It’s been a while ;D
If I start with that line I probably be clobbered by many of my old readers, but heck. It’s been a really awful long while since I wrote in here.
Let’s see, how to have a summary of what happened this few months? After all, how can I cramp a whole 3 months into this one post. Laughs. Let’s start at the very beginning: November 2010…
Ah, that crazy period where school work was at a crazy level and I was trying to finish my Final Year Project(FYP) at the very same time, it was also then I lost the will to write in my blog, with exams looming and my future uncertain. That also the very first time I went into the examination hall, turned over the paper and went “Oh Noes! I don’t understand what the paper was writing about!”. But thankfully that was not the end of the world, in December where I gotten my results back, I blinked a few time on the result screen, pinching myself to see if I was dreaming, it turns out that I didn’t do too badly, not too well either. You know, like average. Tossing my GPA aside, I didn’t really have to worry about much.
The Winter break came and halve of it I was with my team in wrapping up our last bits for our FYP (Woohoo!) The remaining halve which I felt it was way too short, soon came to an end. Without me doing anything much productive, perhaps only for catching up drama episodes that I missed during the mad rush earlier that year. To be honest, this period seems to be like a blur to me now when I think back.
Fast forward to January 2011, I stumbled upon the wonders of micro-blogging, tumblr to be exact. Started recording my daily rambling in it, which I planned to make it an idea plotter for my blog (here), however the thing is, it seems really bothersome to repost most of the stuff from there to here, I’m trying to do this now so we will see how it goes.
*Looking at the tumblr archives* Okay… Bought the Bakemonotagari novel (Volume 1) from Kinokuniya, (Finally!) Especially, after that period (how long ago was it?) where I thought I saw the Bakemonogatari novel in the Chinese novel section, I was wondering if I really did see it there before (Yeah, I think I did but it never appeared again, until recently and it’s kinda different looking now).
I really liked the novel, and hopefully one day I will be able to read the text in the original language (Japanese). The anime sticks closely with the novel, however there are some parts where things are actually omitted, not really a biggy at least for the Bakemonogatari anime. I managed to acquire the Katanagatari Novel not long after that, the anime was missing out certain major parts, compared to the novel. It could be due to the subtitles or timing restriction, Shichika’s character in the first episode was lacking (he is smart, but lazy to think.) that wasn’t really reflected, it could be just me though. I can’t really comment on the rest of the episodes because I couldn’t get my hands on the other volume of the novels currently :(.
Random images I took when I went to Kinokuniya during January 2011
Kinokuniya finally started to stock the Japanese version of Kara no Kyoukai.
Cute Tenshi :D Lot’s of goodies like interviews with staff and detailed explanation of each episode!
Kyousuke’s Book from Little Busters. I never did finish the VN : ( Stuck in the Rin’s route T-T
Fate/Zero Volume 1! Finally became part of my collection, was looking high and low for this.
Calling You, Manga. Had mentioned of this in many of my previous posts, this is the first time I saw the manga version being sold. A very touching story.
One of my top 3 Anime for this season, Korewa Zombie Desuka?
Interesting Images of arcade machines
Music arcade game, now throws in the air hockey/pong like feature. A rather interesting mix, by clearing the beats you send them to your opponent at the top of the screen.
Heard the Hayate no Gotoku op song played on the machine. Upon closer inspection…
I think it won’t be long before you can plug in you music player and play the tunes on it in the machine. What a cool concept huh.
Random thoughts on Mangas
Lelouch is back!? Sent back in time after his demise? From the Manga, Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya
From the Manga, The world only God knows.
I like how this “conquest” is going.
This arc is rather interesting as Keima has to go after the slient type shiori once more. What better way to win a book loving girl’s heart than attacking straight from a story?
lol, by browsing through shiori’s novel, keima realizes the main heroine, simmon and her love interest catsurahi is a novel representation of shiori and keima in real life, including events from her previous “conquest”. Haha. That was a nice touch, all seems going well for the couple, until catsurahi was abruptly killed off. Keima’s reactiob was hilarious!
Deciding this(the novel) will be a idea way of comunicating with shiori and understanding her thoughts, keima gave the ending a twist! Catsurahi comes back fron the dead(cliche, he was weaing a vest ).
This was when shiori returned and saw the alterations, furious. she tried killing catsurahi off and claiming that simmon doesn’t feel a thing for him.
The next few panels has shiori and keima scribbling the novel, between killing him off and bringing him back again. That was priceless. Laughs.
Shiori finally snapped and made simmon exclaim “why do you keep coming back!?”
Keima answered with catsurahi “because i wanted to be with you…” Ooo, nice one keima. Bet that earned lots of points.
The chapter ends just there, with a shot of keima and shiori with their novel counterpart appearance!
Interesting concept. Negative emotions or feelings actually take form of a black fog. From the Manga, Monochrome Mist.
Finally…
Random Anime Screen Captures
What the…!? Wolverine nearly got pwnz by the old man. Seriously, that’s just too imbal. Screen cap from: Wolverine the Animation
Screen cap from: Star Driver
Notice this cybody looks very similar to Takuto’s Tauburn? This should be the cybody of the leader of vanishing age.
I’m convinced that guy is takuto’s dad(they kept zooming in on the R in the painting, fore-shadowing?), hence similar cybody, or maybe it’s the same one! Just with a different mask.
Screen cap from: Star Driver
Mizuno stuck in her own version of endless eight. Scary. ~insert cicadas cries here~
Star driver is getting more and more interesting, with all the identities of the priestess known to kira-boshi group, it’s looks like they are going after Mizuno next.
The episode ending with Mizuno hearing a tempting offer of getting her of the island, by the east priestess!?
Screen cap from: Star Driver
The episode was great, i really thought Takuto would lose. Lol.
Only to find him powered up once we enter a flash back of how he gotten his mark. Mizuno became Jedi spirit like when viewing his memory.
But the enemy got defeated after few seconds this time, again. Haha.
Screen cap: Star Driver
Lol. You can be a female and be the galaxy pretty boy.
Man… It’s 2 hours later and I’m not halfway done yet… Gotta break this post into 2 parts, second part will be coming up in a few days time :D Thanks for reading.
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