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Fanime is here~. Badge pick up was beautiful. Walked in and walked out. It was so quick that I didn't even get a good look at what the registration area looked like. There were several scanning stations for us to scan our QR codes, and then our badges were printed out to the side. Done. I hope it's like this next year too!


I swung by Swap Meet after that and found bought stuff~. Never thought I'd see the Hikaru no Go PS Heian game. I watched a play through of that many years ago. It's an amusing game. XD Also got myself clearfiles of Kimi to Boku (I'm loving the one with the twins and Kaname all with glasses) and Seiyuu Ka, a poster of Sai from Naruto, a Gyakuten Saiban fanbook with CD, and a Gyakuten Saiban postcard book. Never thought I'd see something of Seiyuu Ka around.

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Oh dear. I think I'm doing worse than last year! I started 5 days late last year and was 8000 words or so behind because of that, so I tried my hardest to catch up every single day by writing at least 1,667 words a day and almost always more than that to shrink the gap. This year though, even though I haven't missed 5 days in a row, I haven't pushed myself to write 1,667 words a day either since I don't feel as pressured. Yet now... *watches the par line grow farther and farther away* It's not a good sign when the gap is slowly and steadily growing... and my calendar is littered with yellow boxes!

Story-wise, I find this year's a little harder to write because there's actually more of a plot that I'm trying to make work while I just rambled with whatever came to mind last year (making it so that even though I reached 50k last year, the story didn't really go anywhere, and nothing concluded in 50k...). I was so happy when one of the characters started saying stuff that I can so use later on. I poked at the epilogue for this year's NaNo a bit more yesterday too. The epilogue kind of makes me gleeful. I wonder if it counts as a cliffhanger, haha... Now, if only I could write all the in-between stuff and get around to the epilogue! (But watch, I end up writing stuff that contradicts the epilogue...)

I kind of realized that so far, there hasn't been a lot of fantastical elements in this story... it sure doesn't read like a fantasy story this year, even though this should also be counted as fantasy in addition to being young adult. o____o;;

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Non Nano-related stuff
-new layout! OMG! After how many years? Five? I nuked my old layout since it wasn't working correctly anymore for some reason. I've been tweaking this layout for quite a bit, thought I wouldn't change my layout after all, but then decided to switch because the old layout stopped working. This one can still use some tweaking. I feel the font is too light for me, especially the bold. I can stare at the Twelve Holy Knights all day though. |D If anything doesn't display correctly for anyone, let me know! I've only used my own browser and computer to view this...

-yuletide nominations have closed! I can't wait until sign-ups open~. *refreshes the community* There are at least 5 fandoms nominated by other people that I'm interested in requesting myself. So hard to decide which one to pick from those as my fourth fandom! Maybe I need to resort to tossing the names in a hat. Or maybe I should choose two out of those five fandoms and drop one of the fandoms I nominated myself... /indecisive

-I tagged two of my fics on AO3 yesterday with Legend of Sun Knight - Yu Wo and 1/2 Prince - Yu Wo since I feel these two series should also show up in the books & literature section of AO3, especially since the light novels are the main (and more detailed) source while the manhua versions are based on that source. My LSK fics are also largely based on the novels instead of the manhua since the manhua isn't very far yet. I see that both fandoms now also show up in the books & literature section. This makes me happy! (perhaps I should've just contacted support about this to clarify that LSK and 1/2P are both novels as well as manhua)

-bought Prince of Tennis Kanzenban s2 v8 (Marui & Jackal on the cover, Momo & Kaidou on the inside flap, Marui inside, more Marui [private clothes], and preciouuuus Yanagi and Inui age 10, followed by Kaidou age 3, and Ryoma age 0. [with Nanjirou next to him] Still waiting for my store to stock v9 which features Yagyuu and Niou!!). Also bought GFantasy Nov (Kimi to Boku on the cover! KtB pencil and poster!), Magic Kaito Treasured Edition v2, PairPuri v10 (last volume!), Dear Boys v8, and Seiyuu Ka-! v7. I considered nominating Seiyuu Ka-! for Yuletide, but decided not to since scanlations aren't as far as what I'd like to request.

Interrupting all the Bokurano fic posts for some manga talk!

Kare Kano
Last week, I finished reading Kare Kano after starting it...10 years ago. I borrowed the first eight volumes from my cousin when I last visited Taiwan. I remember the title of Kare Kano in Chinese had the word "Seesaw" in it. Strange name. XD; Anyway, I always hear that Kare Kano is about masks and facades and relationships, but the two main characters weren't even the main characters for several volumes! Each of the side characters have a lot of back story. That part amazed me...I suppose the mangaka did have a lot of time with this series to dedicate such detail for each of the characters. My favorite was the singer Kazuma...I wish his side story had gotten into the anime (but then, even if it did...I guess Ishida Akira wouldn't have sang any of his songs. Darn). I revisited Kare Kano after all these years because of the mangaka's other series, Eensy, Weensy Monster. I found it to be very cute. <3

Seiyuu Ka
I went to Kinokuniya today and picked up the first three volumes of this manga along with the bunko versions of Mekakushi no Kuni (the new covers are so pretty! But I wonder if only Jump series get Perfect Editions while shoujo series only gets pocket size reprints...I want my color pages!) Anyway, Seiyuu Ka is by the mangaka of SA, which I haven't read, though I did watch the anime of that. So far, Seiyuu Ka has been pretty fun. The main character wants to become a seiyuu of a cute, magical girl, but her voice sounds like that of an old man whenever she tries to sound cute. She finds out somewhere along the way that she's actually better at prince like voices. So yup, there's some genderbending coming right along.

Tenipuri
Latest two chapters of Shin Tenipuri (chapters 33 & 34) cracked me up. The look on Akaya's face when he was flying in the air like an angel killed me. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be funny, but yeah... XD;

I picked up volume 6 of the Perfect edition today. The short manga where Mizuki went to Rokkaku to recruit Kisarazu Ryou was included in the back. I wonder why they included that again when it was already included in the fanbooks! Oh well...I suppose it doesn't hurt having it again since this is a volume dedicated to St. Rudolph. The cover features Yuuta~ with Mizuki on the inside cover. Halfway done with this collection...6 volumes left! This will still take quite a bit of money. ^^