No Tainaka Ritsu made me rage!!

solely for my satisfaction
(c) nishiuri warito

Remember me making such a big deal about nendoroid Tainaka Ritsu? Yeah, I doubt you do. I'm not that important for you to remember such detail. But fuck that, now I'm gonna rant.

Did you remember me telling you that Good Smile Company is evil? Yeah these motherfucka just played me good. I've got all four of the other K-ON! girls (actually three, but Tsumugi is practically on her way) because I have made the pre-order for nendoroid Tainaka Ritsu. I wonder since I got her, I might as well ordered the rest of the girls as to complete the group. I don't really give a fuck about the other girls but I don't want Ritsu to be lonely so I thought I shouldn't be too selfish. I did the same thing with the figma but instead of getting all of them, I just bought Tsumugi because my shouta plays the keyboard. At least it will remind me of him.

Here comes the bad news though. Nendoroid Ritsu was scheduled to be released in February 2010. I have been waiting for her arrival since then. But yesterday my supplier, where I have put my pre-order since the fucking January, called and said that GSC only produced limited number for Ritsu which mean the figure is out of stock. They informed me that GSC might do the re-stock but they did not know when would it be and the price for the figure will definitely sky-rocketed.

Did you see what they just did? Those fucking greedy bastards. I have spent hundred of dollars to buy the other four girls who I don't give a damn fuck, just because I want to complete the set, and they did this to me? I am sure I am not the only victim for this cruelty.

So now I am looking high and low for the other suppliers who can get me this figure. Argh, this is fucking frustrating!

I better calm my rage...

You don't have to be sorry, Ritsu. You are already too sexy for me =3
(c) makisige

/rant

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Manga Kannagi to be resumed

(c) makino

After I read this joyful news, I was practically joining Nagi with her swimsuit, dancing on my toes to Haruka Tomatsu song, Motto Hade ni ne!

The last chapter of Kannagi was in January 2009. The manga has been suspended because of Takenashi Eri's health issue. Now that she is back, we finally get to know whether or not Nagi is no longer a virgin.

LOL I still remember how the fans rage when Eri revealed that Nagi has a boyfriend. It was hilarious. Although I am not too happy that there is a third person in Nagi/Jin "relationship" (let's ignore Zange for a sec), this does pose for a good plot twist.

I'm not gonna forgive Zange for playing dirty though. If she didn't eavesdropping, Jin would have confessed to Nagi and that would made my day.


Unfortunately after the revelation in chapter 36, Eri fell ill and has been on hiatus ever since. Now that she's better, she will resume the serialization of the manga and the fans will finally get the conclusion for the whole story. For more than a year, we keep thinking whether or not Nagi will make a come back to the point that some of us felt cheated.

The date for the restart will be made known to public in the Comic Rex November issue which is set to be released on October 9 *is totally stoke!*

Hopefully with this great news, A1-Pictures will consider making a sequel for Kannagi. Unlike Amatsuki which studio DEEN has pretty much phailed the manga, A1-Pictures did a great job with the animation for Kannagi. I definitely voting for season two!

pantsu!!

(c) r0g0b0

Trivia: Kannagi is in my top four favorite manga list. Can you guess the other three?

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Diary of a tard - Week 2, August 2010

Monday, August 9

Starting the week with something oldskool: GetBackers.

Nurarihyon no Mago episode 2: Zen came for a visit, to convince Rikuo to inherit the Nura clan. Rikuo of course refused. On his way back, the disappointed Zen was attacked by his snake butler, Hebidayu. Conveniently this happened at dusk so the youkai Rikuo took care of the betrayer and agreed to become the third.

delicious!

I'm picking up episodes at random. Next up is Giant Killing episode 9. It was pretty much about the fans this time around. They are pretty much pissed off because the team has been losing for five time straight. They want Tatsumi but Gotou took his place so that we the audience know that Tatsumi is not alone in this battle. Sweet but if he lets Tatsumi to handle them, he would have put them back in their place in no time at all. Then they are up against Nagoya team. They need to win this. The side show of the three Brazilian players doing tricks with the ball was awesome.

Episode 2 of GetBackers: I forgot to mention on my first impression about the Honky Tonk. WTF is up with that name? If I happened to walk by that shop, I would think that it is either a shop that sells sex stuff or a gay/whore bar. Also, when did Natsumi start working at the bar? Anyway this episode they have to retrieve a daughter of a homeless man from the yakuza. Little that the old man knows that his daughter don't want to leave. It has a happy ending though, as usual.

Tuesday, August 10

GetBackers episode 3: Met with Dr. Jackal, Lady Poison and Mr. No Break as they delivered the goods. Of course someone else hired the GetBackers to get the goods. The tricks with the beetle was pretty funny but yeah ultimately they phailed to retrieve it. Of course they eventually succeeded in episode 4. I guess these few episodes are just introduction to the other characters and what they have to do with Ban and Ginji's past.

Thank goodness the Chessire Cat is alright in chapter 7 of Are You Alice? So the monster blob thingy is actually known as the duke. Alice let himself be taken by the blob, defying the Mad Hatter's order to run and save himself. In chapter 8, he met the real Alice (the one that we are more familiar with, that is) who wants her name back. Uh'oh... so what did Alice do? He killed the female Alice as instructed by the Queen of Hearts. After that the White Rabbit appeared and took Alice out from the blob and claimed that he's not the real Alice. WTF? I'm officially confused especially when it seems like the White Rabbit is serving the real Alice. Argh... What the hell?


Wednesday, August 11

First day of Ramadhan for muslims. EID in a month!

Bleach episode 283 is pretty good in terms that I have a better understanding of Shunsui's power.

Thursday, August 12

Claymore chapter 106: Miria is back! Only for her to disappear from Rabona again after she gave quite a blow to her other claymore comrade, whose name escaped me. Miriadecided to go east and destroy the organization while it is weak. She doesn't want to endanger her comrade thus the intentional slash. But she has no qualm injuring the others from the organization though. It's not like she didn't warn them but they did not heed her words. She has reached the organization btw is determined, more than ever, to fucking destroy it. But of course for her to succeed she has to face a dangerous opponents in the form of numberless small twins. One of them just fucking awakened and switched their body like magic ffs! What's more they are not the trump card. Jeebus, I'm scared of losing Miria. She's awesome. She makes Claymore interesting again.

Holy shit. Looks like Kanda has really lost it. He is really pissed off at the moment in chapter 197 of D.Gray Man. If he keeps losing control of himself, he's going to die soon. He even stabbed Allen. He and Alma is killing each other mercilessly. It truly seems like this might be the end for Kanda. Just as Alma was about to give him the finishing blow, his body itself has comes to an end. His regenerative power is no longer usable. How convenient but I am grateful. I don't want Kanda to die. Remember the lotus and the symbol on Kanda's chest? Well, I dunno why I was worried because that thing works perfectly fine for Kanda's regenerative power. He is so determined to kill Alma that Allen words of reason only fall on deaf ears. Somehow Kanda got this idea that Allen is the caused of all these because he's a Noah and yet works for the Order. Kanda power-up was pretty cool and Allen's body changed and looks like a Noah. And suddenly it's Kanda versus Allen and Alma is helping Kanda out? LOLWTFWUT?!

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Anime: Fall 2010

The Summer anime is halfway through. Time to check out what's new next season.

Chartfag has came up with the usual update for Fall season anime. Unfortunately, it is in Japanese. Since I phailed at Japanese, even after consuming the amount of anime/manga because they are not really the source to learn Japanese, I can only wonder what the titles for the anime are. I can name a few because I recognized the character from manga or previous season anime like Bakuman and Letter Bee 2.

However thanks to Scamp, the problem is solved. He has done the English translated version, chartfag style, so that it would be easier for us consumer to consume. Consistency is important after all. Thank you Scamp!


First lets take a look at the OVAs. There are a couple in particular that got my attention and they are Mirai Nikki and Yozakura Quartet. Mirai Nikki because I used to read the manga and Yozakura Quartet because I like watching the anime. I would probably look out for To Aru Kagaku no Railgun as well just because I am a fan of Misaka.

Lets move on to the episodic anime. I'm gonna divide it into few categories for my own amusement, whether or not I'm good with predicting shit.

Top priorities of the season:

• Togainu no Chi: I'm watching this for two reasons. The first reason is that I love the manga. So good for my taste bud! I can let my imagination run wilds with this one. The other reason is because this anime is produced by A1-Pictures. They have only phailed me once with Sora no Woto. Basically this studio has good statistic in my book. Hmm, this reminds me that I need to write a post about my favorite anime studio.
  

yummy >=3
(c) pd-x

• Psychic Detective Yakumo: a hot looking psychic with different eye color that can see ghost and shit? I'm sold! Besides, it looks different. Different is good.
• Bakuman: I have stopped reading the manga because I can't handle the romance but hell yes I'm looking forward to see the anime!
• Tegami Bachi 2/Letter Bee 2: For one reason and one reason only and that is Gauche! Enough said.

(c) dr

• A Certain Magical Index 2: I'm hoping to see more Misaka and Accelerator.

The one in between which mean that either I will like it or gonna dropped it after several try. I am selecting these anime from the synopsis provided by Scamp.

• My Little Sister can't be this cute!: It has something to do with otaku so it is bound to be funny. But if they butchered this, a lot of people (read:otaku) is going to rage.
• Ironman: Needless to say that this should be very interesting indeed.
• Kuragahime: Another show about otaku but that does not intrigue me as must as the word fujoshi that was mentioned in the synopsis ^_^
• Arakawa Under the Bridge 2: I have yet to finish the first season. I kinda just lost interest with it halfway through. Maybe this will be a good motivation for me to complete it.
  
• Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls: The high possibility of girls kicking manly ass is the only reason why I think I'm gonna like this just fine. Unless of course the ecchi-ness ruins it for me.
  
• Hakuouki 2: I'm way behind with the first season but I am getting there so definitely gonna catch this one up as well.
• Yosuga no Sora: Twincest alert!!
• Invasion! Ika Musume: I need to watch something that counter-balance the reason why I watch Yosuga no Sora and Ika Musume is appropriate for that. It's about the environment! :P
• MM!: a masochist? Sounds exciting!
• The World God Only Knows: Eroge = ecchi. I would have not bother with this but my husband Glo The Fucking Legend clearly stated that he is looking forward to this shit so that automatically make this anime an instant OK for me.
  

The shit. These are the one that I don't give a crap about because of two main reasons. It is nothing that I have not seen before.

• Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru: yeah, like we need another maid-based anime. Ecchi and idiotic.
  
• Fortune Arterial: Weak story line. Idiotic even.
  
• Motte To-Love-Ru: Ecchi. Didn't bother with the other season, so I'm not gonna bother with this one either.
• Sora no Otoshimono:Forte: Looks like yuri. Possible ecchi
  
• Tantei Opera Milky Home: For children only and I am definitely no children. Idiotic
  
• Battle Spirits: Brave: Kids in America trading cards. Yeah... idiotic at its best.
• Even Moar Pokemon!: I've had enough of Pokemon. I have moved on. Idiotic.
• Agriculture Musume: Too cute for my taste and weak story line. Idiotic.
• Super Robot Wars: The Inspector: Err yeah... whatever >_>
  

Then again, I probably will look forward to everything that they have in this chart. I will try to watch at least an episode of every anime just to satisfy my curiosity expect for the few that is already on my NO list.

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Bleach: Episode 283

And so the epic phailed fight of Stark continues. Guess who stabbed him from the back? It was Shunsui. Heh, playing dirty, that is more like it! I am actually happy with the fact that Rose and Love have fallen so shamelessly at the hand of Stark. They were over confident in the manga and got what they deserved in my opinion.

nice angle

Speaking of Shunsui, I actually look forward to this episode because reading about his shikai in the manga just confused me. Hopefully I will get a better understanding from watching the anime. Let see if I get this right. One of his sword has an upper hand when he's high above his enemy while the other when enemy has shadow on the ground. Pretty shallow and yet cunning power there.

But Lilnette has a pretty decent idea how to nullify the attack. You got to hand it to her. Also, Shunsui was being negligence in his attack. Can't say that he did not see that coming.

It was kinda touching to see Stark lose control when he thought Lilnette was about to be done for. The fight got a little more interesting after that. The pace of attacks were much faster and less chitty chatty. The background music was perfectly chosen too to add to the mood of the flashback.

Gah, every time I saw a flashback, I got angry because it just reminded me that Ulquiorra hasn't got one that he deserved!

I remember facepalming when Shunsui fucking explained his power to Stark. Who did that?! So Stark obviously can pretty much predicted what his next move going to be and beat him at his own game. What a fucking stupid shinigami. I really can't understand these lots. Did their brain died when they turned into shinigami? Sure seems like it. That explained why the old fuck was such a retard motherfucka. Having said that, I was still impressed with the fight scene especially when Shunsui announced the color of black.

I don't expect Stark to fall that easily though. What the? Is that it? Though it was good to see that he is loyal with Aizen and his comrade. I didn't expect that either. I guess his loneliness is more acute than I gave him credit for. Awww I think it was cute, thinking of your comrade as you are falling to your death...


Now there is only one espada left: Harribel. The moment the fight switched back to her I was giddy when I saw Lisa pulled her move to draw out her shikai. That was cool. Harribel sure has her fight cut out for her. Her three opponents are relentless.

Too bad that Aizen interrupted the fight. Looks like he has enough of it already and take care of the shinigami himself. He fucking killed Harribel himself, goddammit! LOL I feel sorry for Harribel.

The omake reminds me of the old Bleach. I missed that ^_^

For my rants on previous episodes, click here.

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First Impression: GetBackers

I have seen the first episode of GetBackers back in 2004 if I'm not mistaken. Did blog exist back then? I'm not sure but yeah after the first couple of episodes, I kinda put it aside and forgot about it until recently when I found an awesome fanart by papillon10. It just makes me want to see the series so badly. I guess I got my hopes high for it to turn out slightly yaoi-ish ^_^"


The story is about two straight guys who can get anything that you want them to get back hence the title. It was pretty straight to the point. I assumed they will meet different client in each episode and do what they do best.

The comedy was poor. I don't even smile at the jokes. It was very cliche and I am definitely not a fan of cliche. So that was a minus. I think it would be best if they just dropped trying to be funny and be all business like. That would be charming, and professional.

I'm not so into the two main characters. I just don't get their fashion sense and it bothers me. I was 21 in 2002 and I don't remember anyone walked around with such clothes on their back, especially that of Ban-chan. Not to mention his hair! Every time I see it I was like.. WTF, that is not natural! Also anyone else bothered by the fact that their car is way too small for their builds?

Having said that, their abilities were pretty cool I guess. It was not over the top. lol who am I kidding. They got shot in the head and live!!! LMAO

Even though I haven't met him yet, there is one figure that I kinda a fan of already and he is Fuuchouin Kazuki. You'll find out why eventually XD

The animation and the character designs are as to be expected from the anime that was produced in 2002. It nothing spectacular but isn't bad either except for the few points I have raised earlier. It's like watching GTO, kinda, but not really.

Watching GetBackers kinda like taking a step into memory lanes. Instead of using chips or CD/DVD, they are still using floppy disk to store their data. It reminds me of my college years. LOL I feel so old.

As for the sound... I'll be honest, I skipped the OP and ED. Maybe if I have more time in my hands I will try to listen to them but not for this first impression. The background music is not so hot in my opinion and why the hell every time they move they have to make the stupid sound effect of paper being rustled together, instead of the sound of clothes usually make? I know... I'm just being way too picky over here.

But overall, it was an okay start. I look forward to see the rest of the episodes (all 48 of them). My friend said that things will get pretty good when they get to the tower, whatever that means. So I have something to look forward too then ^_^

I mentioned about Papillon10's fanart in the beginning, right? I feel obliged to accompany this post with some of my favorite GetBackers fanart from him/her. Enjoy the trap!

*faps*

I should have warned you guys that they are not safe for works but meh I don't think you guys care.

art & animation 6/10
story 6/10
characters 7/10
sound 6/10
enjoyment 8/10
overall 7/10

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