Birthday • 1986-05-07 Gender •
Female Location • Texas Member Since • 2003-08-14 Occupation • Student Real Name • Reicheru San, Rachel and only Pink can call me Raqu
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Achievements • UIL Best Actress 2004 Zone & District Anime Fan Since • Way Back Favorite Anime • For First it's a tie between Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin; some of my other favorites include Trigun, Detective Conan, Eva, Hunter X Hunter, Matantei Loki Ragnarok, OURAN KOUKOU HOST CLUB! Goals • To become a voice actress and/or video editor Hobbies • Vids (Gaming and film generas), Singing, Writing, and Drawing Talents • Singing, Drawing, and um....Humor
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Nearly a full month later and what do I have to show for myself....new aches and pains but hey at least I'm in somewhat better spirits today than I was a few days back. Let us relive these past 23 days briefly.
Most of my time has been spent in one of three places at home, on campus and at Bunny's. I have been spending less and less time home with the exception of this week alone but that will come later. For the most part my friends and I have been trying to avoid me being home since things have become more strained I think the end of the semester nearing and holidays have something to do with the added friction.
The now brief time I spend on campus in class has made me feel a bit more at ease since I was forever missing lab so I dropped physics all together and will be attempting astronomy next semester hopefully I will get a teacher who is actually excited about astronomy and not another who has ten-year and will talk about whatever politics he or she pleases as my physics teacher and lab instructor liked to do.
To take up the time that I was supposed to be in physics class....since I have still neglected to tell my mother that I have dropped the class, I have taken up reading classical literature. I just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo last week and have just started Virgil's Aenid. I was rather surprised by how The Count of Monte Cristo actually ended while it was sweet I was hoping for something a bit more epic and still along the lines of how things were looking to go.
Since things have been so strained I have been spending more and more time at Bunny's house...well it's more of a house where there are 6 paying roommates it's just I had met Bunny first so I call it his house even though it's one of the many roommates whom my best friend Saffron and I spend most of the day and night hanging out with watching movies and playing games and general hanging out with.
This past week however I have spent most of it at home and for good reason off and on all week I have been sick....and not wanting to leave bed. Tuesday I rented Guitar Hero 3 and invited a group of friends over and we played for hours and it was awesome. My favorite songs to play are "Suck My Kiss", the boss battle against Lou which is a rendition of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and I also really love playing "Welcome to the Jungle" and I have still yet to complete "Through Fire and Flames" but is it amazing to see someone play it on Hard and ROFL when he attempts to do it on Expert after failing so badly on Hard. Got to play Rock Band for a while on Friday while making the second and last turkey of the week for a Rinoa's Thanksgiving feast.
Oh in other news due to circumstances I shall not repeat I along with most of the committee will no longer be doing RealmsCon but we are trying to start up another con here in town....possibly....but enough of that this post has already gone on for way too long...on to LAS
Last Anime Seen: Death Note....yup I was watching Adult Swim and tuned in just in time to watch dubbed Death Note. To make things worse it was the episode when we first really see L. I seriously don't know whose voice is worse in the dub L or Light....not to even mention the hundreds of errors in just an episodes script. I'm somewhat glad I'm usually not home on Saturdays now so I won't have to go through the misfortune of happening to find myself watching dubbed Death Note.
So it's been a massively long time since my last posting. What can I say things have been "interesting" around here lately and yet not really anything has been happening. My mom has been going back and forth with trying to get rid of me and wanting me to stay around. Still looking for a job. Also I've been spending a LOT of time away from home.
Picked up gaming again, right now I'm attempting to do two D&D games only the GM for one of them is almost never prepared so we only really do one in which we are basically playing as gladiators.
Halloween was fun...well not the day itself but the pre-holiday party was AWESOME!! This year Saffron and I dressed up as pirates...but not just any pirates but the captain and first mate/sex pirate of the failboat. Yes the failboat because together with another one of our friends we become even more clumsy and generally fail than usual. We also started a bra and boxer wall that night. We liberated 2 men of their boxers and were given 2 boxers, 2 bras and a thong. I got so drunk I was very silly, I mean silly...it was great though the more I'd drink the more pirate-ish I became. Oh and the highlight of the night was getting a NEET/hikkimori friend to come out and join us for a few hours of the night....with the temptation of Stepmania on a projector.
Last Anime Seen: Hmm...I think honestly the last anime seen for me is either checking out brief snippets of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ep 9 for club tomorrow if not then it was watching Death Note last week in club.
...I'm not dead. OH and I'm in trouble with my mom.
Well first things first RealmsCon was a success we actually made a small profit this year but even better is how many people have been saying that this year was AWESOME. Yes we ended up not having all our guests show up due to cars failing, family problems and them falling off this side of the planet but still we managed to have only a few things go wrong. For my tech work...*I usually have no idea about tech* Greg gave me a limited edition Beck poster and signed it "Rachel-LiveXLoveXRock
Greg Ayres "Koyuki"
Thanks For All Your Help
You Rock"
Purchases made at RealmsCon:
Yuki in bathing suit (SHnY) figurine WITH glasses
Tetsurya (SHnY) figurine
OR Host Club Official Fanbook Delux
Vincent Plushie (That I gave to Chrislea)
After the con I've been trying hard to focus on my school work...for the most part that is going over well except for the second time since the con I've slept through one of my classes...and it's not like I try to miss it...it just happens sometimes. Mom is already saying I should just drop all my classes and get her money back and that I'm a worthless child once again =/ then Saffron called me and propositioned me to move in with her and potentially 1 or 2 more people in a few months. Looks like the job hunting will get very serious now.
Last Anime Seen: ...um does listening to FMA on tv count...no didn't think so...It's actually been a while since I've sat down and watched anime....but I have been reading the manga for Gantz. I am now on volume 22 (or Phase 2) OMG~! The Osaka team is insane and while I wasn't overly fond of the vampire angle to begin with it is progressing to be rather interesting but they really need to bring back Kei. Also while at first it made me drop my jaw that they included a toddler in the game, I think it is adorable how Kaze is raising him now and Takeshi is actually figthing aliens....he'll get 100 pts in no time.....actually with the crazy amount of aliens in this round I'm sure everyone can do it.
It makes me all kinds of happy to see everything on my table. Personally I walked away with some overdue/back payment for working and putting so much time and money into the con....by way of SWAG....rockin'.
Next post will probably be some pics and aftermath rant about RealmsCon and then I can go back to complaining about school and my family....j/k....somewhat.
Last Anime Seen: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei...actually not sure if this is really the LAS but one that I have been almost obsessing over recently. Kinda dark, REALLY funny~!
Just thought I'd pop in and say I'm not dead...just really stressing over con stuff. About two weeks away from the con and there is still so much we have left to do....and I still haven't gotten a list of all the DVDs we are getting to screen, if we don't get it in soon either I'm going to have to pull more fansubs since at this point....which means I can do more stuff from the new summer season unlike last year when most of the "new" stuff we did was from like spring ^^;
People complaining about panels and events at this late point in the game can bite me.
Although I've finally been able to buy the material for North High uniform...and roped another person into doing Hare Hare Yukai for the opening ceremonies. Speaking of OC we are planning some cool stuff just for that....including a little ____X____ action on stage....lol.
My four year TheO anniversary is coming up...probably will just change the layout or something then. Although the third official anniversary passed a bit over a month ago....I say official anniversary since that is when I first posted...like three times and really started doing stuff more on MyO rather than just using it to get spiffy wallpapers.
Last Anime Seen: Boccano, first ep doesn't seem to do the series much justice but it is a story set in 1930s America and follows the stories of several people who progressively in episode one turn out to all be connected for one reason or another.
Blah Blah more RealmsCon stuff....blah blah blah I wish we had more room....blah blah blah I want more time....blah blah blah people need to meet deadlines already...blah blah blah.
Last Anime Seen: Umisho.....lots of water...lots of bathing suits and plenty of dirty humor aplenty. ^______^
I'm in your studios *via e-mail* talking to your favorite voice actors.
So yeah between the migrane that is my family and the tumor....or so I call it named Danny and working like crazy to get this program done on time I finally get some more e-mails for people on the guest list for RealmsCon and in the past two days I've gotten responses form a few of the people who have looked over the tentative schedule already giving me suggestions for some new panels like a Gantz and a Saiyuki panel XD *dies* and questioning about what would go on during some of the other ones as well as the lone webcomic I contacted who said she won't be waking up to do a panel before lunchtime.
Ah speaking of Gantz also Chrislea came up with a great idea that we might use involving well Gantz and then I helped turn it into a very cheesy B-horror live action thing....LOL
Anyways thought I'd post in ever now and again and share the little happy things that brighten up days when there aren't enough pills to settle my brain.
Last Anime Seen: 009-1, since I had heard the podcast a few weeks ago about how the main girl had guns in her boobs...like the fembots from Austin Powers and since ADVocates sent it on a promo disc I thought I'd give it a try. Sad to say that the first frame I even get to see is "This DVD has been edited due to mature content" T_T that was the whole reason I got excited when I saw the featured title. Not a bad series...if you are into espionage with the same character design from Cyborg 009 and the lead character whose entire job in the series is to get information by sleeping with the enemy and be there for cheesecake shots.
Kk rather than sleep right now I decided it was a good time to do a bit of a picture post and update y'all on my little adventures. Maine lots and lots of Realmscon stuff BUT that did turn into me getting once again create an anime exhibit down at the Texas State Asian Cultures Museum....woot. Actually I had to take charge and take over the responsibility of doing the exhibit since Rebeca was in charge of it until last Thursday when she said basically that she didn't want it although I probably should have been more prepared for it since she had avoided the world for a few months to recover from finals...then going right into the teaching field. Enough about that though, I got another good friend of mine, Chrislea to help be basically design and come up with different displays that didn't go through since people decided since Rebeca was out I wouldn't get what they had promised me ages ago. Still the exhibit turned out really cool and we've been asked back once again for next year already to do another exhibit, yay~!
Here are some random shots from the exhibit including a very sleep deprived but happy to have completed the exhibit Ookumae in front of the general Shounen case.
General Shoujo Case
Back wall complete with wallscrolls, mangazines and some ADVocates pamphlets that we are letting people take.
.hack side of the Video Game case the other side is Final Fantasy and Video Games that have either influenced or been influenced by anime, I'd have a shot of it included but it came out rather blurry.
Our Fan Participation Case....lol that's my photo of Hiei at the bottom
Ah the Death Note....we had fun putting names and little jokes in it. Or rather Chrislea said it would be funny and I said do it...*smirk* then she debated on if she wanted to be Misa or Mikami....LOL
Ryuk.....so cute another little joke we started and then did since we could. Yes Ryuk has a speech bubble and it says "Got Apples?"
Me in front of the General Shounen case
Hmm...other than slaving in a hot museum hours on end and losing sleep for planning and creating this exhibit and doing some RealmsCon planning on the side I really haven't been up to much on my own.
Funny thing during our lunch break we head over to the Whataburger downtown and along the way we notice a bunch of tourists and question why they are there all grouped together and I pretty much say "probably nothing better to do and kinda shrug it off" then we see a long line of cars outside the Whataburger and I decide "let's go inside" only to find "OMG PEOPLE" that place was so packed I seriously felt sorry for anyone working there today. Yeah well that was pretty much the day sans all the RealmsCon planning and playing Catan today....so I guess that only leaves LAS
Last Anime Seen: Zombie-Loan....just watch it and laugh as B-kun uses "500-yen" lol~! Short one today I know but I should really get some sleep before I go back to the museum and just smile really big as the hundreds of students that are scheduled go through the exhibit all wide-eyed ^____^
So it's officially Independence Day here in America and right now I was just awakened by a severe storm....flash flooding all over Texas y'all =( Beyond the insane amounts of rain we've been getting things have been going pretty good this summer...sorry for the lack of updates it's just not that much has been going on for me other than planning RealmsCon and the anime exhibit at the Asian Cultures Museum.
This past weekend I went up to Austin with a couple of friends....well first we went to San Antonio and they did a bit of shopping and then we went to San Marcos and they did a bit more shopping and then we went to see a friend in Austin, then the next day we went to Schilterrbahn :3 I hadn't gone to a theme park let alone a waterpark in ages. I did so many rides this time around...now that I'm not as scared of fast things. :sweatdrop:
Since I came back with a good amount of money even after depositing some into the bank, I went to Waldenbooks and picked up some manga and was super lucky to find they were running a buy 3 get the 4th free special on Viz titles. I was sad to see they didn't get Ouran v9 in yet so I went ahead and pre-ordered it. I picked up Millennium Snow v2, Tail of the Moon v5, and La Corda d'Oro v1. I had been wanting to check out Corda d'Oro for a while now I had heard some of good stuff about it from a few people on Gaia but mostly people comparing it to Ouran. Which is somewhat understandable since it is a reverse harem series, and they both ran in Lala magazine but those are about the only similarities....ok a couple of the character designs are close although I think the designes to some of the characters look closer to Mikiyo Tsuda's work (Princess Princess, Day of Revolution, Family Complex) more than Bisco Hatori's work (Ouran, Millennium Snow)
Here is the synopsis from the back cover:
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Every few years, the prestigious Seisou Academy holds a prominent musical competition, and only the very best students at the Academy are allowed to participate. Though all are eligible to apply, only students from the music department actually make it to the competition...unitl now. Kahoko Hino is a General Education student and has no musical skill, but all that changes when she catches a glimpse of an elusive fairy who lives on campus. The fairy grants Kahoko a magic violin, and before she knows it, she's nominated to participate in the school's music competition with five very attractive boys, Whill she win love and fame, or will bitter rivalry rule the day?
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Actually the synopsis isn't all that accurate to the story either. Kahoko sees the fairy freaks out and runs, then gets nominated to be in the contest. After trying to back out of it a couple of times she goes into an empty practice room where the fairy gives her a magical violin that supposedly gives anybody who uses it the power to play no matter what their skill level is with the instrument. Also in the first volume at least she is in competition with four attractive boys and one cute girl and has another gen ed student she is having a story line with....but I'm sure the other girl will leave the competition by the end of the story and the gen ed boy she is having a story line with will join in the competition.
After reading the first volume I thought it was really cute and wanted to look up more about it and then found that they had animated it this past October and so I picked up the first episode which just happens to be my LAS this time around.
Last Anime Seen: La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~
It's a very cute shoujo series based off a romance game....and it's rather obvious that it is based off a romance game but still a good watch...and read! A few discrepancies between the manga and the anime but I'm sure there were many discrepancies between the manga and the game for that matter but still even if you haven't played the game or even seen anything about this series before I'd recommend trying out La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~
That's all for now.....See you on the otherside....and Happy Independence Day to all my American buddies.
Ok so other than RealmsCon stuff not much has really happened lately in my life although in about two weeks a couple of my friends are planning a trip up to San Antonio and possibly Austin to go shopping and just to have a fun outing.
Membership in club is down as summer usually is but you know some days I don't even see why I bother like tonight in club there were only like seven of us and that's because I drive one friend there and another goes just because he helps supply the anime we watch. Also we started doing the weekly sampler again this semester since if we didn't we'd get out about 20 minutes earlier and when I first did the sampler I didn't account on that much time being left over and the previous president said to try different stuff every week and then I got tired of it and wanted to get everyone hooked on The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so last semester instead of doing a sampler I did Haruhi which I'm glad I did but this semester even though I'm going with choices that other members and previous members have picked out as well as stuff that has good reviews but these two that I have done so far (Lucky Star and Kaze no Stigma) didn't really get good reactions from the group. I mean Lucky Star got an OMGWTF reaction and people rolling in the aisle when one of the guests started calling one of the characters disgusting for putting mayo on everything. Next week everyone should be happy with the sampler it's Devil May Cry, it would have been tonight's but the version I had was the initial release and riddled with spelling and grammar errors, the version 2 was released early Friday but I didn't see it until about 20 minutes until I needed to be out the door to go upload everything for club. But enough ranting about that.
I've been watching a lot of new and some old anime lately....the last ep 1 that I saw was actually of a slightly older series Honey and Clover and I started Law of Ueki...Ukei but I really needed to sleep....or else I would have really died today.....anyway like I was saying...Devil May Cry.
YES the anime of Devil May Cry is out NOW ^______^ I love the animation I know ep 1 is almost always character development but it was cute and full of blood and gore just like I like it although I'm not sure how much I like the character design....I mean it's really good although I think it could still have been much better. I hope someone will put out a HD sub, I mean I love the v2 and even the sub I have that is riddled with errors but it's just so much better in HD.
Last Anime Seen: Kaze no Stigma...good but very typical story it seems. Kazuma's family are all fire users in fact he was to be the heir of the head family but he has 0 talent with fire....he ends up moving out of Japan and changing his name to Yagami and becomes an expert Wind mage. Once he comes back to Japan 3 members of the branch family are killed by an excellent wind mage, of course Kazuma is the prime suspect of these killings and the head of the clan sends out 2 high ranking mages to bring Kazuma back for questioning. They along with a spy of the wind family that works for them end up being killed by a "mysterious being" and thus putting Kazuma in an even worse spot.
The Sun it burns us~! 
