lucathia

I actually finished watching a handful of anime. 8D

( Kamigami no Asobi, Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii, La Corda d Oro Blue Sky, Hitsugi no Chaika, Isshuukan Friends, Yowamushi Pedal )

( LSK V7C4 )

I'll be heading off to Anime Expo this Wednesday! Hope to see you there if you're going as well! I'll be cosplaying Tsukito from Kamigami no Asobi and Sugawara from Haikyuu!! (I'm still working on both cosplays, ahahaha) This means I probably won't be on LJ much until I return. No fic updates either until Sunday or later. (...man, I never did post about my AX 2013 experience... I'll have to do that sometime... a retrospective post haha...) I can be reached via Plurk or email while I'm away!

La Corda d'Oro
There's going to be a musical. |D With...Takahashi Yuuta as Tsuchiura and Shindo Gaku as Kanazawa-sensei to name a few familiar faces for me. I wonder what it'll be like...there's been plenty of concerts for the series and seiyuu events but never a musical. I don't think it's a very large scale one.

Also, the newest game for Corda will feature Hihara at age 25 as a graduate of the school. Hihara in the future. *___* (And finally, older than me.) This news makes me very happy.

Dissidia
Woot, finished 9 out of 10 paths in Destiny Odyssey. I played Cloud -> Cecil -> Terra -> Zidane -> Tidus -> Firion -> Squall -> Onion Knight -> Bartz. Now I'm with the Warrior of Light, who is pretty average. I didn't like using Cecil, but I'm very curious about the light versus dark part of his story. Makes me want to play FFIV. I hated using Zidane...I'm no good with him and his air attacks. =/ Tidus was all right. Firion's weapons were much love. It's cool to see him with so many weapons. Squall was fairly easy to use. Such an antisocial guy. Finally got to hear his "Gone talking to a wall" line. XDDD It's in his character description too! I liked using Onion Knight and finally found that I could purchase extra accessory slots when I was playing as him. I totally thought they were shared between characters, so I purchased a bunch...and then found it was per character. Ahahaha. So now my Onion Knight has a bunch of slots! He's also my highest level character so far (I think this is only because I kept going "What's this ? space? I must find out!! It was mostly enemies instead of treasure). Bartz is such a funny guy. I cracked up when he said something like, "Sweet Cosmos! It's a talking rock!" when he found a summonstone. It was pretty cool when he wielded Cloud and Squall's swords. :3

The characters sure have changed with each new game. The series started out with knights in armor, gallant characters, light against dark, etc. There was gradually less and less armor and more emo and antisocial feelings going around, haha.

Tenipuri
I bought PairPuri 2 and 3 today, and finally the Tenipuri 2010 calendar! I didn't see it in stock at my bookstore all through December. I had to buy the displayed one today since it was the last one. Still, it's in pretty good condition. ♥ So cute~. I thought I might have had to order it online.

Recent anime and manga I've been following:

La Corda d'Oro secondo passo special - Eee, I haven't thought about Corda much lately. This...only 2 episodes? I wanted to screencap a lot of scenes, but I was eating dinner while watching. :'D I can't get used to the summer uniforms and kept staring at Fuyuumi's to see how the music and normal department ones were different. First episode featured Kira a lot. He sure moves fast. ( Read more... )

One Outs episode 24 - Only one more episode until the end. ): The series can get a little repetitive, but I'll still miss it. I laughed a lot watching this episode. Usually, Toua's antics make me smirk or snort, but today I was laughing so hard. ( Read more... )

Bokurano 58-60 - Machiii. Ushiroooo. I think scanlations have mostly caught up with the Japanese releases? I only have raws up to ch.60. ( Read more... )

SHAMAN KING KANGZENG BANG - Okay, first, the Marco fight? Totally gives Marco the spotlight he deserves. Little Marco is cute and Lyserg in glasses is just lajdkl;fa;. And now, the "true" ending. It makes me rethink my old SK fanfics (oh how wrong I was with the Shaman King theory). And Horo Horo. ( Read more... )

Lately, I've also been rewatching and rereading parts of PoT to gather material for twistserve_tcg. I finally finished reading the series last week. I couldn't bring myself to read the last few chapters for the longest time. Part of it had to do with who had to sit out for the final match. X3;; And the other part was just feeling weird that the series actually ended (after following it for so long). All these cool new moves and new characters make me wish Konami would make a new Prince of Tennis tennis game like Form the Strongest Team. I absolutely love that game.

---In character meme---

Thanks to everyone who commented on the in character meme. <3 I know that disutansu commented as more than one person (I CAN TELL!! =P ). Now, anonymous people...want to fess up? XD; I'm reaaaally curious, especially with Niou and Yagyuu and their lovely chat that spanned quite a few comments. And the cutest Mihashi, though I'm pretty sure I know who you are. XDDD

---fanbook update---

Also, I updated with translations of Yunoki's portion from the La Corda Memorial Book over at fanbook. Rich text gives me a headache. Good thing I post at ungodly hours. Hopefully I haven't screwed up anyone's f-list with my non-functioning lj-cuts. This was meant to be for his bday, but I'm what, two months late? ^^;;

---trading card stuff---

I'm spending way too much time on anime_lj_tcg and yet I still don't have a lot of cards. And I haven't even mastered a deck yet!! I'm sort of getting there? =X I need 8 more cards to finish my DNA (Niwa Daisuke) deck. I think I'm starting on the Pride deck next (Ishida from Bleach!) since I have a lot of those already, though I kind of want to collect TheEND (Anemone's deck~) and otaku (Konata's deck~) too.

I wish there were more characters I liked though. Some Corda ones or Tenipuri ones would be awesome.

Revamped my userinfo a few days back to make it look neater...though it's not any shorter! I also updated the list of challenges I'm participating on in LJ. Good to know all my deadlines and such.

Lately, I've been transcribing and translating a few La Corda d'Oro songs for icerydragon's fansite, Crescendo. I saved all of the ones I've posted to la_corda_doroin my memories. :) So yeah, that's why I'm a bit...inactive with updating my actual journals. ^^;; That, and evil midterms too. But anyway...transcribing songs really makes me pay attention to these songs so much more. I usually just listen to songs and hear the words slurred. For songs in any language whatsoever. *doesn't have a good ear for lyrics*

I was going to submit them to animelyrics.tv too, but after I passed their proficiency tests, the site went down. Now that it's back up again, my accounts gone. Meh, I don't feel like doing the tests again. At least not right now.  I should have saved my answers.

Oh, and before I forget. Pimping fanbookto all of you on my flist. It's a community dedicated to translating fanbooks! I haven't really done anything with the community yet though. Too lazy too actually promote it or get it underway. A main icon would be nice. Layout too. -_-;;

edit: Oh yeah. I still only have 35 icons used out of 102. I seriously need to correct that. X3; (What, and only 12 are fishbones/kitty related? Blasphemy!!

I'm usually pretty bad at recognizing seiyuu, but it's sooo fun when I do recognize someone's voice.

I was just watching Busou Renkin today...it's been a while since I last watched an episode. In the episode that I was watching, Hayasaki Shuusui was narrating quite a bit and I immediately thought, "Hey, his voice sounds like Tsukimori Len's from La Corda d'Oro." So I checked animenewsnetwork, and yup, it's the same seiyuu. :D

I didn't notice it before...since, well, I didn't start watching La Corda d'Oro until after I started Busou Renkin. I've never heard any memorable roles from Kishou Taniyama until La Corda. Tsukimori's voice is just that memorable, especially with how he says "Ore ni wa kankei nai."

Busou Renkin and La Corda d'Oro are still my favorite two series from this season. They're the only two anime that I've been following faithfully. I've sort of lost interest in the rest...like Death Note and D.Gray-man. I haven't checked out a lot of other anime yet though...

The opening for Busou Renkin is much love. I always watch it without skipping it whenever I watch an episode. It's so upbeat and the images fit the music really well. Even though I already read most of the manga, I still found myself tearing up a bit at a few scenes. I'm really liking the anime so far because it's really well animated. Shuusui and Ouka's introductions were a bit sudden, in my opinion, but it still worked. So yeah, the anime's a bit fast-paced, but I guess that contributes to the action. Since this is a 26 episode anime and the manga already ended, I'm pretty sure that the anime will follow the manga closely towards the end. (Yay!!)

As for La Corda d'Oro, I watched the first episode one day when I was writing my essay...and instantly fell in love. Right after, I bought the PSP version of the game and I've started reading the manga too. So far, I'm on volume 2. :D I really love all the characters, especially Hihara. But really, all the guys are just so lovable.