*cough*
Anyways I did get some anime related stuff so hurrah!
A Misa nendoroid! Ah LQ pic but still Misamisa!
I also got Higurashi dvds... well more specifically one because the rest didn't arrive in time, I got When They Cry vol 3 in time, 2 arrived the other day and 1 has yet to arrive XD.
I had to change my dvd player to multi-regional but google is my friend for that matter. Shame I'll probably never get the rest because of Geneon and all the stuff with them distrubution and all that~
Also Battle Royale vol 1 - Oh very very good, nice and gory, sadistic even and the story is very interesting and keeps going by the fact you really do not know what is going to happen next.. Thanks for that [Chibi]
I now have Princess Mononoke on dvd! Haven't got around to watching it yet, maybe tonight... kinda funny because it was actually on TV today - channel 4 too...
Games-wise -
Super Mario Galaxy - Argh I really can't believe how little I have played on this so far, so little time, brother on wii, other games etc Must play this in a huge marathon very soon!
Metroid Prime 3 : Corruption - OH WOW I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME. Aha cruise contol aside this game is beautiful, I'm not so far with this either but it's what I've played the most, the controls are fantastic and the levels and graphics and style make me drool, I don't even like FPS but i love this game, Red Steel was a pain to play from the bad pointing and camera etc but this is wonderful *_*~
Pokemon Battle Revolution - heh, I haven't even played this because I chose a very bad time to start a new game on Diamond - level 24 as my strongest probably won't get me anywhere!
Brothers games -
Super Paper Mario - This game looks really fun, proved more to the fact he's addicted to it. It is very text heavy but the geeky chameleon makes up for it, search for it on youtube hillarious level. He's playing it right now :)
Simpsons game (PS2) - Oh dear, I haven't played it but it looks kind of awful, I have nothing wrong with cel-shading but the backgrounds and levels look cel overload! He says it's funny though so there's that, but one of the worst cameras ever.
Big Brain Academy (DS) - Looks fun must steal sometime - edit: it's bloody fun but im only good at memorising (all 9 gold medals) so i'm a C- TT__TT
Sonic & Mario at the Olympic games - I fail bad at this game the only thing I could win was swimming as Peach XD but it is fun and Sonic + Mario = ACE. Pretty much...
Also Christmas brings money
Money brings wonderful things--
I bought Final Fantasy III for the DS preowned - verrry addictive game but yet again I haven't played on it as much as i should >.>
MANGAAA-
WOW Borders in Preston is so much better than my local Waterstones they really really did have everything but I didn't have enough money! Oh well I got some at least!
WOW Borders in Preston is so much better than my local Waterstones they really really did have everything but I didn't have enough money! Oh well I got some at least!
Full Moon O Sagashite (Searching For A Full Moon) Volume 1 - Arina Tanemura
Blurb - A bittersweet tale of puppy love, tragedy, and aspirations of pop star fame. A spark of hope ignites to a blaze in twelve-year-old Mitsuki Koyama when a comical pair of magical beings appear to prove to her that dreams really do come true.
Young Mitsuki love singing and dreams of becoming a pop star. Unfortunately, a malignant tumor in her throat prevents her from pursuing he passion. However, her life turns around when two surprisingly fun-loving harbingers of death appear to grant Mitsuki a temporary reprieve from her illness and give her singing career a magical push start.
Young Mitsuki love singing and dreams of becoming a pop star. Unfortunately, a malignant tumor in her throat prevents her from pursuing he passion. However, her life turns around when two surprisingly fun-loving harbingers of death appear to grant Mitsuki a temporary reprieve from her illness and give her singing career a magical push start.
Ah Volume 1 at the beginning of the story where Mitsuki is still at her grandmothers and has no chance of being a pop star to find Eichi - enter Takuto and Meroko and the story begins...
The thing I love about it is that when the story goes it really goes as in it doesn't take a whole volume to introduce what the whole series is about and Full Moon does it without rushing either. By chapter 2 you're already into the story and all that's left is to introduce all the characters and to develop them which is what will happen. I already had volumes 3,4 & 5 before 1&2 anyways because I prefer them due to Mitsuki and Takuto not being my favourite, I don't dislike them they just never really did anything great for me.. I love Arina Tanemura's notes and storys down the right hand sides of pages they're so fun to read, probably my favourite of all manga artists to read and the 4koma at the end are always so funny.
The thing I love about it is that when the story goes it really goes as in it doesn't take a whole volume to introduce what the whole series is about and Full Moon does it without rushing either. By chapter 2 you're already into the story and all that's left is to introduce all the characters and to develop them which is what will happen. I already had volumes 3,4 & 5 before 1&2 anyways because I prefer them due to Mitsuki and Takuto not being my favourite, I don't dislike them they just never really did anything great for me.. I love Arina Tanemura's notes and storys down the right hand sides of pages they're so fun to read, probably my favourite of all manga artists to read and the 4koma at the end are always so funny.
Hit - Arina's writing
- Beautiful art style
Miss - Mostly about Mitsuki and Takuto
- Pop star side of the story isn't my favourite.. Prefer the *drama* of later volumes.
Full Moon O Sagashite Volume 2 - Arina Tanemura
Blurb updated -
Now that Mitsuki has debuted in the pop world, she is faced with the dark side of the glitsz and glamour -- pretty jelousy and scheming that just might be her undoing. Will her love for Eichi be enough to keep her on the road to stardom? Or wil the schemes of a mysterious new Shinigami stop her dreams short?
Blurb updated -
Now that Mitsuki has debuted in the pop world, she is faced with the dark side of the glitsz and glamour -- pretty jelousy and scheming that just might be her undoing. Will her love for Eichi be enough to keep her on the road to stardom? Or wil the schemes of a mysterious new Shinigami stop her dreams short?
I really LOVE LOVE LOVE the cover for this volume, the colours are all really bright and it's the black on pink and the blue on pink, I actually accidently photocopied this when scanning, so at first I was like oh no not the coloured ink! But I love the cover so much it really doesn't matter! Izumi and Jonathan get their proper introduction in this volume and we're left with a cliffhanger! I forget how fast this series moves without feeling rushed, it's really beautiful I've read this so many times. Seriously if a shoujo fan has never read this there's something wrong with them! Also the anime doens't count, it's nice but it's full of pointless fillers and doens't have the same depth, also slight character personality changes but ah nothings perfect Full Moon is probably better suited for something like a drama than an anime anyways - the style doesn't carry through either but never mind. Things get serious for Mitsuki as in her soul due to Izumi being after it meaning things could turn for the worse for her... Now I just need Vol 6 & 7 and i'm complete and I can re-read it over and over again, again.
Bonus - Gin-yu Meika
A really sweet one shot manga, Kanon and Akayoshi are both extremely cute characters
Bonus - Gin-yu Meika
A really sweet one shot manga, Kanon and Akayoshi are both extremely cute characters
Hit - The cover!
- Gin-yu Meika
- Izumi and Jonathan
Miss - Mitsuki borders a bit on peachy clean friendship speeches sometimes, which are cute and heartwarming but not everybody's cup of tea~
School Rumble Volume 2 - Jin Kobayashi
I know I said I'd do this 3 days ago or something but but like games...
Blurb - Harima Kenji has never lost a fight but his love for the clueless Tsukamoto Tenma is proiving to be his greatest challenge. After catching his cherished Tenma-chan and an unexpected rival in a lunchtime tryst, Kenji spirals into the deepest pit of high school Hades - plummeting so low that there's only one thing left to do: draw a manga. When Kenji hits bottom, whom will he find ther? Meanwhile, Tenma is determined to learn how to cook - this time preferably without setting the house on fire!
I only read all of School Rumble the other month so everything is still pretty fresh in my mind so it wasn't as fun to read as the rest but still damn funny. Most of the funny stuff comes from Harima this volume and it still feels like it's introducing a lot of the characters, because it still is of course. It's not my favourite volume but the pool ball and baseball are both funny. Also after reading the VIZ manga and then going on to Tanoshimi is kind of hard because of the sfx, most people seem to prefer them left as they are but i can't stand all the tiny scribbles of sfx:doki doki. The student grades page at the end of the volume is left untranslated aswell.
Hit - Funnier bits with Harima and the class activities
- More about Eri with her dad.
Miss - The wierd supernatural chapter with Yakumo, I don't like any of these with her really...
- More about Eri with her dad.
Miss - The wierd supernatural chapter with Yakumo, I don't like any of these with her really...
Negima Volume 4 - Ken Akamatsu
Ok I lied again and I didn't get the Negima ones done yesterday - I'm a bad person etc.
This volume of Negima is the beginning of the Kyoto arc which means the beginning of the fights getting serious and more of the class getting involved with the magic. Evangeline tells Negi about his father's house in Kyoto but seen as he can't take a break out of school he takes the whole class with him on a school trip. I like this volume mostly from at the end with Nodoka she's extremely cute in my opinion and being brave enough to confess especially with how shy she is makes her one of my favourite characters.
Negima! Volume 5
This was of course my Christmas present from CC, I actually got it before volume 4 because my local waterstones hates having the volume 4 books of any series. They never have them. The first half is mostly filler right before the big fight with the pillow/kiss Negi battle. Nodoka finally makes her pactio which comes in handy against the new character (and probably my personal favourite) Kotaro Inugami. The next volume will definitely be exciting because the big fight they've been trying to avoid occurs.
Should be going to Manchester tomorrow - hopefully goodies will follow..
edit: I got some books so i will review them sometime D:
(Sgt Frog, More Full Moon and the second Shana novel! (I had no idea they were translated))
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