I finished watching the series in a day. XD; After getting pretty much half the series thrown at me in the movie version at AX and wondering why everyone hated Rossiu so much, I had to watch the series. I tend to shy away from mecha series, yet I watched the Eureka seveN movie this week AND this. The E7 movie made me so sleepy. =/ I was not charmed by this version.

My thoughts below on TTGL. I'm so wordy.

( TTGL thoughts, spoilers, etc. totally disorganized )

( plotbunnies )

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Phew, and that's all the pics! Sorry for the horrendously long post. x__x

I left early on the last day to go to Vegas~. I stopped by Book Off before that. Man, that bookshop is so awesome. *__* Manga. For $1 each!!

I'll have some pictures from AX up this weekend. :) I got to LA on Day 0 of the convention and actually had time to explore Little Tokyo. (I wish I had known our schedule better so I could invite tokkichan or meet up somehow since I had a lot of free time that day and on other days.) I was so excited when I found out that Kinokuniya sold the magazine that 1/2 Prince runs in. I bought the latest edition...which sadly is a few chapters ahead of where the manga last ended. I don't want to skip chapters! Haha, we were all spending our money before the convention even started.

Cosplay
Barely anyone recognized Elraine. ): I only cosplayed Double Arts for Day 1. My wig is really terrible. People spot Tadase miles away...must be the bright yellow hair. I dangled Tadase's egg from me with some invisible thread. It must have looked funny. XD; I don't actually have any pics of me with it. I cosplayed Sanjo Kairi later on after I got tired of my wig yet again, but people kept mistaking me for Nagihiko. There were some who recognized me right off and said "the samurai guy!" There were quite a lot of people cosplaying Shugo Chara around. 4 Tadases including me! And of course there were a lot of Amu. I finally got to see whitelilac's Su and some of the others in the group. <3

Panels
I went to Yun Kouga's panel and got her signature after waiting forever. AX lines are always scary. I didn't have anything for her to sign. =/ I went with gem2niki to the Gainax and Gurren Lagann panel at night on Day 1. I still haven't watched the series...the movie moves through everything so quickly, I can't tell who's who for the minor characters. The Gurren Lagann documentary at the end was very eye-opening. So much goes into animating a series. The inbetween people who draw the inbetween frames make so little money. 200 yen per page. They only draw around 300 pages a month. I felt bad for Simon's seiyuu who had to keep redoing his line. ^^;;

Main Events
Morning Musume's 321 song was very catchy. I grabbed a random seat that was pretty far from the stage though, so I could barely see them. ): I fell asleep halfway...I must have been tired. Linlin and JunJun (I think those were their names?) spoke English pretty well. One of them asked in Mandarin if there were any Chinese speakers in the audience. AMVs were a bit disappointing. Nothing really stood out. I was surprised that there were series like DNAngel and Bokura ga Ita in the mix. It's always Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and such. The quality of the animation of those series wasn't so great though. AX Idol was entertaining. I really loved the 3rd singer's voice. The voice acting part was more entertaining though. The 2nd contestant who dubbed Kamina did a really good job with his last line. The 3rd guy was just awesome with the random scream at the end. The last guy who dubbed Kenshin really nailed shouting Kenshin's super move, but I do think he had a slightly easier time without having to match the mouth movement. He really went all out though! I found the choice of winners a bit disappointing this year. =/ Masquerade was more disappointing though. I thought the camera really sucked. I didn't have too good of a view of the entire stage. The big screen didn't help. I saw the Shaman King group around the convention before masquerade. Their cosplay was cool, but I don't remember much of their skit. I wish I had caught more of their group around the convention. The camera did catch the OTP skit pretty well. I had to explain to my friend what OTP was. I don't think I explained it very well.

I was so so happy to meet nitaspitas. ♥ Thanks yoshikochan for calling me and dealing with my horrible navigation. XD; It took me forever to get from the exhibition hall to West Hall.

I'm slowly going through all my email and all the LJ posts I missed. I have so much stuff tabbed and flagged. Let me know if there's anything interesting I missed!

I wonder if I'll have time to make Kiseki today. At least I finished Tadase's egg! The crown is way too big, but oh well...now how to attach this to my outfit...I should start packing soon. I better start charging my camera and my DS...



If I don't post again today, here's the heads up about my short hiatus. I'll be away for AX starting tomorrow. I won't be back until next Friday or so since I have a family trip to Las Vegas right after AX. ♥ (I don't quite know how I'll manage without internet, but we'll see)

I'm not making anything to sell, yet I'm still not finished even with my own cosplay. ): I still need to pack for two trips.

Stuff I still need to do for cosplay:
- paint Tadase's egg
- make Kiseki (I only have his eyes done...)
- hem Elraine's shirt and skirt
- make Elraine's pants and sash
- cut and style both Tadase and Elraine's wigs

( Elraine cosplay progress pic )

Anyway, I'll just be cosplaying Elraine from Double Arts most of the time and Tadase from Shugo Chara for some of the time if it's not too hot. Tadase's outfit has too many layers for summer.

If any of you are going to Anime Expo and want to meet up, let me know! I currently don't have anything planned for AX, so I know I'll be really free. I do plan on going to the big events...if they have any leftover tickets. I don't plan on waiting in line. If you don't know how I look like, you'll be able to recognize me from what I'm wearing. =P *points to the above pic*

These pages make me tear up. So simple but powerful.

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I think I'll give Kitoh Mohiro's other works a try too. Might try picking up Narutaru again.

Finished the Skip Beat anime yesterday~. It was lots of fun and had me giggling so much. I wondered how Skip Beat would translate into an anime. I don't like having too much SD faces in anime (like in Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, Magic Knight Rayearth...) but I guess Skip Beat wouldn't be Skip Beat without those faces. There was much more Sho in the beginning of the series than I remembered, which suits me just fine because Sho scenes always make me grin. Kyoko is very, very cool, but she does remind me a bit too much of the mangaka's previous heroine in Tokyo Crazy Paradise. The relationship between Kyoko and Ren (with Yashiro's cheering on the side) has a similar feel to Tsukasa and Ryuji's relationship with Kamo-san's attempts to get them together on the side.

Anyway, back to the anime. I definitely recommend it. Bo scenes were FANTASTIC. The squeaky chicken feet added to the humor. Kyoko's seiyuu made me realize how over the top Kyoko can be. The bouncing "love me" symbol throughout the show... XD;; Some scenes had me shivering with Kyoko's brilliance. ♥ Stick with it and you'll get pulled in wanting to see how Kyoko transforms.

And now, turning back to the manga...

( Skip Beat chapter 141 )

Part 5 of mastered decks. All of them are also displayed now at my website here. Go admire those lovely cards! =P



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♥ Back to cardpost ♥

( Secure deck: Papillon )

Ushiro. ;____; I debated whether or not to read these RAWs This is a pretty long battle. Still hasn't ended yet. I don't know if I want to see the end. ):

( three pics )

Now I feel like listening to Uninstall. This really fun typing game has Uninstall as one of the songs you type to. (You type the lyrics as the anime songs play!)

Urayamashi is back! The super minor Rikkai freshman! Haha, he was just suggested as a minor character for twistserve_tcg. I wonder if he's going to be showing up more. He's cute. XD

( Urayamashi~~, Yagyuu versus Niou *____* )

Has it been a month already since the last release?? Time is passing so quickly...

Why are they so cute. T____T;; There's no way they can turn from looking like this to looking like how they do in the series...in 2 years. No way. But still, so cute. The animation is very smooth and pretty. I capped the episode since we definitely need a deck of this over at twistserve_tcg. XD;

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Friday

Friday, I met up with yoshikochan and saw whitelilacs now and then. I also met jen_kat officially! (who I've actually seen around gem2niki's journal and LJ communities~). Somehow, I ended up helping out with the swap meet. XD I really want to sell some of my junk next year too. I say this every year, but I'll probably run out of time to organize everything when next year comes around.

( Friday pics )

Saturday

Finding dyaoka in line for the masquerade was quite life-saving (well, not nearly so dramatic, but it was nice seeing her again ♥). I thought the masquerade was pretty good this year. Many of the skits were put together well and had impressive props. The first Tsubasa one had changing backgrounds and everything, but the skit was probably hard to understand for those who haven't seen or read the series. The Fire Emblem group had really cool wings! The Black Butler group had awesome moves and choreography. The Pokemon duo were just hilarious and made me want to listen to the English theme song again. I loved that there was a Zero no Tsukaima group. I was impressed that there were barely any skits from overdone series like Final Fantasy or Naruto. There was of course a Bleach skit, but the Renji and Byakuya had such cool bankai. I really liked the One Piece cooking skit. They juggled so well! I need to find video clips of these...

( Saturday pics )

Sunday

I wanted to watch the AMV contest, but I ended up going to dinner instead after the Fire Emblem gathering. Any good AMVs this year? I usually enjoy watching the contest. The Momoi concert at the end of the day was all right...I really had no idea who she was. She got the audience pretty hyped up (most were standing up in front) and everyone had glow sticks. Her voice is too high pitched for me though. A mom behind me started chatting with me about how she enjoyed last year's An Cafe so much and how she dressed up as Genma and her daughters as Ranma and Ryouga etc etc etc. I think she left halfway.

( Sunday pictures )

Monday

Monday, I just shopped. I barely bought anything this year since I didn't find any merchandise of series I liked. I bought two postcard books of some obscure series...Ask Dr. Rin and Legend of Basara (sooo old!), the cutest edamame keychain ever, and a nemu nemu t-shirt.

( Monday pics )

I can't believe I didn't take a single picture of Phoenix Wright cosplayers!! Anyway, overall, I enjoyed Fanime quite a lot. It was relaxing. I just chatted and caught up with people most of the time.

I finally mostly finished the cosplay. I'm missing all the props and cute little Kiseki. Why is it 11 already...I still have work tomorrow and I've been feeling dead tired all day today. I'll be doing a lot of sitting down tomorrow because I know I won't have much energy. =/

(I'm cosplaying this guy and wanted to make a plushie of this little guy to go along with the cosplay. *sigh*)

I'll be heading to Fanime around 2 o'clock after work. Thankfully, tomorrow's a minimum day. i'm going to sneak away right after I'll probably just take a look at the dealer's room and the artist alley...and maybe stay to watch the karaoke contest after checking out the swap meet.

Time to charge my camera batteries. :3

This is one of the few times I haven't gone on Thursday to pick up my badge. =/ I was never this busy before...

Anyone who wants to meet up, just give me a call after 2 in you're calling me on Friday. :) Feel free to call whenever on Sat, Sun, and Monday. If you need my number, let me know~

Dear Boys

Dear Boys...Act III???? I was randomly browsing a manga forum when I saw Dear Boys Act III as one of the future releases. I did not think Dear Boys was going to continue into another act. I haven't read the latest volumes yet...kind of not as motivated since Shounan is barely in the series anymore. I believe Act III is going to be about the finals. I wonder if there's anything after that. Over the summer, I'm so going to start with manga summaries of series that are probably never going to be licensed or scanlated.

Until Death do Us Part

I started reading this over the weekend clearly procrastinating. Quite fascinating. I like Haruka with black hair and glasses.

I'm still working on my final. D: When I come home tomorrow, I'm probably going to crash. I guess that means I only have Thursday left to finish cosplay for Fanime...

If anyone would like to meet up, let me know! I'll ask again on Thursday. (though that might be too late if people are already setting out)

I have one dreamwidth invite code left. Would anyone like it? Just let me know your email and I'll send one to you. I'm lucathia over there. I have not posted in my dw since I created it... ^^;;

edit: code still available!

Yes, I am procrastinating. (two classes left tomorrow! doesn't mean a thing when I still have final papers to turn in after that. thankfully, my headache is gone.)

NAME A FANDOM AND I'LL TELL YOU:
1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like:
7. The character I'd slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom.
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom.
13. Who are my five favorite characters.
14. Who are my five least favorite characters.
15. What are my five favorite pairings.
16. What are my five least favorite pairings.
17. Which character are you most like.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret.

Kaichou wa Maid-sama chapter 32 is quite cute. :D The previous chapter was great fun too. I prefer Misaki over Hikari from Special A. She is...not as oblivious.

I'm starting to dislike Honey Hunt after reading chapter 19. I feel bad for Nanase. =/

( another doodle of Prince )

I want to cosplay Prince's first outfit (not the one I drew! his beginner outfit) but I have no idea what the color scheme is. From the mini picture of him on the back cover of volume one, the sleeves and pants might be green, but it's not a very good reference. =/ If not this, I want to at least make Meat Bun~ (she should be easy...)

The list of plushies I want to make is growing larger...
- Kiseki from Shugo Chara
- Musashi from Shugo Chara
- Meat Bun from 1/2 Prince
- Blue Badger (I bought fleece last year to make this but I haven't even touched my sewing machine)

Wah, I look forward to having more free time! D: I bought a bunch of manga last week, but I've only gotten around to Otomen and La Corda d'Oro...

Man, I am obsessed with 1/2 Prince. (I've read too much of the novels this weekend) I've been eying my wig for Tadase again and thinking of the red contacts I'm getting for Tadase and how I can totally use that for Prince too. I'm even looking at elf ears. I can possibly do his first outfit. Only one weekend after this left until Fanime...I don't think I'll be able to get any new cosplay done. D:

If you have not read 1/2 Prince, you can read it here! I recommend it to people who like MMORPGs and series with a dash of gender bender, keeping secrets, comedy, making fun of other series, and romance~. This is a series where characters even have online names like Legolas and Kenshin. There are lots of Chinese cultural references too.

Today, I doodled a lot of Prince to practice his expressions. I haven't drawn anything original yet...still practicing with Prince's faces from the manhua~. This is with reference up to chapter 7. I'm going to go through the other chapters when I have time. There are some more cool shots of him...

( Prince!! )

I just skimmed through the chapter, not paying attention to much except...

( HAO IN A PONYTAIL!!!!! )

I bought a domain last week, hosted on dreamhost. The description says, "It will probably take 1-3 days for your domain to begin to work as the new dns information propagates across the Internet!" It's been...a week now and it's still not working. Should I just wait some more? ): Am I supposed to do anything? How does this work anyway? (and if I want to move hosts later on but keep my domain name, is that possible? Will there be some downtime between moving?)

*has no idea about this kind of thing*

edit: it works now! yay!