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Movies
I looked forward to watching this movie since I went to watch Captain America. I didn't think I'd like superhero movies this much? The movie didn't interest me before, but now it's caught my interest. ;) Anyway, I finally got around to watching Iron Man and quite enjoyed it. Looking forward to watching Iron Man 2, hopefully over the weekend!

Anime
Am also looking forward to catching up with some anime. I haven't been watching anything at all. Kind of just fell out of it. I've been trying to watch Natsume Yuujinchou San weekly, but I didn't manage to do that! When Kimi to Boku and Bakuman 2 start airing this fall though, I'm so following those as the episodes come out. Getting an anime really does make a series more popular, and gets the series more advertising too. Already, Kimi to Boku is getting more merchandise, it's been on the cover of G Fantasy quite a lot (which means I've been buying it every month...), has more color pages, etc! And I've been seeing more people talking about the series. I'm excited to see KtB get more popular because when I first got into the series, almost no one had heard about it before! It is lonely to like a series and have no one to talk about it with. kimitoboku_fan is also getting a bit more activity now~

(This is why I will be forever sad that 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight and Noblesse might never get an anime since they're not manga from Japan, though I do love that they're not from Japan. But if they did ever get an anime, the popularity boost!! I so wish these series would become more popular in English speaking circles.)

August was quite a Kaitou Kid month (that made me gleeful, the fact that he took over Conan episodes for 4 weeks) but I've only watched the first episode that aired (and took a whole slew of screencaps). I suddenly have this urge to watch Conan from the start, though that'd be a huge undertaking. XD; The new Prince of Tennis ovas must also be super squee-worthy, but I've yet to watch them. Watching them is very high priority for me though. ;)

Webtoons
Today I started reading a webtoon called Pinocchio about a ghost and a girl who can see him. I am in love with the art style. ♥ Also started reading The God of High School. I sense interesting fights up ahead. Sometimes I really wish I can read Korean too... I enjoy reading things in the original language. :3

Fanfiction in Chinese?
Does anyone know of any archive sites for fanfics in Chinese? I'm starving for Legend of Sun Knight fics especially, and I know that they have pretty big followings in Taiwan. I randomly surfed around in baidu and came upon a hilarious fic about rumors regarding Earth and Sun and how Earth was spreading rumors about Sun being gay, so Sun tells his platoon to make Earth appear gay, and somehow it all ends with people believing that Earth and Sun are gay together. Now I want to write some kind of rumor fic too! I think Storm would fit such a fic well...

I did search around Yu Wo's site and saw that quite a lot of people post their fanfics for her series there. It seems to me that many people post their fics in forums. I wonder if that's the practice most follow? Long, long time ago, I used to read Chinese Yu Yu Hakusho fics whenever I ran out of YYH fics from the English fandom to read, though I've forgotten the site I frequented back then. I wonder if it's even still around. It was a YYH specific site though. :3

Tenipuri
Haven't been fangirling this series enough lately, but I bought Kanzenban season 2 volumes 1-3 today, as well as PairPuri 6, featuring Kirihara & Kaidou. So expensive. :'D I've been trying to translate some of PairPuri 6 over at fanbook, but I've only done a 2 pages so far. The whole fanbook is so much fun though! I especially enjoy the Kirihara & Krauser interaction, as well as how much Kirihara's sempai are emphasized.

Season 2 of the complete edition currently features Hyoutei on the covers!

( kanzenban talk )

Super belated, but Tenipuri Festa 2011. So much love! Today I flipped through Animedia (May and June editions had a special seiyuu guide section, with a one page questionnaire per seiyuu) and was surprised at how many seiyuu I recognized by appearance. It was all mostly Tenipuri seiyuu that I recognized though. Kite's seiyuu wrote that he felt Kite's role was the turning point of his seiyuu career. Minagawa Junko wrote that it was Ryoma for her. :)

But yeah, Tenipuri Festa 2011. Finally got to hear Laser Beam performed by all of Rikkai! :D Was so waiting for that!

Junai Labyrinth
Picked up volume 4 today! I decided not to buy Seiyuu Ka- v5-6 and Gakuen Alice v24 in favor of buying some Tenipuri (will buy sometime later... I've already read what's in v5-6 for Seiyuu Ka anyway, and I haven't been reading the Gakuen Alice volumes I've been buying... maybe I'll wait until I catch up to actually buy it? =x). I still bought Junai Labyrinth since I have been following this shoujo. Reira~. Haruto~. Umi~. The characters feel very typical of this mangaka, but they always make me smile! I'm cheering for Reira, but this whole thing feels very Haruto x Umi... which is the whole point of the story I think. XD; Haruto and Umi are brother and sister, and Umi has a huge brother complex. Haruto has a pretty huge sister complex too. Reira... is kind of just there and gets on the nerves of both of them. XD;

Kimi to Boku
I've been buying GFantasy for the sake of the KtB extras, haha. June edition comes with a pencil board! Last month's was stickers, and before that was a poster. I haven't actually read these chapters yet (need to get out all my GFantasy and read them at once) but I flipped through June's... and goodness, Yuuki and Chizuru are fighting? Now I'm curious. There was also a 4-koma featuring the boys talking about the anime! :D

Kuragehime
Not related to stuff I bought today, but I finished watching Kuragehime~. (I picked up where I left off... and then couldn't stop, haha) Really loved Kuranosuke a lot. Appearance-wise, I seem to really like characters who tie their hair up in a little ponytail (think, Gokudera, who does it from time-to-time). Personality-wise, I loved his confidence and how much he cared about Tsukimi. I also adored Shuu, though I felt bad for Tsukimi when he didn't recognize her. :'D The anime was quite heart-warming a lot of the time, and I wish I had Chieko's skill with sewing. XD; Also loved the jellyfish metaphors.

Pokemon Black
I beat the Elite Four, yessss.

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Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Finished watching this, finally. Watched the beginning as it was airing, and then I stopped. Finished watching the rest one episode per day while I used my treadmill (watching anime while treadmilling is awesome). I kept snickering while I was using the treadmill... was hard to restrain myself, hahaha. XD I'm not too fond of Kirino, but she is certainly the driving force of the series. Kyousuke is quite amazing. Manami is so cute. I haven't watched the extra episodes... I'm a bit scared to find out what those are about. :'D

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This week:
-must translate! so much translating stuff piling up. At least translating helps me practice my Japanese and Chinese, so it's quite a worthwhile hobby, though time consuming...
-finish blogging about FMA:B :3
-write, oh man. *has not written any fic in all of April*. My break from writing is turning into quite a long break! Chapter 6 of He Never Knew is still in note format, and everything else for all my other fics is still just in my head. XD;;

When May rolls around, I have to start on my cosplay for Fanime!! Whoa, May, already...

khrfest has begun posting! :D I submitted quite a few prompts (mostly all involving Dino, hehehe). Can't wait to see if people will end up writing them!

More FMA. ;D

For some reason, I keep typing "Wintry" whenever I'm trying to type Winry's name. -___-;

( episodes 21-30 )

Finished watching the whole series. Some parts made me feel very nostalgic! Took lots of screencaps and was going to pick one per episode, but er, that was hard, so I'm dividing this into several posts. XD; Perhaps I should've done these posts as I was watching.

( episodes 1-10 )

Bakuman
The Bakuman anime ended where I thought it would. It was a very slow-paced anime, but I thought it was fine like that. It's kind of nice to see it not rushed at all, and some scenes were even expanded on, especially Miho's parts (she's much more non-existent in the manga is my feeling...). I also got reminded of a lot of details that I've already forgotten. Makes me really want to write fic, but that hasn't happened yet except for two very short drabbles. :'D

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Anime, Anime
I've fallen behind with everything else I've been following and haven't even started on others that I wanted to follow. =x But for next season, I've been looking forward to Ao no Exorcist, The World God Only Knows II, Sket Dance, and Kaiji, though I need to watch the first season of Kaiji first... which might not happen any time soon. I have a feeling that Ao no Exorcist and Sket Dance will turn out like Fairy Tail for me (in that I really want to follow it, but I'll only be able to for a few episodes before getting distracted by other things). I wonder how much Ao no Exorcist will cover? The manga hasn't gotten that far yet...

Recently, I'm getting the feeling that I'm much more of a manga reader than an anime watcher... and it seems that most anime I start watching are manga adaptions.

(I really want more decks based on manga at colors_tcg. *g* Manga fans!!! Please join!! I feel I can pretty much leave decks of new anime up to the other members to be donated. XD;; So...fans of older anime, please join too! XDD)

I plan on marathoning Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood first though, before watching any other anime. So yeah, I'll be busy with that. XD; (Though it is not a good anime to marathon...)

Help_Japan
Still working on help_japan commitments! I've finished all the chibi pixel art and they can all be viewed here in this post. Ryoma + Karupin, cats, Chi, and Tezuka + Fuji.

Thank you arachne13 and tsubasa_niji for bidding on them. <3 Still working on translations and that FMA:Brotherhood moodtheme (which is why I'm marathoning the series, finally)!

This week is catch up with Detective Conan week for me. XD;

( Conan sure gets hugged a lot )


( Also, movie 14, I finally watched it. I squealed )

401 weeks of rajipuri, man! This month's personalities are Minagawa Junko and Konomi Takeshi!! Plus one of his assistants. This made for a very different session. :3

Usually they have two seiyuu facing off with each other (they get quizzed on Tenipuri, or they're challenged to do something). But since it was Konomi-sensei on the show, they asked him questions from the listeners instead. I look forward to the rest of the month. :D

Paraphrased by me. XD

Question 2:

Minagawa Junko: Who's the hardest to draw?

Konomi-sensei: (answers right away) Chitose.

Minagawa Junko: So fast! Why?

Konomi-sensei: Somehow he's hard to draw.

Minagawa Junko: Hair?

Konomi-sensei: His hair is hard. His face is hard too. He's tall, so the balance between him and the other characters can get weird. Even though he's far, he looks close... when he's with another tall character, they end up looking small too.
1.9 meters, then add his geta...

Minagawa Junko: Then who's the easiest?

Konomi-sensei: Inui.

Minagawa Junko: Hahaha, because he has no eyes?


Ahahaha, poor Chitose!


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In addition to Bakuman and Kaminomi, I ended up checking out a few more series from what other people said they were going to follow. :3

( Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai, Tegami Bachi Reverse, Psychic Detective Yakumo, Star Driver )

I think that was all I was planning on possibly following. Anyone following other stuff? XD

Because Yuuta + Yagyuu in the same episode is pure awesomeness, have a picspam of the episode. My love for Yuuta has been rekindled. XD The picture drama of PairPuri 2 (the DVD version) features the Fuji siblings shopping for a present for their sister, but they get stalked by a paranoid Mizuki, and somehow Niou and Yagyuu show up cosplaying in the background. It was so lol-worthy that I already made a deck out of it for twistserve_tcg. Having new material to work with feels good. :D Now to find the first PairPuri...



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I also listened to Ryoutarou Matsuri today, a special radio session that celebrated Tezuka's first album (that means this was recorded waaaay back). It was very amusing to listen to. XD; A bunch of the seiyuu were all there to celebrate during new years, and they called a lot of other seiyuu during the show. It was cute. Glad I stumbled upon this since there was no rajipuri to listen to last week.

Oh, and is anyone listening to Okiayu Ryoutarou and Taiten Kusunoki's Radio? Those two are hilarious.

And since this post was all about Tenipuri, let me pimp the new deck list at Twist Serve. If you like Tenipuri, you should check Twist Serve out! :D This deck list shows all the different decks that are available for you to collect~. Come join us~.