Listing these down for my reference. These are all the series I will/have checked out over the past couple of seasons. Will update with my impressions on them later.

( [Spring 2008]: Code Geass R2, SA, Junjou Romantica )

( [Winter 2007]: Hatenkou Yuugi, Persona, etc )

( [Fall 2007]: Ghost Hound, Bamboo Blade, etc )

( [Summer 2007]: Zombie Loan, Baccano )

( [Spring 2007]: Claymore, Darker Than Black, Lovely Complex, etc )

Regular font are series I stopped watching for one reason or another.
Italics are series I have copies of but still not done watching.
Bold are series I'm done watching/archiving.


[EDIT: Apparently I dunno how to backdate entries properly. Sorry to flist for spamming. Fixed by checking the Date Out of Order thing.]

It's okay. I'll help you. You see, this is the last day I'll be using my body, so I'd like to do as I please while I still can.



Hey, what do you think of these boots? Aren't they cute?


This episode made me so sad T________T

It's bad enough that I'm not anywhere near Fanime which will be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26. But hearing about Kiuchi-san guesting in SMASH! on August 2 in Australia added insult to injury.

For a while there I seriously entertained the notion of going there since Australia is so much nearer to the Philippines and the date is far enough away that I can actually plan it. Of course I don't even have a passport, much less a visa. Not to speak of the expense the flight over would cost. I have some relatives and friends over there so I'm hoping I can stay over, but really now, let's be practical here. All that expense for one seiyuu? I probably would have given in had that seiyuu been Hoshi-kun. The fact that I'm seriously contemplating this speaks volumes at how much of a fan I've become of Kiuchi-san.

Ah well, maybe next year I can save up enough and treat myself to one of those NeoRomance events. Too late to plan again this year :/ April-May seems to be a particularly busy time for me what with all the birthdays and holidays, made even more so this year by newfound friends.

Hoshi's birthday is fast approaching too and while I have some ideas knocking around, I have yet to make any plans whatsoever. And the other thing I had in mind requires too much time and energy that I currently do not have. Hontou ni gomen ne, Hoshi-kun, will try to do better soon T_T

Watched a bit of the Special A anime and when I was looking over Hoshi's roles on his site, found that he voiced one of the twins in the drama cd so had to listen to it. His twin sister doesn't talk so he sometimes talks for her. She just writes on a board or something so all we hear is the sound of the marker pen writing. I was so amused however when I saw in the booklet that her seiyuu was listed as ??? LOL, I wonder if they do the same in the anime now hahahaha, that would be so funny.

Here's a picture of the booklet I cropped. Anyone have booklet scans for this?



Read Jungle King awhile back just because it was by Sakurai Shushushu, mangaka of Vibrator Company and other ridiculously idiotically smutty works. And when I found out they'd just released a drama cd for it I HAD to check it out. I could not stop snerking to myself as I listened to this and had to stop because I was in a cab at the time XD I LOLed so much when Morikawa Toshiyuki started speaking in halting caveman talk. He kept saying "Gao. Gao." XDDDD Hilarious drama :D And the seiyuu talk at the end where they talked about the GARRURURU-ing. LOL.


Just jotting down random impressions to clear my head and de-stress *punts work away*

For my reference since it was getting hard to keep track of all the releases and subbers and versions o_O These are what pretty much made it to my watch list this season. Those marked with (*) are anime with Hoshi in them. Hope to get some of my impressions of them down soon.

Macross FRONTIER*
Friday 1:25AM (6/25)
- Currently following [AiA I-Z] mp4, possible backups [AonE-Gekkostate-Menclave] if I want softsubs but its too big at 350mb, maybe [Shinsen-subs] for the avi.

Amatsuki
Saturday 2:30AM (5/13)
- [Ureshii] mkv since it's softsubs and same size as their avi. Wish they could find better quality video raws.

Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2*
Sunday 5:00PM (6/25)
- [gg] because they softsub everything and have their S1 so getting theirs to keep it consistent.

Nabari no Ou
Monday 1:30AM (5/26)
- [Rumi] has SD and HD mkv versions but they're a new group and translation may be spotty. Excellent video quality though. [AonE - Conclave] have mp4 but bigger filesize. They also have avi but not sure if they will be releasing for all episodes. And [Shinsen-subs] tends to be inconsistent in size and file type release, and sadly their video quality is never good. Just saw that [Animanda] also works on this.

Vampire Knight*
Tuesday 1:00AM (6/26)
- [Shokudan] is fast, but not sure of translation. [Mishicorp] should be ok, but [Ureshii] I trust more and they have 175 avi or 350 mkv. [Anime-Kraze] also released but they tend to be the slowest and they have 230 avi and 350 mkv.

Crystal Blaze
Wednesday 1:15AM (3/12)
- Checked out [Hitode-AnimeSS]. Wish one of the bigger groups would also pick it up as this is probably my favorite of the season. Will try [AniYoshi] to compare.

Kaiba
Friday 12:00AM (1/12)
- Fascinating series that thankfully [FB-Ureshii] is subbing. With a target of 12 episodes, may get the mkv one but this isn't really something I want to take visual inventory of so not really necessary.


These are series I will more or less watch if there's time left or if the subs get behind for the ones listed above.

RD Sennou Chousashitsu
Wednesday 12:59AM (4/26)
- [Shinsen] is ok for this.

Soul Eater
Monday 6:00PM / Friday 2:15AM (0/51)
- Getting [Rumbel] but [A-E​ &​ Saizen]​ released a Dual Edition thing where the primetime and uncut versions are combined in one file which fascinates me.

Junjou Romantica
Friday 1:20AM (5/24)
- [aarinfantasy] of course and the occasional raws if it's an Egoist episode. Pretty much downloading everything but watching later, again unless it's an Egoist arc. May check out Terrorist as well since I'm not very familiar with their story.

Since when did you become so molestable? (rough translation)
sorry, it just sounds so much better in my native tongue ^^;;

Has anyone else watched the dvd only episode of Darker Than Black? I didn't even know there was one planned until the subs for it came out.

In any case, episode 26 is more of an extra episode than anything. On the filler side with two fangirls featuring heavily. Still rather amusing overall, especially the fanfic writer Mayu Mayu. Lol, that's her screen name.

So the story goes like this, fanfic writer gets sort of rescued while she's on her way home from a co-worker drinking outing. And all she remembers is the "delicious" collar of her savior.

The next day she meets the otaku fangirl (that pink-haired girl with the hapless detective) and they eventually got to talking. The subject of delicious collars came up and fangirl tells her she knows one, too. So she drags fanfic writer to a ramen shop where Li frequents. Apparently, Li was the collar's she wanted to show off. (Exhibit A -->)

( collar fetish anyone? )

I still can't stop laughing everytime I think about Hei/Li's "delicious" collar XD I would not be surprised if this singlehandedly starts a collar fetish among rabid fangirls.

Seriously, in the first place Hei never wears anything like that, his usual undershirt covers his collar. Apparently it's to protect his virginity the deliciousness of his collar XDDDD This seriously slayed me.


And now for a slightly related matter, I meme...

( 10 fictional characters I wouldn't kick out of bed )
I tag morphaileffect who will tag everyone else, and by everyone else I mean you XD


And because picaaa had the right idea...

( 10 seiyuu I wouldn't kick out of bed )
I tag all my seiyuu loving friends ;D

Special thanks to nitaspitas, dreamlessness, mithas, mich and kinky for keeping me company as I rushed to finish off work and inadvertently keeping me sane in the process. I ♥ you all <33333

Have a good weekend, everyone!

I ran out of Gundam 00 episodes (3 more to go, damn) so I finally started watching Code Geass. Yeah I know I know. Am up to episode 3.



I see now why this is such a big hit. Though I have mixed feelings about Lelouch (too brilliant) and the anime in general (too fast paced). Seems to be too much of a good thing. Will see how it goes from here. Hoping to catch up so I can watch the next season. But hope not to do so in one sitting.

Trying to pace myself and watch a variety of other titles instead of getting sucked into doing marathons again. Feel like watching Shounen Onmyouji, and mix in an episode or two of Dennou Coil, Oh! Edo Rocket, and Persona.

I see a lot of interesting titles for this season. What is it with me and Spring Anime season? Or is Spring Japan's version of the U.S. Fall season where all new and great shows premier?

Would love to hear what you guys plan to watch this season. Was gonna make my list but don't wanna go there yet.

Not having the bandwidth to check them all out is gonna drive me crazy this season. This is probably why it's the best time to catch up on my manga, less bandwidth needed for those.

If last year had me watching a LOT of anime, I'm hoping this year proves to be more productive on the manga front.

Off to a good start so far and looks like I'm in the mood to pick up a lot of the series I let go due to impatience at the next release and other distractions.

xxxHOLIC
I think a new arc was just starting with a little girl when I left this. The new season of the anime reminded me that I rather enjoyed this series. That and I finally got around to reading Tsubasa.



Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
Just started reading this. Always been curious about how this links to Holic. Also curious about Kurogane. Skimmed through the first season of the anime and read the manga afterwards. Surprised to see that the anime is mostly consistent with the manga, which sadly not the case for Holic.

These two are supposed to be reaching their final arc so looks like it's a good time to be catching up to them.

Other stuff I plan to catch up on D.Gray-man, Bleach, Naruto (that last one probably not for awhile). I tend to go for Shounen series. Sadly, these are the ones that end up being so long running :/ And I tend to get tired of waiting for the next chapter to come out. It's also harder for me to keep track of the plot/storyline unless I read these continuously that's why I drop them when I get fed up.

Oh, and I need to get back to Vagabond and Blade of the Immortal. Hear an anime is coming out for the latter. Hope they don't do that too badly.

And just so I can say Reborn! isn't the only thing I'm reading these days XD

I think there's been enough talk about his box animal and gloves. So allow me to fangirl over the man himself. Basically when it comes to Ryohei I tend to notice the littlest things. These two panels in particular in chapter 186 are my favorites.



Ryohei says a lot of notable things in this chapter which shows his maturity as well as how some things will never change where he's concerned. Even the name of his box animal, while initially sounding like Engrish, actually has a very meaningful name. I seriously can't wait for the chapters to come.


I would have made an accompanying screencap for TYL!Yamamoto in the latest anime episode if he didn't look like a friggin' ossan. He looked like a vampire when Gokudera punched him, and not in a sexy way :E I swear the animators have lots of love where Gokudera is concerned but absolutely zero love for Yamamoto, tyl or otherwise. And did they just reveal Yamamoto's box animal too soon? I don't remember seeing it that early in the manga.

The Frog Shark Prince

Sorry, too incoherent and fangirly at the mo to make a proper post. Also, supposed to be going home like 10 minutes ago. ANYWAYS, PLEASE TO CLICK LINK ESPECIALLY TO REBORN READING FEN, KTNXBYE orz