Sept 2010 B's Log and Girl's Style ^0^

I went to Kinokuniya in Little Tokyo in LA yesterday and got me a few otome game magazines. It's super rare to find them because most of the time they'll be gone. I got into otome games about a year ago. Otome games are girl dating simulation or visual novels where you play the a girl trying to win the heart of a bunch of hot guys. They are geared toward female crowd so you'll see typically see stereotypes of male you find in shoujo manga: smart one, sporty one, cool ones, bad boys, pretty boys and so on. Let's talk about the 2 magazines.

Sept. 2010 B's Log



B's Log is a monthly magazine that covers up and coming otome games, BL games, yaoi games and otome anime. The cover of September 2010 B's Log has 3 of the guys from NDS game Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3Story (TMGS3) with freebies which contain Hakuouki chibi characters stickers, Saitou from Hakuouki photo, a SYK chara photo, a TMGS3 full poster(2 side/ one side has the cover of b's log and the other has all the guys in TMGS3), and a sticker of one of the TMGS3 chara. Inside has info on new otome, BL, and yaoi games that are coming out and info on current games. This issue also covers Gakuen Hetalia Portable, Sengoku Basara 3 game and Last Ranker game. It's a full color magazine with lots of bishies(pretty boys) in it ^O^.

Hakuouki stickers



Other goodies





Sept 2010 Girl's Style




Degenki Girl's Style is also another of otome game magazine that cover otome games and Visual Novels, yaoi games, and BL games. September 2010 Degenki Girl's Style magazine cover has 3 of the guys from the PSP game Storm Lover with a freebie of double sided poster of the guys from Durarara. This month Girl's Style cover many otome games and has hints of how to win different games characters. I'm seeing a lot of history related games in this issues too. A new Durarara! game is coming out on PSP and it has a male character I haven't seen before. It also cover a bit of Hakuouki season 2 anime where you'll see the bishies in their western clothing. Yes, lots of bishies too.

Movies review: School Days with the Pig

Here's a review of a movie I watched recently >o< Schooldays with A Pig Basics: The story is about a six grade teacher who brought a baby pig for his whole class to raise for a year. At the end of the year, they will eat it. But will they eat little P-chan? That is the main question centering in this movie. Will the kid's attachments to the pig make them change their mind or will the piggy be sent to the slaughter center? Reaction: I've read pretty good reviews about this film and I had to agree. It was an enjoyable film to the very end. The teachers and students interaction in this movie was realistic. I absolutely love the debates the students had on what to do with P-chan. Also the baby pig was so adorable and I was able to see it grew as time pass. The movie really hit the topic of what's the value of a life that was not human. It was a very tough decision for them...I was crying with them toward the final debates too because it was so emotional. To me there was no right or wrong in their decision. >o<

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a little addicted to otome games...and some amv

i got addicted in playing tokimeki memorial 2nd season girls side for a few weeks. it was so fun w/ the little bit of japanese that i know....however i didn't end up w/ anyone @ the end >o<

wanted to show some amv that i did. can't believe it was 4 years ago since i've done one.

my 1st amv...hana champloo w/ Orange Range-Hana...i was addicted to both of this and i got inspire to make this amv...however i was low in raw ep. ended up using majority of the 1st ep of champloo. i like this one cuz i did it in 2 weeks and the music and flow is pretty decent...lip synch didn't work out though.

hana champloo



this one is my 2nd amv...not quite amv it's like lots of scene w/ music. my aim was comedy between fma and midori no hibi

a little addicted to otome games...and some amv

midori love fma



currently i'm awaiting for some inspiration to make a new amv ><.


sore jya matta ne.

Tsukareta

A new year and a new beginning. Hope everyone had a good new years. Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!!(Happy new year!! in Japanese)

So throughout the winter break I was able to finish the anime: Seirei no Moribito and Ga-rei Zero. They were both great story of different genre. I was able to finish watching the drama Ryuusei no Kizuna(was very good). I went through a NDS game obsession by playing different Japanese games. I was addicted to ouendan and taiko drumming for a while. Awaiting for winter season anime but I will keep the viewing @ the minimum.

Kohaku Utau Gassen for 2008 was on the last day of December. I didn't get to see it on TV but i saw some clips on-line. It's a good show. A ton of famous Japanese singers divide into white and red team and they perform their hits of 2008 and some classics. There are variaty of music from pop to enka (traditional Japanese music). They even did a recognition section to the director Hayao Miyazaki.

winter break

finals owatta. finish w/ finals and now time for manga, anime, j-drama, v-games, and more. but it's weird how you got time but you don't feel like doing all these stuff. now i can catch up to some new and old j-drama and j-movies. i'm awaiting more new christmas singles by j-artists and the new years red and white contest on new years. wonder if any of my fav. artists will be there.

this is the current fav christmas songs by Kat-tun. i remember that 2 of the guys are from gokusen 2. theis ballad is pretty nice.

Kat-tun-White X'mas

new season of anime in winter

Winter season of anime is coming in January. a lot of them tends to be a continuing season of something.

i'm looking forward to another season of Natsume Yujinchou and Tetsuwan Birdy Decode

i also heard the news that FMA is going to have a new series by April next year...perhaps the story is going to be like the manga...can't wait to see that

here's a pv of Hi-Fi CAMP -Kizuna...this is one of the song use in the Japanese movie: Boku no Kanojou wa Cyborg(my girlfriend's a cyborg)- All the scene in this pv was taken from the movie. It was a pretty good movie. It's a Japanese film by a korean director of the famouse movie My Sassy Girl. The main actress was cute and the main guy was funny. Strange ending though.

Testing First Blog

yoroshiku!! >.<

testing testing. i'm curious in making a blog so this will be a blog w/ mixture of j-pop culture + anything that's interesting.

I just watch the Japanese film Welcome to the Quiet Room today and it was pretty good. The story revolved around a female magazine journalist, Asuka being admitted to the psychiatric ward for attempted suicide by drug overdose. She had no clue how she got there and as time goes by, she meet eccentric characters within the ward and realize the truth in her stays.




new j-artist obsession
Flumpool-hana ni nare



they remind me of some band i knew before