❝Parallel Days❞

Rest in Peace, Kawakami Tomoko

2011-06-10T12:28:55Z

April 25, 1971 – June 9, 2011
Kawakami Tomoko

I feel devastated, it's like there's a big whole only leaving emptiness behind. She brought so many characters to life, especially her voice as Hikaru will always be close to my heart. The emotional realism of her voice-acting made me laugh and cry so many times. She was only 40. Her life work will be remembered and treasured by us fans.

Rest in Peace.

Star Driver Finale (Spoiler free)

2011-04-03T16:05:57Z

This is how I feel about Star Driver after watching the last episode.

The good:
→minor characters (Sakana, Daddy, Prof. Green!!)
→animation
→soundtrack (Monochrome ~version de l'apprivoiser~)
→background story (Head, Mizuno, Adult Bank)
→references & foreshadowing

The bad:
→Takuto
→Sugata
→Wako
→pacing!!!
→presentation of the main story
→too many unnecessary loose ends

Favorite episode: Episode 5, Prof. Green's love story is adorable and hilarious.

In case you dropped it after Sakana-chan left, the relevant episodes to understand the finale are 6,7,8 - 11 - 12 - 14,15,16 - 20 - 22 - 24,25. You can pretty much skip all the other episodes. I really liked how the background story connected the minor characters, however, I didn't feel emotionally involved and attached to the main trio at all.

Epic? No. It could have been great, the well-planned plot was always there, but the main story just fell a bit flat in the end: Good writing, but bland main characters.

(ﾉゝ∀･)~キラ☆ KIRABOSHI!

#prayforjapan #tsunami "We are strong!"

2011-03-17T22:23:22Z

#prayforjapan #tsunami

Inoue Takehiko gives me so much hope for drawing these smiles everyday on Twitter (@inouetake), inspiring and encouraging everyone to be strong in these times of hardships after the tsunami. When I saw Anzai-sensei's smiling face, I almost cried because I was so touched. He's drawn more than 30 faces in the last few days after the natural disaster.

"We are strong!"

You can check out his beautiful drawings here.

Never Forget.

2010-09-28T09:24:47Z

28th September 2008
Lelouch Lamperouge
Good night, Sweet Prince.

The following quote pretty much conveys my feelings:

2 years ago today. It really doesn't seem like all that long ago. I think we still miss Lelouch every day though... every Sunday is a little empty without him and all his wonderful multi-colored friends, in their rollerskating Gundams, with their homoerotic hand gestures. I hope Lelouch comes home someday soon.

SHOUNEN JUMP FRIENDING MEME 2010

2009-12-30T00:57:11Z

New friends for a New Year :D

shounen jump

friending meme

2010

FILL THIS OUT:

PIMP CODE:

Sorry, if I spammed the hell out of your f-list!
Edit (09-01-2010): Enabled custom comment pages for my journal again, for a light version, click here.

Farewell

2009-09-08T11:59:43Z

friends cut

There are three things that can not be united: Intelligence, Decency and National Socialism.
You can be intelligent and a Nazi. Then you are not decent.
You can be decent and a Nazi. Then you are not intelligent.
And you can be decent and intelligent. Then you're not a Nazi.
--Gerhard Bronner

I respect differences in opinion, however, I will not condone any support of nationalism on my f-list; knowing my anti-nazi standpoint, it makes me feel honestly disgusted that there are still so many people thinking in such a xenophobic way.

Thank you for understanding & thanks for the time being my fandom-friend, nevertheless, I believe our differences in politics are just too huge to overlook.

Happy Birthday, France!

2009-07-14T08:40:18Z

In France, watching the Défilé militaire du 14 juillet right now.

Bon Anniversaire, Nii-chan ♥

↺ Today is Bastille Day!
↺ I really love looking up the exact hexadecimal values of flags :D
↺ Tag for Happy Birthday, France pictures on pixiv ♥
↺ Unfortunately, I can't draw a birthday pic for him, because my graphic tablet is at home in Hamburg and don't have a scanner here ;_;
↺ 15 days until France's character single release and my birthday :D
↺ omg, awesome parade, I love the aircrafts that are spraying smoke messages in the sky, in this case the French flag ♥

new fma

2009-04-05T17:59:04Z

S-so touching... baww.
ALPHONSE ;_;

Bones tops my expectations, so awesome ♥ and I really don't have to worry about getting my Sunday anime fix, I totally worried about the void after Geass & Gundam 00's ending due to the lack of Sunrise mecha this spring, but all the other new series will keep me entertained :D

buono tomato buono tomato

2009-03-29T17:00:52Z

Downloading Gundam 00's last episode right now, but I don't really look forward to watching it ~~(actually don't really care)~~ because of this...

buono tomato buono tomato buono tomato buono tomato
buono tomato buono tomato buono tomato buono tomato

♩ ♥ ROMANO♥ ♩
↑ I even looked up the exact hexadecimal values of the Italian flag... lmao!
Sooo catchy, so adorable, so tsundere, so moe Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ omg, Spain/Italy <3
BEST.CHARACTER.SONG.EVER. DOWNLOAD IT. I'VE UPLOADED IT HERE IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO THE SONG (omfg, track 2)!
I'm so glad our fridge is full of tomatoes ♥

So, according to Animate, the release date for France's character single is July 29th... my all important age-of-majority birthday ;A; Ahhhh, really do want as a birthday present, Nii-chan and I were meant for each other... too bad that my parents don't know about this lj C:

Taking a nap while listening to おいしい☆トマトのうた～ロマーノ～ = awesome ♥ uhh, btw, updated my profile a bit 8Db!

Ya-Ha!

2009-03-18T19:38:18Z

Sports is seriously my most favorite genre when it comes down to shounen/seinen anime & manga. asdfghff... Just saying.

View Poll: Sport series?

MIYATAAAAAAA, why so moe ;_; ♥♥♥♥

history in making

2009-01-20T16:39:26Z

piccu is watching Obama's inauguration.

CNN.com live stream: http://tinyurl.com/74r756

Gundam 00 OP2: Namida no Mukou by Stereopony

2009-01-12T08:20:23Z

EXTREME PROCRASTINATION RIGHT NOW... more later D:

Gundam 00 OP2: Namida no Mukou by Stereopony

If you can't wait for the single, here's an mp3 from the latest Gundam 00 episode in TV-Size (1:34) ripped by me (:

128 kbit/s | 1.45MB | DL:BOX | DL:MF
(if you want a higher quality version, wait for the actual single release)

Awesome + Nightmare = this week

2008-12-14T22:51:10Z

the bad thing first; My visual arts trial exam on wednesday was worse than the worst possile nightmare...

but this week has still been pretty awesome; I found a portemonnaie on friday after school, now guess what I did!
When I was at the bus stop A the visual display indicated that I still had to wait 8 minutes for the bus home which is why I decided to take a short walk to the electronic marktet at the train station. After I got the latest advertising folder (and was shocked to see that they were selling the iPod touch 20€ cheaper now .__.), I decided to head back to the bus stop thus I took the escalator down.

That's when I suddenly saw the purse lying behind a photobooth and telephone semi-boxes and started to run up that certain down escalator. Hey, I'm pretty sure that irritated some people using the escalator, but I didn't care.

I lifted up the portemonnaie and was quite surprised to see that that it was quite big, filed with lots of important stuff, such as account cards and ID card of a woman - and money. Quite a lot, about 80€ in bills and lots of coins (approximately 10€, I guess).
To my relief, there was a carte de visite of a sculptress which corresponded to the ID card's name which is why I knew that it was the owner's.
So I immeditely went straight to that telephone semi-booth, where I waited a few minutes for the man who occupied it to finish, when he told me that there was another telephone behind the pillar XD

Like usual, I didn't have any money with me, which is why I just took out a 1€ coin of the purse and dialed the mobile number on that carte de visite. Unfortunately, the mobile phone was turned off thus I reached the automatic answering service where I left a message that I had found that woman's purse and left our home's telephone number.
Since there were still 50 cents left for calling, I decided to call the the landline number number on that carte when a male voice answered. I was pretty confused for a fraction of a second, and I thought that I had dialed the wrong number, but it turned out to be that sculptress' husband. He was at first pretty perplexed when I told him I found a purse with that carte de visite and was using the phone from that train station, since his wife was still in her workshop. After having asked where I lived ("That's on the other side of the train station right?"), we decided that it was best to leave my phone number and his wife or himself would contact me later at home.

Since the bus was coming in 8 minutes, I unfortunately obviously missed it and came back home later than usually on Fridays, at 2:40 PM I reckon. So I talked to my sister via Google Talk while I was waiting for the phone call and told her about the purse.

At around 4:45, the telephone rang and the woman asked me where I lived so that she could pick up her purse and I told her our last name and address ("Oh, that's on the other side of the train station right?") so that the would know which bell to ring. Just about 20 minutes later the doorbell signalled that she had arrived and she told me that she didn't notice losing her purse at all and wouldn't have notced it till much later if she hadn't turned on her mobile phone and heard my voice message. She said that she was both surprised and touched that I immediately left a message which made me very feel kind of honoured. So I handed her the purse and she asked me whether it was alright to look into it ("Why, of course"). She was even happier that everything was still inside since she told me it's normal that people just take out the money and throw the purses away later.
She asked me whether she could do something for me, and decided to give me finder's reward which I thankfully received since it it almost Christmas.
Than she emphasized that she was so glad and asked me why I reacted so fast, I answered:

"If one loses their purse, they'd be be extremely if someone called them and said; 'Don't worry, I found your purse', right?"
"Did this happen to you?"(referring to losing a purse) she asked me.
"Nope, I don't even have a purse that I could lose."
Thereupon she laughed, thanked me again and wished me a Merry Christmas.

See, it's not difficult to make oneself and someone else happy with small things like this, and I can still feel my endorphins bubbling whenever I think about it.

Have a good night and a nice week!

piccu @ 2008-12-08T12:44:00

2008-12-08T11:45:50Z

LOL FREE PERIOD AT SCHOOL RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE BIOLOGY LESSON GOT CANCELLED :DDDDD!
Guess what I'm doing, I'm watching Gundam 00 :D

piccu @ 2008-11-18T20:25:00

2008-11-18T19:04:54Z

Server moving finished AND I'M STILL LEARNING FOR BIOLOGY O.O
There must be something wrong with this world...

trick or treat? - I'M NOT TOOO LATE, AM I?

2008-11-01T10:53:18Z

lol not too late, right? Went to the art gallery yesterday, where they performed Nick Hornby's "NippleJesus", thus excuse my lateness :D

1. Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.
2. Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.
3. Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy, lulz. ¦D
4. List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link!

~~don't have any candies yet... anyway DO IT! :D~~
sorry, for my lack of activity, school = arrrrgh and my mail account has been malfunctioning as well, so if there's something you want to say, leave a message here XD

WTF

2008-10-10T11:45:35Z

Hey, I'm back; I just wanted to write something about my France trip, but this is asdfghjkl WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

Huge Detective Conan spoiler

Final boss revealed in Detective Conan
コナン「博士の発明の最高作品ってなんなんだ？」
博士「大人を子供にするクスリじゃよ」
コナン「な…に…」

Conan: What's the greatest invention you ever made, Dr.?
Dr.: A drug that made adults into children.
Conan: Wha...What...
source: 4chan

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT, ~~it's actually ending sooon?!~~ AGASAAAAAAAAAAA?!

super angsty SCHOOL-STARTS-IN-LESS-THAN-8-HOURS entry

2008-08-27T21:48:33Z

As promised, here's my obligatory super angsty SCHOOL-STARTS-IN-LESS-THAN-8-HOURS entry. Apart from learning awesome English vocabulary like to exaverbate or ostentaious, I absolutely did nothing for school in the past 6 weeks.

BUT THERE'S SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO KNOW BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP:

View Poll: GAY, PLZ

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side is awesome ♥, I've finished a long entry about it that will be posted later. Everyone's so moe ;_;
Sorry, had to repost the poll since my I forgot to close the bold-tag on fabulous in the poll and messed up my journal :/

tokimemo~~~ ♥

2008-08-25T00:51:33Z

I just recently got into Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, a popular otome game produced by Konami and I've spent almost the last five days playing 2nd Season. I got to say that it's enormously entertaining, although the mini-games were admittedly very pestering, until I got the hang of those...

Unlike in 1st Love, where I immediately fell for Hazuki Kei (the main guy, who's the childhood promised one, PERFECT, but slightly uppish Prince ♥__♥), I'm not too fond of Saeki, he's just irritating me with his attitude, although I do love tsunderes usually ;_;. But I'll give my final judgnement, after I've finished everyone else to lastly capture him...
However, thank goodness, my fairy-tale prince appeared as a preset character on the first day of school:

Wakaouji Takafumi - the heroine's homeroom and science teacher ♥
Where do I begin... Firstly, from the aesthtic aspect, Sensei is absoloutely gorgeous ♥ >///<
However, since this should be a given for capturable otome game characters;
I'll just furtherly elaborate on the reason why he's irresitable:
↗ Personality-wise, he's such a sweet heart; Wakaouji-sensei is kind but slightly dorky, which places him at the top of my moe~ scale!
↗ He's exceptionally intelligent and a science genius, possessing an IQ of 200!
↗ Albeit this wasn't explicitely stated in the game, I assume that he's fairly young for a teacher because of his highly developped intellect.
↗ On top of that, he's pretty athletic which he demonstartes in one of the Track & Field Club practices
↗ He never takes off his white coat at school, uses the bunsen burner as a cooking device and drinks coffee out of a beaker;
(Not to mention that every middle/high schooler should know it's absoloutely dangerous ^^) HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM?! ♥

I really love Wakaouji-sensei and his scenes, espcially the accidental kiss and his confession are utmost adorable; I couldn't help it but randomly scream "Sensei~~~~" throughout his route. >///< *kyaaa* I honestly was too infatuated with him that I almost didn't notice three other guys bombed me...

For the following playthrough, I decided to go after the official mystery character in GS2:

Akagi Kazuyuki - the mysterious student from Habataki High School ♥
Out of all characters in 2nd Season, I consider his personality the most even-minded, Akagi's stubborn, a bit shy but overall very mindful. His relationship to the heroine's got one of the best chemistries - if not the best:
↗Their interaction conveys a very natural feeling, the way they affectionately dispute doesn't come off forced at all and is fairly realistic.
Since he is from another school and the official mystery character, the requirements are consequently quite tiring:
↗ The heroine has to go shopping. A lot. The first time they meet is by chance when both them take shelter from the rain.
↗ Their conversations are absolutely amusing, for instance when both of them keep being stubborn to let the other have the umbrella until a random person snatches the last one XD;.
↗ Apparently, the heroine has got to go shopping FIFTY times in total in order to get his confession and I can tell you that it's quite annoying, espceially when you're broke and the only to do is go window shopping ;P
↗ Although, he modestly denied that he's particularly outstanding at school , it is revealed later that he's actually the Student Council President of Habatak High (which is an elite school btw and the setting of First Love) and thus obviously very intelligent. ♥
Once again, this is another character I absolutely adore, there's a lot character development going on in their few scenes and I love how the misunderstandings between him and the heroine are overcome.

Now, the last one before school starts for me, the DS Only - ultimate recluse charcter *dies of moe*

Komori Taku - the moe hikkikomori transfer student
↗ Komori's the shy, self-conscious and very sensitive 2nd year transfer student the heroine meets if her Social stats are high enough.
↗After his rather awkward introduction where he has spoken too quietly for anyone to understand, Komori starts ditching school.
↗ Since absolutely no one's able to resist Sensei's request (I, at least, can't XD), the heroine starts visiting Komori regularly in order to persuade him to come to school.
↗ With regularly, I MEAN STALKING AND LINGERING IN FRONT OF HIS DOOR/BALCONY EVERYDAY SCHOOLDAY.
↗ He's got the CUTEST dialect I've ever heard. * A* I LOVE THE WAY HE SAYS "IKUBE"
↗ At first, he's not talkative at all thus his answers are really simplistic, but after a while he slowly opens up and even let's the starving heroine in to eat some soup.
↗ Random adorable conversation:

Heroine: Let's go to school!
Komori:....................Itterasshai.

↗ When both of them are on a date at the Aquarium, HE SAYS THAT HE WANTS TO SEE THE DOLPHINS, SO VERY MOEEEEE (pic related)
↗ After that date, he finally appears in front of the heroine the next day in his Hanegasaki uniform *A* WITH A BRAND NEW HAIR CUT ;_; That was so utmost adorable I was going to die.

Komori's route is so indescribably cute and I love the character development portrayed by Konami. His confession scene is so absolutely loveable ♥♥♥ and I can't stop going totally "moe~~".

My overall impression of this game is extremely positive and I must admit that I like it more than the Alice series by QuinRose; you can see by the details and thought-out scenarios that Konami has put much effort into Tokimemo. The conversations flow very well and all the confessions I've heard so far had a certain something that was lacking in the former mentioned games.

Too bad that I'm not as motivated to play the other guys' routes, I shouldn't have played the ones I find most attention-grabbing first. orz

Gundam 00 Another Story "MISSION-2306"

2008-07-22T20:19:47Z

I've finished listening to the Gundam 00 "MISSION-2306" Drama CD and words fail to describe what I'm feeling right now.
I love you, SUNRISE. I seriously love you and I can even forgive the ridicule you've done to Code Geass.

OMG ♥ HAMU-SENSEI x SETSUNA ♥

→ OMG MIYANO MAMORU'S "CHO~RISU" ♥
→ MASSIVE ABUSE OF "You're the one that has stolen my heart"
→ TIERIA'S "GOKIGENYOU"
→ Hallelujah getting his ass kicked by Hamu-sensei using his attacks GAYHAMU PUNCH, HAMU KICKU AND HAMU JUMP AND SCREAMING CHORISU
→ HAMU-SENSEI BEING A PERVERT, EMBRACING SETSUNA AND AGAIN MASSIVE ABUSE OF "You're the one that has stolen my heart" ♥ *KYAAAAAAAA* (*^.^*)
→ 2x Allelujah: "Lockon....my body hurts..."
→ EVIL KATAGIRI
→ HAMU KAMEN SAVES THE DAY
→ LONELY NARRATOR
→ LMAO, BEST UTILIZATION OF H/Alle's CATCHPHRASES IN "HALLELUJAH NO HI" (DRAMA CD EXTRA)

"Isn't this fun? Allelujah?" and "Is that my true nature? If that's so, I'm... not a human being"

Notwithstanding Gundam 00's fandom is pretty active again, I'm not amused by the hate meme *facepalm*. Comments locked because this entry's obviously too spazzy.

To arushiraoi: I'm not sure whether I'll be back on Friday TT__TT, it doesn't look too good.
CHO~RISU!

piccu @ 2008-07-21T02:05:00

2008-07-20T23:50:07Z

HOLY CHRIST WHAT HAPPENED TO WIKIPEDIA A FEW MINUTES MINUTES AGO?!?!?!?! (ABOUT at 1:40 AM IN MY TIMEZONE GMT+1)

I'M SCARED D:

"This is the Zodiac speaking. Tell all the other websites that they are in for a big treat. Tommorow I will begin spreading my reign, but digress, I will not leave you, because you provide me with such comfort. I think you people should put little 申 boxes on your pages, because I own this website now."

WTF?!?!?!

WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS; I WAS ONLY CHECKING WIKI FOR DOCTOR WHO AND AVATAR - THE LAST BLAHBLAH.

EDIT: THAT TAB IS STILL OPEN; WHAT DO I DO KNOW? TAKE TONS OF SCREENSHOTS?
EDIT2: FULL SCREEN TO SEE THE CELTIC CROSS AND WTF; WHY HASN'T ANY NEWS WEBSITE REPORTED ABOUT THAT?! IT SAYS "Nicktoons" AT THE BOTTOM BECAUSE I WANTED TO READ THE AVATAR ENTRY FOR WIKIPEDIA.
EDIT3: 5:20 AM (GMT+1), back D:

bestest fandom!secret post ever:

2008-07-20T22:02:23Z

▪ This could have been me:

8D
For the longest time I really thought that Doctor Who was actually Doctor House and was even more confused when our teacher told us that we were going to watch an episode during the time we dealed with Shakespeare. As my English teacher asked us whether anyone had heard about the Doctor Who series the only thing he's gotten were the perplexed faces of my classmates.
Glad that I didn't embarass myself since I almost wanted raise my hand to reply: "Isn't it a series about that unusual drug-addicted medical doctor?"

It took me long enough to realize that Doctor Who's about time-travel although a British buddy of mine recommened me that series years ago. Unlike Doctor House, Doctor Who doesn't air here in Germany after all. Is it really that awesome?

▪ OMG WTF @ SECRET 160
CAN'T UNSEE. ROLO :O

pokemon

2008-07-13T18:04:36Z

Yes, I love Pokémon as much as Ash loves Gary.

Since my summer vacation will start soon, I'll surely have more time to devote myself to continue playing Pokemon Diamond which I haven't touched for months now... orz (still 5 badges, I think D:)
If you need any specific Pokemon that are exclusive to Diamond, I'll try to do my best XD;;

List of Pokemon that I'm going to catch for arushiraoi
→ Murkrows
→ Seel
→ Scyther

UEFA European Football Championship

2008-06-29T20:31:27Z

Everyone's totally hyped because of the UEFA European Football Championship; today's the final with Germany playing against Spain.
Admittedly, I'm glad that it's almost over...

♪ 「退屈」はもう限界です // I've had enough of boredom ♪

I'm not even watching, but according to a live ticker, a Spanish player scored a goal after 33 minutes. Right now, it's the 88th minute and still 0:1 for Spain, seems like Germany's going to lose... Oh well

♪ I don't care, I don't care, I don't care... ♪

Additionally, the student reps at my school have decided that Monday's going to be "Flag Day" where we're supposed to show our enthusiasm for the country we support. Hahaha, I can't wait to see everyone's disappointed faces tommorrow *schadenfreude* 8Db! I'm just totally indifferent to football and championships (except the World Cup)...

♪ 正しいかどうかを確かめに行くのですか？// Whether it's right or wrong, will you go and find out?

♪ Sha la la... I sing for you // Sha la la... fight for myself ♪

Yes, I'm a sadist.

Edit: As expected, Germany lost

[Scanlation] Supreme Sugar 03 (07-Ghost)

2008-06-20T13:36:56Z

Hi there,

I come sharing the scanlation to 07-Ghost's official doujinshi by the original manga-ka, Supreme Sugar 03!

Title: Supreme Sugar 03
Author/Circle: Yukimachiya (Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara)
Pairings: None exiplit pairings, hints only
Genre: Crack and Drama
Rating: Worksafe

Notes: takes place in alternate universes of 07-Ghost, the first 4 pages are comedy, the latter part of the doujinshi is pure drama (prepare to be heart broken ;_;)

Thanks to sigrunic for scanning and onkei_kun for translating!
Edited by me 4 months ago and totally forgot to post it... XD(piccu)

Download here @07ghost