Why do I get wonderful spam mails from Perfect Bear teasing me with the promise of Macho Bear and cubs?XD
I mostly ask myself *which* bear sent it to me -giggles-

Prepare to the Bear invasion...out goes pedoBear, in come SuperKuma (also AniKuma) and UsaKuma *___*!

I suppose today would generally be classified as May First, Labour Day, but for me and fellow corregionals today is the start of a 4-day-long frenzy of celebrations in honour of the local patron Saint. It's basically a 4-day-long procession along the road stretching fom the main city to the little village where the Saint was supposedly martyrised, with frequent stops in different towns (including mine, of course).Every town in the land the takes part in the procession wearing traditional costumes and accompanied by musicians,artists and the lot :P.
While I'm pretty much indifferent to the religious connotation of the celebration itself,I've always liked the wonderful display of colours, arts and crafts showed during the procession by the people involved. When I was a child I'd dress up in the local costume and take part in the procession for as much as my legs would allow me, together with some of my relatives: sometimes I was even as lucky as to be able to climb on to the festive carriages and see everything from such a priviledged place.
Nowadays you can't rent costumes anymore and the only way you can dress up is either buy the costume yourself (they're obviously hideously expensive XD) or somehow find a rentable costume from another town nearby .
If you were wondering why I'm home insted of being part of it, oh, that's just becaue I'm too lazy to walk for hours under the sun, surrounded by a scary amount of people:I'm watching it on TV, it's much easier and they also interview random tourists (Hey, there's even Japanese people, what's happening °°) asking them any kind of idiotic questions.

Enough with it.

This anime season is surprisingly nice...There's not (yet) anything that really stands out to me in terms of overwhelming quality in any respect , but there's plenty of choice for anyone.
My favourite series this season is shaping up to be Kurenai. Those of you who know how much I loved Red Garden won't be surprised, given it's the same director using the same , wonderful, style and prescoring tecnique. The plot is also very nice, but ,as usual, what I like the most are the characters. What fnd amazing is that my favourite character in th series is the little girl, Murasaki. If only all children were like that XD.
Also watching...Code Geass Destiny because it's always entertaining and it makes me laugh, Himitsu for the great cast and story, Vampire Knight for cast and childish fangirl insanity , Itazurana Kiss because it's lovely, and Toshokan Sensou because of Ishida the compelling plot.
I'm still eagerly watching Persona for the strong WTF factor and because I suspect it might even become a nice surprise (or a great trainwreck as well :D ).

OH!! Lest I forget , Soul Eater is wonderful **. I cheer with joy with each passing episode. I could care less about the plot (?), but oh, the style *___________*. Thank you Bones. -and also, TaMarro Revolution how I missed you XD.

Visto che mezzanotte è passata...

Tanjoubi omedetou sakura_watanuki!!

Mille di questi Risotti, mwahahahahah.

It occurred to me that I probably should let people know I live, and quite well, actually.At least for the time being-grabs onto little charm-

I've been studying, and I'm so glad the awful Chinese exam is now well and beyond me,complete with an undeserved mark which no-one'll ever notice nor ask detailed informations about, and now I'm only 2 exams short of a useless degree. After that, it's the pitches :D.No, I don't know, which is why I'm procrastinating and trying to prolungate my student-status limbo as much as possible; after all, I'll have to leave this place when I'm done, whether it's for studying or working , unless I want to try and be a slave here :P.

Aaaaanyway, our Terra e... fansub was finally born on February 15th, and it's going strong for the moment.It makes me feel strange to realise I'm treating the outcome of the combined efforts of a group of people like a child or something akin:is this what synergy means for real?:D I know it's silly: it's not by any means a paid job, or even something people will remember, or treasure, but it's been until now a precious experience, a sort of against-all-odds adventure :D.Episode 5 is in its advanced stage, and I need to check further episodes to make sure everything is perfect, or seemingly so .

I'm not exactly watching TONS of anime , mostly because I already have a hefty backlog of series to watch, but I'm enjoying Persona the most, at the moment.Wolf and Spice is also lovely, and of couse I'm still watching Neuro and Gundam 00.Little Nendoroid Neuro *will* be mine *_____*.L needs a companion, I suppose Light is not the only scare possibility he has?
Oh...I am beginning to strongly hate seiyuu fans. They are people, real people, and they do not choose their roles, they are mostly GIVEN them to play like the good employers they are.

Anyway, back to reading :P (Neuro manga in Italian is *good* ..never thought I could say this :D)

I had to post it in my blog as well, so here it goes.

Anybody volunteers to fill in one for Akira Ishida?:P Sugitan? Risotto? Anybody else you love/like?
Potete farlo anche in italiano , per me :D.


I'm surprised no-one has yet written anything about the wonderful Saiga Mitsuki-san.I guess female seiyuu are not as well-liked and/or known among us?:P
While not my most favourite seiyuu, she's among my very dearest ones, those I'd listen to in pretty much every situation :D.

1.) Where did you first noticed this person (AKA: Which show/CD/Com/etc and as who)? I think it was either Natsuo from Loveless, or Wolfram, from Kyou kara Maou.
2.) A fan of this person for how long? Couple of years, since 2005 I think.
3.) Why do you like him/her? Because she has a very distinctive, masculine but refined voice you can immediately spot, and she puts her soul into each of her characters
4.) Roles that person tends to learn towards (ie: Typecast/Who he or she becomes at best) Usually spunky, bratty, smart blond boys XD.
5.) Favorite character of this person? It's a tie between Jomy Marquis Shin (Terra e...) and Rossiu (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann). They're both characters that start off as boys and then have to grow up rather fast due to circumstances,encountering many hardships on their way, often losing track of their dreams and sacrificing their personality for some "greater good" of sorts.I think she pulls off thse character magnificently^^.
6.) Which role of this person shocked you the most? I'm using "shocked" in a positive way:Benio Amakusa from Ouran Koukou Host Club .Totally over-the-top but great nonetheless XD.
7.) Character that you reccommend in order for another to learn about this person and why?*The ones I mentioned as my favourites, and then Wolfram from Kyo kara Maou.
8.) A role you'd like for person to have? (Be specific) A woman's role?:D.Actually I'd like to listen to her in a proper BL drama /hides/
9.) A type of role you dislike? (specific char(s)) None I can think of.
10.) Ever met this person in real life? Where? (ie: Concert, Convention, stage, etc) Nope.
11.) What word do you think describes this person? Why? Emotion. She seems to be able to talk (and write) freely about her feelings for pretty much everything that surrounds her, be it her roles, her job in itself, work colleagues, everyday life^^.
12.) Which color do you think describes this person? Why? Yellow. She gives off a yellowy-lightly golden aura .Must be her hair.
13.) Which animal do you think describes this person? Why? A cheetah.
14.) If not a seiyu, what type of occupation do you think the person would have? I think she'd be a good psychologist

15.) Does this person sing? If so, name favorite song or songs?*She does, and has a great singing voice. Sounds more masculine than some of her male fellows :P Favourite song? That's difficult..I like her Mizu no Senritsu song, and the chara-songs for Wolfram are also nice.She also has a couple of albums under her name :).
16.) What type of song would you like for person to sing? Ballads?^^
17.) Is there a fav. fansite or blog of this person?*http://www.cosmicray.co.jp/artist/saiga/index.html.This is her official site, featuring her blog among other things^^.Blog's updated daily^^.



I'm trying to be a nicer penpal to my transoceanic friends, from now on *.*.

The sun was shining today, and the sky was brilliantly blue. Outside, people were running about in short sleeves, at the beginning of December.
I could hear rather un-seasonal sound, like birds chirping, and people chattering happily (or not quite so much) about taxes and money investments.

And I was home translating.

I have a half-done script of Gundam 00 ep.9 looking straight at me, begging to be completed.I'm checking the revised script for Terra 6 (this is the...4th time, I guess?) trying to eliminate any possible disharmony and/or syntax-grammar horrors.I spent yesterday totally rewriting the middle section of episode 4 which contains plot-essential informations: unfortunately the fansub version doesn't make any sense and I couldn't even use that as a reference, nor could I, at the time of translation, find more accurate sources. I'm so happy DVDs are equipped with proper subtitles *.*.
I also have script 7 to check and revise.Also need to finish translating Maaya Sakamoto's song for Clamp in Wonderland, and I'm sure there're scans lying around waiting to be done.
So much for a hobby, eh XD.

This week brought me two packages at last:a doujinshi and the illustration book Yuuki-sensei made out of his sketches and drawings for the pilot movie of Terra.It took almost 2 months to arrive from America, but whatever, it looks gorgeous.Even my mother likes it.Of course, the doujinshi she hasn't seen, but I don't think she'd even like to *snort*

I also spent too much money on manga...I wonder why is it, that the series I like are exceedingly expensive. That said, I'm not regretting at all, it was all money well spent. I also preoredered the first volume of Neuro, because my bookshop only brings Planeta books if specifically ordered...I suppose I'll be the only one buying it, unless other shops carry them instead.

Oh, I'm watching Gurrenn-Lagann, as many times I was prompted by my fansub comrades to give it a try.It's a nice ,if way too loud, series for the moment.In case you are interested on discussing it... :DDD

Hav a nice weekend, and good luck to anyone wh's taking the JLPT this year, especially if it's their first time!^^
I was supposed to be taking 2-kyuu tomorrow, but earlier this year I decided on studying basic Chinese so it's 2008 for me.More time to get ready for the big jump , and maybe this time I'll really be knowledgeable enough :P.

I'm just reporting a work of art a member of our fansub forum made to celebrate the greatness of Gundam 00:if you find it difficult to digest, here's a little help for yor stomach :P



I wonder if it also exists in different flavours, like Setsuna's Middle-Eastern spices, Lockon's orange, Alleluja's a two-sided bittersweet liquor,and Tieria is...whatever. Sumeragi-kancho would be proud ^^

...Yesterday I got my Yesasia order, that is Terra e OST 2 and...Chemistry's ED single CD. I don't like Chemistry, their style is totally different from what I usually like listening to, I find their voices whiny and irritating,and they sung the hideous 4th OP to Gundam Seed Destiny, probably the scariest song ever featured in a major anime.

But it had Keith's tarot card inside .It was calling out to me XD. I can live without Physis' or Shiroe's tarot (even though I'll end up getting them as well...tarot freak here XD)but I couldn't miss on Mr. Members Elite.Who's now waiting for Sam's and Matsuka's cards as well.

I've also ripped OST 2 and am uploading it so I can share the goodness.It's really a masterful collection of pieces , I think I even prefer it to OST 1,which is saying a lot .
Now I'm waiting for other Terra-related orders to arrive, namely DVD 3 (ugh...custom fees), Nobuteru Yuuki's circle artbook for the pilot movie, and KeithxMatsuka doujinshi--->I wasn't sure on buying it, as it's half manga , half novel.Then I looked at the drawings, spotted R-18 warning on the cover and my fingers immediately acted on their own.Come my precious *_* .

I was also thinking on getting the Kaze to Ki no uta Bunko version,because reading manga on a PC,especially when in Japanese is not good for my (already declining >_<) eyesight.I want an anime for Kaze. I want stupid Italian publishers to come out and translate it already, even if that'll mean sealed copies, adult warning and scary 10-euro-range prices.It'd be worth it *___*.

Speaking of the Italian manga market (I'm sorry to anyone not interested...), looks like
Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro has been licensed by Planeta/DeAgostini ^______^.It's slated for release in December. On one hand I'm a little nervous, since it's a publishing house specialised on comics and graphic novels ,and I don't know if their newborn manga section will endure long enough to sustain long series like Neuro.Not to mention, they're a Spain-based firm, and I'm hoping for a sparkly tranlation from Japanese, without double crossings from other languages. On the other hand, they've also got Katekyo Hitman Reborn and Bobobobo...yes, that one XD, and, well. It's Neuro.I want *_______* .I think angel_katsumi will also be happy to know, if she doesn't already ^^.

Fansub-wise, we also realeased Gundam 00 episode 2, which I'm shamelessly spamming to my yaoi-addicted online friends.
University is going fine at the moment, nothing worth mentioning, except most of my Chinese classmates are actually from my same course, and one of them is really into the whole Gothic Lolita fashion world.She always comes to class in fancy frilly dresses.I wonder how unpractical they really are, for she seems comfortable wearing them.Oh well ^^.

And so the first week of Autumn has gone by fast.
I still have 3 exams to take before writing degree thesis and finishing with it, but since I like making my life difficult, unpleasant, hard,often miserable, just in order to feel extremely proud of myself when gone through all of these ordeals,what did I do?
I chose to earn optional credits studying Chinese.In another faculty, among totally linguistically unskilled people.
The language itself is pretty meh for the moment...I only really chose it to improve my (non-existant) kanji writing abilities, and I don't really care that much for the country's culture, history and millennial traditions, even if I find them extremely fascinating.No, it's not a contraddiction.
I like the teacher, he's very passionate,but he's also not really aware of our difficulties in metabolising each of his intense lessons , laden with several new grammar points and characters, more or less juxtaposed,which he expects us to learn fast XD.
Oh well. Japanese was much more shocking first time around, compared to this :).I'll try and do my best even if won't keep up with the language when done with this .

New anime season also started.There's not that many interesting series starting in October, but, apart from obligatory Gundam 00, Neuro and Rental Magica - ah witchcraft,bishonen and hosts for rent, I'll also try Hero Tales, if only to see (or hear..) dear boy Sakurai in his newest acting effort **.I'm hoping it's worth the wait^^.

The Neuro anime reminded me of Gintama somewhat, totally disrupting the originl work's chronology and starting from the weakest case possible :DD. NeuroxYako interactionis brilliant *_*,and that's the major point of interest for me ^_^-Doggie Yako and Neuro's random blank stares were absolutely priceless.They're also really cute, if such an adjective, of all, can be used together with the nest of insanity known as Nougami Neuro XD.
Sasazuka is gorgeous. I want more **.
And tomorrow Gundam 00 will start *___________*.YAY.

And so, it ended.

It did feel a little rushed, I wished some bits had been explained better, but I suppose the DVD additional scenes will make up for that.

( Spoilers and ranting...Terra no tameni )

....Ki ni naru...SUGOKU ki ni natte kita °_°.

( The end is near... )

Then again, I can fangirl about Tony's shower scene, or Keith's buttocks in the preview for next episode...cough ...I knew you had a great backside Anyan XD

Go here
Put in username: nycareers, password: landmark
Take their 'career matchmaker' questions and post your top ten.

1.Anthropologist

2.Professor
3.Clergy
4.Addictions Counselor
5.Occupational Therapist
6.Sport Psychology Consultant
7.ESL Teacher
8.Foreign Language Instructor
9.Historian
10.Archivist

Uhm. Number 11 was "Funeral Director". What is that for a job?**
I should have studied Maths and aimed to be a medical researcher XD.

...Bokurano is lovely XD. I don't care if it totally strayed from the manga at this point, I do really enjoy it ^_^. I guess I just like anime and manga version of a same story to differ somehow, be it in plot-development, character portray, general different taste given to the anime by a director. Of course, total mangling of the original concept is not even taken into account, ha's an entirely different issue .

Kirie-kun, you were wonderful,Ushiro-kun, you're a sublime evil person *_*. Ijou. I can't wait for the subs to appear .

I've also seen new promo pages with characters pictures for Gundam 00 and Tieria keeps scaring me: if that's a man, it's not funny, really (he/it does even look a little like me, it's...disturbing °°).If she's a woman pretending to be a man, I hope Kamiya-kun gives his best playing...her? After all he doesn't have a particularly sexy deep voice. Well, well ^^.Off to listen to terra Fandisc 2 and get rid of depression.

In the remote case you were wondering if I had indeed seen Terra e 22, the answer is yes. I just needed time to digest it, since I spent most of the watching time bawling my eyes out.

( Spoilers, not really coherent text inside XD )

Death Note kinkiness quiz; I will get around to watching the anime, one day.Really XD.

( Read more... )


I am still somewhat stunned at the possible Gundam00 part 1/Geass part 2/ Gundam00 part 2 marathon. I have to set my expectations to the LOW bar, I guess -sigh-.

I was tagged by sakura_watanuki so here it gooes, with much thanks to Winamp XD.


List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

In order of apparition rather than actual value rating :

1)Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Virtual Star Hasseigaku.. This is the series'2nd opening and Saionji's 3rd duel chorus. I love it to bits, because it's so...Utena XD.

2) Hitomi: Planetes . The ending of the Planetes'final episode. This is so beautiful my neighbour happened to listen to it while walking up our street, and asked me for a copy XD.

3) DOES: Shura, Gintama Benizakura arc ED: Very catchy if a little hard on the ears.

4) Higurashi no naku koro ni: Higurashi OP. Errie, creeepy, enchanting,lovely **.

5) Hitomi Takahashi; Jet Boy, Jet Girl, Terra e...OP 2: I'm liking this more and more each time I listen to it.

6) Two-Mix: White Reflection: Gundam Wing Endless Waltz ED: I don't know, I just love Wing's songs XD.

7)Jinsei Bimi Raisan, Ali Project: Insane, totally insane *_*.


And now...( SPOILERS and much grief for beauty lost )

This is what's inside my so-called brains, apparently. The huge amount of H, fun, and general want do not surprise me in the slightest. Although it should have been a Y rather than an H, I believe :P.

I had it done once again with my real name and I got a skull filled with Study, Money, Rest, in that order.It's probably true. I feel so empty and uninteresting -laughs-.

You can have it done here ^^: http://maker.usoko.net/nounai/

Oh, back to studying, and more translating later ^^.

In the end they came sooner than expected, and now I'm holding the precious Terra e...Limited Edition DVD1 in my hands, as well as the BL extra fan-disc with wonderful SaigaXSugitan rambling. Much, much love to the both of them, for the manga reading session and the priceless Wakamoto impersonation by Sugita.
Shangri-La Shiritsu Gakuen totally destroyed any semblance of seriousness the characters have in the actual story.Can't wait for Keith to be introduced and completely overhaulted **. The first 3 episodes are probably the weakest of all of them so far...Which isn't to say they're bad.Actually they're a pretty good introduction to the story setting and core problems.

Oh! And if you were wondering (of course you were **), DVDs are also equipped with Japanese subtitles, something I'd basically never seen XD,and discovered by mistakingly playing with the remote.

Of course the customs were really happy to deliver me the goods with an extra 13 euros' worth of taxes, fees and stuff the State generally wants to rob us of with an excuse. Why isn't Japan a part of Europe I wonder XD.


( Per voi italici speranzosi nel sub di Terra e...ho una questione da sottoporvi XD )

The cast was announced at the Hobby Chara in Tokyo. It was announced as a splendid cast with many well known names, but the truth is , among the list the only names I easily recognised were those of the 4 pilots. ^^'
I am a tad disappointed there's no Sakurai, no Fukuyama almost no interesting people XD and no Minagawa ç_ç, but anyway.Much happiness for MikiShin as Lockon.I'm sure he'll be my fave chara. And Tieria is voiced by a man...so he's a man after all °______°'''. And Mamo is Setsuna !^^

Anyway here they are:

Setsuna F Seiei: Mamoru Miyano

Lockon Stratos: Shinichiro Miki

Alleluja Haptism: Hiroyuki Yoshino

Tieria Erde : Hiroshi Kamiya (i.e. Zetsubou Sensei XDD)

The other people are very much unknown to me, except for Chiwa Saito, who's playing Louise, Yasunori Matsumoto and Yuuji Ueda.

Sumeragi Ri Noriega: Youko Honna
Alejandro Corner: Yasunori Matsumoto
Wang Liu Mi: Kei Shindou
Hong Rong: Kenji Takahashi
Lasse Aion: Hiroki Touchi
Felt Grace: Ayahi Takagaki
Christina Sierra: Arise Satou
Lichtendahl Caeli: Masataka Azuma
Haro: Arisa Ogasawara
Billy Katagiri: Yuji Ueda
Graham Acre: Yuuichi Nakamura
Patrick Corlasawar: Kenji Hamada
Saji Crossroad: Miyu Irino
Kinue Crossroad: Aya Endo
Louise Halevy: Chiwa Saitou
Marina Ismail: Ayumi Tsunematsu
Sergei Smirnov: Unshou Ishizuka
Ioria Schuhenberg: Chikao Ohtsuka


Well, lets' cross or fingers, and wait for a masked evil character to appear XDD .

I had been waiting for it for what, er...2 weeks,actually, but I couldn't wait for the reunion between the Aoyagi brothers XDD.

( Spoilers, just in case )

Kouga, write more, you evil bitch witch. I need longer chapters ç_____ç...What is going to happen to Soubi, I wonder. He's the most fragile character now, more than ever, and he has to confront his dreaded past and his happier present
reuniting. Here's hoping the next chapter will be in next month's issue, at least ^^'.

To make this post somewhat worthier I'll attach a meme that's been doing the rounds lately in my f-list, lastly seen on nayami.

Comment with a fandom, and I'll answer these.
01) The first character I fell in love with:
02) The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
03) The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
04) The character I love that everyone else hates:
05) The character I would shag anytime:
06) The character I’d want to be like:
07) The character I’d slap:
08) A pairing that I love:
09) A pairing that I despise:
10) Favorite character:

I think I don't need to explain what my fandoms are but in case: most Gundams, Loveless, Toward the Terra, Angel Sanctuary, Utena, X/Tokyo Babylon, Nana,Saint Seiya, Versailles no bara...you name it XDD.