The fact that I wrote yesterday about Rurouni Kenshin made me really remember the serie. My love for Saitou was undeniable but I also liked other characters. Hiko!!! The biggest seme of RK universe^^. Sagara-taishou!! So sweet!!
And finally: Katsu!! You know, I'm still a big Katsu fan^^! He is like Yuuto in some ways. And so sweetly naive ("Yay, I killed the battousai!). And he had long hair *.* In my opinion, what makes a bishounen cool, is the long hair (uh, Sanzou excluded^^;). Of course long hair with strands that um, fall to the eyes (Or sth like that. You get the picture) *.*
Well, without those strands IMHO a guy is not a bishounen...
I even considred Dougan a bishie. That is after he got gross oO
And you know what I hate about Dougan? He slapped Hakuryuu!! That #$%^&*@(%!!! Yurusenai...
Oh, and a thing about Houran. OK, I know that it was needed for the plot, but PLEASE! There are permanent hair dyes on this world (well in Saiyuuki world I think that they are too. They have jeeps after all..)!
Besides, (Ooh, picky me) how on Earth did she managed to wash the dye so perfectly without getting her clothes at least a little staind? I used one-night hair dye once (because I'll never dye my hair permanently^^) and it was *really hard* to wash it away perfectly.
Yep, I'm definitely not nice to the plotmakers^^
Hmm, I should go to school tomorrow but they have some problems with organisation (there *really* is a mess...) and so I don't think I'll have classes tomorrow. I'll go there personally to find out what's going on. Not that I mind not having classes^^;;
Astarise enlightened the world @ 07:58 p.m.
Monday, September 30, 2002
Today is the historic event for me. Words can't describe my happiness. Today I've watched:
SAIYUUKI REQUIEM!!!
(warning: immature language ahead:)
Waii, Waii! Ich bin so happy! Yes, yesssss!! Ureshii! Yay! ^_____________^!!!!!
*cough*
I *finally* watched it. I know that the subject of 'ooh, I just watched Requiem' can be seen on many blogs, so it's my turn^^
First of all
-oh, the intensity of Orange Paper Airoplanes! I want one!
-After the explosion the rain of those Airoplanes *.*
-*The* Gojyo shower scene. Wheeeeee~~~~~~~!!
-the opening sequence with Hakkai and Sanzou fightning youkai(hmm I'm not so AGAINST 83 after that...)
-Dougan voiced by Okiyayu Ryoutarou! And he and Toshihiko-sama saying BOTH 'I don't need you anymore'. I was close to fainting...
-I love his voice^^ And his dialogue with Hakkai: 'Boku wa daaa-re?' 'Hentai yarou' ^0^
But the plot was... like a fanfic. Yes, very like a fanfic. And the last scenes when Dougan has muscled-up (sorry for that word I just made up^^;) reminded me of dbz-_-;;;;; He was gross, and when mutated his teeth were moving o.O
Ah, nothing like a Sanzou-obsessed would-be bishounen. When they've been fighting him Gojyo was without his cigarette (yeah, and without his shirt *.*), but two seconds later there was a screenshot of him WITH the cigarette. The next second he was without it again o.O
Hmm, and I guess that Kougaiji-tachi's guest appearance wasn't especially necessary^^; Eh, I like them anyway (except Yaone). They were needed for the ending scene with the Airoplane ^_^(<-liked it very much) And can somebody explain me WHY when Sanzou-ikkou were on the bridge, the jeep was stopped? I guess it was because Hakkai knew what will happen and, I don't know, he likes to fall to the river (hello episode 4). The chara design was strange. I thought that Saiyuuki tv is animated ummm... the characters are very... plastic and shiny. But in the movie... oooh, plastic -_-;; Not that I didn't like it^^
Lalala, so I've watched it and am very happy (ugh I guess I mentioned that)
Straight after Requiem I've watched 4th episode of Honoo no Mirage. Ooh, that was a *heavy* dose of good seiyuu. And the way that Takaya sighed in school. That was something @_@! Did I mention that I certainly want more Honoo? Well, I want more. And to think that the ultimate_gorgeous_but_still_nameless bishie appears in ep 7 _-_! And of course the Naoe/Takaya is too in later eps ;_;
Beh, but I won't angst about it. I've just discovered that black coffee and a banana is very good^^
Oh, and that bishie's name is Ishigami. Ishigaaaaaaaaaaaami *.*
And I forgot to say how much I like your layout. Black + Sanzou-sama is a very, *very* good combination ^_^
I have to buy a new black cartridge. I use one per month and it scares me. I should seriously think about buying the 'fill it by yourself' kit. And I'm out of blue ink (Soon the red one will be gone). Being out of one of the colors means goodbye to all color prints. I use black more often because I print all the texts in black.
I just wrote two long e-mails and a long entry. My fingers feel funny o.O
Astarise enlightened the world @ 01:45 p.m.
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
I have exactly 666 hits on my Nedstat counter. Whee...
Astarise enlightened the world @ 10:34 a.m.
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Wheee! After such a long time I'm finally listening to Ama Kakeru Ryuu No Hirameki! I found it!
I forgot about it because it was on one of my file CDs. Because of my extremely low discspace I have a habit of burning out countless numbers of back up CDs and deleting things from the disc. Pathetic, I know. Really my discspace is so surprisingly low, that I should laugh histerically everytime I see it. I still don't know how does my Compy-chan work anyway. It's so old...
What surprises me the most is that the Net works perfectly. Sometimes faster than in a cafe...
Listening to Ama, I remembered my Kenshin fascination. Sniff. And how I loved Saitou ^0^!!!
Astarise enlightened the world @ 12:16 p.m.
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Oh, the *evil* of scanlations!!!
First of, please excuse me while I simply die (yeah, die and go to bishie-heaven *.*)here.
Damn you, shounen manga!!!
Damn, because I found scanlations. I *hate* scanlations because I usually don't search for them, they just pop up all of a sudden and tempt me. And they surely know how to tempt >.<. And of course after reading scanlations I feel very obliged to buy the manga. And I will. I just hate it when the whole serie is scanlated. IMO there should be no more than 3-5 chapters scanlated as an invitation to buy the manga. Somebody may ask what's the use of buying tha manga If he knows it through scanlations. Well, that is true, but *I will buy*, for example Zombie Powder, after reading it wholly scanlated^^.
Anyway, after reading KaMiKaZe which is IMO more than 300% shounen, I found (through scanlations of course*mutters*) a very nice shounen ai story - Color. It was, as I said, nice, fluffy and full of shoujo love bubbles^^
And the plot was... the plot... um, wasn't extremely interesting. There was a very nice uke who was acting like a girl, but in the end he kicked the door out and became seme o.O
What surprised me was the artwork, which I liked *very* much. I don't like the typical yaoi artwork which is why I'll probably never want to buy Interview with the Vampire manga *shrugs*.
So I add two more things to my (very long) manga wishlist. The bad thing is that now I'm broke so I had to pause my Acclimate order (Wild Adapter is theeeeere ;_;). But I promised myself that I'll buy everything that is on my wishlist (the wishlist is not on paper fortunately. It's in my head and that way I'll never loose it^^;) and I will.
Heh, I just wrote that I'm broke (which *now* is true) because today I went to buy some clothes. Among other things (oooh, the pretty, pretty new black sweater, how I love you^^) I bought (tadammm) a white t-shirt. Well, nothing special, you may think. The funny thing is that I have *no* white t-shirts in my closet (save for two xxl sized that I have been wearing for my PE, because that was compulsory. Beh, they are too big and ugly to wear anyway). This one I bought thinking about printing an image on it ^_____^. I don't know what image yet, but it's going to be a Saiyuuki one for sure. I'll do it on Monday.
And more RL news. Tuesday, October 1st will be the day of doom. My school starts then ;_;
And with this I have to say goodbye to:
-sleeping till 3pm.
-if getting up early, goodbye to 8 hours with my Compy-chan (yes, I did that several times. I was very @_@-like after)
-freedom
And I have to welcome: routine, studying, riding the bus (>.<), and absolutely new people. I don't know *anybody* from the new school. No one. Kind of freaky situation...
Right. I just can't wait till Tuesday *very sarcastic smile*
And just because I feel like writing - I discovered (well, re-discoverd) one of Apocalyptica's songs - Wherever I may Roam. It's a very nasty one, because I can't help but listen to it over and over (and over again). I've never heard the Metallica version of it but it's very good considering what they've done to 'One' (well, Metallica's 'One' was first...).
I'm obsessing because I've lost one of my Apocalyptica CDs and have to use the mp3 back-ups. Well, I suspect that the CD is on my desk under big piles of paper and useless things. I even found my socks there O.O (nothing to brag about^^;)
Astarise enlightened the world @ 01:54 p.m.
Friday, September 27, 2002
A stupid thing (a joke?) that came to my mind as soon as I woke up:
Hakkai and Goku - Youkai, limited edition
Heh. I find it funny but maybe it's just me...
Astarise enlightened the world @ 08:37 a.m.
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Saiiii~~! ^_____^ I wuv him!
And my fic got *reviews*! It made me feel kinda guilty that I don't review other fics. I'll start doing so. Now I know how nice it is to find a few reviews^^;
I found a couple of new typos and mistakes there ;_;. I guess that no matter how many times I'm going to read it I'll find new ones. The thought is even worse when I think about what I wrote on my blog o.O. Scary. Actually I am aware of the mistakes on the blog but they either are on the archived pages (I won't forgive myself that I wrote "definately" >.<) or I'm just too lazy...
End language-obsessing --;
Why, oh why is Pocket-Bishonen down??? I still haven't caught Gravi/Furuba ones ;_;
BTW, I think that the site should be named "pocket-male-anime-characters" or sth like that. Geez, Gendou IS NOT a Bishounen!!!
Astarise enlightened the world @ 02:06 p.m.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Re-reding my fic I found 2 typos, so I wanted to change it. As a result there are 3 versions of it with one being a lame attempt to a html file. Why did the ">" show up? Baka me. Well, the consolation is, that the right version of the fic is slowly being uploaded.
Don't read the version which is in Saiyuki section without adding "&censorid=0" to the url!
Astarise enlightened the world @ 02:49 p.m.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
*very evil laugh*
It's alive, it's aliiiiiiiive!!!
My new ficcie is up!
Behold my originality! It's a *gasp* Saiyuuki Blanket Scenario! Yup, a blanket scenario. Gojyo and Sanzou of course.
It's because I've never seen a Saiyuki one. Blanket scenarios are so fun if not written badly (hope it's not in my case). It was inspired (inspired, oooh) by listening to Tool - No Quarter one too many times and the draught from my window. I was cold;_;
I started thinking about the lack of Saiyuuki BSs, and how sad it is that I still don't have a plot bunny. And of course then it hit me that *I* could enlighten the Saiyuuki fandom by writing one ^_^
So I did, yuppie!
It's not yaoi, not shounen ai either. Contains hints though^^
Also I updated my Ff.net profile.
And Nadia-san, thank You for the *bows very deeply* concern, but You must admit that there's nothing like an own plot bunny ^_^ Waiii, Ich bin so happy!
So, um, read it everyone... onegai?
Astarise enlightened the world @ 12:44 p.m.
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
I can't believe it!!!
I. Have. An. Idea. What. My. Fic. Is. Going. To. Be. About.
A plot bunny in other words!! My own! My preciousssssss! I'm so happy *pets the bunny*! It doesn't matter that it's going to be a little crappy and cliche, does it?
Yay, I'm off to wriiiiiiiiiite ^_____________________^
Astarise enlightened the world @ 02:53 p.m.
Monday, September 23, 2002
In UkeSanzo yahoogroup files I found a picture featuring Sanzou/Konzen. It was so strange... It made me wonder. Would it be Sanzou/Konzen or Konzen/Sanzou? Agh! It's *not possible* so I'd better stop thinking about stupid stuff. But the thought of 3/3 thanks to Reload keeps comng back. I find that strange too. Damn those Japanese fans. They are coming up with ideas like that because they are *too* happy as fans and don't even realise that.
Ugh, I'm writing nonsense.
I had too many green tea today and the only layouts that I'm working on and are finished are those NOT featuring Sanzou.
Why did Twice the Sun have to split up?? I loved them! And the thought that they did it before they released the first cd. It makes me feel not fair listening only to mp3s. But they are damn good mp3s^^
Astarise enlightened the world @ 05:47 p.m.
Monday, September 23, 2002
*finishes reading the book* Armaaand *.*!! *dies* *resurrects herself and speeds to the video store to buy the movie*
Astarise enlightened the world @ 12:32 p.m.
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Today is Sept 21st and that means (if I'm right) Hakkai's birthday!
Yay, happy birthday Hakkai-san!!
Astarise enlightened the world @ 01:08 p.m.
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Browsing through Aestheticism's reviews and synopsis one thing I found strange. They categorise Ai no Kusabi as 'shounen ai' while Mahou Tsukai Tai as 'yaoi'. Uh, I don't know both of the series good (never watched/read) but if I was to rate them I'd do it the opposite way. Maybe I'm wrong...
I stil have doubts whether to watch Ai no Kusabi. I want to because of the seiyuu (<-a very strong argument in my case)I don't want to because... uh, it's too specific for my little innocent (yeahright) mind ^^;;;
Oh, the horror of indecisions!
Astarise enlightened the world @ 12:00 p.m.
Friday, September 20, 2002
I started reading Interview with the Vampire. Yay ^_^
I've seen the movie a long time ago so I don't remember much (well, ok I remember much, but not the whole movie) and discussed it with my sister. FYI she's a strange little creature, absent-minded most of the time.
me: There was a guy played by Antonio Banderas in this movie. God, he was droolsome (Oh, come on he had long-black-hair).
sis: yeah.
me: Waiii, I can't wait till he appears in the book!
sis: yeah.
me: He's the best vampire in that movie! ^^
sis: yeah.
me: O.o But what was his name?
sis: Are? Whose name?
me: You know, the Banderas guy.
sis: ...Antonio.
me: _-_!
Anyway. I remember the scene now (his name was Armand) and it struck me how much it reminds me of one fic! A Saiyuuki one! "Vindication" to be exact. It was a great fic BTW, reading it I felt like watching a real movie. Most of the Saiyuuki adventure ones are like that.
Random thought:
Shota-necrofilia doesn't pay. You should know that, Lestat ^_~
And I have a new kind of Coffee-sama. Before it I've been drinking 'normal' Maxwell House (because it's good, not because it clearly reminds me of Duo, thus Toshihiko-sama^^). Now I bought a new kind of it called 'light'. It's good too, but when I used the same amount of it that I've been using with the 'normal' one, it turned out to be too light for my taste. So next time I used two times more. And I have to say that only the taste of that coffee was 'light'. I jumped all day because I had too many energy. Being on coffee-high is a funny feeling.
And you can laugh, I tried to do the hairdo that the yesterday-mentioned still-nameless bishounen has. Why do bishounen have such great hairstyles?
Anyway I used black ribbon because I have light-colored hair (honestly, it's a difficult color to specify. Something between blond and red. Honey maybe. And it's my natural color) ^__________^
Third season of Ally McBeal is aired on tv. Cool. Now the only things I watch are Mtv2, Gundam everyday and Ally every week. Maybe occasional news or a film. Tv is too pathetic to watch more. Blah. What is interesting in watching Brasilian soap-operas or talk shows anyway?
And I don't *watch* Mtv2. I listen to it ^^
Astarise enlightened the world @ 06:21 p.m.
Thursday, September 19, 2002
I really, really, *really* want more Honoo no Mirage. I love it so much, but saw only 3 episodes of anime ;_;
Can I call myself a fan after watching only 3 episodes of anime?
Only 3 of all 13 ><. And I want the manga too (I don't know what does the chara look there but who cares. The story is great) and the novels! So what if I don't know Japanese enough to read a book? Someday I will.
But first of all I need more anime.
The main reason - two of my absolutely favourite seiyuu is there (Seki Toshihiko and Hayami Shou) plus Seki Tomokazu.
As I said before I find the story very intereting and kyaa~.
And can somebody help me? What's the name of that supercoolbishounen that appears in episode 7? He's extremely droolsome, ne? As I said before about him, he's like a cross between Ashram-sama(kyaa) and Lantis *.*.
But he appears in *twitch* episode 7 and in the later ones, while I watched the anime *twitch* up to ep 4. Of course I know about him because I've totally spoilered my fun with the anime checking this. Aghh!! I know I shouldn't, but it was stronger than me..
He's so cool *.* He should be voiced by Kamiya Akira. If it was so (and it isn't unfortunately) I'd personally go to Japan to buy the anime, watch it and faint everytime he speaks~~~...
Astarise enlightened the world @ 03:40 p.m.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
About fics again. I can't help it, I looove to rant about that subject^_^
I've been criticising Ff.net for NC-17 banning and the flood of MSs in the Saiyuuki section lately (well honestly I'm able to write much more about that matter but it'd be just too much useless bitching). It might have sounded like there aren't any good fics out there or that I just hate Ff.net. No such thing. How could I ever hate a place where Mihatenu Yume (I'm kinda obsessed about that fic, ne? Just you wait till the next chapter shows up *.*) as well as many more fantastic fics are hosted ?
Anyway, through a strange link I found new chapters of a KenrenxTenpou fic I started to read some time ago. It was unfinished then and I literally screamed at the abruptness of the chapter ending. And now I've just read the updated chapters *.*
I'm stunned.
I'm touched.
I'm impressed.
I almost cried while reading it. Thank goodnes for the epilogue. If it wasn't for it I'd accuse the authoress of being cruel. She's a genius *worshipworship*.
I love KenrenxTenpou!!
There are some fics, that when I see the new chapters up, I'm not printing them out and read when I have time (riding the bus/subway is perfect to read^^), but instead I read them instantly on my Compy-chan because I'm too impatient to wait. Only reading those two chapters took me an hour and a half _-_! But it was wooorth it, oh how it was. I'm really stunned sometimes when I read a good fic. And you know what's the scariest part? I'm reading it, there is action, I talk stuff like "no, don't go there!!" and in that moment without any reason my computer restarts. Ghh!! Evil!
Now about NC-17 banning (I wrote *very* little about it after all):
I'm still watching GW and yet don't know the joys of it's fanfic fandom *pouts*. I somehow made it up today by searching various NC-17 fics from Saiyuuki (and it showed up that I haven't read them *all*) and Weiss^_^;;;
I have now over 500 MSWord pages of them, a kind of supply for long winter evenings (The granny part again. But I liiike to sit in a cozy armchair, snow outside, and a nice fic in my hands^^) or for boring lectures (I can even say that I'm kind of experienced and can read them unnoticed. High school learned me something^^;)
And a thought for the recent events and how I find a good part of it:
The whole fandom unites.
And not only anime one. Instead of fighting over pairings and other stupid things, everybody unites to fight against one powerful enemy (o.O I wrote that?)
Now, I'm not supporting Ff.net's decision, as reasonable as it may be, because I find that the pop-up and the warning that authors usually make are enough. One such decision has consequences in another and soon we may find all yaoi banned (and thus the number of fics would be twicefold decreased^^;)
No petition will change it - I'm sure that it wasn't just a whimsy, but a well-motivated decision. But the fun part is - ask anybody about it and I'm sure he won't agree with Ff.net. My sister (she's 16. *16* -_-;) for example is furious and signed the petition 5 times. It makes me laugh really.
And I'm observing a 'let's create our own fic archive' phenomenon that I fully support^_^
Ugh, sorry for grammar *points up* mistakes, I know they are out there but don't feel like tormenting/boring myself and thinking about them.
The font is stupid BTW. One day it enlarged itself without any reason (I didn't do anything!), and while in the 'individual entry' was clearly stated that it's 2, it looked like 3 or 4. So I shrank it to 1,5 and it looked like before (at least on my 800x600, but I don't know if resolution has anyhing to do with it). I gues I'll stay with 2(which is too big to be 2 IMO). Or maybe there is another reason for it, but with me being html-lame I can't find it? *realises that the font-part is boring/doesn't make much sense* uhh... I have a self-enlargening font. Whee(<-irony)
Ooh, look how much did I write. Actually I'm kind of bored right now but don't feel like watching anime. It's raining again, but also the sun shines. Strange.
bgm: Paradise Lost - Mouth
Astarise enlightened the world @ 04:01 p.m.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Wai~! Nadia-san visited my sitey ^_^
Broken images? *speeds to inspect and possibly fix looking very serious*
Astarise enlightened the world @ 07:21 p.m.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Yay, my site is up!!!
Go there and don't mind the ads because they are ugly^^;
Astarise enlightened the world @ 03:58 p.m.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Well, my site is almost done. The host I found though is extremely slow and makes me twitch.
Anyway, I was working on a 'about me' page (oh, come on, everybody have them^^;)and wrote a little thing that I'm going to quote here:
Current Dream:
To go to Tokyo. Preferably in March/April when Sakuras bloom. Then find a nice little manga shop. Go there and buy some newest favourite manga from a nice Japanese man. Of course talk to him in perfect Japanese. Go out of the shop hugging the newest treasure. Then go to Ueno park, walk around for a while. Find a beautiful cherry tree and sit under it. Watch Sakura petals flow around with every little gust of wind. Look around and see all those Japanese people walking in the park. Look at the manga in my hands. Smile. Open it slowly and start to read having no problems with kanji. Listen to the sound of birds singing and the small river flowing nearby. To feel rays of the spring sun on my face. And to find one little Sakura petal that fell on my manga...
Kyaa~~~...
Astarise enlightened the world @ 03:33 p.m.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Eh, being me I had to check that word. My best method is to search unknown words on Google. I found that there is a word like that (yay me).
Understandability:
"the degree to which the purpose of the system or component is clear to the evaluator"
Oookay.
Astarise enlightened the world @ 09:11 a.m.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
A correction of what I wrote yesterday. No, no no, my French is *much* better than my Japanese. That fic made me realize that. While reading the prologue and 2 chapters I used the dictionary about five times and only to look up words I really had no clue what they meant. I'm so proud of myself. I thought my French is so bad because I'm rarely in contact with it. Wow, I have French Angel Sanctuary manga. And English translations^^. And that would be all (except for a few songs). With English is much more fun because the only stuff I read in my native *shrug* language is... Elle and Cosmopolitan. And I suppose I read many more things than people surounding me. Not only fics and texts (<-mainly those) but also books in English (although I'm currently reading none).
So, I got nicely surprised by my understandability (is that a word?) of French, that made me want to learn more. There is a chance that in the college I'll soon be going to are going to be French lessons, so yay.
Astarise enlightened the world @ 09:08 a.m.
Monday, September 16, 2002
I found a cute and very good site containing Saiyuuki, EC and Minekura-sensei stuff. Well, yay, except it's in French. Sometimes I wish I knew French better, because I guess my *Japanese* is better than my French. I'm learning French slooowly. I wish I knew it better because on that site there are two Shiritsu Araiso fics, and I've never read a fic about other Minekura series. Hmpf. I guess I'll let my masochistic side take over and make me print out the fic and spend the rest of the day with a large dicionary. Yup, no turning back now...
Furthermore I have a need to write a fic myself. It's not fair of me to only criticize other fics not adding anything mine. Sure, I'll write a fic. OK. The big problem though is that I *totally* lack plot bunnies;_;
I want a bunny!! I'm always jealous when somebody writes that the plot bunnies are chasing him or at least that he has them. What should I do to summon one?
Here bunny, bunny, bunny...
...
Not working. Gaaaah!! Plot bunny, come here damnit!! I need you... please?
Astarise enlightened the world @ 04:57 p.m.
Monday, September 16, 2002
And baka, baka me! Ugh!!! I just realized that I promised myself to check the entries before archiving them in order to get rid of mistakes. @#$%^&*(@#!! Of course I forgot, and now there's no chance (at least I don't know about any) to edit the archived page. And to think I wrote 'definately' ;_; Baka me ghhhhh...
Astarise enlightened the world @ 10:51 a.m.
Monday, September 16, 2002
Yay, I archived^^. Anyway the layout is the same because:
1)I love it^^
2)Haven't finished doing others
I added Graviation and Furuba to my Ani/Manga list. It had too many shounen. And I'm really in love with Fruits Basket. It's so sweeet ^____^
And as a confirmation of my Net-dissapears-on-Monday-mornings thesis, it just got back -_-;;
I'm currently downloading some .hack//sign songs, because the soundrack was really great and one song (don't know the title) that had 'shine, bright morning light' in it is very nasty and keeps playing in my head for about a week. So, not knowing it's title I'm downloading all available. The rest was good too afterall ^^
