just insulted his mother - someone he doesn't even know. The thing is, he's not all that accustomed to the traditions of this new world... and as it turns out, the way nobility propose is by hitting the other on the left cheek. I almost chocked on my lunch when I saw that part! I'll leave my summary/review for this series at that even thought that's not how the 2nd episode ends. I can't wait for the next episode! *goes and watches the second episode again*

Screen caps:

This is "The Slap" from the second episode ^o^

At one point, near the end of the second episode, Yuuri is waking up... who should be waiting for him to awake? Yeah... these two rather obssive people ^__^

If you don't get around to watching the end credits (or haven't noticed what I'm talking about because I didn't even take notice of it until the second episode)... throughout the credits chibi Yuuri is being stalked around the page and then at the end the result is getting glomped ^___^

As this shot was panning up the screen when Yuuri first laid eyes on Volf he was thinking (in awe) "wooooah.... a pretty boy" Yes, now isn't that what all guys would think when looking upon another guy? O_O Have I made you think this is a yaoi title yet? I sure as hell think it is!

Well over the last few days I've watched some of the new anime series that have been released this month. Namely they are Tenjo Tenge, Koi Kaze, Kyou Kara Maou, Monster, Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai, Midori no Hibi, Aishieru ze Baby and Shura no Toki. Who knows, there may be some other ones in there but I'm getting confused enough just remembering which ones I've already watched.

I'm about to review and give screen caps to them so stop reading if you don't want any spoilers ^__^

Tenjo Tenge:

Rating: 7.5/10

I've only seen the first episode, while I can't say it wasn't funny, I could see no important plot forming and it was full of fan-service... if this is the direction of the series, I'm not sure I'll continue watching it.

Basically, this first episode starts out with the introduction to Maya who is the leader of the high school's martial arts club and another member of the club, Masataka. Maya tells Masataka that her sister is new to the school this year and will be joining their club. As soon as Masataka meets Maya's younger sister, Aya, he falls in love. Meanwhile two other new students named Bob and Souichirou want it known to the students that the school is now under their rule, so they go beating up on all the guys... it's not long before they are interrupted by a small child (Maya) who tells them:

"Ok children, you've shown me that you're not weak. Now, lower your fists, or I'll have no choice but to fight you."

Souichirou pauses for a moment at her words then continues pummelling his latest victim.

"I should warn you: I am strong." She continues, not backing down.

Souichirou stops again, looking at the small girl, then calls to his friend who's somewhere behind him beating some other guy.

"Bob, some old-dilect speaking elementary school student is picking a fight with me. What should I do at a time like this?" he asks rather confused.

"I don't know." Bob replies, not really paying attention.

"I may look young, but I'm 17. Very well... if my looks affect your fighting, I'll make it a little easier for you." Maya says.

She then suddenly transforms into a very well built 17 year old girl before their eyes... that.. errr... could use a larger outfit ^__^;

Bob's still in the background obvious to what's happening while Souichirou is standing looking on in shock.

"Bob... what am I supposed to do when the elementary school girl turns into a sexy babe?

"I don't know." Bob replies again, too busy with his own fight.

That was about the funniest thing in the entire episode in my opinion... it continues on with him quickly losing the fight to the "sexy babe" by crashing out the window and falling through the roof of the girls shower room... where he meets the "sexy babes" younger sister. Aya immediately falls madly in love with him and from then on is constantly stalking him desperately trying to get him to eat her food... while he is desperately trying to escape her because he's nervous around girls. Blah blah blah, I don't want to give away the entire first episode (I pretty much did, lol) but that's the gist of the series so far.

I'll download more of the series but it really needs to get some sort of plot going.

Koi Kaze:

8/10

Some say this show is just about family love and interaction... others say it's incest... I say whatever. If you like the idea of a guy with a possible crush on a 14 year old girl when he's 12 years older than her... download this, if that's not enough, how about the fact that they are really brother and sister? How's that? Too much? Too little? *shrugs* There isn't much to elaborate on in the first episode besides that Koshiro, the guy, has never been in a relationship where he's "felt love for someone from the bottom of his heart" as his ex-girl friend tells him. Well rather she asks him if he has because she's surprised how easily he took their breaking up, but he doesn't reply so I take it as a no. The girl, Nanoka, has just been heartbroken, she's liked a guy for a long time and when she told him of her feelings he didn't feel the say way. Nanoka will be moving in with her father, and older brother (who happens to be Koshiro), since he lives in the same house. The two siblings haven't meet in many years and don't recognise eachother when they meet the first time. The second time they meet they end up going to an amusement park together as she's waiting to meet her father here and he... has nothing better to do? Who knows. So after they go to the park and have a fun time he's about to leave when his father comes running up saying he's surprised that the two are together but doesn't really give the idea a second thought as he walks on telling them to hurry up while they are standing there in shock. So the end of the first episode is with them finding out they are really brother and sister.

The last line of the episode is Koshiro thinking:
"Yes... I have... a younger sister."

Watch the series for yourself and decide what you think of their relationship. The show doesn't have much to it, but it keeps your interest.

 

Yesterday I went to the comic shop and bought volumes 1 & 4 of FAKE ^__^ YAY! That completes my collection! Now I have all 6 ... errrrm, well, there's still one volume to go... but it's not available in English yet. It sure was strange reading volume 2 of FAKE without volume 1 first (lucky I had read the first chapter online so that was a great help in understanding things) and then going on to read part of volume 5 without volume 4, but now that I have all of them I can read it from start to almost-finish. If anyone's wondering, I didn't buy them in a screwed up order for no reason, the store didn't have all the volumes in when I would visit, this time I was lucky, they only had three volumes of FAKE on the shelf and two of which were the two I was missing ^__^ I had gone in planning to buy Saiyuki volume 2 but when I saw they actually had the FAKE volumes in stock that they haven't had for the last two months, I had to buy them instead, hehe! So now I'm happily read all of volume 1 and'll read the rest of them soon.

I also went to the theatre yesterday and watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I hadn't gone in knowing what to expect... I wasn't disappointed by it but I certainly can't say I would want to watch it more than twice - twice being because it's one of those movies you need to see twice to understand everything correctly.

Today I downloaded Aishiteru ze Baby episode 3 from Lunar after watching episodes 1 & 2... that series is just... so cute ^__^ I also downloaded the manga but I haven't read much of it because the series is following the manga so closely and I don't want to spoil the series. For some reason Aishiteru ze Baby reminds me of Fruits Basket, it just sort of has that feel for some reason... except, I didn't like Fruits Basket that much, lol, aren't I strange? EVERYONE I KNOW LIKES IT BUT ME! Anyway, the odd thing is, even though it reminds me of Fruits Basket I like it a whole lot more! Which is a good thing because I found Fruits Basket unbelievably boring, except for the last 2 episodes which finally got interesting but then it was over and I was left confused.

There are just so many new anime series starting up right now, I don't know which ones I should watch, so far all I've seen is the first episode of Monster (which I don't have an opinion on yet, but I'm not overly eager to see a second episode) and Aishiteru ze Baby (Obviously, I already like it loads). Other series I'm contemplating to download are Midiori no Hibi, Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai, Ken Ran Bu Tou Aai, Madlax, Kyou Kara Maou, Saiyuki RELOAD (ya know, if I ever can find Saiyuki before-hand), Koi Kaze, Hanaukyo Maids La Verite, Shura no Toki, Tenjou Tenge... and well the list could keep going so I just don't know what to watch!!! *sobs* Too much new anime (along with old stuff I haven't finished watching), with not enough time!!! I think I'll go download Shura no Toki and Kyou Kara Maou... because I have nothing better to do. Well, actually, do... I'd just rather put them off as long as humanly possible. While I wait from them to finished downloading I'll watch Naruto episodes 77-79 ^___^ Muwahahaha, this is my second fav arc of Naruto right here, they better not go messing it up or use super crappy animation, as they've been known to do before.

The only interesting thing I found out today was there's a manga called Shin Daa! Daa! Daa! which is the continuation from Daa! Daa! Daa! (not that I know what happens at the end of Daa! Daa! Daa!)... for all I know this is old news, because most of the time I find things out when most people have known for ages *sigh*

Just like with Daa! Daa! Daa! I couldn't find much info on this manga, most sites were in Spanish, which didn't help much in the quest for knowledge. All I know is -SPOILERS... kinda- that it takes place several years after Daa! Daa! Daa! and involves Ruu as the main character along with a girl called Miu, who just happens to be Miyu and Kanata's daughter ^___^ But who knows, that info could be wrong, it's not like I had many sites to cross-check my info on.

Besides that, all I've accomplished today is downloading the first two volumes of Daa! Daa! Daa! from MangaArt.

Yup it's been a day filled with Daa! Daa! Daa! ... when you say that enough it makes you think your brains gone to mush, I can understand if people would rather call it UFO Baby.

The only pic I could find ->

Happy Easter everyone! (Ok, so I'm late on my greeting, but what can I say? I'm always late!) Over the break I went to the comic shop and bought 3 manga so I wouldn't go bored out of my mind on the long weekend... I bought FAKE volume 6, GTO volume 1 and Saiyuki volume 1. I'm glad I bought them, they are sooo good! I'll have to go back and buy the 2nd volume of Saiyuki!

I also almost had a heart attack when I found out Kodocha had been licensed. I was shocked over that fact that something so insane with over 100 episodes would ever be touched by an English company. This series has such a fast pasted dialogue with several puns each episode that heavily rely on an understanding of the Japanese language. I'm really interested in how they are going to handle the series. The other reason I almost had a heart attack was because I didn't have all the available episodes of Kodocha on the computer and animesuki no longer had them for download... so after a minute I regained my brain from the shock and went on yahoo and proceeded to use their catch to get them off animesuki when they still existed there, muwahahaha!

I started watching Juuni Kokki (aka: Twelve Kingdoms, Record of 12 Countries or 12 Kokuki... who knows, maybe it goes by other names too?) a few days ago, it's such a great series. I had known about it for a long time now, but since the series had been put on hold/stopped being made I was reluctant to start watching something that had no conclusion. There are 44 episodes out of 68 that have been made, why it's no longer being made I really don't know, it's such a popular series so I really REALLY hope they continue. I've had a server problem lately with getting hocked to an anime series, but Juuni Kokki got me watching episodes 1-26 in two days - and I would of watched more if I had more episodes on the computer. If you haven't seen or heard of it, check animenfo.com for details. I've noticed that I take a real liking to series that have diverged from novels. Actually I only know of two series taken from novels, Juuni Kokki and Crest of the Stars, but both have really captivated me.

Screen Shots from Juuni Kokki:

Today I was surfing the net looking for pics from the movie The Last Unicorn, I didn't find any high quality pics... but I did find out there's another movie in the making! I bet this is super old news... at least to anyone that knows what I'm talking about ^__^; Now I can't wait for the movie, it's not going to be an animation so I hope the special effects will be good. I'm sure anyone reading this is thinking, "What the hell is The Last Unicorn?!" Well it's an anime movie... sort of, I believe the animation was done in Japan but made for America, so the voices didn't have to be dubbed into English. The Last Unicorn was made in the 80's so it's a pretty old movie now... but the story is really great! The theme of the movie's about a unicorn... the last unicorn! *dun - dun - dun* I bet you weren't expecting that! Were ya?Yeah, I can't remember the plot very well. I haven't watched the movie in a few years now... though I do own it, somewhere, so I guess I could watch it any time. Then there's also a book, which I haven't read (since I don't read and all)... but I guess it's just as good.

Aside from that, today I did something I've been avoiding for many years now. Finally... I started reading Harry Potter fan fiction. I really didn't want to start *sigh* I enjoyed reading Harry Potter in ignorance, and I figured if I started with the fan fiction, my ideas on couples would get screwed around with. Before today, I pretty much had it figured that the pairings would be Hermione with Ron and Harry with Ginny, any other people didn't enter into the equation for pairing-off with other people because they were far more minor characters. This whole thing started because two of my friends were talking about all the fanfction in Harry Potter, and how there were so many strange pairings (one of my friends loved the weird pairings, the other couldn't understand it at all). One of the pairings they brought up in conversation was Harry and Draco. I was shocked, I really was, I hadn't thought too much about any pairings beyond the two listed above and I hadn't really wanted too. But then, I just had to go on fanfiction.net and ruin all that! Damn, liked my pure ideas for once! And now they are all gone *sobs* If I ever read Harry Potter again, it will be in a whole new, twisted, light. First I started reading a Harry Snape one, mostly because I was disgusted with the idea... and still am, lol... I never would see that one coming and wanted to see how people portrayed the relationship. Blah. I have problems with relationships involving people 30+ years in age difference, especially if one is in their teens or lower.

(btw, that's also why I avoid all Kakashi/Naruto, Kakashi/Sasuke or Kakashi/Sakura fics... even though once I almost liked the idea of Sakura nd Kakashi as a couple in one fic, though Sakura was in her twenties at the time, anyway whatever, back to Harry Potter... my brain always jump to Naruto it seems)

Anyho! So yeah, after reading one or two Harry/Snape fics I was traumatized and needed to read something... better. I had a whole bunch of choices (because everything that moves in Harry Potter is paired up with everyone else that moves, in one fic or another) and the only one the struck me as interesting was Harry and Draco... so I started reading... and now I'm obsessed with a pairing that will never exist in the books O__O Why do I do this to myself? I've come to the conclusion that I have a strange love for characters (whether they be het, yaoi or yuri... yuri not as much, but I still have an open mind about it all) when they are preferably rivals (maybe a little too obsessive of rivals) and one is mean and other is nice, sort of like ying and yang or darkness and light, blah blah with the metaphors and how they balance eachother out, also how one tends to have blond hair (lol) and how one has a 'dark' past most of the time. It's odd really, almost all couples in anime (or, in this case, Harry Potter) I obsess over have some or all of these qualities about them.

Yesterday I tried watching Naruto episode 77, but BakaSans version is messed up so instead of closing media player every 2 minutes then reopening it after the glitch, I'll just download another version when I have time. After the disappointment of not being able to watch Naruto, I decided to watch a movie called Equilibrium that my dad rented. I'd never heard of it before, but it sure surprised me. It reminded me of a cross between The Matrix and a book called The Giver. The movie was taking place after a 3rd world war, humans decide that another war would destroy the planet. To prevent another war they do away with emotions, which is the cause of war, by taking some sort of injection regularly. The main dude is the number one police officer in the stop against the resistance. He burns any art work or music and kills people deemed with the crime of 'feeling' on sight. A little into the movie he breaks his morning injection by accident and before he takes another injection, he starts feeling... at first he almost takes the next injection out of fear for the emotions he's starting to have but he stops himself, so he stops taking the injections. Slowly he begins realising how by doing away with emotions is a heavy price to pay for trying to prevent war; as emotions are what makes us human... blah blah blah on the story goes, with about 4 twists around the end. It's the best movie I've seen in a while. Oh, and if you couldn't follow my crappy summary, that's because I"m crap at giving them. When someone asks me what a movie's about, I either try to tell them a short summary (and fail) or try to give a blow by blow 'summary' of the movie, right down to what people were saying. I have a huge problem trying to tell someone the short version of a story, it's almost impossible, lol! I also saw Hell Boy on Monday night, I know most people that have seen it thought it was really great but didn't like it all that much, sure the special effects were stunning but the mix of comedy and action didn't suit me. The only thing I tired to remember from the movie was when at one point someone said something along the lines of "We like a person for their ____, but we love them for their _____(inadiqucies?)" lol, aren't I great at remembering things? I thought it was a neat quote, and tried to remember it, and look how well that turned out.

Right now I'm off to watch Kaikan Phrase... or maybe Juuni Kokki... or read my Harry Potter fics *sigh* Ja!