Hurrah, I'm back from Wales. Two weeks in a bed that was two small in a tiny room with my sister in a caravan that creaks next to other caravan which, when people run up and down in them, also creak and thud and it sounds like they are running up and down in your caravan.
Ahem. So.
I bought lots of new books (as always) but not as many as when I went on the boating holiday and had an entire holdall to bring them back with me. No, I just got two more of the dark tower books (new edition) some fantasy, Dracula, Night of the Triffids, The Historian (which I've been wanting to read for ages) some more Stephen King and some others. Y'know, the usual.
BUT HOLY INSERT DEITY HERE WE WENT TO HAY ON WYE! The sign as you enter proudly tells you that it is the 'town of books'. Thirty bookshops in one town. HELL. YES. We didn't go to them all obviously - we were on our way home so we only stayed for the afternoon. I didn't buy that many books. But I did get a copy of The Raw Shark Texts (a book I read once and absoloutely loved but was too lazy to request from the library again.) I also got my dad to pay for books 4 to 12 of the Darren Shan Saga, so now I have all of those. I'd still love to have all of the new edition ones - they're so spiffy!
What else? Oh yeah, I started buying the collection of The Belgariad (in the old covers) and I got books three and five there (The only ones I needed) Four are in the same edition and only one book is in a different one but the colours still sorta match. In a different coloured but faded way. Yes, I like having sets of books in the same edition, okay? Sue me. The only other book I got there was one called The Accidental Sorceror by K E Mills. It sounded good so I got it. That is my criteria for picking books. Plus the little dedication/note/thing at the front was about Doctor Who so, y'know. I couldn't just leave it.
If I could have I would have gotten so much more but I didn't really want a gajillion books at my feet for two or three hours. The boot was full, heheh.
The holiday was okay I guess. We watched too much Dave, seeing how we only had a few channels and most of it was soaps or news or porn. Yes, porn. I saw at least two channel names that had to be prons and there were two gay text chat things. Lovely.
Anyhow, my brother was the stroppiest child ever. I swear, he is so abusive to my mum all the time. I seriously hope its hormones cause otherwise he's going to get in a lot of trouble. The crazy thing is he goes from being sweet and lovely to being this horrible monster. Usually its because he's been told to turn the TV/Computer/DS off or because he's tired or hungry. But he's eleven. I mat not remember rightly but I don't recall actually trying to fight physically with my mum over something when I was eleven or trying to hit her or stuff. I dunno.
Moving on. We went to the beach LOADS. It was great. My mum bought me and my sister inflatable rings and my brother bought a bodyboard thing. The waves were amazing. What you do is you either jump the waves, which is fun, or you sit in your ring and go up and down which is amazing. Or you get in your ring and float and oh wow.....I never used to like the sea. I did go on my brothers bodyboard but I wasn't any good. Surprisingly my sister was the best and she managed to bodyboard from right out where we were back to shore loads of times.
The waves were rough on occasion though and getting smacking in the back of the head with a wave is not fun. It seriously felt like somebody hit me with a two by four. I so totally didn't keep falling out of my ring and drinking the sea. No way.
We built massive sandcastles but mainly kept digging deep holes for fun. Hurrah!
What else? It only really rained a lot in the second week so that was okay. We went to dan yr rogoff (sp?) caves which was great. It had a dinosaur park, I got a plastic T-rex and a cuddly velociraptor. No more needs to be said. We went to the Shire Horse farm that was a part of it and I now have about four minutes of footage of ducklings.
Where else did we go?
We went to Swansea and I got a new hoodie.
I didn't do much of my art homework.
I have some new ideas burning away, one of which isn't a fantasy, oh my goodness.
I keep saying crikey all the time. Explain that one.
I also have two new shirts and a plain black hoodie.
On the way home we had dinner in a Little Chef and when, at dessert, the man bought me my apple pie and hot chocolate he called it cardiac arrest in a cup, which I found hilarious.
I read about four books and all of my manga whilst I was there, which is a record for a holiday since I usually don't read much at all. I'm part way through Salems Lot now and it's pretty good. It's obvious who the vampire is but I don't know if I'm meant to spot it or not. I probably am.
Oh yeah, when we watched Dave they showed an old episode of Lewis and one of the suspects was that guy who plays Arthur in Merlin. I was like ....o.O.
Oh YEAH. My mum bought three boxes of Mikano (they were together, not seperate, otherwise we would have had one box). For those who don't know, Mikano is thin biscuit sticks covered in chocolate except for the bit at the end. They are delicious. me and my brother ate three boxes in about three days. Yum. Essentially it's Pocky but with a different name. I'm glad I like it. I get expectations about food that I've heard of and never tried. For example; Oreos. I had never eaten them but I kept reading about them in Max Ride fanfics (I am a dork. accept meeeeeeeeeeee). But when I tried them....eugh. Not my thing. My brother and sister love them though, so that's all good.
Moving on, what else happened. Don't remember. Oh yeah, we found a crab when we went rockpooling and caugh some shrimp. And my mum found a dead starfish and my sister bought it home for her art homework. It smells of dead fish. Not nice.
I decided to catch up on my webcomics today. Rita's comic hasn't updated at all. It took forever. Almost three hours I think. That's what you get for following a lot of daily webcomics and then not reading them for over a month.
See ya later.
Sam.
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Monday, 10 August 2009
Just like that feeling you get when you have a new idea
Konnichiwa~!
How are we all?
Good, good. Awesome.
Anyhow, I was planning to watch more Descendants of Darkness today but AnimeCrazy hates me and won't load the page for episode six. Grrr.
Anyhow, I was working some more on my Haruhi headband and it has failed. I think we're giving up with ribbon and just going to go and buy some material, even though it's kinda expensive.
Hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I go to Wales.
Blah, still have coursework to do. Still learning Japanese. I can count to four! Kinda.
ichi, ni, san, yon/shi...uhm....go!, roku, nana/shichi, hachi, kyuu/ku, juu...
I so totally wasn't looking at my notes for five and onwards. Not at all. heheh ;^-^
Ah well. At least I can say good morning two ways, good afternoon, good evening, and about three of four ways to say thank you. And I can introduce myself when I first meet someone:
Hajimemashite. Sam desu. Dozo yoroshiku.
Yay! I can pronounce stuff pretty well I think. So guys, when I come back to school, expect me to say thank you in Japanese. And to say either 'n' or 'hai' instead of yes. And to say ohayo gozaimasu! or ohayo! in the morning. Heheh. But the language is really fun to learn. The kanji are pretty hard to write but I kind of understand how you construct them and how you write sentences. The way the Japanese talk is really interesting.
I think if I can learn Japanese I might learn other languages as well. I mean, I used to be decent at French but then I stopped having lessons once year ten started so I forgot most of it. Maybe I'll learn an easier language next time, like Spanish or Italian. One that's more similar to English. In sentence structure as well as letters (Subject-verb-object is the order for English whereas Japanese is constructed as subject-object-verb)
Yay language! Learning can be fun, who'd have thought.
Also, my mother just now came in with an awesome looking gold headband! She fixed my mess-up on it! Yes! Admittedly there is some tape on the inside to hold parts down but it looks much neater than what I'd managed. All I have to do it attach the ribbons. The only way I can think of is to use double sided tape like I did for the rest of the headband. But my mother did say that if it looks good and I wear it loads then we'll buy material and make a better one.
Yay cosplay!
Though, I wish I'd managed to make it all myself instead of doing what I could, failing and giving up. I give up to easily with a lot of things :3
Ittekimasu!
(Essentially 'see you later/I'll be back/I'm going now' type phrase in Japanese)
How are we all?
Good, good. Awesome.
Anyhow, I was planning to watch more Descendants of Darkness today but AnimeCrazy hates me and won't load the page for episode six. Grrr.
Anyhow, I was working some more on my Haruhi headband and it has failed. I think we're giving up with ribbon and just going to go and buy some material, even though it's kinda expensive.
Hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I go to Wales.
Blah, still have coursework to do. Still learning Japanese. I can count to four! Kinda.
ichi, ni, san, yon/shi...uhm....go!, roku, nana/shichi, hachi, kyuu/ku, juu...
I so totally wasn't looking at my notes for five and onwards. Not at all. heheh ;^-^
Ah well. At least I can say good morning two ways, good afternoon, good evening, and about three of four ways to say thank you. And I can introduce myself when I first meet someone:
Hajimemashite. Sam desu. Dozo yoroshiku.
Yay! I can pronounce stuff pretty well I think. So guys, when I come back to school, expect me to say thank you in Japanese. And to say either 'n' or 'hai' instead of yes. And to say ohayo gozaimasu! or ohayo! in the morning. Heheh. But the language is really fun to learn. The kanji are pretty hard to write but I kind of understand how you construct them and how you write sentences. The way the Japanese talk is really interesting.
I think if I can learn Japanese I might learn other languages as well. I mean, I used to be decent at French but then I stopped having lessons once year ten started so I forgot most of it. Maybe I'll learn an easier language next time, like Spanish or Italian. One that's more similar to English. In sentence structure as well as letters (Subject-verb-object is the order for English whereas Japanese is constructed as subject-object-verb)
Yay language! Learning can be fun, who'd have thought.
Also, my mother just now came in with an awesome looking gold headband! She fixed my mess-up on it! Yes! Admittedly there is some tape on the inside to hold parts down but it looks much neater than what I'd managed. All I have to do it attach the ribbons. The only way I can think of is to use double sided tape like I did for the rest of the headband. But my mother did say that if it looks good and I wear it loads then we'll buy material and make a better one.
Yay cosplay!
Though, I wish I'd managed to make it all myself instead of doing what I could, failing and giving up. I give up to easily with a lot of things :3
Ittekimasu!
(Essentially 'see you later/I'll be back/I'm going now' type phrase in Japanese)
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Dubs vs Subs (feat. Vampires)
So, I started watching Descendants of Darkness. I watched a little in dub and a little in sub then watched the first three episodes in dub. I think that both of them are pretty good but in both there are voices that annoy me.
-sigh-
It's hard to decide whether to just watch all my anime in subs or to watch what I can in dub. Some dubs are really good - haruhi was good, lucky star, azumanga daioh....but then, like I said in my previous post, Nanoha was really bad. This is an issue because I want to watch anime and I like it in dub and sub. I can get used to the voices for each character pretty quickly. I guess that's the issue for most people. They watch in either dub or sub and then when they watch the other it sounds all wrong because you have the other version set in your mind. This makes it difficult. It wouldn't be a bad thing if I watched shows in both, but I don't have the time to.
The debate I'm having is whether I should just watch everything in subs from now on. I mean, I have to rewatch Haruhi in subs for certain because whoever uploaded the dubs to JustDubs messed up and there were duplicate episodes listed as different episodes and I never got to watch episode 00. I want to rewatch Lucky Star and Hell Girl as well, though, the dub for Hell Girl I thought was really good, especially Enma Ai's voice. The emotionless but slightly sad and almost whispered tone was perfect.
It's probably good for me to watch in subs as I am trying to learn the language and that might be something that would help.
Ah well, I'm going to watch Descendants of Darkness in a mix of dub and sub for a bit. I'll watch 3 eps in sub and then decide. Hisoka's voice is better in the dub, I think.
If I'm really honest, I'm only really watching it for the bishounen and the promise of boylove that was in the manga and is so hinted at in the anime so far. It's like the lesbian undertones in Nanoha, but with guys.
Heh, yeah I'm a little bit of a fangirl.
Speaking of which, even though I haven't watched Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, the teen book section and the poster section of Asda has left me in despair!
There were two twilight posters and a Robert Pattinson poster. Arghghgh. And the top shelf take-the-majority books for teenagers were supernatural romance, one being twilight, one being Darke Academy, one being something about a guardian angel and some others. Uhm, vampire diaries and I think maybe House of Night.
I am the only one who's starting to get annoyed at the amount of supernatural romance around nowadays? And the amount of 'urban supernatural' novels. I like them, sure, but there are so many and they're all so samey! Out of what I've read, I really like Lilith Saintcrow's work. I have only read on of her books but it's really good. And Jenna Black wrote a really good 'urban supernatural' one. You know the type I'm sure. The very dark, sexy, oh-look-a-demon-let's-make-out type books. The ones where bad things are dangerous but sexy. That type.
Supernatural romance....oh, god, the vampire love story has been done to death in my mind. That's why I like the Vampire Chronicles so much. Anne Rice's vampires are sensual, yet they don't - can't - have sex and so they bite people for that feeling. In the books the act of drinking someones blood is essentially described as the closest thing a vamp can get to orgasm. Yum :p
Anyhow, I like the vamps like that. They are DEAD and DEAD things can't get it up. They're either completely stiff ALL OVER, ALL the TIME or they can't. And you know, Miss Swan, you could be counted as a necrophiliac.
I don't much approve of the 'let's go find a hot DEAD guy and make out' mindset. Demons, yes. They are living. Not our type of living, but they're alive. Werewolves - also alive. Bishounen Shinigami....can gods of death be counted as alive? At any rate, the ones in Descendants of Darkness are human enough to bleed and probably die, so I would count them as living. They become Gods of Death by dying, but, so long as it's Shinigami to Shinigami boylove, I'm not too bothered.
The moral of this post is, I think;
Subs are usually better than dubs, but dubs can be awesome. Watch anime in half and half.
Also:
DONT HAVE SEX WITH VAMPIRES.
-sigh-
It's hard to decide whether to just watch all my anime in subs or to watch what I can in dub. Some dubs are really good - haruhi was good, lucky star, azumanga daioh....but then, like I said in my previous post, Nanoha was really bad. This is an issue because I want to watch anime and I like it in dub and sub. I can get used to the voices for each character pretty quickly. I guess that's the issue for most people. They watch in either dub or sub and then when they watch the other it sounds all wrong because you have the other version set in your mind. This makes it difficult. It wouldn't be a bad thing if I watched shows in both, but I don't have the time to.
The debate I'm having is whether I should just watch everything in subs from now on. I mean, I have to rewatch Haruhi in subs for certain because whoever uploaded the dubs to JustDubs messed up and there were duplicate episodes listed as different episodes and I never got to watch episode 00. I want to rewatch Lucky Star and Hell Girl as well, though, the dub for Hell Girl I thought was really good, especially Enma Ai's voice. The emotionless but slightly sad and almost whispered tone was perfect.
It's probably good for me to watch in subs as I am trying to learn the language and that might be something that would help.
Ah well, I'm going to watch Descendants of Darkness in a mix of dub and sub for a bit. I'll watch 3 eps in sub and then decide. Hisoka's voice is better in the dub, I think.
If I'm really honest, I'm only really watching it for the bishounen and the promise of boylove that was in the manga and is so hinted at in the anime so far. It's like the lesbian undertones in Nanoha, but with guys.
Heh, yeah I'm a little bit of a fangirl.
Speaking of which, even though I haven't watched Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, the teen book section and the poster section of Asda has left me in despair!
There were two twilight posters and a Robert Pattinson poster. Arghghgh. And the top shelf take-the-majority books for teenagers were supernatural romance, one being twilight, one being Darke Academy, one being something about a guardian angel and some others. Uhm, vampire diaries and I think maybe House of Night.
I am the only one who's starting to get annoyed at the amount of supernatural romance around nowadays? And the amount of 'urban supernatural' novels. I like them, sure, but there are so many and they're all so samey! Out of what I've read, I really like Lilith Saintcrow's work. I have only read on of her books but it's really good. And Jenna Black wrote a really good 'urban supernatural' one. You know the type I'm sure. The very dark, sexy, oh-look-a-demon-let's-make-out type books. The ones where bad things are dangerous but sexy. That type.
Supernatural romance....oh, god, the vampire love story has been done to death in my mind. That's why I like the Vampire Chronicles so much. Anne Rice's vampires are sensual, yet they don't - can't - have sex and so they bite people for that feeling. In the books the act of drinking someones blood is essentially described as the closest thing a vamp can get to orgasm. Yum :p
Anyhow, I like the vamps like that. They are DEAD and DEAD things can't get it up. They're either completely stiff ALL OVER, ALL the TIME or they can't. And you know, Miss Swan, you could be counted as a necrophiliac.
I don't much approve of the 'let's go find a hot DEAD guy and make out' mindset. Demons, yes. They are living. Not our type of living, but they're alive. Werewolves - also alive. Bishounen Shinigami....can gods of death be counted as alive? At any rate, the ones in Descendants of Darkness are human enough to bleed and probably die, so I would count them as living. They become Gods of Death by dying, but, so long as it's Shinigami to Shinigami boylove, I'm not too bothered.
The moral of this post is, I think;
Subs are usually better than dubs, but dubs can be awesome. Watch anime in half and half.
Also:
DONT HAVE SEX WITH VAMPIRES.
Don't watch Nanoha in English. It sucks.
Konbanwa!
That's 'Good evening' in Japanese, written in Romaji cause I have no idea how to type kanji on my keyboard, I don't think it's possible.
Anyways, I finished watched Nanoha StrikerS today. So. Freaking. Awesome. Nanoha was a great series - not your typical magical girl anime, though I haven't really watched any other magical girl anime shows. It's amazing. There are lesbian under/over/obvious tones, which is cool. In the first and second series you get to watch nine year olds kick the ever loving crap out of each other. Hint; Nanoha always 'befriends' the enemy....with a Divine Buster. Aside from the endings of every series being the same :
blow something big up
Befriend the enemy
unleash a deus ex machina over the cast.
it's still really good. It's got good character development, proof that yelling does indeed make you stronger, some really awesome scenes and character designs. Just don't watch it in English dub. I was setting up to watch Descendants of Darkness on JustDubs (I'm going to watch in sub as well, to compare. There're only 13 episodes) and I decided to see what was new.
'Oh wow, they have the first season of Nanoha up! I didn't know it was in dub. Let's check this out.'
-loads up episode one-
-voice starts talking-
'.....HOLY CRAP! That's NANOHA!??? No freaking way.'
-skips forwards-
'Arisa and Suzuka sound ok, I guess'
-skips to hear Yuuno-kun-
'RAAAAAAGE!!!'
Nanoha and Yuuno's voices are just way too high. No...just...no. I didn't even want to know how they made Fate sound.
Lesson; sometimes Japanese is better. If you're going to watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, watch in subbed form. Anything else is fail. Besides, there are all 3 seasons subbed on YouTube and they're easy to find.
I'm partway done with my Haruhi headband. Somehow my mother has done most of it. I don't entirely know how me asking which glue I should use morphed into her glueing it. It should be done by tomorrow.
I'll start on Descendants of Darkness tomorrow as well. I should be able to finish watching at least the dub before the end of the week. Since it's only 13 episodes it should only take a day or two at the most, even if I do other stuff.
BYE
That's 'Good evening' in Japanese, written in Romaji cause I have no idea how to type kanji on my keyboard, I don't think it's possible.
Anyways, I finished watched Nanoha StrikerS today. So. Freaking. Awesome. Nanoha was a great series - not your typical magical girl anime, though I haven't really watched any other magical girl anime shows. It's amazing. There are lesbian under/over/obvious tones, which is cool. In the first and second series you get to watch nine year olds kick the ever loving crap out of each other. Hint; Nanoha always 'befriends' the enemy....with a Divine Buster. Aside from the endings of every series being the same :
blow something big up
Befriend the enemy
unleash a deus ex machina over the cast.
it's still really good. It's got good character development, proof that yelling does indeed make you stronger, some really awesome scenes and character designs. Just don't watch it in English dub. I was setting up to watch Descendants of Darkness on JustDubs (I'm going to watch in sub as well, to compare. There're only 13 episodes) and I decided to see what was new.
'Oh wow, they have the first season of Nanoha up! I didn't know it was in dub. Let's check this out.'
-loads up episode one-
-voice starts talking-
'.....HOLY CRAP! That's NANOHA!??? No freaking way.'
-skips forwards-
'Arisa and Suzuka sound ok, I guess'
-skips to hear Yuuno-kun-
'RAAAAAAGE!!!'
Nanoha and Yuuno's voices are just way too high. No...just...no. I didn't even want to know how they made Fate sound.
Lesson; sometimes Japanese is better. If you're going to watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, watch in subbed form. Anything else is fail. Besides, there are all 3 seasons subbed on YouTube and they're easy to find.
I'm partway done with my Haruhi headband. Somehow my mother has done most of it. I don't entirely know how me asking which glue I should use morphed into her glueing it. It should be done by tomorrow.
I'll start on Descendants of Darkness tomorrow as well. I should be able to finish watching at least the dub before the end of the week. Since it's only 13 episodes it should only take a day or two at the most, even if I do other stuff.
BYE
Saturday, 8 August 2009
I can get a job! Kinda!
Guess what you guys? I officially exist.
Lawl, yeah.
I have my National Insurance number/card now, which means as soon as I'm sixteen and when I'm done with compulsory school then I can have an actual job. And I can work part time now if I want.
Woooo!
Anyhow, I have been shopping twice this past week and spent £30. I think that's pretty good, considering I now have 4 new mangas, about 7 new books and some other stuff. I also got my mum to buy me some new acrylics (in big tubes!) a new sketchbook, some new shirts and a new swimsuit.
I think that's about it. Hooray for Primark. My sister took advantage and has practically a whole new summer wardrobe now. I just get the minimum stuff I need and spend my money on other things.
Oh yeah! Since the Haruhi headband I wanted is out of stock anywhere where is costs less than ten dollars, I'm making one instead. Yup, I'm being cool and doing that. So I have a headband and some ribbon to cover it with. I would have gotten fabric to cover it with, but we couldn't find any the right colour. Well, not in small enough quantities or in a price we wanted to pay for just making a headband. So I'll hopefully get that made and have photo's either today or tomorrow.
I'm almost done with Nanoha now. I'm on about episode 10 of StrikerS, which is the last season. It's twice as long as the other seasons - 26 eps. Which is about the average length for an anime usually. So I'll probably finish watching it before I go on holiday - next Saturday I think. Two weeks in a caravan in Wales with my family. Oh, joy.
Anyhow, I think that's about it. Other than The Order of the Blue Rose being done and brewing away before I edit it. I have ideas for a sequel for it, at least two ideas for what I want to write for NaNo, the idea for a horror story, and the beginnings of an idea for a vampire story. I'm actually not that sure about writing vampire stories any more, seeing how if I do, most people will assume I'm hitching a ride on the Twilight bandwagon.
Vampires are becoming overused now. I mean, they used to be suave and badass or just plain monstrous (Nosferatu are cool). Now a lot of people just think of them as immortal sex objects. That's what most annoys me about 'vampire fans'. Just because you've read Twilight doesn't mean you're an edgy person who likes the dark side of life. No. Just...no.
Let's not start a fight with the rabid horde of fangirls. Though, I'm planning on printing designs onto the two white vest shirts I got and it is so tempting to do one of these:
TEAM Lestat.
Vampires DON'T sparkle (and possibly on the back: They explode)
I think I might get lynched for the second one.
One tshirt I'm definitely putting the MR logo (The M and the R and adding little wings to them.) and then putting wings on the back, probably in Max's colouration.
I'm finally learning Japanese. The language is easy - the kanji/katakana/hiragana are hard. There are only 46 katakana and 46 hiragana so I'm probably going to learn those first. There are something like 2000 kanji and Japanese is written with a combination of all three.
This may take a while. But I'm getting there, and it's really interesting so I think I'll stick with it. Once I've learned it it'll be awesome.
I can almost do Hare Hare Yukai from memory. There's just a few arm movements in the middle and at the start that I can't do/remember. Other than that it's perfect! Once I've learned the dance I might try and learn at least the short version of the song that goes with it.
Then it's on to Motekke Sailor Fuku and all hell will break loose :3
See ya
Sam.
Lawl, yeah.
I have my National Insurance number/card now, which means as soon as I'm sixteen and when I'm done with compulsory school then I can have an actual job. And I can work part time now if I want.
Woooo!
Anyhow, I have been shopping twice this past week and spent £30. I think that's pretty good, considering I now have 4 new mangas, about 7 new books and some other stuff. I also got my mum to buy me some new acrylics (in big tubes!) a new sketchbook, some new shirts and a new swimsuit.
I think that's about it. Hooray for Primark. My sister took advantage and has practically a whole new summer wardrobe now. I just get the minimum stuff I need and spend my money on other things.
Oh yeah! Since the Haruhi headband I wanted is out of stock anywhere where is costs less than ten dollars, I'm making one instead. Yup, I'm being cool and doing that. So I have a headband and some ribbon to cover it with. I would have gotten fabric to cover it with, but we couldn't find any the right colour. Well, not in small enough quantities or in a price we wanted to pay for just making a headband. So I'll hopefully get that made and have photo's either today or tomorrow.
I'm almost done with Nanoha now. I'm on about episode 10 of StrikerS, which is the last season. It's twice as long as the other seasons - 26 eps. Which is about the average length for an anime usually. So I'll probably finish watching it before I go on holiday - next Saturday I think. Two weeks in a caravan in Wales with my family. Oh, joy.
Anyhow, I think that's about it. Other than The Order of the Blue Rose being done and brewing away before I edit it. I have ideas for a sequel for it, at least two ideas for what I want to write for NaNo, the idea for a horror story, and the beginnings of an idea for a vampire story. I'm actually not that sure about writing vampire stories any more, seeing how if I do, most people will assume I'm hitching a ride on the Twilight bandwagon.
Vampires are becoming overused now. I mean, they used to be suave and badass or just plain monstrous (Nosferatu are cool). Now a lot of people just think of them as immortal sex objects. That's what most annoys me about 'vampire fans'. Just because you've read Twilight doesn't mean you're an edgy person who likes the dark side of life. No. Just...no.
Let's not start a fight with the rabid horde of fangirls. Though, I'm planning on printing designs onto the two white vest shirts I got and it is so tempting to do one of these:
TEAM Lestat.
Vampires DON'T sparkle (and possibly on the back: They explode)
I think I might get lynched for the second one.
One tshirt I'm definitely putting the MR logo (The M and the R and adding little wings to them.) and then putting wings on the back, probably in Max's colouration.
I'm finally learning Japanese. The language is easy - the kanji/katakana/hiragana are hard. There are only 46 katakana and 46 hiragana so I'm probably going to learn those first. There are something like 2000 kanji and Japanese is written with a combination of all three.
This may take a while. But I'm getting there, and it's really interesting so I think I'll stick with it. Once I've learned it it'll be awesome.
I can almost do Hare Hare Yukai from memory. There's just a few arm movements in the middle and at the start that I can't do/remember. Other than that it's perfect! Once I've learned the dance I might try and learn at least the short version of the song that goes with it.
Then it's on to Motekke Sailor Fuku and all hell will break loose :3
See ya
Sam.
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