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nothing much to say, although i am very proud of the fact that i am reading chinese mangas with the usage of a old old dictionary. my sister called me psycho and obsessive, but i call that mind-numbing dedication. sometimes i still don't get the phrases that they use, but i am able to understand the gist of it, so i don't have to go all the way to borders or wait a long time before they are released by an american company.
right now i am reading Hikaru no Go, and it's actually a lot of fun unless i just can't find the word i'm looking for. in which case i go beserk.

tactics

since i absolutely can't find anywhere to gripe about the anime i just finished, i'll just do it here. the uninterested should just go somewhere else. i just finished Tactics and while it was certainly lacking in a cohesive plot that spanned the whole 25 episodes that it took up, it was a nice thing to watch. they used 12 episodes to do nothing whatsoever, except show the deepening bond between kantarou and haruka (which i might add, they did rather clumsily. but what the hey, they're hot.)

finally, when they present some form of plot, their antagonists are rather slip-shoddily put together. in the end, they stay rather shallow and pointless. i mean, there were characters who were never mentioned again or even used. what's up with that? AND the ending left it very open ended, like there was going to be a second season. but there has been no sign of it anywhere. it's only been a year and a half, but...since there's been no gossip, i guess there's nothing on the way...

i think haruka's angst and pain was crammed into the last five episodes like crazy and then a solution to his doubts were suddenly shoved into place. a very shallow and superficial band-aid, that seemed to require no contemplation. maybe it was so subtle that i missed it...

I was hoping that the manga might be better, but the rumors have said that the manga is worse than the anime. *whimper* crap. oh well ^_^ii

right now i'm wondering if i should burn the series...or if it'll just be a waste of space and time? but the problem is that i've grow very attached to the characters and i don't think i can quite part with them just yet. ichinomiya kantarou was a particularly interesting character because he was drawn like a typical character that would be the "sissy," but his personality is wonderfully colorful and i loooooove him so much. he's not the usual airheaded, oblivious, carefree protagonist that you'd expect. he's smart, observant, tactful, childish, and a money-grubbing bastard. there are moments where he's just too cool. he was so different just by the fact that he was so powerful and able to wield that power so expertly.

nuts

you know what's been driving me nuts for the past two hours? the fact that one of my favorite mangakas has two names which she seems to use almost randomly. Zaou Taishi and Tsuda Mikiyo are the same person--or at least that's what i've worked out from the various bits and pieces from the internet. and i was thinking that maybe it was because one name writes yuri and the other writes yaoi...but that's not really the case either, i don't think. Zaou Taishi is definitely yaoi and i saw references that Tsuda was yuri, but that's not the case either. the only yuri-esque thing i could find was a boy pretending to be a girl being hit on by other guys, but having the ability to have a lesbian(?!) relationship with a girl..... ye-ah...right...
AND another name which is connected on the website and they have also collaborated on works is Eiki Eiki. what is their relationship? curiouser and curiouser...

bwahahah!

i just read something that surprised the heck out of me: in taipei they are opening a pokemon themed amusement park.....i never ever thought that pokemon was popular enough to warrant its own theme park, but apparently someone thought it was promising enough to go and finance. you can read about it in the anime link i have. it's not even a museum, which would have been respectable (like the studio ghibli museum in Japan), it features rides or something. shocking.

"hey kids! let's go ride pikachu!"

I was reading the works list of one of the seiyuus in anime "tactics" and i remember some writer said that the only memorable thing he was in was some obscure(read: bad) anime. AND the worst part is that he has a looooooong list of anime works that he was in. And the worst worst part is that he was only a minor character in almost all of them. ^_^ it's almost enough to make you cry.

another thing that scared the living shit out of me was the works list of another seiyuu. Motoko Kumai is the seiyuu for Li Syaoran in CardcaptorSakura. That voice is lower, raspy boy voice that's so popular. AND THEN she's the voice of Sumomo in Chobits.....Sumomo's the high pitched hyper active crazy doll...the difference in sound is breathtaking... it's shocking the transformations that the actors go through to fit the character that they are suppose to be ....

urrgh...

waauugghh.... i just read up on the things that i need in order to go to grad school at sjsu. i need:
1) bacholar's degree in something
2)to apply
3)a GRE score of 1000+ (550+ in verbal and 3.5+ in analytical, out of a score of 800 and 6 respectively)

and believe it or not, i'm incredibly nervous. i didn't worry so much about my SAT's or AP's, but because it's been such a long time since i took a standarized test (read: math). i'm not so worried about the english or the essay, but i'm terrified that my math score will drag everything down... ^_^ii but honestly i'm a little nervous about my english, but i think it'll go okai...i hope. *hyperventilates* i guess i'm gonna borrow those GRE books from the library to get a better understanding of what i'm gonna be dealing with... or bother rosa, she probably has a better idea...

haha, i remember for the academic decathlon, my math score was....i think, 300 or lower out of 800. it might have even been in the 100's, but i don't really remember. but then, there was a ridiculous amount of calculus. the funny part was, that in my senior year, my math score wasn't the lowest out of the whole team.

i'm currently writing a fan fic for PoT involving a hot day and a unique use of ice. and it's gonna be extremely explicit...haha...i was thinking about it during work and it was very very distacting to think about it.... i've realized how extremely perverted i can be, one example is when i was shelfreading. i had my hands up against the shelves at arms length and my legs at shoulder width--almost like a "against the wall and spread them" kind of stance and i just thought "how interesting it would be to be groped in this position without making a noise and alerting the surrounding patrons." sent chills down my spine. dirty dirty amy.

the last temptation

i just read "the last temptation" by neil gaiman and i found it incredibly shallow for a gaiman comic. horribly short and superficial. i kept waiting for things to fall into that fuzzy, gray area sort of morality that he likes to lead his readers, but it ended simply and stupidly. for a book about "temptation" the protagonist didn't seem to really be tempted by the magician at all. it didn't make me think or comtemplate the bigger picture in the meaning of life. if you wanna read something that's absolutely beautiful and horrible at the same time--read "murder mysteries", also by gaiman. i was horrified at the ending of that book, but i've read it two or three times over. the story just keeps calling me back.
i played badminton today and tennis yesterday, and now i feel that....badminton's for sissies.... i played badmition for one hour and that didn't get me as tired as one hour of tennis. all i did was sweat a lot because the gym was damn hot. but it's really a lot of fun because it's easier to keep a volley going because of the way the birdie is light and easier to control.

quincy archer hates you

somehow, ishida just seems so much sexier in the manga....much much much sexier...at least in book 3 he does.... or maybe it's because i keep imagining him with a huge wang? doh! bad amy! down girl!

i still can't find a male protagonist for my manga....dammit! i have his attitude down more than i have his appearance....oh well... ^_^ i'm glad i'm not too serious about this.... but i think the story will go along the lines of a love story between a living girl and a ghost boy? and because of my lack of stamina it'll probably be only an oneshot... but i'll have finally made something with my talents(apparent lack of).

also i really wanna draw something perverted involving me, michael, some rope, and his cell phone. i mean he won't let me do it, so i'll just live it vicariously through my drawings.... sigh....hehheh...some time ago i read an article that a mangaka wrote about her process of drawing something that's sexually explicit...it was hilarious... you should read it, i'll lend it to you...