THERE AIN'T NO GETTIN' OFFA THIS TRAIN WE'RE ON

HEY GUYS I'M NOT DEAD

rebmastu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:51:24 GMT

I can't count how many times I've started a post like that. IDK, I lack imagination.

Anyway.

Sup.

I'm not doin' much.

Just chillin'.

I think I'll just link my LJ with my twitter (@rebmastu I'M SO ORIGINAL) because man, I can't post a coherent thought to save my life. I work better with blurbs.

Huh. Well. I guess that's it. Maybe I'll get spicy and use this as a practicing grounds for JP and SPA. I like alienating people. =D

THAT IS ALL. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON, ETC

Oh, Oh, Oh. I'm watching Animu this season, which I haven't done for a looong time. Symphogear and Inu Boku mainly, with some EVERYDAY LIVES OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS lol thrown in, plus BOOOODACIOUS PIRATES which I swear to god had better not troll me because euuurgghhh people are like HEY THIS IS AWESOME AN ACTUAL SHOW THAT DOESN'T HAVE GIRLY FANSERVICE! And what does the third episode do? IT RIPS OUT THE CLINGING SPACESUITS. But only for the girls, of course. The only guy on board wears the general equivalent of a sack.

DAMMIT.

My feet are asleep

rebmastu — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:02:14 GMT

AHHHH wake up feet dammit. I need a new layout. I've hated SLH like forever and everrrrrr and hell I hate both of those two but w/e I'm typing now, leave me alone to my derpy derps.

AHHHH I have a test in la clase de español por la mañana y necessito estudio muuuuucho pero yo cansaaaada hoy y.... No se. I don't even think any of that was right. OH WELL I LANGUAGE AND ARE SMRT.

以上！

Strange typing that much in one go. Follow me on twitter if you still remember who I is, same name as always. In the meantime, I am brainded. Want the next ep of fate zero nao pls. WHEEL OF TIME I AM COMIN FER YA

Whaaaaat

rebmastu — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:58:45 GMT

Dude, WTF? I'm away from LJ for a while and suddenly there's spambots EVERYWHERE.

In other news, sup hoes, I are return'd.

I guess.

Uh Huuuuuuh

rebmastu — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:28:12 GMT

Man, new years suck. Can't we have like, idk, 30 hours in a day or something? 'Cause I sure as shite could use the extra time.

Speaking of which, I only ever seem to post around this time of year anyway. Huh. How 'bout that. Can't say I have a decent excuse for any of it, though. But since the more you write the better you tend to be at it, I guess I may as well start up again. (Right, like we haven't heard this story before.)

Anywho... There's this doujinshi site I found a while back that had this *killer* deal on a pack of 15 Cardcaptor Sakura doujinshi, so I sprung on that about a month ago. Still no sign of 'em. I'm bummed out about it. I'm almost positive they can be trusted, since I've ordered from them several times before, but the wait's still kind of making me antsy. I guess it doesn't help that it's a pack of fifteen books to start with, lawl. I should probably give it a bit longer before writing it off as being lost in the mail. Oh man, I hope it's not lost. I was REALLY looking forward to that.

Aaaaagggghhhh. Oh well, at least the twelve days of doujinshi went off without a hitch this year. >=3 In fact, we even had surplus! Still finishing up those two Slayers doujinshi ryals_shoal scanned in, as well as Magic Gunner, both (all three?) of which are tooootes awesooome.

This is a doujinshi post. The end. ~~I am so not going into tl;dr territory like I always do, aaagggh~~

Also, Heartcatch Precure is ending in two episodes. This makes me weep harder than anyone can imagine. =(

I know your name! But maybe you've forgotten me.

rebmastu — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:21:19 GMT

Jeeze, I can never keep up posting here. It feels like I have, like, a miiiillion things to do all the time and sadly my LJ usually ends up neglected because of it. =( Poor bb. Here, have some luffs. *pets*

I could spend my evening just ranting about how much I don't like my job, but I guess I'll spare my FL the indignity, such as it, uh, were? Although I will say I'm getting pretty sick and tired of being minimum wage management for the past three years. I thought there was some sort of Michigan law about going a certain amount of time without a raise? Eh, I could be wrong. The constitution wouldn't look out for the little guy like that. =P

In the meantime, I've been looking at my options regarding this year's JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and I've come to the conclusion that I'd probably never have enough money to go to Chicago (the nearest testing center OTL) on my own, so I'm considering taking out a loan to cover the trip expenses. Maybe I'll make a weekend of it? Anything to get me out of town for a little while. But the other question is: which test should I take? I've never formally studied Japanese, so there'd probably be some elementary concepts I'd be completely clueless on, but I don't want to take JLPT 5 (the easiest level) either, since it kind of feels like I'd be wasting my time if I breezed my way through it.

In other news! I have, oh... Oh boy, I'm back up to four magazine subscriptions again, lawl. Of course there's the obligatory Asuka (which I'm considering dropping anyway, 'cause about all I read in that one is Barajou no kiss... but The Conductor is pretty sweet, too, and so is Yakumo, I'm discovering), Young King (Gotta get some seinen in my diet! Sekai no Mikata is buckets of fun.), Aria (Ehhh, I'll try it out for a little while. Its smut looks intriguing, at least), and who could forget Sylph? (Ohohoho. Somehow I'd convinced myself that it was, with the exception of Birdcage, disposable after SLH ended, but there is some REALLY cracked up stuff in there. I might post about it later, lawl)So... So... What the hell point was I trying to make here?

BOY, THESE POTATO CHIPS TASTE GOOD.

/I got nothin'.

I am a sheep. HA HA HA HA.

rebmastu — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:53:10 GMT

Your rainbow is intensely shaded indigo, white, and pink.

What is says about you: You are a grateful person. You appreciate cities, technology, and other great things people have created. Friends count on you for being honest and insightful. People depend on you to make them feel secure.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Yeah, I got nothin'. I'd say I was updating for the sake of updating, but... lawl? Uh. This was a fun quiz. Yep.

Gah.

I VOW TO POST MORE MEANINGLESS POSTS.

*crosses fingers behind back*

In other news, I'm working on typesetting Mebius Gear. It's fucking amazing, and if you're not afraid of gore, tits, and sex, you'll love it.

Also, I SECOND THIS WANT.

Aaaaaand I hate Barajou. Fuck Barajou and its suddenly not-harem-ness. I'll take Slayers over this ANY DAY. Hell, I'll take Slayers over most things anyway.

Oh yeah, I mentioned something about a SUPER SEKRET SLAYERS PROJECT a little while ago that I never followed up on, didn't I? Uh... Well... Meh. It's nothing major and other people have been doing the same things for eons, but I'm working on translating LN 10. (Turtle Paradise = Turtle NOVELS, lawllawllawl) It's taking forever, but... Hopefully I'll get it done eventually. Derp derp.

I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN COMMENTING LATELY GUYS, I STILL LOVE U LOTS AND LOTS, I'M JUST SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUSY LATELY

And now I'm playing WoW on top of it. Hahahaha. LAMIER. LEVEL 23 WAR ON ELDER'THARAS. LOOK. ME. UP. BITCHES.

Huh

rebmastu — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:47:32 GMT

Who are you people and why am I being forced to make this pointless post?

BECAUSE I LOVE ALL OF YOU

And I am a lousy blog-keeper, and I am not making this post just to say I've posted in the last two months. OH WHO AM I KIDDING YES I AM.

SORRY FLIST, I'M DONE SPAMMING YOU... OR AM I!?

Also, I has a special project in the works but I'm not telling anyone what it is, neener neener neener. (Only Slayers fans would care anyways, AND THAT'S SO TOTALLY QUESTIONABLE TO BEGIN WITH.)

Derp, derp, shameless plug.

rebmastu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:33:37 GMT

Oh hai, I totally forgot to mention this in my other completely random post the other day (nyerk, nyerk), but I've jumped the Twitter bandwagon and am loving every minute of it. If you guys are interested, follow me @rebmastu. xD (I'll friend baaack~)

Also, firefox junkies, grab Echofon. That add-on is... AMAZING. I couldn't follow twitter worth a damn until I got the hook-up. (Thanks to my BFF passiontentacle, derp derp.)

Er, I kind of talk about nothing but what I happen to be working on. A lot. Lawl.

Just hanging out.

rebmastu — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:47:40 GMT

So I'm hanging around on LJ today while I should be translating some random this-or-that, but hey, such is the spirit of procrastination. Haven't argued against it yet, don't exactly plan to in the future.
Heh.

Well, scanlating business is going slow. ("Here it comes," I hear moans from the audience. ILU2, BBs.) My staff's randomly disappearing on me, but meh, I think I've gotten used to it. On that note, I've figured out the average lifespan for an editor or typesetter is about two months, give or take... a week. Seriously. On the plus side, they tend to stick around later, which is pretty cool. The chat box is hopping as always, which kind of makes me wonder if we should take a step into the world of IRC. It's the next logical move, right? If we did that... Hell, we might actually get "On the map," so to speak. Seems like all the popular kids are doing it nowadays, but I'll leave it at that for now.

Ohayo-con's in one week... And I can't bring myself to get pumped up about it. Part of me just thinks it's not going to work out, that we don't have enough money to do it, yadda, yadda, yadda. Boy, it sure would help if my taxes made it in on time. I think the earliest I'd get my money back is probably that weekend, though. Ehhh... Well, that still might help, but I probably shouldn't get my hopes up for it. I am, however, looking forward to sharing a room with a bunch of semi-strangers at the Hyatt. Bitch, yes. Here's hoping they give us that roll-away bed I requested. And lots of fucking pillows. That would be completely bitching. (Bitching, bitching, bitching. Echo effect.) Well, here's hoping that sales post gets some more hits. ~~Doubt it.~~

In the meantime, I'm taking another stab at ye ol' weight watchers diet. I seem to be doing well enough, if the way my pants fit is any indication, though I never really thought eating more would make me lose weight. I guess it's one of those, "Don't starve yourself; you'll only retain everything you eat!" kind of deals. Hey, the fiber agrees with me, so I'm not complaining! ~~TMI TMI TMI TMI~~

Long post is too long. Adios, amigos. See you in a few days, weeks, or whenever I decide to post again. I may not comment to your entries all the time, but I read every single one of 'em, promise.

~~Friends-lock is for quitters! Or maybe I'm just lazy. And don't care.~~

I need to post more. D=

rebmastu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:38:52 GMT

So, NEW YEARS RESOLUTION PART 2, post at least once a week? SO FAR, PHAILURE. Wait, that was last year. It'll be different this year, right? ...Probably not, but hey, it'll look better if I start the year off right.

I figure if I don't make any REAL resolutions this year I won't feel bad for inevitably breaking them. >=D

Anywho!

So I've been busy with that whole scanlating thing (and if you guys aren't reading The Sleepy Residents of Birdcage Manor, you totally should be) and haven't had any time to post. I'm sure you all knew that, RIGHT? Yeah. Oh man. Seriously nothing to write.

I watched a new anime last night, Sora no oto. It was a KON rip-off. Oh well, at least I got half an hour of enjoy... well, diversion out of it, so it wasn't a total loss.

On that note, I've been getting out of anime lately (the most recent one I watched was Tora Dora, and that was, hell, last summer!) and into manga; more specifically HORROR. >=D I'm reading one called BioMeat Nectar, and it's pretty much fabulous. Tentacled monsters and everything. Oh, and I've been turned into a raving Berserk fangirl by one of my fellow staffers on TP's forum, and... Jeeze, I went out and bought, like 17 volumes of it. Sure, it helps that most of them were from a killer ebay auction, and the others were from MY FAVORITE BOOKSTORE EVER that's closing this month (=,( I'VE NEVER BEEN SO SAD TO GET A GOOD BARGAIN), but let's not go into semantics! Either way, it's fabulous, amazing, etc, and I highly suggest it.

....Wait, that's all I've got to say. HI GUYS, I STILL LOVE YOU! Even if I don't comment all the time, I still read all of your posts. >=D

orz

rebmastu — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:20:25 GMT

Kinda hard to save up to move out when your parents want to use your entire income for bills, huh? "But yours is all disposable~!" So don't use that as an excuse to go out and impulse shop when you're going to use my cash to make up the difference, jerks. (And I've got my own bills to pay, too!) To make matters worse, they cut my hours at work... Granted, it's nice to FINALLY have a day off, but now I'm kind of missing that extra $50 a week, y'know? /sigh

In other news, I started playing Wild Arms 5 (UNDUB~ HELL YEAH MIZUKI NANA!) the other day (FINALLY, right? lawl), and it's pretty addicting, especially the alternate outfits, awright! Having trouble getting attached to any of the characters though, with the exception of Rebecca - she's moe-moe and I hearts her muchly. Oh, and I want to cock-punch Dean pretty hard. That's about it.

Just a few more chapters until we finally say goodbye to Aqua Lad... Oh, Ohtsuka, what happened to you? ;_; You did give me a pretty spectacular icon, buuuuut that's neither here nor there.

THEN WHAT IS HERE?

Some Cranberry Splash Sierra Mist, that's what. Hell yeah, bitches, this shit is tasty.

BTW GUYS, I'll be better about commenting more in the future, I swears it. I'm just supar busy!

Bleeeeh.

rebmastu — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:12:34 GMT

(Titles are unnecessary! You'll notice that all I use are grunts and groans anywho.)

I don't know if the emotional high from releasing so much fucking Slayers (FALCEEEEES) did it, or my allergies/sinuses are kicking into overdrive or what, but man, you guys, I feel like somebody shoved my head down a toilet, flushed about three times, and shoved a log of- er, a wad of sopping wet toilet paper into one of my nostrils. (Not that I'd know what that felt like, laaaaawl.)

Uuuuughhh... I kinda hope it is a cold, since that'll be gone in, what, a week as long as I pound the echinacea. HELL YEAH, ECHINACEA AND ORANGE JUIIIIIIICE! Speaking of which, Rob (who I'm still pissed off at - he gave me the sickest-looking bruise EVER in that last altercation) gave Melly and me a six-pack of orange juice yesterday which was cool, and then I saw that it was like a month expired. HE'S TRYING TO KILL US, YOU GUYS AAAAAAHHHHHH

Anyway, I feel so dizzy right now, I don't know if I'll be able to concentrate on translating for a while... Whoo.... God, I hope we get the next chapter of Bara-ho out on time. Those fangirls are fucking scary when it comes to that stuff.

Woah, come to think of it, I've been posting regular entries quite a bit lately. Pretty cool. HAY GUYS I LIKE VENTING TO YOU PLZ LET ME DO IT SOME MORE D=

Edit: OH OH, I THOUGHT UP ANOTHER GOOD ANALOGY! It feels like someone shoved a CHEESE GRATER down my throat, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm whining~

HAY LOOK AT ME, I'M POSTING! Also, the fruits of my paycheck.

rebmastu — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:47:50 GMT

Hay guys, I'm making a post on 9/11 without talking about 9/11 because everybody ELSE is talking about 9/11, although all I remember is that I was in Pottery class when it happened (on my way to underwater basket weaving, laaaawl) and saying, "LOL THAT IS SO SHOOPED."

But it wasn't, and then I felt bad. But only a little.

WAIT A MINUTE, I JUST TALKED ABOUT 9/11 ON 9/11 WHAAAAAT IS THIS BULLSHIT.

In other news, I just did a MASSIVE amazon order, woop woop, WOOP. Here, have some summaries and tell me what you guys think!

Title: Vampir
The story of a guy who is killed when a suicidal girl jumps off the side of a building and onto his head. He wakes up later in a hospital after being seemingly revived, but with blond hair and red eyes - oh, and he can talk to ghosts. He later runs into a girl named Hokuto who tells him he's now a half-dead resident of both the world of the living, and of the dead...

I haven't read the entire first volume yet, but from what I gather it's very much a psychological thriller, exploring the darker side of people. (Spoiler! The girl who commits suicide at the beginning of the story does so because her dad's a bit of a pedophile and... Well, mommy promised it would all stop once she turned 18 - Mommy LIED.) It's pretty interesting, and the art's nice enough, but it feels a bit more shoujo-y in execution than a seinin as it's labeled.

Title: Rakia
After a little girl, Luna, and her family move from Japan to be with her father working in America at Area 51 (UH OH, WARNING BELLS), they take a trip to Las Vegas on vacation when they find a ragged old man staggering along the side of the road with wings carved into his arms. Feeling sorry for the ol' hobo, they offer to give him a ride when he refuses, saying he doesn't have the right to live. They call an ambulance regardless and are back on the road shortly (after Luna gives him her HERO SAMMICH WHICH IS ABOUT AS BIG AS SHE IS TALL) when they pull over because Luna has to go potty. Awww. After an altercation with her brother, Luna screams from the side of the road, telling him to "Go die, you filthy pervert!" when AN 18-WHEEL LUMBER TRUCK IMMEDIATELY SMASHES INTO THEIR CAR VAPORIZING EVERYONE INSIDE before it finally flips over, with one log of wood still attached, forming the shape of a cross of holy carnage in the middle of the road, pointing straight up at the sky and protecting Luna from harm. And THEN it gets weird.

Saying anything from there would be a strange, strange spoiler in and of itself, but I will say the art is absolutely gorgeous, in a hyper realistic kind of way. The story has a strange fanatical Christian-turned-Occult flavor to it, and Luna finds herself thrown into all sorts of odd situations because, well, she has the power of God. Or something like that. It's creepy as hell, and personally, I'm not a big fan of saintly characters like her, but the carnage and BRUTAL usage of irony kind of makes up for it. Yeah, I'm a sick bastard. Gotta problem with that!?

Title: Mebius Gear
SEX, GORE, SEX, GORE, SEX SEX SEX, GORE GORE GORE.

From the creative mind of Toshiki Inoue and penned by Koshi Rikudo (OH BOY, MORE WARNING BELLS) comes... Well, geeze, I'm not even sure how to describe this one, so I won't even try. All I know is that there's a bunch of robots running around masquerading as humans and taking huge ass bites out of other peoples faces - by which I mean shoving cookie cutters into their heads and basically punching out their FACES (link not for the faint of heart, lawl). There are some wacky concepts involved - a lady with an army of killer robots who sleeps with a guy and then kills 'em, a schoolgirl with a killer robot who kills OTHER robots, creepy boy bands with even creepier stalkers... Basically, take the most perverted scenarios you can think of, and this title will surpass them all. Examples include one of said creepy boy band's creepy fangirls... Uh, pulling a towel out of an unmentionable orifice and offering it to one of them for use after a concert. (Said member is understandably HORRIFIED.) Well, she subsequently cuts off part of his head and stores it in formaldehyde, if that says anything.

Title: 70 Billion Needles
Takabe Hikaru would appreciate it if you'd stopped talking to her and left her alone, please and thank you. That's why she wears those absurdly huge headphones all the time - she's drowning you out, man, just accept it and walk away. ... At least, she'd prefer it that way, but all that kind of changes when an extraterrestrial visitor (made of PLASMA!) crashes into the sea right in front of her on a school trip and, uh, kind of vaporizes her. Oops. In order to revive our heroine, the intrepid alien is forced to join itself with (er) her remains, permanently entering Hikaru's subconscious, and she'll be the first to tell you that this guy does. not. shut. UP. So much for cranking up the volume... The reason he's here? To kill OTHER aliens invading Earth before they wipe out the human race - and to do that, they have to join with a human host, too. Who needs friends when you've got an ethereal voice speaking directly into your head 24/7?

So far, this is my favorite of all the new titles. The main character is cranky as hell (but not to the point of being a bitch), and she even begins to warm up to new people as the story progresses. If you're familiar with it, the premise is kind of like Parasyte, only if the alien leaves the hosts body, the HOST will die, not the other way around. Now we just have to see if he decides to annihilate the human race himself...

Title: Lost Universe
EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH.

And, well, that's about it. How sad is it that I wanted to post this before midnight so I didn't have to re-write my tag line? Ahhh, the things I'll do for... Well, nothing, really. I need to start doing more TsuBun summaries/translations, aaaaaaah.

Now that I think of it.... Slayers TsuBun (kids') novel vol 1, chapter 1

rebmastu — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:29:55 GMT

The most recent post over at the Slayers community totally reminded me I hadn't posted this anywhere yet... Woops.

Anywho, for those interested, a full translation of Slayers - Lina and the Magic Chimera Swordsman ch. 1.

Slayers (Tsubasa Bunko) Volume 1, chapter one (rough draft)
Lina and the Magic Chimera Swordsman
Written by Nanbou Hidehisa
Translated by Rebmastu (who retains intellectual property of the translation, not the original work.)

Chapter 1
"The gifted beautiful sorceress. Her name: Lina Inverse."

"Fireball!"
KA-BOOM!

The flame spell I released from my fingers hurdled towards the bandits standing before me and exploded, blasting the villains sky-high. Deep in the mountains, situated among ancient boulders that looked to be several centuries old, I had tracked down a rogue band of thieves at the behest of the mayor of a nearby village which had recently fallen prey to their pillaging. Even finding the lair would be a matter of sheer impossibility for any ordinary person... So it's a good thing I'M not a normal person, and the word "impossible" doesn't exist in my vocabulary!

After all, MY name just so happens to be Lina. Lina Inverse. I'm sure you've heard of me somewhere, since I'm a pretty famous sorceress, if I do say so myself - I'm a genius in my own right, and cute to boot! Anyway, saying that finding the bandit's lair was a "walk in the park" would be giving it way more credit than it really deserved.

"Oh~hohohoho!"
KA-BLAM!
"Hah! Bandit scum! You have some nerve trying to defy the almighty Naga, the White Serpent!"
Crackle!
"You're 8 quadrillion years ahead of your time!"

Incidentally, the black-haired girl standing at my side and hurling blasts of attack magic every which-way was Naga, the White Serpent. If you took one glance at her pitch-black mantle and dark clothes, not to mention the skull pendant hanging around her neck, you'd be hard-pressed not to see her as anything other than an evil sorceress... But in reality, her biggest crime is making enemies of the people around her, and bringing despair upon her allies - and having fun with it, too. In short, she's nothing more than an exceptional idiot.

Now, as for why a gifted sorceress such as myself has joined forces to fight alongside such an explosion-loving blockhead.... Uuuh, to be honest, I just went with the flow of things, and this is how it turned out. After all, no matter where my travels take me, Naga is always hell-bent and determined to chase right after me! Seriously, how am I supposed to help that?

"How rude! I'm not chasing after you at all! The only reason I'm spending all of my time traveling with YOU is so I can strike at your weak spot when you're least expecting it, and when that time comes, I, the almighty Naga, the White Serpent, shall assume the throne of the world's most beautiful, gifted sorceress! Oh~ ho ho ho ho ho!" Naga cut me off in mid-thought, almost as though she could read my mind, and laughed loudly.
......Wait, wait, she's totally convinced herself to do it, too! Oh, wow, that's just low.

But in any case, that's all beside the point. The lair we had infiltrated originally hid about 100 bandits, but thanks to my and Naga's sneak attack, we rendered the vast majority of them unconscious in one blow. Doing a quick head-count over the fallen bandits' surviving comrades, I figured all we had to take care of now was about sixteen or seventeen stragglers, give or take.

Turning to Naga, I yelled, "Let's finish off the rest of these guys already and claim their treasure!" Uh, but before we go any further, I'd like to state for the record that we didn't accept this job JUST because we were after the bandits hidden treasure, or anything like that, but there's nothing wrong with giving ourselves a teeeeny-tiny reward for doing a good deed, right? Right.

"I hear you!" Naga called out her affirmative, and we both began to incant spells powerful enough to wipe out the rest of the bandits in one fell swoop - Naga preparing a "Freeze Arrow" spell, and I began to cast a "Mega Brand," when suddenly....

"Hold it right there!"

A tall, blond man, the source of the cry, I thought, appeared out of nowhere and leapt between us and the bandits. By the looks of him, I figured he was a wandering swordsman, maybe somewhere around 18 years old? He probably thought we were being assaulted by bandit thugs and decided to come to our "rescue."

"That's as far as you go," the blond swordsman proclaimed as he strode to stand before Naga and me, facing the bandits as he drew his sword. "Now tuck your tails between your legs and run home, you dirty thieves, and I'll spare your lives!"

....Uh.

Sorry, pal, but you totally just wasted a bad-ass entrance.
But just as I was about to turn to the swordsman to tell him that....

"....Hey, Lina."
Naga crept over to my side. She leaned close to my ear, tugging on my sleeve.
"This guy looks pretty capable. let's leave these small-fries to him and book it."
My eyes wandered to the swordsman's back. "Him?" I asked.
"Listen," Naga explained, "You want to get your hands on that treasure just as much as I do, right? If he handles the riff-raff, we can grab the gold and scram before they even know what hit 'em."

Hmmm. Can't argue with that logic. With my mind set, I quickly brought a few tears to my eyes and gazed up at "My savior, the great swordsman."

"Pleeease, mister!" I called up to him in an adorable voice, clinging to his chest. "These bad, bad people captured us, and now they want to sell us as slaaaaves!"

It worked. The swordsman practically ripped his sword out of its sheath and brandished it at the bandits. "You bastards!" he cried out. "You won't get away with this!" And with that, he rushed into their midst, holding his weapon high over his head.

One thing was for sure, this guy was good with a sword. It seems like things would be a piece of cake from here-on-out, just like Naga said.

Slash!
Clang!

Almost as soon as the thought crossed my mind, the remaining bandits had fallen.
Which led to our next problem.

The bandits lay scattered about haphazardly, their eyes rolled back into their sockets so only the whites were visable.

"Oh, thank you sooooooooo much, Mr. Swordman~!" I daintily dashed to the swordsman, and called out in my sweetest, most adorable voice. Prepare for the beautiful Lina-chan's charming bomb~

"Don't sweat it, kid." The swordsman slid his weapon back into its sheath with a clean clink. "I couldn't just stand by when I saw a bunch of bandits attacking a frail little boy like yourself and his mother. That goes against my code, y'know?"

"Uh... huh?" Without thinking, I froze on the spot and my jaw dropped.

A... A boy and his mother?

When you look at me, a prime example of beauty, where do you see a boy in that? Huh?

......Well, sure, I've always been a little on the short side, and I might not have much of a figure yet, but I'm a growing girl, darn it! I'll get there!

"W-What part of me looks like I'm Lina's mother!?" Naga swung her head around, looking anxiously around her own body.
In Naga's case, I couldn't blame the guy for thinking she was older than she actually was, though.
If you don't want people to mistake you for an older person, get rid of those stupid, evil-looking clothes, why don't you?

"But still," the swordsman scratched his head as he glanced us over again, "It's dangerous for a lady and her little boy to be traveling all by yourselves. Were you with anyone else?"

"No." Bravely keeping my anger at being called a "little boy" yet AGAIN in check, I shook my head.

"Well, that's not good.... Alright, I've got it!" The swordsman tapped his fist in the palm of his hand. "I'll take the two of you home. Where do you live?"

My face stiffened. ".........Er.....No.....Well, we're on a wandering journey for our own reasons right now, and it's not like we have a solid destination in mind.... But I guess we were kind of heading towards Atlas City in the meantime, or something like that..."

By the way, Atlas City is a huge metropolis that was in this general area.

".....Lina... Do you think I could beat the living snot out of him?" Through all that talk of "the boy and his mother," Naga's face had been twisted by the pulsing vein on her forehead.

"Alright, we'll go with that!" Either this guy was ignoring our rage, or he was completely oblivious to it; either way, resolve showed on his face. "I'll escort you two to Atlas City myself, how about that? I'm Gourry, by the way, a swordsman."

"...Th-thank you for the offer, Gourry-san, but there's no way we could possibly impose on you so much...." I began.

You gotta be kidding me. There's no way I'd willingly go wandering around with a rude guy like him.

Gourry patted me on the head with a smile. "Come on, you're just a kid! Don't go turning me down now!"

J-Just a kid~!?

"Th-thanks, but we'll pass," I insisted.

"Come on, don't say that," Gourry said.

"Thanks, but..."

"Now, now."

"No, no."

"Now, now, now."

"No, no, NO."

Well, this isn't good.
Gourry looked like the stubborn type - he wasn't caving.

Naga looked on in obvious annoyance. ".....Whatever," she finally sighed, rolling her shoulders, "Just make up your minds already."

And in the end....

******************

Naga and I walked down the main path, a few paces behind Gourry, towards Atlas City. A small mountain range loomed far off in the distance, and the only audible noise among the endless fields of grass was the sound of our feet crunching on the dirt road.

Naga sighed and flipped her long, black hair over her shoulder. "If only he were a bad guy," she griped, "We could just BLAST him off into those mountains..." Part of me agreed with her, but Gourry seemed to be following us out of genuine concerned for our safety. I mean, we couldn't just ditch him by the side of the road and scram, could we? Ahh, I can't think about this any more. My head's killing me...

Gourry turned around to face us with a smile. "It's starting to get dark out, little boy!" he called. "Be sure to hold your mother's hand!" And to top it all off, he winked at us. He WINKED.

....Geeze, when is this guy gonna wake up and realize I'm a girl!?

Aaarg! This is making me so angry! I can't take it any more!

Chapter 1, end

Un-proofed or beta'd, so I'm not sure how well it reads, but hey. Feel free to comment with corrections 'n stuff, if you'd like.

Oh! On an unrelated note, if any of my FListers follow, say, Barajou or Evangelion Datenroku, keep an eye on spoiler_tag. (AWESOME NAME, RIGHT?) I'll be posting spoiler summaries/partial translations of those and a few other series (Like Gurren Lagann: Spiral Boy, or whatever it is, and Da Capo: Girl's Symphony), so... I dunno, friend it preemptively? XD

Posting for the sake of posting? Hell yeah!

rebmastu — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:37:53 GMT

So... NOT MUCH GOIN' ON HERE, NOPE, NOT REALLY. I'm at work right now, and the weather has me in a foul mood, not made any better by the incessant chattering by my fellow coworkers. Man! Is it too much to ask for some peace and quiet? I'M GOING INSANE HERE, GUYS. FOR SERIOUS.

Other than that, not too much new on the home-front. Mom, Rob and the kids went away for the week, but psht, what do I care? I'm working most of the time anyway, so it didn't make too much of a difference to me. D= Pity, I was so looking forward to it, too... Gah.

In the meantime, I've been doing my translating thang, have a few chapters of WHATEVER on my computer that need to be uploaded... Namely, I've been re-translating Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku, since my earlier translations are so terribly inaccurate it's embarrassing - but seriously, how many times have I harped on that point? TOO MANY TO COUNT, THAT'S WHAT! Also trying to browse a few new series for TP to pick up once Aqualad is finished (which will be extremely soon) - I've got my eye on a series called Vampir, but the name is a bit of a misnomer, since it has, uh, no vampires. (What?). Seems to be a psychological thriller of some kind which would be a welcome change for once, since I'm getting SICK and tired of Shoujo and the, uh, mentally impaired/"gimme gimme" readers it tends to attract. But hey, not all of 'em are stupid. ~~Just the ones who come from Mangafox.~~ But for the time being, I ordered an issue of Afternoon, a seinin mag, to peruse some of the more dude-oriented titles. 'Cause they're easy.

And aside from that... THERE IS NOTHING TO REPORT.

THIS IS REB, SIGNING OUT.

It's nice to do this every once-in-a-while.

rebmastu — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:52:30 GMT

It's a super nice day out today, and my first day off in three weeks thanks to Melly covering for me! I feel kind of bad about that, though... It's a drag spending a day without Melly, not to mention that place sucks. =( Booooo.

So now that I have a stress-free day off (or at least I would, if my boss didn't live with me and enjoy bringing it up every time I saw him. Working with family sucks like that.), what am I doing? Sitting by the pool, translating manga about HOOKERS! And nude modeling. BUT THE HOOKERS PART SOUNDS MORE INTERESTING! I can't go swimming though, since my swimsuit seems to have gone missing after last summer, no clue why. Bah. OH WAIT, THAT PARAGRAPH TOTALLY INSINUATED I'M NUDE MODELING, AHAHAHAHA. H-Hey, guys? Y-you have pretty sensitive gag reflexes, don't you... Stop thaaaaaat.

I keep trying to spell swim as "suim". I've been translating so much lately that I've been confusing pronunciations between languages, which is kind of geeky and lame and I feel bad about it. Blah. Anyway, we're probably going to move Turtle Paradise to its own domain soon, which is AWESOME. But I can't go into detail about what that'll entail, 'cause that would get way too many peoples hopes up for something I may or may not do... Heh. I'm being MYSTERIOUS, isn't that geeky!

And now this post is getting way too long, so I'll stop. But hopefully the first chapter of SLH, Shouoto-sensei's manga she did BEFORE Barajou will be out pretty soon! x3 Soooo text heavy.... Phew.

HOPE YOU GUYS ARE HAVING FUN TODAAAAY

SPOILER

rebmastu — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:22:27 GMT

BILLY MAYS, NOOOOOOOOO!

I LOVED THAT MAN, AND HIS HILARIOUS SELF-PARODIES.

DADADADADADADAAAAA~

rebmastu — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:26:14 GMT

(KA-BOOM!)
(The icon doesn't necessarily reflect my mood - IT'S JUST SO DAMN CUTE AND I NEVER GET MAD AT ANYBODY, BUT I REALLY, REALLY WANTED TO USE IT D=)

None of my fine friendslisters seem too active lately! This is disheartening! But have no PHEAR, for I am active on the blog-o-sphere!

WHAT THE HELL, FIRST THE JOKE AT SLAYERS AND NOW THIS. I must really be high.

.....Heh.

So yeah, today Rob(stepdad)'s sister has a renewal of vows with her husband of a handful of years because she's a massive hypochondriac and is convinced she's going to die this year. This is the same psychopath who, after Mom mentioned her history of cancer (BRAAAAAINS), tried to one-her-up by outlining her medical history and all the paaaaainful procedures she's had to gone through because of her HISTORY OF HERNIAS. She's an attention-whore and drama llama, and I don't like her, so I don't think I'm gonna go. T_T I suck with weddings and big formal events like that, anyway.

IN THE MEANTIME, I'M HUNGRY. SOMEONE GIVE ME LUNCH IDEAS. X3

......Now that I think about it, what the hell was I trying to accomplish with those sound effects up there, anyway!? Oh yeah, "My Boss, My Hero".... That's a really weird drama. The protagonist's "friend" creeps me right the hell out, but maybe it's just his actor.

Oh, and I changed my title text for the layout, 'cause random, nonsensical Japanese text just doesn't do it for me after all. NOW SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN OR IS MY HOSPITALITY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!?

I has.... A NEW LAYOUT! AGAIN!

rebmastu — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:14:39 GMT

At Kyo's suggestion A MILLION FRIGGIN YEARS AGO, LAWL, I have changed my layout to a more AWESOME one featuring SLH - Stray Love Hearts! Yes, another one of Shouoto's works... God. We're such whores. Or maybe I'm the only whore. Huh.

I laughed so haaard when I made up that title, GOD. Mostly because it rhymes and I'm a cheesy bastard like that. (Kioku no Merodi, karappo no mune ni, SIT DOWN AND DRINK YOUR GODDAMN TEA~ I smell a WINNER!) Gotta keep the "Sit down and drink your goddamn tea!" bit. NO ONE REPLACES CID IN MY HEART, EVER EVER EVER EVER~

Aaaaand that's about it. AND NOW, I have to finish editing the script for SLH (which is almost done YAAAY), and then I gotta get to work on chapter 6 of Barajou. Gotta get it out by the 21! WISH US LUCK GUYS

Ah, J-Dramas. Where would I be without you?

rebmastu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:23:43 GMT

Melly downloaded GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) the other day, so we've been watching that like mad... AND GOOD LORD IS IT AMAZING. XD It's so ooooold, but the acting's pretty good, surprisingly enough. Oh, who am I kidding? THE OLDER IT IS, THE BETTER THE ACTING! .....Probably. Anyway, the actor playing Onizuka is mad hot. I recommend it! (I don't think I'd ever be this into Dramas if it wasn't for ceruleanghost's drama pimping. For realz.) Watching another newer drama this series called "Atashi'nchi no Danshi," which is... significantly less compelling. I'm just watching it 'cause I like the (dead) father figure. Pretty twisted stuff right there.

GOD, I KNOW THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE I WANTED TO POST ABOUT!

Uh... Not really. Getting royally sick of Slayers again, but I'm considering just driving TP to finish AquaLord in one huge swoop just to get it off our plates. God, I hate Aqua Lord. YEAH, I SAID IT. TOMMY OHTSUKA COULDN'T WRITE A COMPELLING STORY IF IT KILLED 'EM. Falces is soooo badass, but a pain in the ass to translate. ;_; SO MUCH TEXT, GOD. Barajou's coming along, I guess... Slowly? We'll probably put out the first chapter of SLH before we release chapter six, though. Anyway, WHAT AM I USING MY PERSONAL JOURNAL TO TALK ABOUT WITH THIS CRAP, GOD!? I gotta figure out a better way to organize the staff members... Kinda losing track of what everyone's doing. xP

AND IN OTHER NEWS, MUST BUY A PAID ACCOUNT NEXT WEEK. I miss my icons. Boy, I sure did collect a lot of 'em. xD

Blah.

rebmastu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:34:39 GMT

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS AN ATTENTION WHORE.

Take the spotlight off the guy for fifteen minutes and he starts his shit right back up. GOSH.

In other news: There is no other news. Carry on! In the meantime, JOIN THE FORUM.

EDIT: On a surprisingly fandom-y note, check this MAD out (Some bits on the site are definitely NSFW). I've never watched Clannad, but... Good Lord, I bawwed like a bitch. Spoilers for, uh, everything concerning Nagisa, at least, plus the second season. (I guess some of the effect might be lost if you can't read Japanese... but I doubt it.)

Meh.

rebmastu — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:02:31 GMT

Deleted my other post, if anyone was unfortunate enough to read it. Bleh.

I need to change my layout. This one's starting to tick me off. Gah.

And back to fixing up Evolution.... Goddammit. I should have chosen THIS as my final solo project. This whole "working as a team" thing is a drag. Easy, but boy is it slow.

Blarg.

rebmastu — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:20:59 GMT

Sometimes I feel like a real dork for getting so butt hurt about everything.

Just ask Melly - When I say I get butt hurt about everything, I MEAN everything.

Gah. (But maybe this time I was justified about it? I don't even know.)

RANDOM POOOOST

rebmastu — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:09:09 GMT

Yeah, remember that post I made about making a barajou community the other day? TOTALLY disregard that. xD It seems the other community (barajou_no_kiss) is active and posting is tooootally cool. So go join that one. Plz? Plz, plz? Barajou needs an active fandoom. D= BECAUSE I WANT BARAJOU ICONS.

//pointless post

On to other things!

My chest has really been hurting lately... but it's only when I'm thinking really hard/stressed about something. Can't see a doctor about it though, since I don't have insurance. Meh. All I have to do is not get stressed out, right? Easy enough. xD

AND THAT'S IT. BACK TO EDITING THE NEW CHAPTER OF BARAJOU, LAWLZ. Speaking of which, volume 2 will be released at the end of this month, and it will include chapter ten... WHICH WAS JUST RELEASED LAST MONTH. XD So probably by the end of next month, TURTLE PARADISE WILL BE TOTALLY CURRENT WITH IT! Isn't that great? XD

Oh man, why do I keep talking about Barajou. It's either Barajou or Slayers.... Oh, speaking of which, I need to finish translating the first chapter of the TsuBun novels/start making summaries for volume 2. Woop, wooop. Gosh, so busy. xD (I like translating more than editing, though. If I could join a scanlation group, I'd just want to translate and that's it... Wait, I'm already in a scanlation group! WHY WON'T MORE PEOPLE JOOIN, I DON'T WANNA EDIT ANYMORE. ><)

OH, and I'm finally getting around to watching ToraDora! I've heard all sorts of great things about it, and I'm hoping for a series that'll make me cry. I watched the first episode for the fourth time last night - that opening dialogue is the greatest EVER. The whole episode just never gets old for me, for some reason. It's addictive.

Also on my list:
Ryuusei no Kizuna (I watched the first episode for the second time last night, LETTERS FROM CANADA, LAWWWL)
Love Shuffle (IT'S GOT THAT HOT GUY FROM MOP GIRL ON IT, OH GOD DO I LOVE HIM UNNNFFFFF His voice is so DEEP in my headphones, too. Unnnfff.)

PIMP TIME

rebmastu — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:02 GMT

Hokay, for all of you cool-cat friendslisters who happen to dig Barajou no Kiss, I made up a community for it, since the only other semi-relevant one was some dude's personal scan dumping ground, which is so not cool.

♥JOIN barajou♥

Lol, those hearts are SO stupid.... Anywho, I might change the name or layout pretty soon here, since I'm not happy with EITHER of them, but in the meantime, join, join, jooooin! ....Please? =3