Hellooooo Kitty

Shino: So I just went to a short interview at the Sanrio store in the mall, and since my mom's 2 Japanese friends work there, I am now HIRED!!! \(>0<) W007! Now I'll be surrounded by Hello Kitty and other cute things while making sure little kids don't steal or eat our candies! D:<

And now it's time for "Shino's Weird-Ass Stupid Pictures":

Again I had a LOT of empty space left on a homework so I drew this shit... Like I said, I can't believe I almost spent an hour on just those drawings...... orz

A shirt I'm gonna throw away cuz I've been wearing it for like 7 years now. Most of the glitter's gone and it's kinda childish anyways. I still think it's pretty hilarious though since my eyes suck and all... (^_^; )

We went to our grandparents' house in St.George during Da Levsta's spring break/Eastor before their second mission in THE PHLIPPIN PHILIPPINES. These are our eggs. I did the blue and orange one. The blue one is Italy from Axis Powers Hetalia (Pastaaaaaa! <3). What's crazy is that Levsta and I both made the orange and pink one at the same time, and it was total coincidence that we both drew THE EXACT SAME FACE. WTF MAN THAT'S AWESOME AMIRITE!?!!?? 8D

Da Levsta slept on the floor while there. He got the ballerina blanket. The whole ROOM was actually pink/pretty/frilly with dolls. XD

We also drew some mini-frisbees there. This is mine of Hatsune Miku. Not references, and not bad IMO. (^_^; ) Levsta's was just a random ugly face, you don't wanna see it. We both got to hide the eggs for the little cousins' easter egg hunt. That was cool/a first. XD

Gosh, sorry these are all so OLD. Did I tell you I got a LiveJournal account now too? I'll put it in the links later. Goodbye Kitty!

Doopity Doop

Shino: Wow, I actually don't have a shit-load of homework this week! ZOMG1!! So I'm gonna show you some funny, real life pics.

These are all the comics Papa got us when he got back from Japan a few weeks ago. You can't see all the Bleach though cuz I just stacked 'em. :P He got us 11 through 30. (And YES, they're all Japanese.)

NOW here's all the Bleach we have! I've only read to volume 10 and Da Levsta hasn't read any so we've got something to look forward to. XD

Look at problem 11, in the middle. This book for a chemical engineering class sometimes has fake-problems like that. Another problem (which I can't find) explained for like a paragraph a problem then said at the end "...but this problem is too hard for your level so just go watch a movie like "Dances with Wolves" which is the author's favorite movie. LOLWUT?? XDDDDD

Ayakashis, Youkais, and Mononokes, Oh My!

Shino: Did I ever tell you I help translate Japanese manga into english online? Well I joined Fate Scanslations a few months ago, about last fall, and have translated 5 chapters now. The one I just finished translating today (all in one day, go me!) is some weird one-shot version of Shounen Onmyouji. Supposedly it was "cursed" at Fate cuz so many people refused to translate it, or they quit during its translation. XDDDD So now I am the Curse Breaker!! *guts*

Before I translated it, I looked up a little about it and it was originally a series of light-novels with a manga and anime version, so I decided to check out the anime. So now I like it, so I'm gonna watch the rest since there's only like 26 episodes I think.

Anyways, while watching the anime, these are some little/cool things I found out:

Kamina from Gurren Lagann's voice actor is in here as Guren (LOL), and he's also America in Hetalia, and Tsuruga Ren in Skip Beat!. You already know how I recently got into Hetalia, but I forgot to mention that about last week I got into the manga/anime Skip Beat!. It's pretty shoujo-isc but I'm a sucker for love stories and it's awesome cuz the main heroine has such an evil dark side. XD Oh, and he's also Komui Lee in D.Gray-man.

Father Alexander Anderson from Hellsing's voice actor is also in here as the first main bad guy. It's funny cuz he was also Chiyo-chan's cat-dad in Azumanga Daioh, and since he's a priest-Father, and a dad-Father, Da Levsta and I just call him "Otou-san" which is Japanese for dad/father. XDDD

The young Abe no Seimei I found out was Katsura's voice actor from Gintama. THEN I found out he's also Inumaru from The Law of Ueki, and Gaara from Naruto who I knew did Fisheye from Sailor Moon Super S. That's a little surprising, I didn't know Katsura was Gaara! It was weird enough when I first found out Gaara did Fisheye, and now it's weird again knowing Katsura did Gaara!

Well, that's enough voice actor fangirling for me. (God I'm such an otaku...... -o-; ) Now to watch more Shounen Onmyouji. XP

EDIT: After finished watching it, I found out there's also Naruto's voice actress and Baikinman's voice actor in Shounen Onmyouji. XD

Pardon me, but may I barfeth upon thee?

Shino: Ugh, I gotta get this stuff off my chest. So like 2 weeks ago I saw the movie "Coraline" in 3D. It was awesome/cool/creepy/cute/weird/etc. BUT!!! Another awesome thing is one of the trailers I saw before it even started! About 2 years ago I went and saw the Animation Show (remember? I think I even blogged about it and linked to some stuff), and one of the short movies was called "9" by Shane Acker. Now, on September 9th this year (so on 9/9/09) it's coming out as a real movie with Tim Burton!! ZOMIGOSH!!!1!!1!11 And now it's gonna have voices, and a plot, and action, and a whole bunch of awesome crap! AND THE DATE IT COMES OUT IS AWESOME TOO!!!!

Original "9" movie

Theatrical "9" Trailer

Speaking of movies, the Dragon Ball movie is finally coming out this year too (I think). Hamasaki Ayumi did the ending song (I think) so my mom downloaded it. (^_^;) And speaking of movies again, I heard that Tim Burton is also making a darker/cooler version of "Alice in Wonderland" and that Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter. But I think I've heard they were also going to make a movie version of "American McGee's Alice" (which was a dark game), so I don't know what's going on anymore but I don't care and can't wait for all these awesome new movies to come out! (>w<)

Ugh, and even MORE about movies, there's a manga version of "High School Musical" in Japan. Levsta found it out from somebody he watches on deviantART. And I also found out from dA a while ago that in the Japanese version of "Twilight", there are a few manga-like picture/pages in there. BLEARGH. STUPID TEEN MOVIES!!! But you can't deny that the manga versions look SOOO much cooler... *loves Japan no matter what*

ANYWAYS, back to Coraline, but we had like an hour to kill before it actually started so Da Levsta and I went to the game arcade and on one of the crane games, for 50 cents, on the first try without much hope in my mind, I got a doll. A Pokemon doll, a Piplup, to be precise. It's cute and it's probably like the first time I've won a crane game so I don't care WHAT it is so shut up. Well, I'm done ranting for now, TTYL LOL WUT WTFBBQ?

MOAR ANIMUZ PLZ KTHNXBAI

Shino: DANG IT!!! DX I want to read REBORN! manga but the site I go to to read the raws (MangaHelpers.com) is being stupid right now so I can't read ANYTHING right now!! So I'm gonna waste my time here and tell you stuff I've been wanting to say but kept forgetting. Here's to hoping I don't forget WHILE I'm typing (like always... XD).

I found this out from the Eyeshield 21 anime but since 1999, every 4 years they have an Amercian Football World Cup. AND JAPAN WON FIRST PLACE THE FIRST 2 TIMES, AND SECOND IN THE 2007 GAME. (Which was HELD in Japan BTW) I thought that was pretty rad. Here's a link to the Wikipedia page about it for more info:

Wiki Wiki

(>.>) . . . What? I couldn't think of a good link-title...


Spring Break's coming up soon and I get a whole week off. I wonder what I should do? Draw, maybe?? PSSSH, yeah right! Who do you think I am!? Someone who has good time-management skillz or something!!? XDDD But yeah, I'm starting to suffer from Art Withdrawal Symptoms. You know, getting sad/mad about wasting time doing homework/other-important-things you COULD have spent on drawing.

Oh yeah, Da Levsta and I watched the first 5 episodes of Axis Powers Hetalia. I don't think he'll continue watching it, but we both think it's an awesome idea to personify countries. We gotta try reading it too. Here's info on it (again, from your ol' pal Mr. Pedia):

Hetalia

Did I tell you how much we also love Hellsing? 8D We watched the anime in (mostly) English, then the 5 out of 7 OVA's that are out so far in Japanese. And DAMN is the anime pretty bad compared to the OVA! At first it was still cool cuz Alucard is cool no matter what, but police-girl SUCKED. So yeah, I can't wait till the last 2 OVA's come out. Too bad that series is over now too. *sigh* So many good anime's ending so soon... *sniff*

One last random real-life info for you all. There's this one little crossroad on my way to school. All roads leading to it are one lane so just a 4-way stop sign would probably suffice but they have a light, which is OK since it's a kinda busy road. The only problem I have with it is that it has FIVE FREAKING LIGHTS. And they ALL work. It's not like 1 or 2 died so they had to replace them, there's just 5 lights all...there. And like 3 of them have lights on all four-sides anyway so you could have just ONE of those and be fine! Graaaaarrr WFT MATE!!? I'll take a picture of it later...when/if I remember. XP

YA-HA!!

Shino: I JUST FINISHED WATCHING ALL 145 EPISODES OF EYESHIELD 21!!!! YAAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Now I'm gonna catch up on the manga. I only read up to book 19, and I just found out yesterday that the english versions of ES21 have gone further than me! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. The only problem is I only have up to book 23 in Japanese (on the computer) and I haven't been able to find any more. There's a bunch of translated chapters, or the RAWS I can find are like on book 30 so I'm in a bit of a dilemma.

BUT WHO CARES!!? I FREAKIN' JUST FINISHED WATCHING EYESHIELD!!!

I was screaming the whole day cuz I watched the last 13 episodes all today. So now I'm gonna go read the books I DO have. Another pointless dilemma I'm in is I'm also starting to get back into REBORN! too...I wanna start reading/watching it again. And Gintama. And Bleach. And IT JUST NEVER ENDS. 8D

AND I'M ALRIGHT WITH THAT.

Touchdown!!

Shino: I dunno why I still start these off with my name since Da Levsta HARDLY writes here anymore... XD I keep telling myself to do homework too, but it's a freakin' friday night! Whaddya expect from me!!? XDDDD

So what am I doing that makes me fill up with guilt? FOOTBALL. I watched like 10 Eyeshield 21 episodes tonight (I stopped watching it a few months because I caught up to the anime) so now I'm on episode 104. W007!! And now I'm watching "Monk" which is an episode about football, and after that I'm gonna watch "Psych" which is ALSO an episode about football! At first I was thinking "What a coincidence!" but then I remembered that the Super Bowl was this sunday. XD I must have felt the football vibe in the air and that made me want to watch Eyeshield again.

Another anime I watched (Da Levsta too) is Azumanga Daioh. We finished watching it in like a week. IT WAS SOOO CUTE. Now I know why I keep seeing anime-videos with it in it. I actually saw the manga a few years ago, but it was in english and I was young and naive so I thought it was just some American wannabe manga-style copy-cat. XD

And again I was gonna ramble on about some other stuff but I forgot and I must now commence watching Psych. ADIUE!

Go Go I-Go!

Shino: Silly me! It's not a Hikaru no Go OVA, it's a new years special that continues the manga story a little more. (^_^;) So I guess I didn't really have to read the manga, but oh well. Like I always say, the manga is better than the anime. Now I gotta do that with Death Note one day. |D THAT IS ALL. 8D

The Spirits Are Always With You

Shino: So a few days before Christmas I decided to watch Hikaru no Go finally because it was a short (75 episodes) anime that was on my "Anime To Watch" List. 2 days later, Da Levsta, who lives a 20 minute drive away, started watching it too and kinda getting interested in Go. (He stopped watching it, but he still wants to learn Go.) IT'S LIKE WE HAVE THE SAME THOUGHT PATTERNS AMIRITE??? 8D

So I watched that in like a week (cried near the end, read a few FanFictions...) but then I found out the manga actually goes a little furthur than the anime so I HAD to read the manga too. I'd only read up to like book 7 (out of 23) in English like a year or two ago, so I just started there. That took about 3 days to read it all, and I JUST finished reading it like an hour ago. All I have to do now to cross Hikaru no Go out of my life for good is to download the music and watch the OVA of it. XD In Japan there are 2 GameBoy Advance and 1 GameCube game for it and I kinda wish I could have one to learn how to play Go. (^_^;) My dad wants to learn too, and the only thing I could think of on how to learn is online or look for some kifu or tsume Go to practice with. *sigh* Well, maybe later...

Another series I got into is 07-GHOST. It's a monthly Shoujo manga, but the anime is supposed to start this year. SQUEEL!! And I read all the chapters in RAW Japanese form except the first 6 chapters. (I read HikaGo RAW too BTW.) I also listened to the drama CD of it just now. :P

Now that I think about it, there's ONE more series I got into and that's Tegami Bachi aka Letter Bee. It was one of the anime you could watch from that Shonen Jump anime tour site. I always thought it was cute, and after watching the anime, I read it too. Go too mangahelpers.com or onemanga.com to read it. Mangahelpers has them RAW, so I like it more now. XP

I dunno, I feel like I could of done more during my break, seeing as school starts on monday and all (CRAP!!!). I watched a TON of anime last year (Eyeshield 21, Reborn, Gurren Lagann, OoFuri...) but I guess I read more this year. I didn't meet any friends either. Crap. I gotta get comic books and a game back from these 2 guys before I/they forget! Hope you guys got some cool stuff/memories from your Christmas breaks, ciaociao!