Just copying vespabee lol.

( I'M CUTTING BACK )

At least I'm trying to cut back... -_-;

EDIT: I forgot Saki! xDD

Is anyone interested in buying stuff from Zipia.net? It's a Korean clothing wholesale store. The minimum order is $300 and I'm at about $190 right now. I would horrify myself if I ever did buy $300 of clothes at once so please take a look and let me know if there's something you want. I'll even foot the shipping so you only have to pay me back for the clothes. :o

Check it out

You do have to make an account to look at the prices, but it's totally worth it. :D I think their prices are pretty decent.

I'd prefer if I could possibly give you the clothes at a con or locally somehow. If anyone is going to ALA, Fanime, Anime Expo, or somewhat near Los Angeles, then that will work.

[EDIT] Ordered! Thanks to people who replied. :))

(btw most of these link to the ANN page)

Saw and liked

Kimi ni Todoke: I'm really glad that Production I.G. picked this up! A little surprised, but very glad. :) I read the manga and I think that the pacing is very good. They might have left out one or two things but they weren't too important anyway. It's about a girl named Kuronuma Sawako ("sawa" as in "sawayaka" or refreshing) but everyone in class calls her Sadako (from "Ring") because she's really creepy and scary lol. Sawako admires a guy named Kazehaya in her class who is like super sawayaka and he obviously likes her and helps her open her heart. :) Although I really liked the manga at first, I got a little annoyed because the main problem was always that Sawako just couldn't communicate the simplest things... but whatever it's shoujo. xD I'm really happy with the animation and everything! It looks really clean and well-drawn. :)

The Sacred Blacksmith: Kinda cool! The animation reminds me of K-on (again lol) but it's very nice. The main girl is SO MUCH FAIL but I see some Bakumatsu syndrome* in myself where I like the male main character so much that I follow the series NO MATTER WHAT. But I do like the concept of the magicky hocus pocus blacksmithing. xD The main premise is that the main girl is a knight but she breaks her swords within five minutes of the first episode and goes to find a special blacksmith to make her an unbreakable sword, although she broke her FAMILY HEIRLOOM mainly due to her own incompetence. But it's still pretty decent so far.

Nyankoi!: The English translation of the title, "Mewwuv!", is somewhat accurate but sounds so retarded. -_- But this is about a kid who hates cats because he is allergic but then knocks over a cat god statue and must now save 100 cats... or else he'll become one. Love comedy isn't really my category but this is just crack-filled enough that I like it! The girl that the kid likes also happens to really like cats haha. The romance part so far seems really cute too. :)

Saw and may or may not follow

Armed Librarians: The Book of Bantorra: Wow the ANN entry makes this show look so good... It's not terrible but it's kind of uninspired and reminds me of Innocent Venus in tone and quality. The fighting looks kinda cool and the concept is kinda interesting but the dialogue is tired. At least it's not another Toshokan Sensou lolollll but the fact that the main character has green hair AND green eyes kind of irritates me. I suppose I'll give it one more episode.

Kobato: Dear CLAMP, please stop making shit so that when I say I like your series, people don't think I'm a complete idiot. -_- This show is so boring and annoying (as was the manga).......... but I think I'll follow it. CLAMP series anime tends to be better than the manga so we'll see. Kobato is so retarded though... I don't know...

Still following/currently watching

Hanasakeru Seishounen: I like thisssss but I need to catch up. >.>

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: As a child, I actually really liked natural disaster stories. :) I like the sense of realism in all the relationships; it's kinda cool. And this is also the first BONES series I've really liked since Ouran High School Host Club... >.>

Kemono no Souja Erin: I'm patiently waiting for Erin to become old enough to get with Iaru. :|

Cross Game, Suzumiya Haruhi S2, Valkyria Chronicles, Bakemonogatari: I saw only a few episodes of these but I intend to finish them.


*Bakumatsu syndrome: I watched Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto purely based on the fact that I liked the male main character Akizuki. I mean, seriously, that show was SO BORING.



I've also been going back into Kpop obssession... DBSK really grew up since I was in high school. Jaejoong is REALLY REALLY sexy now. O_O

So I decided on a whim to get a haircut today... very, very much inspired by Maaya Sakamoto's look in her PV for "雨が降る" ("Ame ga furu" or "Falling rain").


Yep, that's the image in my icon. :)



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Also, this is the second time I've wanted to cut my hair because of Maaya; the first time I cut my hair super boyishly short was also because of a look that Maaya had a while ago. Not that I fancy myself looking like her or anything, but the cuts she chooses seem to have a refreshing feel to them.

Man... this three-day weekend went by wayyyyy too fast. :(

Just wanted to update a bit... I'm not a big fan of talking about personal stuff online but then I feel my presence on Livejournal fading and some people only know about me through the Internet so yeah.

I do like my writing professor this semester. He's eccentric! And old, which is awesome. I'm also pretty into my Chinese lit class now although it was pretty boring at first. There's some hilarious stories in classic literature. For example, there was a duke who thought he was very handsome and went around asking people if they thought he was more handsome than another rather good-looking duke LOL. xD

I was at yvechan's birthday party last night at Medieval Times!! It was freaking amazing. From the terrible acting of the princess and the cheesy "emotional" music to the SUPER LOYAL Blue knight and the Black and white knight who was really good at horseback riding, it was very entertaining. xD miao_ji liked Red and yellow knight but I definitely thought Black and white knight was the coolest. However, we were in the blue cheering section so we cheered for the Blue knight and he was definitely the best fighter! I'd gone to Medieval Times before in middle school, but I never remembered the fights being so cool. They really look like they're fighting! Except for maybe at the end... where one knight just sort of loses on purpose to move on to the next match haha. Also, the last time I'd gone, I remember the Green knight being really hot haha... but this time he was probably one of the ugliest.

And afterwards, we went to Dave & Busters where gintaku and I blew half of our credits beating Jurassic Park hahaha. xDDD SO FUN!! And then I played some House of the Dead II and III. Man, I'll never be able to get past the first boss in House of the Dead II. :( And then we played some pool. It was a first time for me and Hye and it was decently fun I suppose...

Also, I'm buying comfortable shoes from Footlocker for the first time since uh... middle school? xD I really need walking shoes this year since I live so far from campus. Since I was a little girl, I always really wanted Kswiss shoes for some reason so I'm getting some of those~

So anyway, NOW YOU KNOW MY LIFE.

Summer's over... I did a lot but still didn't do a lot of other things. The second summer in a row I haven't gone to the beach! D:

But anyway, I finished a Kekkaishi fanart to sorta commemorate.

( Cheating at goldfish scooping... )

By the way... I liked the Endless Eight in Haruhi. xD

So my last two summers have been pure sewing for cosplay until the conventions are over and then...? Frankly, I can't remember what I do after that before school starts. xD But this summer I'm determined to do something! So I got myself two domains and tried to make myself an online portfolio and a site collective for art sites/fansites/shrines/whatever that I've ALWAYS WANTED TO MAKE.

So absolutely nothing's really up yet, but check them out if you're interested:

Online portfolio - Art and Alice

Site collective - Nihonbare.net

Also Shinkenger 22. Hilariously bad acting!

I mean, I'm not trying to bag on grandma meido but her "fainting" was NOT CONVINCING AT ALL.


And Genta was awesome lol. I love that he describes Kotoha as 日本一 when she's announced as the bocchama's (fake) fiancee. xD

( And cosplay meme )

WHY YES, I am a huge Scooby Doo fag but this looks PRECIOUS. &hearts &hearts

Btw, I saw Orphan the other night. Pretty good movie! :D It was kind of funny because it had Peter Sarsgaard as the father, who was the villain in two other suspense movies (Flightplan and Skeleton Key) that I'd seen so I was keeping my eye on him!

I retardedly brought my camera without an SD card so none of these pictures were mine... I hope the way I credited people made sense? If there's not credit for a certain group of pics then I took it using wabisuke's camera.

( Here we go (kinda image-heavy) )

Man, I've never been to two cons (AX, then Otakon) so close together before but it was awesome! I went to the East Coast with my mom and brother first a week before since I'd never been and although it was fun, I was perpetually carsick because we traveled everywhere by bus. Not fun. :(

The day before going to Otakon I was actually ready to go home since I was so nauseous all the time but once I got to Otakon and didn't drive everywhere, it was amazing! It's very chill compared to AX, athough that's probably just 'cause I didn't do Artist Alley. But there was still a lot of cool panels and interesting things to do. I didn't really see hakuku whoops but I did meet a lot of new people including kamuishirou1999 and Shougo from Texas and James, the drummer who played for Tamura Naomi's concert(!!!!) randomly on the plane ride home.

I really didn't do much cosplay-wise. I wore only two costumes: Zange from Kannagi and Rimi from Chaos;head. I made Haku, brought it, and planned to wear it but I had a bad allergic reaction on my legs to some plant the night before Otakon and they looked terrible and splotchy so I stuck with costumes that included knee socks. I was sad 'cause there was a No Face running around and another Haku and Chihiro. DDD:

The karaoke room is really different at Otakon. There are no contests or anything and it's open microphone throughout the con. I sang four times although I only did well twice haha. xDD I was picking songs that Joysounds didn't have and so I hadn't practiced them very much before. sklathill and I did "遠いこの街で (Tooi kono machi de)" piano version and that was probably the best I sang.

The Tamura Naomi concert was definitely the highlight of the con. She is such a great performer and singer! I got a front-row seat with Rob from my hotel room (Joe, Vince, and Tony had to rush for a flight so they sat towards the back :/) and we were so hyper throughout the whole concert. xD There was a guy next to me, though, who seemed to have planned out most of the songs and was doing some really crazy things with his glowsticks and made me feel like a noob haha. When Tamura got to the third song, it was a slow one that I'd never heard before... and I started crying. I didn't even know why but it just made me feel so happy that I could hear her sing live. Apparently because I was so emotional, I was being filmed a lot haha! xD

So all in all, very fun and I will put up pictures soon... from AX too, now that I think about it. Whoops. :p

Rimi from Chaos;Head.

( Trippy )

All photos by sklathill

So generally the same experience as most. Fun cosplay times, fun friend times, and fun Artist Alley times! Although I have fallen into the pattern of not sleeping enough but it's all right!

It was kind of funny but I've never been hit on more at a con! Lol and I'm not really scared anymore... just kindly tell them to gtfaway.

Tabling with gintaku and wabisuke was so fun! I hate that I have learned so much Hetalia crap from selling it BOOO. >:( And gintaku was such a natural cosplayer omgggg. So cute! &hearts I made either just as much or less than Fanime which surprised me and made me a bit sad but I'm getting there! I've found that people aren't too interested in medium-size prints so I'll have to cut back on those. And also no one recognized my Terra E prints which makes me a bit sad. :( (But NO I will never sell Hetalia merchandise! xD)

So this con I was Neiro from Kaiba, Sai from Naruto, Rimi from Chaos;Head, Meiling (sleeping beauty version) from Card Captor Sakura, and Kallen (school uniform) from Code Geass. I think I probably got the most pictures as Kallen but I'm so surprised at the people who recognized my Meiling cosplay! It's really pretty obscure... unless you're a geek for Card Captor Sakura I guess. xD Rimi was pretty popular considering that I only wore her for a little bit but it was likely just because of the amazing weapons that admyr_777 made for me and yoshikochan. Sai was moderately popular but I wish I could have gotten a picture with a Naruto and Sakura at some point. Neiro was super fun to wear although my hair started falling apart at the end and I had to take it off every 2 hours because it hurt my head so much. And as Neiro, I met KEL MITCHELL FROM KENAN & KEL!!! Omg it was so random haha but he started talking to me because I was wearing orange (you'd understand if you watched the show :D) and then I dragged Valerie over and she was wearing an orange wig so we were both able to get pictures with him. xDDD

... although I still have basically an entire costume to make HAHA. Oh well it should be fine. As I don't like to post progress pics, have a Rimi hair bow test:

I should wear my hair like this everyday lol. It actually does stay up on its own without wire or anything. I learned the secret to resilient bows from making Tsukasa! :D

So Yuki is pretty much done, Chaos;head is done (I'm excited btw 'cause the skirt is really cute!!), Sai needs props, and Neiro and Warp are nearly there. Just need to start Meiling. :x Although I found her staff today at Party City. It is a pimp staff. 'Nuff said. xD

K back to work.

Banner by yoshikochan

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So like most people doing the group are either rooming with me or will be seeing me most of the weekend but when do you guys want to wear it? I was thinking that it won't be hall cosplay and it'll just be for a photoshoot. Although if we want to do hall cosplay together it may be something like Saturday morning (before the Fruits Basket shoot). Thoughts?

Happy birthday to miao_ji!!

For you~


( Here's also some Dekaranger picspam :p )

Awww Taylor Swift and her new single~

Once again, she (or rather her music video director) has crafted a sugary sweet portrayal of the unrealistic dreams and childish insights of many high school girls across America with more cliches than you can shake a stick at and yet I STILL LIKE IT &hearts &hearts &hearts
BTW, have these kids never heard of AIM?

Also, in watching this video, I was referred to the music video for Miley Cyrus' "Climb" (which was terrible) featuring scenes from her movie, that I know want to watch badly because of
THIS KID GRAHH SO CUTE
And surprise! He was the same guy as Taylor Swift's love interest in the above-posted video. As you all know I'm sure, Taylor and Miley are good friends so this is kind of interesting... Apparently, he and Miley dated during the filming of the movie but he's stated to the press that he has a "crush on Taylor". ;)))

( Mild spoilers for Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex S2 )

All taken by sklathill. See more here.

( In which I pass myself off as 10-12 years of age )

( NOT A SHOW FOR KIDS, I TELL YOU )

Fanime pic-heavy post coming up tomorrow most likely!