Yu Wo's Holiday Fic Poll
Yu Wo's Poll for the short stories she'll write for the holidays! She gathered a few prompts from the readers and came up with these options.

translation of the entry )

Legend of Sun Knight x No Hero fic rec
After I voted, I caught up with a Chinese fic for a crossover between the Legend of Sun Knight and No Hero called Bonds. It's super fun. XD;; I mean, look, it's a crossover between LSK and NH!! Lots of tropes at play here too that make me ridiculously happy. XD

spoilers for the fic )

LSK x Reborn Fusion fic musings
While going over the different flames for Reborn, I thought about how cool it would be to toss Legend of Sun Knight characters into Reborn's canon. XD;; Except I can't quite make everything match, hmmm.

musings for an LSK x Reborn fusion fic )
Recently, Yu Wo announced that No Hero will yet again have an extra volume. It was supposed to end at 7 volumes, but when she wrote volume 7, she was unable to conclude everything in one volume. The same thing happened yet again for volume 8, hahaha, so No Hero will now be 9 volumes long! Each volume features one character on the cover, and the beginning of each chapter has snippets from that character's POV. For the next volume, the character that will be featured was announced to be Daren/Dark Sun's older brother. Well, at least I think he'll be on volume 8's cover. Either that, or he'll be on volume 9's cover. I can see how the word count has once again exploded... After all, a pretty important character popped up in volume 7 for the first time. ^^;; I did think volume 7 was a little messier in its execution, so I'm hoping v8 and v9 will turn out well even though they were both unplanned. XD Hoping for a great ending!

Speaking of endings, the manga for Katekyo Hitman Reborn has ended. Wow.

ending thoughts )
Livejournal, why do your cuts look so weird now? D: This makes me not want to use LJ-cuts anymore. Anyway, testing delayed/scheduled posting (this is a feature I like)... so people won't know how late I stayed up. *coughs* I was in the middle of finally commenting on people's posts when my keyboard suddenly stopped working (what's wrong??) so the posts are once again going into my saved tabs!

5 Character Meme Redux

1. Leave a comment to this post, specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.

I received the letter D from [personal profile] darkicedragon. First person I thought of? Darkicedragon! :DDDD But I guess you're not a character. =P

5 character meme )

I got tagged by [livejournal.com profile] absolutehymn007 for this ology meme. Have some Lucathiaology! That is way too long a name...

THE RULES: Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to wipe out my answers and supply your own. After, choose at least 10 people to be tagged. If you were tagged, it's because I want to know more about you.

(I'm not tagging anyone... whoever wants to do it... =P)

Let others know a little more about yourself! Re-post this as your name followed by "ology".

Lucathiaology )

Yu Wo posted part 3 of No Hero v7! More of Daren and his butler~. :D She has also plurked a hilarious story about Judgment. She owed one of her writer friends 2 stories, so she's been working on that. One is a BL story. She posted it locked in her blog, but the password is in the entry itself. XD; I don't think I actually know the characters. The second fic she owed was "Judgment doing it himself" which a lot of people read as "Judgment doing himself..." OTL. Stop it with the dirty minds!! |D;;; In the end, Yu Wo decided to write "a day in the life of Judgment", so we get to follow Judgment for a full day. :D She challenged herself to writing the story in real time through plurks, so I was watching gleefully as each plurk went up. The story has been awwwwweeeesome so far because we get to stalk Judgment! I can't wait until she completes it (she stopped at one point and went to sleep and said that she'd finish up the rest and post it to her blog). The story takes place after volume 8's conclusion. Three years, to be exact! So it'll be quite a while before we ever see this translated. ^^;; I'm really loving this revisiting of the LSK characters. I really hope she'll write more of the LSK verse.

Also, new No Hero merchandise will be sold between 4/20 and 4/29 (preorder).
[community profile] eastasianfandomgiftbag is a low-key wishlist-based fanworks exchange for East Asian fandoms of all types (anime, manga/manhua/manhwa, dramas, music, games, etc.).

My wish list is here. I'm mostly looking for people to squeal over these fandoms, and also for recs and for new fanwork~. Post your wish lists up too if you're into East Asian fandoms! :D

And now for some random manga talk. My reactions to this week's Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Hunter x Hunter, and Bakuman!

random manga talk )

Back from AX!

Jul. 6th, 2011 09:00 pm
lucathia: (fishbones: pink)
Another "back from AX" post. If you follow me elsewhere, apologies for the repetitive post. XD;

I felt like AX was over in a flash! I was so pushed for time right before the con, and then when the con actually started, it was over just like that. :'D Maybe it's because I didn't do much at this con... usually I at least go to a few gatherings to take pics or to get pics taken of, but this time I didn't go to any. I'm kind of sad I missed the World God Only Knows gathering, because I'd have liked to see a bunch of Keimas all playing their PSP! XD; They must've had some epic poses!

Will be typing up a huuuuuuge con report after this! With pics!

While I was away, my proof copy of my NaNoWriMo novel arrived!! So fast! I ordered it on the 29th, I think? I got it on the 1st in less than 2 days??? (this was one of the things that made me go, omg, I don't have enough time!! yet they managed to send the finished copy to me so quickly, haha) My parents called me while I was at the con telling me that my book arrived. I was like, "eeee, I want to see it!"

So yes. Here's the book now that I have it in my hands!

super duper bad photo with terrible lighting, ew, but here it is! A few more photos under the LJ-cut!

Read more... )

Been catching up with some manga today, like KHR, Bakuman, Skip Beat, and Noblesse. I have a lot more to catch up with! *__* Oh, I also received my assignment for [livejournal.com profile] parallelsfic. I so need to get a headstart on this. I matched one fandom, but I think the others are doable too! Just need to do some review and consume some new series that I've been meaning to get into anyway. XD; Wonder if I should still write a letter to my writer even though assignments have already gone out... X3;;

I also have a ton of comments, messages, and emails to get through, so if I haven't gotten to you yet... I'm getting there! XD; If you're afraid I might've overlooked something though, feel free to make a new comment or something! XD

Rebocon

Feb. 22nd, 2011 10:29 pm
lucathia: (fishbones: red)
I've been watching bits and parts of Rebocon. First was Rebocon in Taiwan, then bits and pieces of Rebocon Red and Rebocon Blue, and then Rebocon 2010 in Tokyo. I wish I could find earlier Rebocon shows too. :3

Rebocon Red: KENN <333333 Cannot wait to see the full length of this show. I want to see more of KENN. XD;
Rebocon Blue: Ah! Kato Kazuki!! Mmm, I really like his rendition of Mukuro's song. He makes it sound a bit cooler. XD (I always thought this song was too upbeat for Mukuro...)

Rebocon in Taiwan wasn't as fun to watch as the others (it felt like a more simplified show), but the last song they sang amused me greatly. XD They all tried singing in Mandarin! I thought Kiuchi Hidenobu's pronunciation was pretty good. The non-present singers with their pre-recorded parts all had better pronunciation. XD; If not for the subtitles, I don't think I would be able to understand what they were singing. XD This was a lot of fun to listen to though~
Read more... )

Kiuchi Hidenobu seems to be in charge a lot for these shows. (I thought Tsuna's seiyuu would speak more as the main character, but she doesn't speak that much?). Also, this was the first time I've seen Gokudera's seiyuu Ichinose Hidekazu, but eeeee, he looks so cool! I love his hairstyle! I always found Lambo's voice kind of annoying, but seeing Takeuchi Junko perform is just, wow~.
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So, the Dino deck and [livejournal.com profile] megchan87's comment about Dino's character song has gotten me into a KENN kick because it's such a beautiful song! Gods, I love his voice. Here, karaoke version of Be More. :D I've only read the manga and haven't watched the anime at all. Perhaps I should to hear him speak. Anyone know which episodes Dino appears in? Ah, but he was voiced by Ken Ken first...Ken Ken sounds cute too as Dino. :3

Somehow this led me to revisiting More Than Limit to watch him sing Yuuta's famous song. ♥ I was watching this video that put together all the parts in Tenimyu that KENN was in, but now I'm rewatching all of More Than Limit, haha.

I think I need to watch Air Gear sometime since he's in that too. 8D And the Air Gear musicals look so fun. Yugioh GX is another one I'm thinking of watching...but I have no idea where to start (he voices Judai). Is Yugioh GX a continuation of Yugioh? I've only watched 10 episodes of that. ): KENN's song for Vitamin Z sounds so pretty too, but I have no idea what the scenario of that game is. I read that Vitamin X for the DS is about a high school teacher taking care of a horrible class of kids (and falling in love with one of them). Haha, not a game I can play. But is Vitamin Z the same and are the characters the same between Vitamin Z and Vitamin X? Hm...
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When people state what the pairing is in Reborn, I always mistake it for the word count. >_>

Guess who's heeeeere in Reborn 231. XD; Read more... )

Also, Bakuman 27?? :DDD )

Does anyone read Morinagawa Ai's works? I never finished Boku to Kanojo no xxx, but I remember that it was quite a crazy manga. I started reading Gokuraku Seishun Hockey Club by her, which is about a girl who loves sleeping and eating over everything else (she studied extra hard to get into the high school closest to where she lives so that she can sleep an extra few minutes). She suddenly gets forced to join the boy's hockey club and ends up being surrounded by five boys--the leader, the two siblings/twins, the megane who disproves of her, and the feminine looking bishounen. This reverse harem situation is pretty similar to Ouran High School Host Club where the poor girl is surrounded by all these rich bishounen in a club. I still find it pretty amusing though, since these guys are just so hopeless and don't know how to do anything. This mangaka always has the craziest scenarios.

When I reached the latest scanlations of that, I went off to find her other works and came across Yamada Tarou Monogatari. Has anyone watched the drama version? How is it? I read up to volume 7 and found it amusing how both girls and guys like Yamada so much. I can see why since he appears to know how to do everything and is just so nice and enthusiastic (especially when you give him food). I don't see how people haven't found out that he's crazy about money though (and dirt poor)! His siblings are quite cute. I was snickering a lot during the chapter where they tried to trick people to give them lottery tickets (with their cuteness).
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