Thursday, April 20, 2006

   Strawberry Panic! Ep2
[Posted @ 9:16 AM]
Strawberry Panic! Ep2, couldn’t sleep, so I woke up early to blog.

The Ep started with Tamao reading out the a poem she created about unrequited love. Scene changed to Tamao waking Nagisa up and scaring Nagisa out of her wits again lol. It’s early in the morning and Tamao already getting frisky as she offered to help Nagisa put on her new uniform lol. I could almost visualize Tamao going ‘Ohohohoho~’ LoL. Tamao’s really mothering Nagisa like a maid of a princess, putting on Nagisa’s uniform, praising and combing her hair.

As a result of Tamao’s pampering, they were late for breakfast and were running down the stairs when Nagisa couldn’t stop in time and bumped into Shizuma who was really minding her own business lol accompanied by Rokujou-kaichou and others. Then and there, Shizuma asked Nagisa for her name, called her Nagisa-chan and did a Marimite parody! LOL Oh, the usual, ‘Your necktie is crooked.’ Anyways, I think Shizuma was just trying to get an excuse to inch forward towards Nagisa and kiss her, which she almost did until the darn clock chimed again. Chuckling, Shizuma watched Tamao pulling the stunned Nagisa away lol. After the rest left, Rokujou-kaichou lectured Shizuma on self-control.

Upon entering their classes, Nagisa and Tamao were swarmed by squealing fan girls classmates who were dying to know if Nagisa had kissed Shizuma. That time, Nagisa realized how famous Shizuma was in school. After class, Nagisa and Tamao were having dessert and Tamao invited Nagisa to support her present her new poem for the Literature Club. Meanwhile, Shizuma had sneaked out of the Student Council’s watchful eyes when it’s time for the lunch meeting between the 3 schools. [That explains why Rokujou and some other students was accompanying Shizuma to class] Nagisa’s in the Literature Club listening to Tamao presenting her new poem. Walking among the forest, Nagisa tried to compose of poem of her own but, lol couldn’t. Suddenly, she heard someone whimpering ‘Ah, Etoile-sama’ LOL and went to check it out.


Only to see Shizuma and an unknown girl entwining their hands together and look pretty chummy to the point of an almost kiss. Shizuma’s such a player lol. Surprised, Nagisa accidentally stepped on a twig and alerted Shizuma. Not believing what she saw, Nagisa ran off and reached the library. The Student Council were looking everywhere for Shizuma and overheard some students saying that Shizuma’s heading for the library. Fufufu, it’s always the quiet, gloomy library lol.

In the library, Nagisa saw a couple of students looking very chummy together. Blushing, Nagisa walked further back into the library and stopped when she saw the beautiful window reflection in the library. All of a sudden, Shizuma appeared behind Nagisa and began her attack again XD. Starting from paralyzing her victim, caressing her cheek, touching their cheeks together, holding her close and finally kissing! Nope, almost, just maybe 3cm away!~ LoL, Someone fell and Nagisa broke free from Shizuma’s grasp and went to help the fallen girl. Tamao then appeared looking for Nagisa, as they were talking, Nagisa turned back and Shizuma was gone. Seems like Rokujou-kaichou knew Shizuma was in the library and had told Tamao to go look for Nagisa in the library. [Probably to stop Shizuma’s attacks on Nagisa.] Shizuma overheard the conversation. That night, Rokujou was lecturing Shizuma about her absence from the lunch meeting but Shizuma seems to ignore her warnings.


In the dorm, Tamao painting Nagisa’s nails and saying that those that Shizuma likes, noone would be able to resist for longer than a month lol and Tamao assured that she’ll protect Nagisa. In Nagisa’s mind, she was thinking that when she’s in front of Shizuma, she can’t seem to move and do anything. Meanwhile, Shizuma’s anguishing over the night or the past?

I’m suspecting that Shizuma used to have someone she really loved but that person might had transferred to another school or dead or didn’t reciprocate Shizuma’s love which is really hard to believe lol. Anyways, that explains why she’s playing around with the girls in school to fill her broken/lonely heart maybe?

Art: 6/10
Story: 7/10 [Sweet Shizuma Angst.]
Characters: 6.5/10 [Shizuma~]
Overall: 6.5/10 […]

Phew. I love Fridays usually, later going to Northpoint with lil bro to buy manga and photo albums. Ah, Ouran High Host Club Ep3 and School Rumble Ni Gakki Ep3 are out yay. Stay tune for some you-know-what tonight. =]

[Signing off @ 10:59 AM]
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   Strawberry Panic! Ep1
[Posted @ 7:23 PM]
Strawberry Panic! Ep1~ Let the yuri begin =] Noone seems to really care about the story except there¡¯s a lot of yurish scenes here and there and rambling about no kissing scenes. Shessh, ºÃÏ·»¹ÔÚºóÍ·Âï, good stuff are always at the back lol. Anyways, I do care about the story and I bet there¡¯s a dark past about Shizuma, so I¡¯m doing a good summary so bare with me ok? =)

Oh before that, characters introduction! Basically there are three yuri girls¡¯ schools on Astraea Hill, St Miator Girls¡¯ School, St Lulim Girls¡¯ School and St Spica Girls¡¯ School. So I¡¯ll be separating the characters into the ¡®Schools¡¯, the ¡®Onee-samas¡¯, the ¡®Main Characters¡¯, the ¡®Best Friends¡¯, the ¡®Kawaii Kouhais¡¯ and others respectively.

St Miator Girls¡¯ School	St Lulim Girls¡¯ School	St Spica Girls¡¯ School
Hanazono Shizuma - 6th Grade, Snow Class, Number One Star Idol, Etoile.	Minamoto Chikaru - 5th Grade, A Class, Student Council President of St Lulim.	Ootori Amane - 5th Grade, Trois Class, The ¡®Prince¡¯ of St Spica. *Trois means Three in French.
Aoi Nagisa - 4th Grade, Moon Class, Klutzy and expressive.	Hyuuga Kizuna - 2nd Grade, B Class, Active and cheerful individual.	Konohana Hikari - 3rd Grade, Un Class, Loves beautiful things. *Un means One in French.
Suzumi Tamao - 4th Grade, Moon Class, Nagisa¡¯s best friend and likes to see Nagisa¡¯s bothered expression.	Natsume Remon - 2nd Grade, B Class, Cheery but timid individual.	Nanto Yaya - 3rd Grade, Un Class, A rich man¡¯s daughter, likes to tease Hikari or just vying for her attention?
Tsukidade Chiyo - 1st Grade, Flower Class, Timid and shy individual, admires Nagisa very much.	Byakudan Kagome - 1st Grade, C Class, Her best friend is her teddy bear, Ashiba.	Okuwaka Tsubomi - 1st Grade, Trois Class, Energetic and headstrong individual.
Rokujou Miyuki - 5th Grade, Flower Class, St Miator Student Council President.		Toumori Shion - 5th Grade, Deux Class, St Spica Student Council President. *Deux means Two in French.

Yeah, I guess that¡¯s basically covered your understanding of the main characters in Strawberry Panic! and of course there¡¯ll be more characters later =)


I kinda like the OP, ¡®Shoujo Meiro de Tsukamaete¡¯ by Aki Misato, it¡¯s fast paced, and oh so teasing hahaha, man and what¡¯s with the animes recently having rose/sakura petals twirling around? Must be because it¡¯s April haha, it¡¯s driving me crazy in a good way =), I like. I like the way the OP portrays Shizuma as this untouchable, angsty and mesmerizing goddess =) muahaha.


The anime started pretty differently from the manga, in the manga, the main character, Aoi Nagisa was already in her St Miator Girls¡¯ School uniform and her first meeting with Hanazono Shizuma was more refine and fantasy-like, it¡¯s like ¡®Come to me, baby¡¯ kinda feeling ahaha. In the anime, it¡¯s more humourous ba, Nagisa¡¯s more klutzy in the anime, and how in the world can anyone run into a bunch of bushes and fall into some forest? Nagisa did. Nagisa doesn¡¯t seem to have a really good impression of Shizuruma at first, [Damn, I keep typing Shizuru instead of Shizuma.] with Shizuma pecking on her forehead on the first meeting.

After fainting from being kissed on the forehead only [Can she handle other places?] by Shizuma, Nagisa awoke to only find herself in St Miator Girls¡¯ School infirmary and Suzumi Tamao staring lustly at her. Tamao¡¯s really aggressive in the anime, I could almost hear the near coming cat fight between Shizuma and Tamao soon lol. Tamao tricked Nagisa into taking body measurements for the uniform when actually there¡¯s a standard size LOL. When Nagisa questioned Tamao about it, Tamao replied without hesitating and flashing that precious notebook of hers of Nagisa¡¯s full biological data lol.

After that, Tamao began introducing Nagisa the surroundings, the three girls¡¯ school and stuff. Halfway, Tamao was asked to meet the director and unwillingly left Nagisa to walk back to the dorm lol. While walking to the dorm, Nagisa noticed Shizuma walking towards some forest like place and followed her. Like a Ninja, Shizuma magically disappeared, realizing that she lost Shizuma, Nagisa ran back to the dorm as she¡¯s late for the 6 PM curfew Tamao had warned her about.


Nagisa¡¯s been lectured in the room by the Sister for being late, but was saved by Rokujou Miyuki, the student council president of St Miator. Almost dinner time, Nagisa, Tamao and Rokujou-kaichou walked into the cafeteria where everyone from the three schools gathered to have dinner. Everyone around were pretty excited over the newly transferred student and a brief display of the other characters of Strawberry Panic! I¡¯m really looking forward to the Hikari x Amane x Yaya love triangle lol and Yaya just so possessive with Hikari XD. Before entering the cafeteria, Rokujou-kaichou told Nagisa to greet Etoile, the most loved and respected student among the three schools. Walking into the cafeteria, Klutzy Nagisa lol mistaken one of the students as Etoile and before anyone could explain anything to her, Shizuma walked up behind Nagisa and whispered into Nagisa¡¯s ear that they meet again.

Shocked, Nagisa began pointing at Shizuma that she¡¯s the person from the morning and doing ¡­ that sort of thing to her XD. As Shizuma inched closer towards Nagisa, Nagisa got flustered and began to protest saying that they¡¯re in front of the most incredible and powerful Etoile-sama. Amused, Shizuma used her Sharingan eyes to kinda paralyzed Nagisa¡¯s movements and edged closer to kiss Nagisa but was interrupted by Rokujou-kaichou and the darn clock.

Scene changed to them starting dinner and the real Etoile, Shizuma began the prayer. After the prayer, Shizuma even give a little wink to the stunned Nagisa who had just realized that Shizuma¡¯s Etoile, the most loved and respected among the three schools. Back in the dorm room, Tamao¡¯s drying Nagisa¡¯s hair with a hair dryer and commenting how soft and beautiful Nagisa¡¯s hair was. Nagisa began wondering what will happen from then on with that unhappy stuff happening to her on the first day haha XD. - END -


ED, ¡®Himitsu Dolls¡¯ by Mai Nakahara and Ai Shimizu, the relationship between the two seiyuu portrayed in the ED was really canon with that near kiss in the end haha. They are mimicking the OP where Nagisa and Shizuma shared an almost kiss. It¡¯s quite special though, having seiyuu acting and singing in the ED but I can¡¯t help but swoon at the nice manicured nails they had XD. Btw, the credits were blocking the view lol.

Art: 6/10
Story: 6/10 [Subtle sweetness.]
Characters: 6.5/10 [Not much, except for Shizuma.]
Overall: 6.5/10 [Just a start right?]

XD, Strawberry Panic! Ep2 next~ I couldn¡¯t control my hands and I went to download the Mandarin version of Ep3 lol, pretty easy to understand to my surprise =] I'll post Tours Mai HiME Doujinshi Volume 4 Page 11, 12 tomorrow.

[Signing off @ 9:30 PM]
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

   School Rumble Ni Gakki Ep2
[Posted @ 6:30 PM]
=] School Rumble Ni Gakki Ep2, only the strongest will survive, let the survival game begin.

Before the OP slots in, a short fighting teaser between 3 guys and ¡®Eri¡¯. [Later we¡¯ll know it¡¯s not her really lol] Anyways, 2-C couldn¡¯t seem to decide what to do for the school festival. Imadori suggested to put up a play and even wrote the script lol but the script sucks. Well, if you really want to know, ok, it¡¯s a story about five rangers who fight to save the earth from space aliens lol and so the Red Ranger would be Imadori, Blue Ranger would be Mikoto, the rest were blank lol. So basically the plot was Blue Ranger¡¯s in love with Red and there¡¯ll be a kissing scene LOL. Rejected. Some girls began discussing about having a caf¡¡¡§¬¦ where they could dress up as maids or nurses ... As Mai proposed to have a majority vote, lol broom head guy Yoshidayama suggested having a Sumo Swimsuit Wrestling Competition lol.

Results: Play, 16, Caf¡¡¡§¬¦, 16, Swimsuit Wrestling, 3 LOL. Meanwhile Harima¡¯s gloomy that Tenma had misunderstood the relationship between him and Yakumo lol, similarly, Hanai¡¯s feeling gloomy too. Ingenius Akira decided to probably spice up the whole thing by reviving Harima and Hanai lol. By telling Harima that she had prepared a script of Harima playing as the prince and Tenma as the princess, Harima slammed the table and yelled out that he gave 3 votes to the Play LOL. Next Akira went to Hanai saying that if 2-C¡¯s going to do the Caf¡¡¡§¬¦, the Tea Ceremony club would provide full cooperation and not to mention Yakumo too. Hanai slammed the table and yelled out that he gave 5 votes to the Caf¡¡¡§¬¦ LOL. So the verbal battle between Hanai and Harima issued till Akira suggested that they have a ¡®Survival Game¡¯ to settle it.

So that night, the Survival Game started between the Play Faction and the Caf¡¡¡§¬¦ Faction. In the Caf¡¡¡§¬¦ Faction, we have Hanai, Mikoto, Asou and other more, I don¡¯t really remember their names lol. In the Play Faction, we have Harima, Eri, Tenma and other more lol. The rest were mostly action scenes, quite cool to see it animated, more thrilling than reading from the manga. So just look at the screenshots k?


Oh, in between 3 of the voters of the Sumo Swimsuit Wrestling Competition, Nara, Yoshidayama and Nishimoto tried to play a guerilla tactic to win lol but were taken down by ¡®Eri¡¯ again.


Meanwhile, the music band of 2-C, Karasuma, Megumi, Tugumi, Ichijou and Specs Guy [Argh sorry I don¡¯t know his name! LoL] were practicing their performance for the school festival while the others were battling it out lol. Suddenly they got news that they will not be performing for the school festival on main stage so they decided to join in the Survival Game too to have a chance in performing in class lol. Scene changed to the Cafe Faction having a little problem with ¡®Eri¡¯ intruding their base. The Ep ended with Asou, Suga meeting up the fake ¡®Eri¡¯ [If you remember, he¡¯s Eri¡¯s Butler Nakamura LOL] and going WTF? LoL.

Art: 7.5/10
Story: 7.5/10 [Go Play Faction!]
Characters: 7.5/10 [LoL Akira rocked here.]
Overall: 7.5/10

Strawberry Panic! Ep1 tomorrow ... finallly, let the yuri begin.

[Signing off @ 7:09 PM]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

   The Celestial Zone 21 #2 Cover
[Posted @ 10:01 PM]
Before you start running out to the nearest comic store at this time, let me tell you that TCZ21 #2 is coming out on 27th April 2006 lol.



Holy crap, it's just something about Senba Zuru, Ç¡¡¡¨¬¬Óðº¡Á, on TCZ21 #2 that is so hot. Is it the red kimono? [God i prefer the red one lol but the black ain't that bad too] Or is it that she's wearing the kimono that reveals her neck in such tasty way? Or the fact she has a Japanese name? Or is it she had silvery hair? Or is it the pose she had? Or is it the kawaii necklace she's wearing? Or is it that she had painted red nails for Mandarin version / blue nails for English version? Make that all of the freaking above!!! AHH! AHH! AHH! TOO HOT! Ha, i don't always go for red-eyed characters ok lol.

Manz, i'm so gonna buy the Mandarin version ... i really hope that the English and Mandarin versions having different covers would stop ... it's really sucking me dry haha. I've already subscribed to the English version XD.

Anyways, cya tomorrow for probably School Rumble Ni Gakki Ep2 ... i'm halfway through.

[Signing off @ 10:30 PM]
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   Simoun Ep1
[Posted @ 3:24 PM]
Honestly, I have no idea what the hell it is all about when I watched Simoun for the first time. For the second time, I realized a little more about it and for the third, I plainly gave up lol. I referred to the manga Chapter 1 scanlation to get some clues on what the hell is going on, but I still don't get it. Ok I'm dumb, but I'm not giving it up, I love the animation, the OP and ED XD.

Love the OP, 'Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii' by Chiaki Ishikawa, the lead vocalist in famous J-pop band, See-Saw. Why is it so freaking addicting? I've been repeating it for like 10 times lol. The chorus is so pure, relaxing, calm, smooth and full of hope =).


Ok, basically Simoun, is a god sent from heaven flying machine and the only country to possess Simouns was The Imperial Nation and was believed that Simouns would never fall. But that was belief was destroyed when a flight of Simouns were destroyed by the enemy, Craftman Nation mass flying invasions. Thus a fight between the two countries issued.

In Ep1, it was narrated in the eyes of an enemy invading The Imperial Nation and stealing the technology. LoL, I can¡¯t help but scream ¡®Shimako!¡¯, ¡®Yakumo!¡¯, ¡®Aya!¡¯, ¡®Yukinari!¡¯ and ¡®Yukino!¡¯ while Mamiko Noto was narrating lol. Argh. After the narration, we were brought to The Imperial Nation where the Simoun pliots were putting up a drill flight for the inspectors but later did they know, it¡¯s for real. To activate the Simoun, the Simoun pliots aka Simula would have to kiss each other then this crystal green ball which would probably be their fuel and weapon on stimulating the Simoun. The main character, Nevril seems to be the best of the Simulas and everyone was like wowing over her. Nevril walked up to kiss her co-Simula, Amuria, after the kiss, Amuria doesn¡¯t seem satisfied, yanked Nevril closer and kissed her again making Nevril blushed. No doubt these two were lovers XD. After the ¡®ritual¡¯, the Simouns took off.

Ok, seems like Nevril¡¯s group was the best and called ¡®Call Tempest¡¯ so while they were putting a show for the inspectors, they noticed one of the other group, ¡®Call Cup¡¯ Simoun floating around and went to check. Seems like the enemy, Craftman Nation had launched a massive attack on The Imperial Nation and even the mighty Simouns had fallen. After seeing the Simoun from ¡®Call Cup¡¯ falling, the Simula morale in the ¡®Call Tempest¡¯ fell by a bit but they would not give up. The Simoun¡¯s weapon is this ¡®Remergion¡¯ thing and they have levels/names for it, like ¡®Falcon Remergion¡¯, ¡®Shark¡¯s Remergion¡¯, ¡®Iron¡¯s Remergion¡¯ and the best was the ¡®Jade Remergion¡¯ and a miracle ¡®Tempus Patienum¡¯ would happen. So basically, the Crystal Green Ball will display some sort of pattern and the Simouns would paint the pattern on the sky with the light of the gem and destroy any enemies within their path.



But six Simouns could never defeat uh probably a few millions of the enemy¡¯s aircrafts. Besides, the enemy¡¯s many aircrafts were putting out the pattern the Simouns were painting on the sky, so if there¡¯s no pattern, Remergion could not happen and the Simoun would be armless. One Simoun fell. Amuria got pissed and mumbled about being strong, stronger and stuff. Anyways, so Amuria and Nevril uh re-boosted their energies by kissing again in front of everyone, lol showoffs, to perform the ¡®Jade Remergion¡¯ but failed when Nevril was distracted. By playing with the ¡®Jade Remergion¡¯, they activated the ¡®Tempus Patieum¡¯ and everything goes kaboom lol as it went outta control. In the mist of it, the other Simouns managed to flee from the explosion but sadly, Nevril¡¯s Simoun ain¡¯t so lucky and her co-Simula, Amuria died.

From that incident, many Simula began to lose faith in Simoun and made the decision to be a male by going to the spring. As Nevril¡¯s moping around in her room and won¡¯t come out. A new Simula, kawaii young Rimone was introduced as one of the member of the ¡®Call Tempest¡¯ after three Simula was lost, oh there¡¯s one more new Simula, the main character, Aeru. So a meeting was called when all the members [Except Nevril and Paraietta] of the ¡®Call Tempest¡¯ arrived, they were sent on a mission to take down Craftman Nation invasions but everyone was afraid all except, guess, yes, the main character Aeru. Aeru rushed out saying that she¡¯ll fight and took off in one of the practice Simula machines. Meanwhile, Nevril plunged down some deep blackhole? LoL -END ¡¡¡§¬C

AHHHHHHHH! ED by Savage Genius!!! ¡®Inori no Uta¡¯, it¡¯s classic! XD. With the Simoun kuru kuruing around haha, quite eh ok. I kinda like the idea of using lights to create this powerful attack and blasting enemies to kingdom come =). Manz, love the CG, animation and the background sceneries!

Art: 7.5/10
Story: 7/10 [Just an introduction.]
Characters: 7.5/10 [Rimone~~~~~~]
Overall: 7.5/10

Off to start on School Rumble Ni Gakki Ep2, then Strawberry Panic! Muahaha.

[Signing off @ 6:15 PM]
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Monday, April 17, 2006

   Gokujou Seitokai Ep17
[Posted @ 1:34 PM]
I know I'm slow, but, better late than never ha and I'm pretty proud that I'm one of the few ones who are actually blogging Gokujou Seitokai seriously. Cut the talk, do the walk, here's Gokujou Seitokai Ep17 =)

A Cindi Ep, the Ep started with Cindi getting crapped up over a letter from her mum who¡¯s coming over to Miyagami Gakuen [Miyagami Academy] to visit her and Gokujou Seitokai. What's so bad about a mother coming over to visit her daughter? The problem is that Cindi apparently had made up stories in her letters and was worried that when her mother comes, she would know that all those stories were lies as interpreted by Puc-chan LOL. Cindi was like 'Ehh, Huhh, Ehh, Oh, No.' and the rest couldn't understand but Puc-chan could lol. Kind Kanade suggested to make the stories in Cindi¡¯s letters come true since Cindi's mother was coming to school for a day so putting up an act for a day won't hurt or so she thought. Seems like Cindi's mother was coming on the day itself when Cindi confessed about it LOL, Nanaho was like 'HURRY UP!'

Cindi's mother arrived in this flashy yellow sports car however, her use of Japanese was worse than Cindi lol, she's like using uh impolite and weird words while putting on a smile lol. So when Cindi went out to buy some time for the rest, the stories Cindi made from her letters were listed amounting to 200 over LOL. The biggest lie of all was that Cindi's the president of the Gokujou Seitokai LOL. So an announcement was made to the school that the presidency was transferred to Cindi haha, so everyone in school was like waving to Cindi, calling her Cindi-kaichou lol. Next lie, Cindi¡¯s very popular with the girls in school, especially Kaori and Rein who were always fighting over her lol, later we see Kaori and Rein pretending to fight over Cindi lol. Next lie, Mayura was like, uh am I allowed to say it? LoL, seems like Cindi had lied that she had a boyfriend named, Mousuke and Nanaho being the masculine type, had to act as her boyfriend LOL.

Next lie, holy crap, Kanade in a maid outfit with megane [Specs] too!! Along with Kuon!!! Kyahh! LOL. Now Kanade and Kuon were Cindi¡¯s maids lol. The scene was pretty awkward lol with the crude 'I don¡¯t have balls' joke lol and Cindi seems to keep staring at Rino? Puc-chan?


The rest were taking a break while Cindi was showing her mother around school.
Mayura then read out the rest of the list to everyone, 1. Dinner was always a full course French cuisine 2. Entertainment during dinner was hula dance lol 3. In the bathroom, personal maids would wash Cindi's back and give her massages lol. Nanaho was like, we couldn't have Kanade doing that, so Kuon, I'm leaving it to you lol. 4. Before Cindi goes to bed, she and her boyfriend will always have a goodnight kiss LOL. Kuon reimbursed the treatment from before by saying, Nanaho, I'm leaving it to you and did a cute 'Hmph' when Nanaho tried to explain lol. Nanaho was like, no choice then, I will do it, yes I will do it, and I'm a desperate beast tonight!!! LOL. 5. Cindi apparently travels the world as a car racer lol but that was easily fixed with a little photoshop editing XP. Meanwhile, Kanade-kaichou's having fun with her maid outfit and megane in her room LOL.

During dinner, Rein, Sayuri, Seina, Rino, Minamo and Mayura were doing the hula dance lol, while Kanade and Kuon served the dinner. Cindi's mother noticed Cindi's stares at Rino? Puc-chan and shook her head. After dinner, it's show time for Nanaho LOL, the time where she had to be a desperate beast! Nanaho was like so hyped up but was spoilt by Kuon when Kuon asked if that would be Nanaho's first kiss lol. While walking to their dorm rooms, Rino spotted Cindi and her mother walking out and rushed out to follow her. The rest and Kanade also noticed and followed out too. Meanwhile Kuon's in the bath wrapped in only a towel [?!] wanting to serve Cindi but she's not there. Kotoha magically appeared from nowhere and informed Kuon about Cindi's whereabouts. Rino found Cindi and her mother at a coast of some rocky seaside and they're having a damn LOL weird conversation. The rest caught up a while later and suddenly Cindi's mother slapped Cindi, everyone thought that the cover's blown up and began apologizing to Cindi's mother.

Cindi's mother began speaking in some gibberish language again but was saved by Puc-chan again lol who translated what Cindi's mother said to sentences. Cindi's mother was not angry about the lies but that the fact Cindi's hiding from her true feelings was unforgivable. Cindi's mother then pointed out that Cindi doesn't like Nanaho but ... Rino?! Puc-chan then translated that one that Cindi really liked was the puppet on Rino¡¯s hand LOL. Cindi blushed and confirmed it lol and even confessed to Puc-chan lol, Puc-chan was like uh, let's start off as friends ok? Haha. Everyone was like clapping and cheering for them but then they realized that Puc-chan's a puppet! LOL. So in the end, Cindi's mother left for Kyoto, Cindi was given a treat of holding Puc-chan's hands to school and Rino was left crying that she had nothing to do with this at all lol. - END -

Art: 7/10
Story: 7/10 [Well we learnt a little more about Cindi already did we?]
Characters: 7/10 [Kuon in wrapped in towel rocked.]
Overall: 7/10

It's been half a year since I blogged Gokujou Seitokai, lol really the last I checked was Ep16 on October 17, 2005 and it's April 17, 2006 now and I'm blogging Ep17 lol, this is nuts. Ok off to watch Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire VCD le lol, yes yes I'm slow, everything I do is slow.

[Signing off @ 3:24 PM]
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Friday, April 14, 2006

   Tours Mai Hime Volume 4 Doujinshi Page 9,10
[Posted @ 10:27 PM]
Not that i'm making you guys beg or what la lol. My priority in having this blog is to have my comments/reviews/summaries of anime Eps and occasionally some manga titles reviews/summaries too. So doing translating is so not my thing, thus i'm more motivated in posting anime eps reviews these days. I take more pleasure in typing anime eps summaries, screenshooting and probably one of two manga titles reviews.

But don't worry, i'll finish translating and posting Tours Mai HiME Volume 4 Doujinshi =). It's just a matter of time, i wanna catch up with some new and interesting animes titles now, like School Rumble Ni Gakki, Simoun and Strawberry Panic! =).

I'm so interested in Strawberry Panic! that i even plan to do some brief summaries of the translated latest chapters from Japan. Latest is Chapter 7 and the english translated is only up to Chapter 3 but it's catching up soon, so see how it goes ba. If possible, i would like to do that too =).

Disclaimer:

I DO NOT TRANSLATE STUFF FROM JAPANESE TO ENGLISH.

I do however refer to the RAW [Japanese] version sometimes when translating to kind of double check and make it more 'Real' cos i like it lol.

I do not scan doujinshis, so i don't claim credit for it, i got the scans from Tokyo Toshokan, a torrent listing place so, please do not ask me where i purchase or scan the doujinshi.

I do not draw doujinshis, i'm not that artistic =). So i don't claim credit for doujinshi images/pages in this post. I would had clearly stated the author of the doujinshi so go search for him/her/them.

The reason why i had added my blog URL in the pages is cos ... well, i translated the darn thing from Mandarin to English afterall!

Click on the pictures and out pops a window with a bigger, clearer dimension.

Please do not hotlink on forums, just paste my blog url and direct them to the Manga Page section, thanks.



Page 10 might be a little confusing, pardon my lousy translations lol, i'm just trying to do direct translation. Ok basically, Natsuki's thinking that the time that she's waiting for Shizuru might be the feeling of how a dog [Natsuki is always resembled to a dog haha hence the comparison =)] feels like. So when the owner opens the door and walks in, he/she will first pet the head, say 'Good Girl' to praise the dog and hug the dog to show love.

Yeah that's all, tired, baked a chocolate cake with my brothers just now lol. Cya.

[Signing off @ 10:48 PM]
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   Girls High Ep 1 [First Impression]
[Posted @ 2:13 PM]
Here's my Girls' High [Joshikousei] Ep1 first impression =) Enjoy.

	Eriko Takahashi
	Yuma Suzuki
	Ayano Sato
	Akari Koda
	Kyouko Himeji
	Ikue Ogawa

The starting began pretty funny with Eriko, the main character of Girls High, looking very serious with the calligraphy brush. After she had finished writing, she changed the poster on her wall saying 'Middle School Girl' to what she had just wrote, 'High School Girl' LoL. After pasting it properly, she opened her window and scream 'I'm going to be a High School Girl soon!' LOL. [I didn’t even do those when I’m in the Upper Secondary XP] Her brother in the kitchen was like 'Mum~, Nee-chan [Older sister] is screaming again.' Mum went like 'Just ignore her.' LOL. - Inserts OP -


The OP, 'Kirameku' by yozuca is quite catchy if you listen to it a few times that is.


Ep started with an introduction of the 3 main characters' names, Eriko, Yuma and Ayano as they meet up to preview their high school, Yamasaki Girls' Academy Fuji before the entrance ceremony which would be the next day. When Eriko arrived, she then said it's not a preview but an expedition, meaning they're going in campus with the high school uniforms they’ve bought along with them lol. STO-PU! Holy crap, what's up with the 3 panty shots in 12 seconds?! LOL 1 shot, 4 seconds sia. Anyways back on track, as they were changing in the bathroom, Yuma then commented that Eriko's skirt's too long and offered to shorten it by cutting it with a scissors. As you have guessed, lol Yuma screwed it up by cutting too short till you can see da panties. Pissed, Eriko shorten both Yuma and Ayano’s skirts too lol.

A while later, Eriko and Ayano were like praising how pretty and clean high school girls were compared to smelly boys lol were brought back to hell when Yuma said when girls are not around boys ... some high school girls walked past them talking some dirty stuff haha. Eriko tried to divert the attention by saying that there are exceptions until Yuma showed them a sports club room where unmentionable girls stuff *coughdirtysanitarypads* were there haha and not to mention the locker. Their image of a beautiful, dreamy high school girl life had been dashed! LoL. Disappointed, Eriko rushed out of the room, fell down a flight of stairs and straight onto, yes onto, a girl's [Akari] face.

A name introduction of the next 3 main characters of Girls High, Akari, Kyouko and Ikue, seems like those three had mistaken Eriko, Yuma and Ayano to be senpai [Seniors] because they had their high school uniform on with the 'tattered' and customized mini-skirts lol. Akari, Kyouko and Ikue were the same year as Eriko and company and apparently they had the same idea as Eriko to want to come to high school to take a look and stuff. Eriko not only didn't clear up the misunderstandings by telling Akari and company they ain't senpai, Eriko even blurted out some crazy stuff about some privileges a high school girl would get lol. As they're walking back home, Yuma's lecturing Eriko about deceiving the girls and said that well, there's six classes in the year and their luck can't be that bad to be the same class right lol. Ayano said ah, if you say that, the chance of them in the same class might come true LOL and they laughed lol.


The next day, LOL, they're all in the same class [Year 1 Bamboo] and not only that, they were each partnered against each other during entrance ceremony LOL. One week later, during lunch time, the Eriko, Yuma and Ayano were still outcast by the other students, reason was that they’re outsiders [Students who enrolled in from other middle schools] and the rest were together when they were in middle school. A while later, Akari’s friends, Kyouko and Ikue thought they should stop outcasting Eriko and company as they were in the wrong too. Akari couldn't live with that and swore to have her revenge on Eriko lol. Pissed, Eriko couldn't take it any longer and both Akari and Eriko were about to punch each other however their punches were aiming straight for homeroom teacher, Odagiri-sensei LOL. As punishment, Akari and Eriko were told to clean up a room but they had better ideas and began to start making crude jokes to make each other laugh LOL. The one who laughed would be the loser aha.

As they were doing their thing, the security guard walked past the room and locked the room. A while later, Akari and Eriko seemed to be impressed with each other’s crude jokes skills lol and decided to resume their 'battle' after a break. To their dismay, the room's locked lol, Akari went for the window but they were a few stories high and would die before they got out lol. They began to squabble again. Scene changed to Eriko's mum calling Yuma that Eriko had not came home yet. Yuma and Ayano went around looking for Eriko and found out that Kyouko and Ikue were looking for Akari too and presumed that they might be still in school. Back to Akari and Eriko, they were still stuck in the room and thought they might get out by climbing up this roof exit. Akari said that she should climb on top of Eriko to get them both out, to her surprise, Eriko agreed and apologized for deceiving her. Akari confessed that she’s happy that Eriko's in the same class as her, because there's others like her who do stupid things like coming to school before entrance ceremony day to explore lol, besides they even like the same TV programme! LOL.

So both of them cleared their misunderstandings, meanwhile Yuma, Ayano, Kyouko and Ikue were in school looking for them. Back in the room, Akari was on top of Eriko towards the roof exit but Eriko's probably too energetic and caused Akari to bang her head against the roof lol. And they fell on each other. Just then, Yuma, Ayano, Kyouko and Ikue opened the room's door and saw Akari and Eriko in an inappropriate position *cough69cough* lol. [Innocent readers, do not google for the meaning! LOL] Kyouko even commented, 'So they swing THAT way ...' LOL LOL! So the six of them became good friends and went out together to have their dinner and it’s on Akari lol. - Inserts ED -


ED – 'Incl' by meg rock had the six characters putting up eye liner, makeup, para para DDR, pretending to do skipping, doing Egyptian dance, pretending to be playing the guitar, doing weird hand poses and hand signs, haha, quite amusing and nice =).

Scene changed to the ramen shop the six of them were in, lol Akari and Eriko were in loggerheads with each other again on which team would win in the TV programme they were watching. Seems like both of them are those kinda rival-good-friends type =). - END -

Overall a really nice watch, lol, I've never been in a girls' school before, I'm too stupid la lol, girls' school in Singapore are usually very good schools ha, of course with some exceptions lor. So lol, it's really funny to watch girls in their worst behaviours without the guys around to pretend to be good =). Oooh, next Ep's about physical examination =) =).

Art: 7/10
Story: 7.5/10 [Need more =)]
Characters: 7/10 [LoL Akari rocks!]
Overall: 7/10

Sorry, I'm not blogging Gakuen Heaven because when I watched Ep1. Seems like good art alone is not enough, it just didn't click and I've no motivation to blog about it lol. Must have 'feeling' de hahaha. Off to start on Gokujou Seitokai Ep17.

Oh, look out for Tours Mai HiME Doujinshi Volume 4 Page 9 and 10 tonight, my Easter Day present =).

[Signing off @ 4:28 PM]
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

   School Rumble ni Gakki Ep1
[Posted @ 7:13 PM]
Woot, School Rumble ni Gakki Ep1~ Skool Rombluu~

The OP, 'Sentimental Generation' by Ami Takito is nice =), I like, 'Our Generation~' doom doom doom~ But before the OP slots in, there's a short Samurai Era epic with Harima as this as-cool-as-Kenshin-from-Samurai-X Samurai saving the sisters', Tenma and Yakumo tea house from the evil debt collectors. As the day approached, one of the evil debt collector prepared to take Yakumo as payment, [Of course Tenma rushed in and volunteered herself LOL, but was rejected because beautiful women are worth the money LOL.] but was stopped by Hanai, the self-proclaimed one who said that he would save the tea house however he was thoroughly bashed up even before he could even finish his lines lol.

Harima the Samurai arrived to save the day and even took down this Ani-ki [Older brother] monster that was as huge as a hill. Tenma then asked Harima for his name, Harima replied 'Mamok', then Tenma went 'Huh?! Why is it not Yokoji?!' Karasuma at the corner said, 'Tsukamoto-san, it's because this is School Rumble.' Tenma: 'Eh?' - OP slots in - =)


Finally the Ep started with Harima riding on his bike, recollecting some brief crazy stunts love confessions, his life of a struggling Manga artist, Eri shaving his beard and hair off, some luv-luv misunderstandings that involved once again a certain Ojou-sama, him running away from Japan, meeting his Shisou [Master] that taught him the life and leaving a bone-pen for Harima to continue his struggle as a Manga artist back in School Rumble Season 1. Thus, Harima is back once again to try to conquer Tenma's heart!

In 2-C classroom, uh I forgot his name again lol, oh his name's Yoshidayama and he's some delinquent who’s been trying to get into Harima's good looks since forever. As Harima returned, Yoshidayama offered Harima his bananas and Harima gladly accepted it. As Harima was wondering where Tenma had gone to, Itoko Osakabe-sensei called Harima out and gave him a letter. Harima thought the letter was from the manga competition he had joined and that he had won an award LOL. Delighted, he rushed around looking for Tenma and decided to confess to her. Meanwhile, Tenma and Yakumo are having a sisterly heart to heart talk at the roof lol. Apparently, Yakumo had lied to Tenma that she's at Sarah's place while she was at Harima's [Or rather Osakabe-sensei's] house helping him with his manga. As Tenma's lecturing her sister, Yakumo apologized and Harima who was eavesdropping couldn't take it any longer, rushed out wanting to clear the misunderstanding.

As Harima walked forward, he was taking the bananas Yoshidayama gave him earlier lol and Tenma was like 'Whoa bananas!', grabbed and ate them then told Harima that giving her bananas would not get him in lol, probably meant that she would not be bribed ba. Harima's explanations seems to get worse as Tenma apparently had not knew that Yakumo was at his place and thought that they're out riding Harima's bike or at a restaurant lol. Harima tried his best to make Tenma believe that they didn't do anything and all was a misunderstanding. Tenma believe them a while later and said she was angry because Yakumo had hid the truth from her and they're sisters after all. Suddenly, Tenma changed into this 'Old Man' kinda character and said some lines as if she's encouraging and congratulating a couple LOL. Harima even replied 'Yes! I will definitely bring happiness to your sister!' LOL. In the end, Harima reached home only to realized that the letter he got was not an award from the Manga competition but Osakabe-sensei's who had used Harima's name to enter a contest LOL.


Tenma, after thinking she had solved Yakumo's problems lol, walked into the room to see Karasuma striking a cool pose with his guitar, preparing for the up coming school festival. Then Tenma was like daydreaming how it would like to be if she were to perform with Karasuma on stage with thousands of fans screaming for them. After the performance, a music producer wanted them to sign a contract with Karasuma, Tenma was like so happy until the music producer said, 'Ah, you are not needed.' LOL.

Snapped back to reality, Tenma was getting depressed. Karasuma stood in front of Tenma and tried to cheer her up and placed a turtle on her head and said 'A Turtle's ji' LOL! What the hell's 'Ji'?! Tenma thought for quite a long time and took a lot of blows when she got the wrong answers lol. As she was about to give up and said that it's a 'curse', ah, a curse? If it's a curse then it must be 'Sleeping Beauty'! Tenma then reached to a conclusion that Karasuma's telling her to be 'Sleeping Beauty' in the festival and got hyped up. Back in school, when Tenma showed the turtle to Eri and Mikoto and asked what they saw, plainly, they replied 'Turtle'. But the ever deductive Akira said, 'Sleeping Beauty.' LOL. How she does it, I don't know.

The next day, Tenma told Yakumo to send her bento [Lunch box] to her class at lunch time. As for why, Tenma apparently had given instructions of how to prepare that bento and replied 'Don't ask why, just do it.' LoL. During lunch time, Hanai’s all pumped up that he would be able to ask Yakumo play with him 'Sleeping Beauty' for the festival. Seems like Hanai had no idea of the Harima x Yakumo rumoured relationship lol and was in good mood until he finally overheard someone whispering that Yakumo was going out with Harima. The final blow came when he heard someone asking Yakumo if she really stayed overnight at Harima’s place LoL.


Hanai rushed back to 2-C and lunged forward for Harima lol, but was too seriously injured to punch Harima hard lol. Yakumo walked in with the bento for Tenma, Tenma then pushed Yakumo towards Harima and told her to give the bento to Harima. Harima stupidly accepted it, Tenma opened the bento and lol a love shaped picture was printed on the rice in the bento. Hanai too saw the bento and began to cry 'Lies, lies, lies!!!!' and went into gloomy mode lol. Harima was in sweating damn hard mode and was given the final blow when Tenma commented how lucky Harima was and did her trademark 'Bang bang' sign lol. Suddenly, the dudes from 2-D came and issued a challenge to everyone in 2-C lol - Inserts ED -

ED – 'Kono Namida ga Arukara Tsugi no Ippo to Naru' by Ami Tokito again, quite a mild ending, nothing much. The OP and ED mood were all different from School Rumble Season 1, the OP 'Scramble' from Season 1 is more rock and probably more catchy because of the 'Kurukumawaru~' chorus but this OP here ain’t so bad la. The ED 'Onna No Ko Otoko No Ko' from Season 1 is also rather catchy and the lyrics is funny =).

Before Ep1 ends, boys from 2-C with exception of Harima and Hanai were having a masquerade party LoL meeting in discussion of data of the 'overlooked' girls in 2-C, they're Sagano Megumi, Yuki Tugumi, Otuka Mai, Tsukamoto Tenma, [SKIP! LOL] Mihara Kozue and lastly Osakabe Itoko-sensei. Suddenly their laptops were invaded by virus and all their data was gone. As they're in despair, a surviving data file was found, when clicked, it appeared to be a picture of Harima’s naked butt LOL! Culprit of the virus attack? None other than Osakabe-sensei =).

Ep2's about the survival game between 2-C on deciding what they're going to do for the school festival lol. Matamitene~!

Art: 7.5/10
Story: 7/10 [Funny but Ep2 would be even more hilarious LOL]
Characters: 7/10 [Need more Yakumo!]
Overall: 7/10

Hm, cya tomorrow for Gakuen Heaven Ep1 and Girls' High Ep1 First Impression =) Oh btw, i finally watched Strawberry Panic! Ep1 LOL, so yurish! So bold, so aggressive, so shiok =). Shizuma-sama rocks.

[Signing off @ 10:01 PM]
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   To African Grey Parrot Lovers =)
[Posted @ 9:17 PM]
Saw this cute and smart talking Congo African Grey Parrot video clip and i can't control my hands but want to share with all you guys out there =)

Oh btw, those who knows me, yeah my two parrots i've always been saying are African Grey Parrots [Juz like the one in the video clip =) There're two species, one is Congo and Timneh, mine's Congo with deep red tails. Timneh are the kinds with darker maroon tails], ahh, can't wait for my parrots to be able to talk like that lol. I've gotta buck up!

[Signing off 9:21 PM]
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