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Nnoitra - Bleach

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:08:21 GMT

October last year! That's the last time I wrote somthing here! 5 fricking months ago!
Where the hell was I during the past few months?!

Didn't really get a chance to watch a lot of my beloved anime and manga during last few months. But since this is Easter weekend, and I took 2 more holidays on top of the work days off, I have 5 days to be just sitting at home, doing nothing except catching up on my series! Happy Days! :)

Bleach Manga update to date now... I think...!
On chapter 315. The Zaraki fight is awsome as ever! He is a complete nut job! I fucking love him!
And Nnoitra, he is as crazy as fuck! I thought he looks a bit like Marilyn Manson!! lol Ah-I love Manson. He is an very interesting individual..! lol :D

Can't you see the similarities..?!?! eh eh?
Even when they have they short hair.. the spit image of each other!?!

Really wanna talk about how great the story is in the manga, but I'm afraid I'll spoil for whoever reads this. But then again... who will read this crap that I write?!?
I love the Bleach anime, but I still think it's goin too slow. Well, I guess it's 'cause I already know what's gonna happen next, as the manga is so far ahead now. Ah- It's still a good series. It's Bleach! It's great! (just wanna stay loyal to it..?) lol

I can't wait to see the up-coming fights!! I say it's gonna be brilliant!

There are few more Anime I wanna mention here, since I haven't been writing much lately...
Like, D.Grey Man has gone very very good now. I still have a bit to catch up. I say I'm gonna have to stay up to watch a bit... Oh God, I'm so sad...!
Oh oh!! And Ghost Hound! Now that's a freaky spooky series...! And it's absolutely fucking awsome! You know that kinda spooky ghosty stuff, usually be better in a movie. I never thought they can pull it off in a series! And Ghost Hound did pull it off! It's really dark, and the spooky stuff don't actaully seem stupid! I give it a 4 stars.
The only thing if I have to give out about this series would be that, there are loads of scientifical terms and really long medical names or somthing... ah- at least you kinda learn somthing... if they're really true...! lol

D.Grey Man

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:48:17 GMT

oh wow~ the new OP is awsome!!
The upcoming episodes looks really good!! ...but kinda bumped that they gave away whats gonna happen in the openning, sort of...

Lavi is mega cute!! and he has new outfit!! *giggles* Kanda is as hot as always~ and Allen's new weapon looks soooo cool!!
There are few quite intertesting new characters coming up, and they all look so awsome! I wanna see how your wom getting on now... Miranda... her 'improved' weapon seems cool!

I thought there only gonna be 56 episodes.... cause I heard (or read, actually) that somewhere... but from the looks of it, don't think it's gonna end soon. Given they just have a new OP and ED and all...
speaking of the ED theme! your one, Rei Fu is everywhere isnt she?! Bleach 1st ED, Darker than Black, and now here D. Grey Man too! well, her song are quite nice. Not that I don like her or anything... Just saying, she must be doing good! *laugh* And who's next singing the ED or OP? High and Mighty Color?! rofl

Ja~

Claymore & Lovely Complex

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:06:06 GMT

Aww~ Can't believe 2 of of favourites had ended already... Claymore and Lovely Complex...! I guess, "All good things must come to an end" eh?! :3

Claymore is great.
Before I start watching it, I didnt expect it to be this great. When I read the plot indroductory, I thought it was like another 'sailor moon' wanna-be serie. you know, pretty girls fighting and all. But! It is not like that at all!! It's really cool. They are not all pretty-pretty, and girly fights. but they are proper hardcore bloody ones! Those fights are just awsome. And the bloody scenes, I enjoyed every much~ ^^; And I like how I actually guessed wrong about the plot and as the story goes on, it wasnt preditable at all...
Aw~ and now another great show has ended....

here is a little clip (the very last bit) of the last episode (Ep26)-
(em... actaully still trying to upload it... please hold... :P)

A little bit of spoiler...

One little thing I didnt like though, I thought they are gonna kill the 3 most powerful awaken beings... I don't like they just left it like that! And we didnt even get to see the 3rd one, only that little girl (forgot her name), Esley, and there supposed to be one more! We didnt actually see them fight either! AND! The current number 1 claymore! Alicia? (Is that her name??) I really wanna see what she's like! And to see they all join forces, like with the top 5 claymores and all... But Clare already killed the number 4... I don like that she tunred evil either... I'm glad Galatea didnt die :) She is cool too~
If it was a proper fight between Terea and Precilla, I don't think Terea would lose, and most certainly not die! It wasnt fair...! Precilla took her by surprise! Teresa was really awsome. I like her the best out of all the claymores. She's a deadly fighter! just, wow! XD

Spolier ends

And now, for Lovely Complex-
I didn't think I'd love this serie so much. When I first started watching it, I really didnt expect much. I thought it was just another all girly, lovey-dovey kinda anime serie. But it turns out it's extremly funny. Every episode is just hilarious XD
Yea... That's the main reason why I love it. It's a "makes-you-happy, makes-you-laugh, makes-you-feel-good" kinda anime. (Well, at least to me it is...! ~^^~)
And then, another reason is that it reminds me soooo much of our teenage love-life. You know, your first crush, your fist love and all that. I almost forgot what it feels like to be innocently fall in love with someone...
Remember what it felt like when somebody you like, likes you back?? my favourite episode was koizumi's birthday (the 3rd birthday in the anime~ cant rembr exactly what age... >.<)And she got the greatest present eveR...! ~^^~

When you're in high school, you have you best friends. They support you on whatever you do. You laugh together, cry toghether, do everything to gether. And then, there's someone that was special to you. Your first crush, and you felt like you could do anyhting just to be with that person. And the best part was, all your friends will be teasing you. You're embarrased, but at the same time, you liked it~ haha...
Oh how I miss the high school life. Never appreciated it when during school years. Now that it's over, we can never go back... *tears* :X
For all you still in school/college, treasure it while you can!!!!

Here's a little clip from the last episode: Ep24
(em... actaully still trying to upload it too... please hold... :P)

>.<

good bye. halcyon days.

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:06:04 GMT

I loved it when I read this chapter on manga. And now I love it even more after watching it on anime. May be it's the moon light, may be it's the music... or may be it's Orihime's rosey cheeks... It was just so perfect. It made my all teary~ lol

Here's a little clip from Bleach episode 141:

I think this is the best scene so far.

I always thoguht Ichigo has to end up with Orihime. (And Not Rukia!! arragh! I like Rukia, but them two don't make a cute couple.) Ichigo and Orihime just suit each other so well. I read something a while back, it's about how Kubo Tite used/linked Orihime's name and Ichigo's birthday... ah, here is the link - [click]

"Orihime's name and Kubo associating her with 7/7 (for seventh day of seventh month) as well as naming her after the star "Vega" in one of the title pages is based on the Tanabata. Ichigo would be her Kengyu. Fits because at the moment there is this divide between them, almost as wide as the Milky Way that divides the stars Vega and Altair. Tanabata is also related to Obon holiday. And Ichigo's birthday of July 15 happens to be farewell Obon celebration. So those two holidays intertwine much like Ichigo and Orihime's story does. On another note, the Tanabata's date of 7/7 is associated with the importance of Time and the hope of being together in the future."

After reading that, gave me an idea... and I drew this!

Orihime, like a star, falling into Ichigo's arms... can you say Awwww~~

I really like Orihime's face there. And once again, I messed up with the hands, well, one of ichigo's hand anyways (I was actually too lazy to corrct it at the time... >.<) Well... feel free to "critizise"... but dont be harsh~ lawl!

'Til next time so~

Fairy Cube - Yuki Kaori

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:12:20 GMT

Being a big fan of Yuki Kaori's work that I am, I can't believe I only found few weeks ago about her "latest" manga...! tut tut tut... shame on me...

Fairy Cube (Yousei Hyouhon)- A story about a boy, Ian, who can see fairies since as long as he can remember. And he can also see another self of himself, a boy called Tokage, where no other people could. Therefore no-one believes and but only laughs at him. No-one but Rin, his childhood friend, believes him. In the city he is in, a number of grisly murders occur. These murders are known as the Fairy Murders as the victims have backs slit open, with blood pouring out in the shape of a butterfly's wings. One day, Ian witnessed the Fairy Murders and he obtained a strange cube from the enigmatic man Kaito. And that only led him to find myterious things. In which let him believe even more surely that what he could see all along, the faries, are no illusions. When Rins returned and Tokage got him into trouble, slowly, Ian began to unravel the past and realise who he is, and solved the Fairy Murders.

Fairy Cube containes 3 volumes and was released in 2005. The scanlation was completed by the Waffle House. There also cotained a "spin-off" story in the last volume, called Psycho Knocker. It is currently being scanalted by Sakura-Cirsis (They are back! yay! Are't they great?! haha!) Only first part is released, we'll just have to look forward to the rest of it~ ^^;

It was, of course, a good read~! Yuki Kaori sensei is great, after all! X] Being the queen in gothic manga that she is, Fairy Cube is like her other mangas - a dark and twisted story, and with beautiful gothic style artwork. I do like this manga very much, however, when I was reading it, at the beginning, it does seem to resemble a little bit of Count Cain and Angel Sanctuary. ...especially Angel Santuary~ Well, the major main story is still differnt. But I do think they share some similarites...!
As always, each of the characters have their own little story, their past and all. My favourite one in this was Kaito and Raven's. May be because when somebody seem to be the bad guy at first, but then it turns out they are actually ...the greatest... it just make it so sad ~>.<~

Anyways, go check out Fairy Cube, it's great~
Until next time!

Yippee~~ Jumping usagi in the air~

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:32:58 GMT

Finally! The Bleach movie - Memories of Nobody - is subtitled & released by Dattebayo!! Yippeee~~!!
Since I only konw Dattebayo, this one source, for my Bleach and Naruto stuff. I nearly died waiting for this one~ hahaha~ My friend actually already got it in pirate dvd (with subs!!) and all, but that bastard won't lend it to me!! hmm... Him with his "connection"... Grr! I wonder where he got it~
Ah- what ev~ I have it now...
Still waiting for it to be d/l-ed... should be completed by tonight~ ^^

The Torrent linky, if ya like, from DB -> [BT(.avi)]
Will upload the file on MediaFire, might take a while though...

Have been obsessed with Gokusen 2 lately. Watching the series, like, for the 3rd time now...
*googly eyes* Koike Teppei is so cute~!! And Kamenashi Kazuya too~ so hot!! ~^.^~
Loving all the characters in it~ keehee~ ^^
The story was originally from an anime, called The Gokusen.
The plot - Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi enters Shirokin Gakuen Private School to become a math teacher. She's assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents. At first, the class tries everything to rattle her cage, but to no avail. In a short period of time, Yankumi gains the respect of the class. But what the school doesn't know is that she's the heir to the Oedo Group, a powerful Yakuza clan. So while Yankumi struggles to excel in her career as a teacher, she must also keep her Yakuza background a secret.

And for the soapopera, Gokusen 2:
The story still remain pretty much the same. The main players - the "leader gang" in the class: Yabuki Hayato (H.O.T. Hot!), Odagiri Ryu (Super Hot!), Tsuchiya Hikaru (OMG HoT!), Takeda Keita (Just wanna hold him and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him!), and Hyuga Kosuke (emm... he's alright too~ *laugh*); and of course, the "passionate" teacher: Yamaguchi Kumiko sensei. You can guess how the story goes~ The class is the rebels of the school. Everybody is afraid of them, but not Yamaguchi. While everyone else has given up on them, Yamaguchi-sensei would keep guiding them and never give up hope on them... touchy touchy story eh?! hmm.... heard that kinda plot before! The series is absolutly hilarious. Though, a bunch of Cheesey-mcCheesy, cliche kinda stuff... But what'd you expect?! It's just soapopera!! Everybody loves abit of soaps from time to time~ lol!

A little clip form Episode 5 of Gokusen (Season 2)

I love how Odagiri acts so cool...! When everybody in the class is so pumped up, and he justs sits there all cool and goes... "baka ga!" hahaha~ so funny! And Yamaguchi is hilarious... always so dramatic! kinda like me... though all the acts will be in my own head, but she actually acts it out... so embarassing, yet so funny~ X3

Well, that's it for now

Sexual Chocolate

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:20:56 GMT

....hmm well, actually this has nothing to do with sex or chocolate~ I just like the name... Got your attention though didnt it?! *LAUGH*
Anyhoos...

Isn't Claymore getting gooder and gooder every episode?!? (Yes, I said 'gooder'...) Hands up who thinks the last few episodes of Claymore are brill! *puts her hands up, looking for others with their hands up too*
It's a bit sad though... And to my very surprised... There are loads of people that I thought they not gonna die, but they were killed brutally and *snap her fingers* ...just like that!
Here are some fight scenes of the latest epeisode (Ep 22)

And I thought your man there... Rigardo, the silver-eyed lion king - he is so cool looking. Damn! Why do always think the bad guys are hot! Well, yea they usually are... And the other one - Esley - he is hot too~ lol ^^
Here is linky for d/l-ing the episode, if you like... [Link]

And here is a little clip from Devil May Cry (Episode 10)
I like Trish way better... she is hotter and she fights much cooler than Lady...! X3

And the linky for the episode... [Link]

Ah- and finally Bleach is once again back to its usual yummyness~~ ^^ Even though I already know what's gonna happen next... (Cause I read the manga and all...) It's still very exciting! lol! Oooo~ And Hisagi is so cute!! Love Him *lick*! XD
And speaking of the Bleach manga... It's getting so goooood~~!!!! ah- I really really think Ichigo and Orihime should be together..!! They just look so cute together!!

Ja ne~

Meh~

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:44:49 GMT

Not much going these days.... not much to write, or at least not much I wanna write about... >.<

Another preview from the Naruto Shippuden Movie -
It does look good~ Can't wait ot watch it ^^

And while on the topic of Openning Themes... I think of all the ones that I know, Ergo Proxy's OP is still the best. The song and the graphic/background suits the theme of the story well. Love it~ ^^

(Though, I thought the story was quite confussing... I had to watch the first 10 ep or so few times to get what's goin on...! lol)

Anyhoos~ Until next time~

Shweeeet~ ^^

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:27:26 GMT

Wasn't able to connect to the internet for a few days, because of... bad weather?! *laugh* Well now I have piled up a lot of things I wanna post...!! lol~

First off...
Lovely Complex (EP18)
Wahhhhh~!!!! Otani!!! So cute!!!
A rather unexpexted and interesting yet so-damn-sweet ending for this week's episode. While it happened, I was totally silent screaming. Yes, so excited and so happy~!!
and OMG...! It's just super kawaii when Otani blushes!! Makes me go Koo-Koo~ lol!

part 2 - http://video.xanga.com/strawberry_hana/d0c9f448079/video.html

Naruto Shippuden
New OP and ED for Naruto Shippiden this week. Well, "newish"...! As the songs are still the same. It's just with a new ...pitures? (what you call it? I can't think of the name right now, but I know I heard of it!! Arrash!) Anyhoos~ I am guessing it's to promote an upcoming Naruto Shippuden movie yea? yea!
And it's looks pretty good! Can't wait for it to come out!! ...But why isnt there Kakashi in it?!?! hmm...

Naruto Shippuden is getting real good~~ ^^
Oh and I'm liking the new and strong Sakura! I really didnt like her before. But now, she isnt so girly and scardy cat as before. And I like it! ^^

Bleach
More filler episode this week?? Grrr!! However, according to some sources, the fillers will be over soon and it's getting back on track with the manga! Woo-hoo~
"Bleach Episode 137 should be the last filler if the titles are correct. Bleach Episode 138 is titled "Hueco Mondo moves again! Hitsugaya vs. Yammy" and will premier on 2007-08-29. Bleach Episode 139 has been titled "Ichigo vs. Grimmjow, the 11-second Battle" and it will be premiering 2007-09-05"

Dragon Ball
I remember this series when I was just wee kid, and I never watched it. 'Cause I thought it was too ...boyish! lol! (Well, at that time, for me, it was!) Anyways, one of my friend, who is also addicted anime, kept saying he can't believe I havnt watch any of the Dragon Ball series! And he kept pushing me watch it. I wasn't too keen, but I thought it's a famous anime series, so I kinda have to watch it~
Yup, I'm watching Dragon Ball now, it's moving one Reeeeaaal slow. I'm really taking my time on this one haha. Ad as I expected, it's full of fillers ...and nonsences!! lol!! I suppose I could skip a few episodes... But then if I skip, then I'm afraid I'll miss something interesting.
Like the episode that I just watched (EP55). It features an other anime series - Dr. Slump (also from the same creator - Toriyama Akira) I almost forgotten about that anime! I used to love it when I was a little girl. It sure brings back loads of memory. And I can't believe I still remmeber the characters' names and recognise the song! (And I think I still remember the lyrics, thought it's in Chinese! lol!)

Darker Than BLACK

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:26:58 GMT

Another anime that I picked up - Darker Than BLACK.
After only watching just 4 episodes, the story is still quite confusing to me. But so far it doesn't seem too silly, so I guess it's watchable~
Right at the beginning, it was quite horrid. Actually, donno if that's the right word to describe it. It was bit horrible and a bit grotesque... It's like in the movie Saw, kinda way~

As your man was breaking off his own fingers... And as if it still wasn't enough, the guy in the mask there was punching him and hitting him. That just looked so sore...!
But as the story goes further, it wasnt so bad. It really catches your attention though at the start. lol

A mysterious and chaotic area of space - Hell's Gate - appeared in Tokyo and altered the sky. The stars disappeared, and they were replaced by false stars which correspond to the people who possess various special abilities that emerged at that same time. However, the cost of gaining those abilities is the loss of human emotion and empathy. Kept secret from the knowledge of the masses, these individuals able to murder in cold blood are known as Contractors. The story revolves around a secret organization called The Syndicate. They are elite contractors that work as spies or agents trying to unlock the mysteries of Hell's Gate.
This group consist of four members: Hei (lit. Black), Yin (lit. Silver), Huang (lit. Yellow) and Mao (lit. Cat).

There are still quite a number of bloody scenes and fighting scenes further down the sereis. They story itself is not bad either. It kinda makes you wanna know what exactly is going on in this mad world... and what's that Hell's Gate all about!

P.S. One of the male character there->
Doesn't he look a lot like Mogi from Death Note?!?! And guess what his character's job is! A cop! coincidence...? hmm.... lol