[*Whatever By The Books*]

I might have to change this blog to ‘Movies By the Books’ some time, considering how little anime I’ve been watching! I -have- watched Eden of the East 11, which seemed a bit..unfinished. But that’s about it; still have lots of manga files to categorise and sort.

In any case, I got to watch (500) Days of Summer (vector fanart above) last last Thursday. I didn’t like it, for many of the reasons other people are raving about it. That’s not to say it isn’t a good movie. The next paragraph features me in full rant mode, so you might want to skip it…
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Not much has been going on recently. Mainly busy with job, and the grind of the large mortar and pestle that is life.

I did watch G.I. Joe recently (okay, almost a month ago now. -wry-), though, courtesy of some sweet in-season passes from Contagious. Watched it on the day it opened, too. :)

(Picture courtesy of someone at somethingawful.com….) If I could compare it to one thing, that’d be…one of those simulator rides. You know, if you’ve been to a theme park with those. Dreamworld has a Batman one — Islands of Adventure had an awesome Spiderman one. Sadly-enough, G.I. Joe is more Batman than Spiderman.
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Waha, one-month hiatus. XD I’ve been lazy…not just lazy but uber-lazy. I -have- been reading a lot of manga, though — the review for the three volumes below is just a small drop in the bucket. Anime..not so much, though niisama says the current season has been disappointing so far. :( (Then again that was when only three eps were out, so. :P)

I’m waiting for results before I open Photoshop CS again. :S (I.e. I’m getting to that banner, Jay-san and Materix!) It’s been getting colder here, but I really need to get a laptop cooler since my comp’s started to die upon overheating. T_T So even though it’s cold, I sometimes run a fan beside it to cool it down…poor fingers! Days like these, scarves as well as gloves are nice.

A rather-innocent picture by happoubi jin via danbooru. (Of a character from an -ahem- game..)
People who’re interested in shoujo may have a look at the manga below. Rather conventional, I must say. Continue Reading »

Hetalia is, as always, funny and good light watching. I know this post is laggy…I’ve been busy doing tutorials I can’t really wrap my brain around (bloody med chem). :( So due to stuffs, I’ll be blogging less frequently. 

5: Stranded, beach, pasta. Italy gets up to antics on the beach, while marooned with Germany and Japan. Yaoi vibes between the other two Axis powers aside, Italy’s as cute as ever.

6: Long, piano, interlude. The Axis powers are still stranded on the beach, but they’re joined by everyone else…and notably Austria on a piano. ON THE SEA. Epic. XD This reminded me of Stairway to Heaven…I still wonder if they ruined a piano shooting that scene at the sea.

Some bits were just too funny not to screenshot, but due to program fault, my screenshots got shot into limbo. -_- Sigh.

On another note, niisama and I completed l4d on normal for hospital in 1h7min, up from about 1.5h the last time. :D  I think I still like playing as zombie…there’s this kind of vicious joy in heckling the survivors; and I used to be scared of the hunter, but now I’m gunning him with my pistols (when playing normally). Yeahhhh.

The music for Guin Saga is epic. I think this is quite possibly the first time in a while I’ve heard an instrumental OP…which will probably get boring pretty quickly. -wry- Continue Reading »

Episode 14 starts where ep 13 leaves off — with Honoka being angry at some old man in a guy. Turns out the old guy is Leopard’s creator… Continue Reading »

The impression I’m getting from Polyphonica is rather academy-life; since it’s following the light novels, this is probably to be expected. I find it pretty interesting, though — maybe because I like the characters, even though Corticarte does seem pretty fierce sometimes. XD But I suppose that’s why she’s cute. Continue Reading »