Sunday, October 8, 2006

   Adventures in Reading!

Anime Word of the Day

Glomping is a form of greeting used by anime fans in the West. A typical "glomp" involves bear hugging someone and latching on tightly, though not enough to intentionally hurt the recipient. It has since expanded into slang amongst otaku, primarily on IRC, chat rooms, and Internet forums as an extended form of greeting. It is important to note that glomping is consensual; that is, that it is usually done in settings and situations where permission is implied, otherwise it could be termed a form of assault. Even then, others may see it as an overzealous and embarrassing form of behavior; those people aren’t generally the ones who go to anime cons though. ^^

Opening Act:
Hello! Well I hope everyone has had a great weekend so far! This weekend has actually been a really good one for me! Even though I’m still stuck in bed after that stupid accident I’ve got a new addiction to distract me so it’s all good! ^^ As most of you know I’m quite addicted to MMORPG’s and just this weekend I was invited into a Closed Beta for an upcoming game. Sorry rules state I can’t tell anyone what game but needless to say I’m a bit distracted from everything playing the game. LoL Besides I like any job that asks me to try and break the game to the best of my abilities! *giggles* I’ll talk more about this though once it reaches the Open Beta stage. ^^

I’ve also happy been downloading some of the new animes to premiere this month. Most memorably D.Gray-man and Death Note!!

D.Gray-man was just as good as I had hoped! And I’m terribly pleased with the voice talents they have signed up for this series. I was a bit concerned about the voice of Allen but honestly after listening for the episodes I’m quite convinced she’ll do a great job with him. ^^ Not to mention the fact the animation itself is done quite beautifully and I’m quite in love with the amount of detail the series has placed in. Happy note for purists it does follow the manga quite well, only a few changes to the first episode. ^^

Oh the joy of Death Note. I only have one sad complaint…not a single fan subber so far as veered away from the English spelling of the main characters name. I just hate seeing his name spelled as Light, rather than Raito. Oh well I’ll deal, it’s such a great story I don’t think anything could ruin it for me! LoL Honestly though the voices are great, the animation is superb, and the story of course is one of the best I have ever seen in anime or manga. For folks who are looking for an action anime this of course isn’t one to check out, but if you love a good detective story or a psychological thriller this is the one to check out! As far as I’ve seen they’ve only agreed to do 37 episodes of this series. Which makes me suspect we’re only going as far as Chapter 50 in the manga. In my opinion this is a good choice, I’m not very fond of the series after that Chapter. And it does make a great ending for a series, if not the most people friendly one. LoL Sorry L fans. ^^

Oh and for those of you with Showtime; if you’re into freaky shows like Death Note, I highly recommend checking out the series Dexter. It’s about a Miami Blood Spatter investigator for the local police who is actually a serial killer. ^^ He focuses his urge to kill people though into a desire to do good so he only kills bad guys. LoL It’s a twisted story and some of the best writing I’ve seen in a TV story. I mean everyone knows its wrong to kill people…but at the same time you can’t help agreeing with some of his choices. Freaky, I love that kind of stuff! It just premiered fairly recently, but if you don’t get Showtime…I’m certain you can download it. Hehehe Yes I’m evil but I enjoy it so much it can’t be that wrong! ^^

New Works:
In honor of the new series D.Gray-man I’ve happily made up a few wallpapers from various scenes. I’m just so fond of the look of this anime that I know I’ll be making quite of these types of wallpapers. ^^ Sorry folks once I’m addicted I’m good and addicted! LoL

Hmm I’ve got a group of new e-cards ready to go up, but probably won’t post them until tomorrow or later this week. I like to try and spread them out a little bit. LoL I’m strange I know. But with so many folks in school right now submissions tend to be small during the week. I like to bump up the numbers a bit when I can. ^^

Epilogue:
Oh my! I actually won sweetdevil's wallpaper contest! Yay me!! Thank you everyone for your support and if you’re curious about what my wallpaper looked like, this was the one I submitted. Its one I haven’t posted here at the O before. I’ll probably post in a few days though. Now that the contest is over, I’d like to share it with more folks. I thought it turned out quite well and was a bit of an experiment for me. ^^ My prize was a lovely wallpaper of sweetdevils creation as well as this lovely banner!



Ok so like many of you my favorite character type tends to vary quite a bit. But honestly I tend to go for the quiet, dark, yet noble sort. A little good and a little evil is always a good mix. I also have a fondness for military types, but I guess you can’t blame me there! Who doesn’t love a cutie in uniform? LoL

destinyssweetman - *huggles tight* Extra luv to my bestest little brother online. ^^ The only one who can make me smile and laugh no matter how much I want go crazy.

Yensid – Lmao!! Oh you got it so right! My roomie actually came in and sat down with me and… “I know this is horrible and everything but I’m really glad you got all f’d up. Now you can’t go get eaten by a shark.” LoL I just about another rib laughing…only I would get out of risking my life doing something dangerous by getting hurt doing some normal! I guess it’s a lesson right? Do more dangerous stuff cause real life is gonna take you out! *giggles* Ooh and I loved that actor for Dean on Smallville! He was so delightfully dark!! Hmm I really should figure out his real name sometime. LoL But it never seems to occur to me when I spot those biceps of his…ok and was I the only one cracking up about evil clowns in last weeks episode? LoL

sakura-star – By special request this weeks voice actor is for you…and I hope I picked the right ones. LoL You said you were looking for sakura and fye. I’m guessing from Tsubasa Chronicles? Those are the ones I chose anyway. This weeks is Sakura and I’ll do Fye for you next time. I hope that’s right…considering the original Sakura voice actress from CCS and Tsubasa are actually different! ^^ Let me know if you’re looking for someone else!

lordsesshomaru – LOL Ok well technically today’s X-Men have been around for like 30 years and everyone already knows about them and what they can do. Heroes is a bit like discovering that mutant exist in the first place. Hmm I’m not really making this a great argument am I? LoL Oh well I have much luv for all Mutants! Even freaky ones that live in the sewers. ^^

ElvesAteMyRamen – Oh CourtTV! Yes I definitely get that channel…and I probably spend way too much time watching it. LOL I always think the day I truly snap and decide to kill everyone at least I’ll know all about Forensics and court trials. Hehehe I use to love watching some of the Court trials they had on their too…mostly because I find lawyer talk highly amusing. Sometimes I wonder if even they know what they’re arguing about sometimes. ^^

Shishou – *huggles tightly back* I’m so glad to see you back on the O! I’ve missed chatting with you so much!!!! Especially since I’m beyond horrible at responding to e-mails! LoL But then you know that all too well…^^ At least I’m better about writing PM’s. And you know me any place I can get more goodies online I’m happy to hear about! I’m running out of stuff to read too…I ended up reading through summaries of mangas on Amazon earlier to see if I could come up with anything new to read!

And thanks again to everyone for your well wishes! I really do appreciate all the kind thoughts! I’m doing much better and am pretty much off the annoying meds now. It means I feel more pain but it also means I can think and concentrate for longer too! A trade off I’m more than willing to make. I was starting to feel kinda crazy falling asleep while talking to folks. *blush*

And wow this is long…but then when are my posts ever short? Lmao!

Random Question: What was the last good book you read? And yes I’ll accept manga as an answer only if you haven’t read any books lately. ^^

Makino Yui’s Biography
Other Names: 牧野 由依 Date of birth: January 19, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan Blood Type: O Occupation: Voice Actor/Singer
Special request voice actress here! I’m actually not that familiar with her work. Though I did think she did a fantastic job as Sakura in Tsubasa Chronicles. But honestly that’s the only role I’ve heard her in so far. She actually hasn’t had much of a voice acting career at this point, it appears she prefers to focus on her music than on voice acting. She’s currently a member of the Sun Music Group. Click on her photo if you’re interested in learning more and well you read Japanese. She’s actually the singer of one of my favorite ED’s for Sousei No Aquarion. ^^ Just a short listing of her voice acting career. ARIA The NATURAL as Akane NHK ni Youkoso! as Misaki Nakahara Tsubasa Chronicle as Sakura Tsubasa Chronicle - Torikago no Kuni no Himegimi (movie) as Sakura Zegapain as May-Yu

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