Saturday, September 9, 2006

   Tough Choices

Anime Word of the Day

Shōnen (少年) (sometimes transliterated as shounen or shonen, literally "few years") is a Japanese word used in English to refer to anime and manga primarily intended for boys, although there can be crossover appeal to men and females as well (e.g., Mobile Suit Gundam, DragonBall, One Piece, Naruto and Bleach). Shōnen anime and manga is characterized by high-action, often humorous plots featuring male protagonists. The camaraderie between boys or men on sports teams, fighting squads, etc. is often emphasized. Unrealistically attractive female characters are also common (i.e. fanservice), but are not a requirement.

Opening Act:
Sorry I kind of disappeared this week post wise, but I did try to keep up with everyone’s posts at least. ^^ Gives you a clue that I’m still alive, right? LoL You see something has come up in my life and I’m trying to decide if it’s a good idea or not. It’s as my friends have told me…completely insane but I’m still rather interested in doing it. An old friend of mine has invited me to come to South Africa in order to dive with great white sharks. He’s a renowned shark researcher and has done this for years and well I’ve been diving since I was a little kid. But this wouldn’t be the type of diving I normally think of with great whites, you know a big cage between me and them. LoL This would be diving outside of the cage in shark bite suits. Again is this is the point where my friends tend to stop listening and just tell me I’m insane. LoL Honestly though this is while not completely risk free isn’t as dangerous as it sounds. He’s been doing this for years in order to truly study the sharks in their own environment and we don’t do the normal baiting you see. We don’t exactly want to see the sharks in a feeding attitude while being in the water with them.

Anyway in order for me to go I have to come up with a bunch of cash so that I can keep my rent and bills paid while gone. That is actually proving more difficult than getting up the courage to say yes. LoL I have another week to decide though so I’m rather at a loose end. Oh well I guess in the end I’ll end up flipping a coin and deciding. LoL

Along the anime note though I’ve finally managed to get my hands on a good copy of Loveless and Weiß Kreuz so I’m happily ready to enjoy a weekend of anime goodies! Oh and yay for manga shopping sprees! I’m so happy I just picked up berserk 12, Black Cat 1-4 and D-Grayman 1-2. So many goodies! Thank you B&N for finally expanding your manga collection to meet my needs! Now I can run between them and Borders and get my goodies! Shopping sprees!

New Works:
No new wallpapers though in the past couple of days I’ve put out about ten new ecards. I’m rather in the mood for simple this week so I’ve been playing with them while doing vector tutorials. ^^ Anyway the ecards are from a variety of series including Ouran, Black Cat, Full Metal Panic, Hellsing…and hmm probably some other ones too. LoL

Epilogue
Hmm I have a thing for red or golden eyes…whenever I see a character with those colors I tend to have an instinctive liking for them! Hehehe Even when they prove to be really bad guys or just bit characters. I can’t help it I’m such an eye addict!

destinyssweetman – We’re not crazy, it’s the rest of the people who are. No wait…actually we’re both pretty nuts.

Yensid – Thanks for the tip! I’ve starting going through some of the sites listed on your artluvr site! So many goodies on there by the way! Awesome work! Oh and I highly recommend a trip to the San Juan’s if you can. Friday Harbor is a great little tourist town but once you leave it its amazing how untouched most of the island still is! And there’s some great whale watching points if you don’t want to attempt kayaking! Hehehe!

Elves – Yeah I know what you mean about folks uploading vectors into fan art, sure they take a ton of time and skill but it’s still not a drawing. Too bad we don’t have a section for coloring or vectoring like DA does. After all vectoring and coloring does give some lovely images but they don’t always fall in the range of wallpaper or fan art! Hehehe you know I actually thought about posting a pic of Yuki next to the Bishie description! ^^

Mamma Vash – Well I pretty much gave you the hint of what vectoring was earlier but I found another site with a really cute vectoring tutorial so I thought I’d add it here too! ^^ This is a from a forum but you don’t have to be a member to view the tutorial.
http://www.ferricorp.com/public/forum/viewtopic.php?t=202

And I’m glad everyone enjoyed my little killer whale story! LoL I still bounce every time I think about it! Hehehe It was pretty funny actually we were actually thinking about going on one of the whale watching trips later that same day! Apparently the whales heard us talking and decided to save us some cash! Hehehe

Random Question: Are there any anime terms you’ve heard but never understood? ^^ If you don’t want to say it in your comment you’re welcome to PM me. I’m starting to have to search for terms to define. Hehehe Pretty soon I’ll be doing differences in Japanese and US customs. LoL

Tomokazu Seki’s Biography
Other Names: 関智一 Born: September 8, 1972 in Tokyo Occupation: Voice Actor/Radio Personality/Video Game VA/Singer Blood Type: AB
Oh one of my truly favorite Japanese voice actors! He’s done so many of my fave characters just trying to list them here was tough! The list was going to be huge! LoL And plus since my current theme is Sousuke from Full Metal Panic I couldn’t not list the fantastic voice actor who brings him alive! ^^ Seki has done such a wide variety of roles its actually pretty easy for me not to recognize him in certain parts. LoL He’s cost me many a game of name the voice actor! Hehehe Doing everything from comedy to drama really gives him a great variation of vocals to portray! On a fun note he also sang the theme songs for several animes including Weiß Kreuz and Psychic Force. He is sometimes mistaken for Toshihiko Seki (They have the same surname but are unrelated.). Hmm I’m not sure if anyone here listens to the Japanese Drama CD’s but Seki’s done some of my fave voices for those as well. Including Satoshi from DNAngel! Alas he doesn’t do the voice in the anime though. Hmm his official website has disappeared on me, however if you click on the photo above you can find a cute listing of various anime he’s done along with photos of the characters he’s voiced! ^^ Just a short listing of his voice acting career. Bart Garsus in Vandread Ethan in Last Exile Miroku Natsuhiko in Get Backers Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night Toya Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura Toji Suzuhara in Neon Genesis Evangelion Hiromu Shimbo in Chobits Yuuichi Tate in Mai-HiME Kyo Sohma in Fruits Basket Van Fanel in Vision of Escaflowne and Escaflowne Movie Keisuke Takahashi in Initial D Shuichi Shindou in Gravitation Yzak Joule in Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny Jiro/Kikaider in Kikaider the Animation Sousuke Sagara in Full Metal Panic!, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu and Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid Masataka Takayanagi in Tenjho Tenge Sagi (ep 163) in Naruto Ken Hidaka in Weiß Kreuz Miyata Ichirou in Hajime no Ippo Beyond the Grave/Brandon Heat in GunGrave

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