*Sigh* I'll miss Summer and swimming...>_< It's coming to an end though...

Um…how many weeks has it been since the last post? It’s week 12! I think! Anyways, after coming back from the hiatus it turns out there still isn’t much to talk about since most of the time I spent was working on the blog. But this issue will include anime, manga, music (with an album download), blog info, and other.

Anime

Shugo Chara!! Doki! Episode 93-95

Yes, I’m just going to write my thoughts here for today. I have too many posts planned to do a full SC! post right now. Anyways, I loved Utau’s new song! It’s like…awesome, as always!! Kyaa~ And the the effects are so prettyful. I was kind of torn on how Amu should react about Ikuto. Like, I approved yet disapproved of the idea. And lol @ Eru when Rhythm hugged her. Oh Rhythm and his playah moves~ xD I really liked how they were consistent and referenced the older episodes. But anyways, Utau’s song was awesome, as usual. ;]

Now 94…it actually wasn’t that bad of an episode. I actually thought it was pretty good with the storyline. The kitty was incredibly cute, and even though it was a filler, it was a good one sticking with the original story of SC!. So…approved. I lol’ed how every just happened to have their dreams work out incredibly well to go with finding the kitty. But then again, it’s a show. xD Everything just has to be coincidential like that I guess. xD Let’s see…and the end. Eh…I have no idea how to interpret that. Looks cool though. But I have no idea what the heck Satelight is doing. ._.

And 95. Meh. It was a cute episode with some character development for Rima and Yaya, but I still didn’t find it special. Rima was really awesome in this episode too, and incredibly moe. Tsk tsk tsk…Tsukasa and his secret doors. xD But anyways, I guess it could be considered a smidge shoujo-ai? But I saw it more as a cute friendship sort of thing. The preview looks pretty good though, it seems like taiyaki boy will be back. x) But I’m still a little upset how Satelight is jacking up the story so much…it’s so wrong. Dx

Rurouni Kenshin-Samurai X

Ooh it’s been so long since I’ve seen this series. It’s one of those typically old long shounen series, but it feels so nostalgic watching it. I’ve watched it ever since I was little and it was the first manga ever bought (even before Naruto). So I was surprised when I was at Blockbusters and happened to run across it. I rented the movie, and I got so excited watching a show from my early days. Ahh…it wasn’t nearly as good as the series, but was still entertaining. I kept lol’ing over the shiny blood. It’s so shiny!! Not much to say since it was a few weeks back, but I liked it.

Manga

Shugo Chara! Chapter 43

Kyaa!!~ This has got to be my favorite chapter thus far…obviously. If chapter 38 to well…now hasn’t convinced people that Amuto, if Amu is with someone, is canon and the OTP, then almost nothing will. The chapter made msqueal smore than ever before. And just…kya. The rest will be under the spoiler tag. Be prepared for a smiley spam, because this chapter deserves it. And scan credits go to Futari wa Pretty Anon, thanks bunches for letting everyone use the scans!~

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Anyways, great chapter. We can see the series concluding with every chapter, and I really think that Peach-Pit is handling it beautifully. Slowly everything is being solved so I have faith in PP for the ending. Anyways, looking forward to the next chapter greatly. I’m glad school will pass the time quicker, haha. Meh. I just realized I should’ve done a separate post for this considering the length thanks to the pics.

Watashi ni xx Shinasai Chapter 3

This chapter is full of Yukina pwnage yet again! Shigure just cannot win though. Gah he looked totally evil in this chapter though. But…Yukina saw it coming. And her parents…oh her parents. Lol, her parents are like polar opposites yet still totally lovey-dovey. We can see Yukina gets everything from her dad. xD And when Yukina was ready for the kiss, and writing about the first attempt, I just find the words so well put. Well, she’s a writer after all. But I totally lol’ed at the chibis and both of them blushing incredibly. X) But the ending, I felt so bad for Yukina. I really want to just hug her right there since she looks so frightened! Aww…poor Yukina. But I read some chapter 4 spoilers, and I’m totally looking forward to it being scanlated. Could we possibly get to see some romantic heat-up? X) And I want to see…well, for anyone who has read the spoilers, I want to see those ****!!

AAA Chapter 9

Ooh, an interesting chapter. I wanna kill that Maeda guy though. It just bugs me so much when he’s trying to force things onto Aoi. Gah, I hate it when guys do that. >_< But anyways, a very sweet chapter indeed. I loved all of the Hayato x Aoi  Moments. It’s just a fun light read, through the cliches and all. Lol @ Hayato’s hair though at the end of the chapter. And um…that’s it. ._. I like the octopus. xD

Arisa Chapter 7

Another great chapter. I think now we’ve pretty much gotten the drift on who the king is. And if it really is that person I am not surprised whatsoever. But I’ll be waiting for more chapters before jumping to conclusions. Because I’m sure we’re going to be in for another twist that’ll make me toss my theory out the window. That clown is creepy though. >_< Evil looking clown!! Lol, poor Tsubasa can’t bake at all. But the ending! Oh the ending makes me want to read more! I’m pretty sure I haven’t read the chapter before, and yet…I totally knew about the pool scene was in this chapter. Everything but the pool scene was new to me. Hmm…I wonder why. But I’m really pleased with the series. It’s giving me doses of everything to keep me reading. And it seems like the next chapter will give me lots of romance doses. xD

Medaka Box

I tried reading the first 2 chapters of Medaka box. And eh, I’ll need to read more. But I haven’t gotten the chance to because I’m never in private while on the computer. So when I tried to read it, and the ecchi scenes come, well…eh. I tried to ignore it, but someone notices and embarrasses me. >_< It’s not my fault~ But other than that, Medaka isn’t a bad character. Not much to say on it though, since I’ll need to read more of it.

Music

England’s Character Single

All I can say is…awesome! I just loved it! The delay was totally worth it. I love both of them in their own way. Absolutely Invincible English Gentlemen is…awesome. Noriaki Sugiyama does a great job copying the vintage British rock style in this song. I just love how it sounds and immediately get that British punk rock vibe even though it’s in Japanese. xD

And Pub&Go! is hilarious! I’ve said my thoughts on it in my previous Blossom Blabber when it was all blurry, but I’ll say it again. I love the ending when England continuously says “Bakabakabaka…” and “…AMERICA NO BAKA!!!” Tsuntsun England?

Shugo Chara!! Character Song Collection 2

Mwahaha….yes! The character song album came out! And I…love it! For all it’s…Shugo Chara-ness! xD Each song retains to their character’s personality so well, and I just love it. I downloaded it today, and tried my best to compress it into a zip file and everything, but I’m still learning the ropes. When I downloaded it (thanks to ForeverOblivion from GW!!), all I got was a bunch of random characters that didn’t make sense, so I had to retype all of the titles, artists, etc. I did it all in Romaji (hope you guys are okay with that) because it’ll be better for people without Japanese characters and it’s just easier (to identify, etc). And I typed the artist’s name last to first. Erm…I didn’t fill anything out for the album artist since I didn’t really know what to put. There aren’t any scans yet so they don’t come with the album download. I just have the songs. It’ll be updated when scans come out. You can find the scans and mp4 audio files here. ;]

But anyways, you can download it here (make sure you make a folder for it because it’s just the files without a folder)! These are mp3 files, btw. :] And be sure to support SC! by buying the album if you really love it~ Now…onto the song thoughts!

1. Colorful Heartbeat Song: Okay, so this is Amu’s single. It’s…upbeat, haha. I think it’s a pretty good song, although it doesn’t stand out to me when I listen to the other songs. It’s still a really good song though, but other songs kind of overshadow it for me. It’s nice but…forgettable?

2. Secret Princess: Yay!! The full version! I’ve been looking forward to the full version, and I really liked the song already, so what can I say? I loved the song! It’s just so nice to listen to and very happy and slightly uplifting. :]

3. Chiisana Hoshi ~Little Prince~: I actually really liked this song. Seriously. It’s like, really relaxing to me I guess. Sure…Tadase sounds really feminine at some parts more than others, but it’s still nice. The middle is epic though! Tadase’s king laugh…I just lol’ed so hard at that part. It’s epic. Done.

4. Itsuka wa Romansu: omgasdflkj RIMA!!! Her character song is so freakin’ cute and relaxing!! I got reminded of Yui Makino’s adorable voice when I heard it. Now I demand Sayuri Yahagi, Yui Makino, and Aki Toyosaki to sing together! Cuteness unite (because Aki Toyosaki sounds incredibly cute in Future Stream)! Anyways, I just loved it. So adorable. >_< One of my favs.

5. Ookiku Naare!: Yaya is…Yaya. I guess the song isn’t one that I care much for. It’s upbeat and everything, and pertains to Yaya’s personality well, but other than that, okay. I guess there were lots of “Ya…ya…ya…” in it. I was like, “Make it stop and just lemme hear her sing without it!!” xD But I was over exaggerating. It’s not too bad.

6. Hana Tegami: Nadeshiko/Nagihiko!! Omg it’s two in one!! xDDD One of my favorite songs in the CD. The instrumental is beautiful, but I guess I love the traditional Japanese instrumentals in modern day songs. I found that appealing in Japan’s character single as well. It’s just so pretty! I want just the instrumentals. But Saeko Chiba did very well switching back and forth. When she does Nade’s parts, I feel so relaxed, ahhh…And it sounds so mature and pretty! And Nagihiko’s is so Rhythm-ish. xD

7. Tsukiyou no Marionetto: Ikutooo!!! Who would’ve thought that he sung? xD And so hawttly (making new words up ftw~)  too? Well, it’s Ikuto’s character song, and I love it. Maybe I’m a bit biased. Bah. But it doesn’t sound much like Ikuto to me at some parts. My friend’s noted it sounded a smidge like Jun Fukuyama’s singing. But it’s still incredibly awesome. Especially when he talks *melts*. He sounds like Ikuto when he talks. And the violin is awesome as usual, and I love the solo in the middle (I think it’s violin, but I’m not sure if it’s violin or guitar, lol xD). Anyways, great song!

8. Taiyou Ga Niau Yo: And of course the Tsukiyomi siblings are together (and they both sing so awesomely awesome). ^^ I loved the song when I listened to it if you haven’t noticed already, haha. It’s very…j-popish and I like it. And very Utau-like as well. A really nice song indeed. And of course, one of my favs. Nana Mizuki can make anything awesome. We’ve already established that fact already, haven’t we?

9. Secret Princess (Amu ver.): I was a little curious on how Secret Princess would turn out with Amu singing it, and I have to say, it sounds really nice! It seems to suit her voice quite well. Anyways, very cute and I like it because, well I like Secret Princess and Amu’s singing is always nice. :]

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Oh, and for all of you fangirls, here’s a little picture from the character song collection 2. ;] Beware of nosebleeds, and I suggest looking at this if you’re alone. xD (Scan credits go to Corni from GW)

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Other Random Music Blurbs

Well, besides from those two, I also downloaded more songs for my trip. I’ll be sharing them when I can. ^^ Next week I’ll share the Miyano Mamoru album BREAK which is a pretty good album. :D I also got the Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou OP single, which is very addicting once I started liking it. And the second song in the single is very cute as well. And let’s see…I found it kind of serendipitous how awhile back I was listening to Omna Magni (you know, listening to some good ol’ Yui Makino songs), when I still read about people arguing about the language it was in. Well the composer Yoko Kanno came up somewhere and I decided to check out some of the songs she composes. And I listened and the songs were familiar (cause they are genius!! btw). It just so happens that her songs were the ones that I loved while listening to Pandora when I was working on my project. I was going to look up her songs but totally forgot by the time I was done. So it’s kind of…interesting how I sort of came back to an artist I wanted to hear more songs from many months ago…? It’s sort of like, “Who would’ve thought it’d be the exact same artist?” Okay, everyone’s probably just going, “Wtf?” at my random ramble, so gomen for that. Anyways, I also listened to Future Stream from sphere, and I have to say, I really like the song. Aki Toyosaki sounds the cutest she ever has in this song. I’d actually love to hear her sing a slower song as herself instead of the upbeat K-On! songs since I think her voice would be extremely cute like that. Then you know, I still have my wish for Yui Makino, Aki Toyosaki, Sayuri Yahagi singing together…X3 Maybe I’ll add more when I come across another cute seiyuu singing. Well, that’s it for music. It’s…random, ne?

Blog Info

Unrelated picture...somewhat.

Let’s see here…I’ve got lots of late posts coming up! Otomen is going to be the next post coming up. Only the first episode though. I’ll just skip the second episode if I decide to do episodic blogging for it. I’m also having a Sora no Manimani extremely late post for episode 4 and 5, maybe 6 as well if I end up posting it when 6 comes out. As for Umi Monogatari, as much as I want to blog it, the subs are slow, and I need to catch up, and gah…I drop it. And I went through all that trouble being determined to post about it. TT^TT I feel really bad about it though. But I’ll try my best when I have the time to do random episode posts on it so I don’t totally drop it (but don’t expect that). But it’s on my very low priority list then. And to replace Umi Monogatari, I’ll end up probably adding Hetalia Axis Powers episodic posts. They’re quicker to do and on the shorter side, so I’ll have time to do it. And I guess if I keep doing episodic posts on Otomen we can expect that to replace UM. Soo…two new series to make up for one sorta drop?

Oh, and I forgot about Fall 2009. >_< That will probably come later. And I apologize but Monthly Mania will be skipped this month. I just don’t have the time for it yet.

Other

Hello Kitty Online Closed Beta

If anyone remembered my post on Hello Kitty Online, I mentioned that it was in closed beta. Well…good news for anyone in North America who wants to play it! There is going to be another closed beta coming soon, so if anyone wants to sign up for it, if you can, I’d suggest it. I’m pretty sure it’s open for sign up (but maybe it was just Founders, I forgot, but you can try going to the website anyways!). You can find the website here.

Thoughts on it…I’m sort of upset over the idea that we won’t be able to keep our items, but I didn’t expect it anyways. It was sort of news when I found out HKO partnered with aeria games, and now I’m kind of worried yet excited at the same time of the new changes. And the trailer that they have…meh. When I played it the actual game was nothing like it. But maybe they changed it for the new beta. Oh well, I’ll just be looking forward to it~ But now I’m confused over the new site! Gawr!! D8<

Torrents

Well if you haven’t noticed already, I’m someone who take screencaps from online streaming, hence the terrible quality of my pictures (but I found a website with better SC! video qualities!! :D). I still expect to do that, but anyways, I tried out torrents!~ And…they’re actually pretty cool. I’m still a total noOb at torrents though. But the thing I love about them is the quality. I kept going, “Uahhh!!!” over and over. xD But it takes so long, so I doubt I’ll use torrents often, only when I’m too excited to wait for online streaming. But anyways, love the quality of the videos. Oh, and since I’m such a noOb, what is seeding? That’s the one thing that confused me. My video was in the seeding status, and yet I was able to watch it…so, explainations would totally be appreciated.

School is Starting Up~

Ahh…school. School’s going to begin on the 11th for me, unfortunately. So that means…thing’s will be slower. I also have the teacher infamous for giving her massive amounts of homework. TT^TT That’s what I get for being in advanced. Oh well. Anyways, I won’t get to be a nocturnal girl anymore no more going to bed at 3. And I might slow down a bit on blogging and stuff, but I’ll try my best. I’m just warning everyone that lots of posts are expected to be delayed. Ah well…>_< We’ll see how school goes first. Wish me luck!~ (Oh and good luck to anyone with their exams and school work right now, while I’m on the subject)

Fanarts

Oh, and I finally attempted fanart!~ I posted them all on deviantart lol shameless promotion. It’s Sora no Manimani fanarts (for FuyuMaiden). I’m trying my best to color one of them…but I’m not done yet. When I am, I’ll post it up if it turns out at least decent. xD Cause I know it won’t turn out well, which is exactly why I will not try manga coloring. But anyways, I’m just surprised I actually tried fanart. It’s…different, for me.

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And…that’s it! Lots of SC! in this post, mmhmm…well, hope you enjoyed it! :] Oh gawd I just realized how many categories it’s under. O_O

Edit: Pictures are finally posted up!~

Manga

Right now, it’s manga that has kept my attention right now. I can’t help it that so many mangas are coming to me, while so little anime right now are… I don’t have much to say on each manga or else I’ll be repeating myself, but here it is anyways!

Arisa:

Well, everywhere I go, it’s all about Arisa right now. Just a little before chapter 5 came out though, I decided to read it. I’m so glad that I did, on a whim. Arisa gives me that shoujo art and characters that a love, but also has that darker side giving me the suspense from shounen that I love! It’s so creepy, but that’s what’s so great about it. So far, I love it! It has kept me kicking around asking for more. I’m really interested to know about Arisa…

For the characters…Tsubasa is freakin’ awesome. I love watching the sisterly love from both of them. Tsubasa is a great sister, despite what she says. Arisa’s best friend…is, as most people would agree, obsessed. And Midori is way to suspiciously perfect…thus…I too believe he is the King (along with Arisa, maybe?)!! Did you look at the chapter 5 splash page? I think Manabe might just be the messenger sending those cards. I was going to say that maybe he liked Arisa and that’s why he sent the cards to anyone who doubted the king. But I take it back now because Arisa got a card too, so that wouldn’t make sense. But here was the theory I had when I commented on Hanyan (which btw, explains everything I’m thinking in a more logical way):

I was wondering, maybe Manabe just sends those cards to people, and is associated with the King. Maybe that’s why he knows who the king is…because he sends those notes.

So finally a good mystery like shoujo manga I can love~

Charming Junkie:

Well, my friend forced me to start reading this manga. And I’m so glad she did too (I will be saying that a lot…), like, she starting having this evil laugh. O_o *Ahem* Anyways, Charming Junkie has so many fun things about it so far. Even though I only read the first chapter so far. But it’s a promising series I’ll be following. It has hilarious shoujo fun that I love. The romance and crossdressing traps is definitely WIN and aww-inducing (though it may be somewhat rushed). I am seriously already in love with all of the characters. Umi is definitely my favorite character, Umi is cute and hawtt !! Even though the art isn’t spectacular, it’s a great series I am recommending even though I just read the first chapter five minutes ago! =DDD

Watashi ni xx Shinasai!

I mentioned earlier that I read the first chapter. So this’ll be short. I. Love. Yukina. She’s an awesome heroine, being your not-so-typical shoujo girl. I like how she has that cool glare, but I feel sorry for her as well. She is totally awesome forcing Shigure to fall in love with her. Overall, I am liking where this is heading… It’s somewhat predictable, but oh well, I still love it.

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On another note, I finished reading Kitchen Princess last week, and I still need to get to a full post for it. I just have to say, I am so glad that everyone pushed me to read it, I loved it! =D

Music

So I didn’t really know what to add for music until just yesterday….I listened to some APH character singles, and Japan’s just came out, so omg I’m loving it already. He sounds way to awesome…in both of the singles. I started melting just listening to them. I like how they made it sound like the traditional Japanese sound…but why do they have to make Japan so…awesome?? Just because it’s Japanese people? That’s not fair….(okay, it is…)! But anyways, I loved both singles.

[ Country from Where the Sun Rises, Zipangu | Excuse Me, I'm Sorry ]

I also listened to Britain’s preview song, and gosh it sounds so British-esque. Arthur is so awesome in this single. Fish and chips? Unicorns? Pixies? All I need is the scones to complete the lyrics. Can’t wait for the full to come out! <3 Here’s the preview video: click here. The titles are so funny! Pub and Go made me lol.

Anyways, I would have embedded all of the videos, but there are quite a few, so I don’t want to cause any complications.

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Now onto other music….I was listening to more Kokia songs, and they really are relaxing to listen to. Karma was a nice song, but there were others as well. I forgot the titles though x.x. Also, I heard about Morning Musume coming to the Anime Expo (gee, I hear about it 3 months after it was announced…-_-|||), and I remember being a fan, so I listened to some of their songs. It turns out that they are performing their new single 3, 2, 1 Breakin’ Out at the Anime Expo, which makes me wanna go more. The song is really catchy, and I like it! I’ve also been introduced to Barlow Girls, and I like their songs. It has that rockish, yet sort of….something else (can’t find the right word for it now) feel to it. It’s a Christian band, or so I’ve heard, but I get reminded of Evanenscence when I listen to their songs. They have a similar style I guess.

Also, I just ran across this, since I’m planning to watch Nobuta wa Produce soon, I decided to check out the OP song Seishun Amigo. It obviously has that Spanish theme to it, but it’s a nice song, and I also watched the PV…

Just one video embedded isn’t gonna hurt, is it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDoQhUQ75pg

And I noticed the background dancers….kya~ It’s Hey! Say! JUMP’s Ryosuke, Yuto, and Ryutaro. There may be more, but those were the only ones I caught in there. Yuto I think is the main dancer, but gosh they are so young there! >.< They are so cute there, I wonder how young they are in there. But I’m not too surprised by it because Johnny & Associates usually has the Juniors do background dancing and singing for their senpais. But still, it was a nice little surprise~ Especially how small they are.

Blog Info

I’ve got most of my summer theme together, which I’ll release on June 11, the day I get out of school. The blog is still on a slow schedule, and random anime is still on hold, but soon…I’ve already decided to change the theme, and I’m hoping to have a couple summer banners, since I’m not very satisfied with my banner.

But now I’ve got a dilemma. So I’ll post up a poll! I’m not sure if I should reply to comments through comment threading, or do the traditional one comment to all comments. If I do decide to do comment threading, then it would be easier to find my replies. But I tried it out once on an SC! post, and I feel like I’m cheating when it says how many comments I have, since half of them are mine. If there was a way that my comments wouldn’t count, then I’d definitely jump right into it. I just feel like I’m cheating though when the number is higher than it should be. So…any opinions?

I’ll be changing the poll since I already decided to do a new theme, but that will come with the new theme. Since I really don’t like the style of the poll, but it was the only one that would fit.

Other

That cat is way too cute, too bad I have to shrink the image so it’s cuteness is cut off a bit…

Drawing

Yeah, recently something I’ve been into. O.o Ever since I read Kitchen Princess I’ve been trying to base my eyes off of that style (I’m one of those observe, try, change it to your own people…) and it turned out that my drawings actually improved. But now I’m trying to get anatomy of characters right…I added like 5 new drawings in my sketchbook, so that’s a lot for me since it was altogether. Here are some of the drawings I’m actually fond of.

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I honestly do not think anyone would want to steal them anyways (seriously guys, it’s not worth it), but I just put the watermarks in. Also, on the Winter Girl one, there was something written on the side that got cut off. I don’t want anyone to see my ugly regular writing! The Angel one I took time to write, so it’s fine…Btw, if anyone notices, there is a summer and winter drawing, since it was supposed to be a season set. I had winter, summer, spring, and fall. But it’s the same girl so it seemed repetitious to put all of them in.

And here is the new eye I drew from my Bamboo Fun: (I’m into drawing eyes, my favorite thing O_o)

I’m actually pretty satisfied with it. It was based off of the Kitchen Princess eyes. It looks funny alone though. O.o And it looks better smaller, so it’s small. If you want to see the full size, click on the image.

Graphics

I finally tried making graphics. I…failed. x.x Terribly. But I will keep on trying and learning! >:D I tried a Mio icon and siggy, but it turned out so plain. :( Uh, it’s right here:

I still need to fix the size and everything…And a Sakura one:

Constructive criticism would definitely help. I mean, I just started trying out graphics yesterday, ever since I saw my friend make some. Oh! And tips would definitely be appreciated.

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But that’s all for Blossom Blabber for now! O.o That took longer to type up than I thought. Especially since it was so little…But anyways, Monthly Mania is on its way! :D