Some new stuff I got last year and took pics of last year... but never posted here, I think? :'D (If I did, then eh, here's a second post about this stuff) I have a lot of photos like these around, whoops. Anyway, after I read ILTv5, I was in the mood to read/reread some Yu Wo stuff and remembered that I never did get around to reading this one. Was going to take pics of the cover but went digging through my files instead and found these that I already took. XD;;

Bought these last year. Pictured above:
*Royal Beast (王獸), a self published BL novel by Yu Wo from last August
*A Gong Hua illustrated storybook
*Sunken Moon doujinshi featuring Naerxi/Yui Tui

I've been accumulating several Sunken Moon doujinshi that I haven't read lately, now that Shui Quan has moved on from Jin Shi. I want more Jin Shi. :3;; But I never know if I'll end up liking another character a lot, so I've still been buying some Sunken Moon doujinshi here and there. Didn't buy the latest one though. Bit behind on S2, so I don't know those characters much at all...

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For the first two weeks of August, I went off to Taiwan~. Been back from the trip for around a week (busy busy trying to settle in with work and catch up with stuff). It's been 17 years since I've traveled there. Boy, do I remember very little of Taiwan. Some things haven't changed though, while some stuff has changed a lot. But what's different about this trip is that I had places and events I wanted to cram in, with a shorter stay than any of my previous trips to Taiwan, so it was a trip with a super full itinerary. Went out bright and early every day and didn't get home until around 11 pm every night. Walked my feet off. XD There was no rest at all. I became very familiar with the public transit. I also got to see my relatives who I haven't seen in just as long as I haven't been back to Taiwan. 17 years!! (I was so tiny back then.)

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Remember that contest held on Yu Wo's forums that I won? I received the prizes~~. Since I won two separate contests, a No Hero and a Dominion's End one, Yu Wo asked if I wanted one of the prizes changed. Otherwise, I'd get two of the same prize. XD; I said that I liked posters. She managed to dig one up for me, and she also included some other miscellaneous items! It was quite fun opening up the package and wondering what I might get. I did feel a bit bad that she had to spend time replacing one of the prizes, and that she had to send it overseas.


The prizes. The original prize was the Bai Lian Yue bundle, which comes with a bag, the novel, the comic "Cafe & Tea," three postcards, a small card, and 4 rolls of decorative tape. (You can see more photos over here from my own purchase). I like having more of the decorative tape. Now, I have enough to use them on cards~~.

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fic recs

Mar. 2nd, 2015 10:03 pm
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These are the levels over at Yu Lun, Yu Wo's forums. XD

Holy Knight-in-training (0 points)
Holy Knight (100 points)
Holy Knight Platoon Member (1000 points)
Vice-Captain of the Twelve Holy Knights (2000 points)
Twelve Holy Knights (5000 points)
Judgment Knight (10000)
Sun Knight (30000)
God of War (50000)
Shadow God (70000)
God of Light (99999)

I think I will be forever stuck as a holy knight. XD;;; I see a few Judgment Knights...! That's already really impressive. I guess they must be aiming to become the God of Light, lol. I want to be a vice-captain. If not that, then the God of Light, lolol. But sadly, I'm not nearly that wordy.

Some Chinese LSK and Gong Hua fic recs!

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And some other news. In February, I saw someone ask Neko Kreuz on Facebook about the state of the LSK manhua. Her reply was, "The manhua edition of the Legend of Sun Knight is currently on hiatus. Right now, I don't know when it will continue. Sorry about that."

Taiwan still hasn't gotten V5 of the manhua yet. I bought V4 in December of 2012, and it's already 2015. I wonder what's going on? I hope the manhua doesn't go the way of some other novel-to-manhua adaptions that end up unfinished. D: (I don't know about the situation with Unique Legend, but it seems like the manhua adaption is only 5~6 volumes long, and unfinished? I tried buying the manhua but couldn't find it in stock...)

In happier news, I'm getting my copy of Illusions-Lies-Truth V3 tomorrow. :3;;

Gong Hua

Jul. 23rd, 2014 08:12 pm
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Wow, watch me be long-winded and pour out all my thoughts about Gong Hua. :'D



I have to hand it to Yu Wo. She really did conclude Gong Hua in four volumes instead of the six volumes mentioned! I approached V4 with much trepidation since the series seems to have been prematurely ended, and my impression was that Gong Hua is one of the less popular (yet harder to write) of Yu Wo's works, so perhaps there's little reward for continuing it further. Ironically, Gong Hua can perhaps be considered her most intricate and ambitious work, but it's definitely not as "fun" as her other series. With the series regarded as a tragedy, just how were things to be concluded? In a single volume, when the end had seemed so far off with the ending of volume 3? I was a little scared to find out!

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Got Yu Wo's new novel, Dominion's End today! It's Yu Wo's version of the end of the world, with a dimensional hopping, time traveling do-over of sorts for the main character.

Also got 1/2 Prince manhua v16, the last volume! Wow, the end. Cai Hong Zhong says on the inside flap, "I finally finished drawing 1/2 Prince. Seven years of my youth..." :'D (Thank you for your hard work!!!) Min Gui Wen cosplaying as his game avatar asjdfla;sjdf;af. Ming Bin's RL appearance. djf;laj; (WHAT IS THAT HAIR)

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Yu Wo plurked today that she got herself addicted to blueberries just like Sun. Somehow, the conversation turned to how Ice must be broke because of Grisia's love for blueberries, and Yu Wo answered:
Ice: I planted a field of blueberries in the corner of the Holy Temple.

(Ahhhhh that is such a cute image... Ice, why are you so cute)

Gong Hua V4 comes out on July 15. It's the last volume! At first, Gong Hua was slated for 3 volumes, but Yu Wo couldn't fit everything she wanted in 3 volumes. She thought each of the volumes would turn into 2 volumes, making it 6 volumes in all. I'm really surprised the end volume count is 4. I hope it's not a rushed ending!
GOD new edition and 1/2 Prince 2nd artbook
I already have the old edition of GOD... but the new edition art is tempting. And the content will be revised! The new 1/2 Prince artbook has illustrations from the new illustrator edition of the novels, which I've purchased the full set... So I already have all of the illustrations. XD;; But it'd be nice to have that picture of Cold Fox without any creases...

Human Doll Contract V2
Will definitely purchase this. XD But probably just the normal edition. I don't need the bag that comes along with the special edition. (If it were a poster, that'd be a different matter, haha). This concludes the Human Doll Contract part of the story in the series. Each part of the story is like a separate case. Yu Shu and Butler are featured on the cover of v2, while Lu Yang is on the bag that comes with the special edition. I hope there'll be a pull out poster of him in the novel! That's a really pretty illustration, too pretty to just put on a cloth bag where the ink will bleed!!!

LSK manhua bundle 10
Ahhhhhhhh. This concludes v2 of the novels! Three way death match! Probably concludes v6 of the manhua! (But where is v5!!!) Also contains Knife Blade part 2 (second half of Metal's side story)... The cover of the side story features Lesus with a whip, hahaha. The poster is of the same pic, Lesus with a whip...

ETA
LSK new edition volume 2
Is everything coming out in February or what. XD; Haha, the insert art sample! It's of Storm taking his teacher's advice of talking to handsome guys (and the Sun Knight is always guaranteed to be a good candidate) so that he doesn't have to wink as much. XDD

I bought v2 of the Kill No More manhua, but it is currently stuck at my relative's house. XD; I won't be getting all of these things until probably late March/early April. Hopefully the new volume of Gong Hua will be published in the same time frame... So I can get everything at the same time. =P

*counts* I have 9 ongoing LSK fics now, pfffft. (Don't worry, Lucathia! You'll be done with Bittersweet Sweetness soon! That'll make it 8 LSK fics! Don't even think of the spin-off/sequel to BS right now... You've written enough BS already...) Anyway, I'm attempting to update these LSK fics one at a time. I just revived two of the ones I hadn't updated in months, so I guess next is Invincible? (And then Grace...) I dug out the Invincible chapter I was writing when I stopped, and it was about Cold Fox and Ugly Wolf. Was going to scrap the chapter... but I guess I'll stick with it after all.

I'm contemplating if I should try to conclude some of my non LSK fics that I probably won't be returning to... They need a lot more development before they'd reach the ending I had planned... But I can probably write a different ending... An ending might be better than no ending? Then again, the problem with updating those fics is that I'm a bit out of touch with the fandoms, so I don't have a good grasp of characterization. I'd have to review canon first. Mostly, I considering this for Twin Stars and Go no Oujisama. I still plan on finishing Memories of the Future...
Wretch.cc is closing their services at the end of 2013! That means Yu Wo's blog will be moving, since the entire site where she's hosting her blog will be closing down. T___T; (I would hate for that to happen to me, ahhhhh)

Here's her new blog. I hope she'll be able to import her old posts or something... All of those stories and comments...!!!

Also of interest: First teaser for Gong Hua volume 4, Second teaser for Gong Hua volume 4. First one features Yin Qie Zi (Silver Violet)... Present time, I believe. Second one features Kasi, backtracking to right after he parted from Gong Hua during his youth. This novel backtracks a lot! I wonder when this will be released.

Book Writer (Human Doll Contract side story) autograph session. I guess all of these links will stop working at the end of the year. T___T;

Book Writer was a pretty cool side story! It details how Yu Shu from Human Doll Contract came to have two dolls, whose identities are Charles from No Hero and Grisia from the Legend of Sun Knight. I bet Yu Wo is having a blast with mixing her series like this. :3 While not exactly a crossover and not the actual characters from the series, it was still pretty cool seeing Charles and Grisia duke it out. Aaaand, I laughed so hard at the omake. (Translated in full under the LJ-cut~)

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Yu Wo merch

Mar. 29th, 2012 02:53 am
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Bought a whole bunch of merchandise from various Yu Wo series. :'D A whoooooole bunch. I totally splurged. General pics for now of new stuff I bought. Previously bought stuff isn't included. I think I'll do separate posts for each of these series in detail...when I get around to doing that.

Super bad quality pics ahead.


Ughhh, blurry. LSK first~. Posters, mousepad, playing cards, clearfiles, cards, etc... includes volume 3 of the manhua, Cloud's side story, and the new manhua chapter that covers the beginning of the 2nd novel~

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Miscellaneous talk on Yu Wo's works. XD; I've almost gone through all her works... well, I still have three series left before I run out of things to read, so I guess I can't say "almost". No Hero, Kill No More, and GOD. Oh, and the crossover between 1/2 Prince and Kill No More. XD;

Female Warrior / 女武
More 女武! Yu Wo posted the 6th part, in which Sylvester stumbles upon a half elf. (A half elf!! He's yet to have been awake during his screentime... darn. I want to find out what he's like already!) Hee, I wonder if Sylvester is going to end up (literally) stumbling over each of the remaining of the Twelve Holy Knights? He's already picked up two strays this way!

Eclipse Hunter / 玄日狩
I loaded my Yuletide canon as well as all five volumes of Eclipse Hunter on my tablet. After finally finishing re-consuming the series I matched for Yuletide and planning out the fic(s), instead of actually writing, I thought, "hm, maybe I'll take a peek of Eclipse Hunter... I've been meaning to read it since last year..." *facepalm* Two days later, I've finished reading all five volumes. I didn't have much clue about what the series was about, but I came out loving it a lot! It's third person, and the cast is a little smaller than the ones from 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight, but the main character endeared himself to me a lot with his naivety and his protectiveness.

I suppose this would be sci-fi instead of fantasy. LSK is more fantasy? GongHua/Black Flower is definitely fantasy. 1/2 Prince is... half/half? Hm, it wouldn't be too hard to cross 1/2 Prince and Eclipse Hunter... *watches the plunnies multiply* I know I saw someone start one crossover of these two series already. They are pretty easy to cross. XD


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Black Flower / 公華
I realize I haven't talked about this (I think...), but I bought volumes 1-3 at the same time as I bought v8 of Legend of Sun Knight! \o/ I read 1-2 already, so I delved right into v3. When I started reading EH, I immediately made comparisons between EH's main character (the younger brother) and GongHua, Black Flower's main character. GongHua, as a "flower", isn't human and doesn't know anything about human feelings or human behavior, so he starts off almost like a blank slate, asks a lot of questions to learn about the world, etc. He's also fiercely protective of certain people, a trait that DarkSun shares. While the protagonists are similar, EH has comedic elements while Black Flower's meant to be tragic. I felt things took a turn for less tragic in v3, but now I feel even more unsettled for GongHua because there are totally signs for a tragic ending. If this were any of Yu Wo's other series, I'd feel safe knowing that the protagonist would probably come out unharmed and that there'd be a happy ending... but with Black Flower... who knows? Anyway, GongHua and the protagonist of Eclipse Hunter are both somewhat like... hm, Senri from +Anima? Though they're a lot more talkative. Perhaps like... Sunshine? A mix of Senri and Sunshine? I think I've just found another of my favorite character types. XD;

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Anywayyy, Yuletide. XD; I already have two gifts waiting to me since... the beginning of this week, I believe. SO ON TOP OF THINGS, MY WRITER(S). And now I've just checked and saw that the number has increased by one. :O *flails is it Yuletide yet, can I open my presents, oh wait, I haven't finished writing my fic yet, don't come just yet, Yuletide!* With no restraint at all, I totally checked the fandom page as my gifts appeared, so I think I even know which order the fandoms will be in. XD;

I feel very guilty about my progress. I want to write so many different things but my progress is terrible! Back to plotting, or I guess I should stop plotting and write more instead... except re-visiting my recipient's letter made me consume another new canon, and trying to understand that led me to another canon that is somewhat related (only peripherally)... my ways of procrastination never cease to amaze me. OTL I'm starting to feel this fic is too huge for me, the scope of it is scaring me... maybe I should manage some shorter, stand-alone snippet sort of fic to make sure I don't accidentally end up defaulting if it turns out I don't manage to finish this before the deadline... and here I wanted to write treats. I'm leaving myself no time for treats like this! *flails* I don't exactly have all that much time left... where has December gone? T___T; Stop flailing. Write more!
I've been reading some of Yu Wo's other works. Why are they all so fascinating? These two aren't 1st person, unlike 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight. There's not much talk about these even on Yu Wo's forums since Romance RPG is pretty old and short. I don't know about The Flower of Antimony though, since it's still being published at the moment, much like No Hero and LSK.

Summary and some thoughts under the lj-cuts.

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Randomly, LSK cards from the Thai edition? I laughed hard at how Sun only has 20 strength. His biggest advantage is his health points. XD; Neo's strength is frightening!

Also very randomly, but I suddenly had the urge to translate my fic Bittersweet Sweetness into Chinese, haha... that's beyond my abilities though. I can translate stuff into English, but the other way around is too hard. I attempted with one paragraph and thought it turned out okay though. XD; Might be good practice for my Chinese... if I ever have time for that. XD;