Kinokuniya purchases

My friend went to NYC for a couple days this week (Wednesday-Friday I think- it was vacation week for the public schools, so she had it off while I was stuck at school) and so while she was there, she picked up a few things from Kinokuniya for me.

At first I was debating what to ask her to buy, I heard somewhere that they have Hello! Project photobooks but she isn't a Hello! Project fan (she knows what Morning Musume is due to my random ranting, but that's it) and I didn't want her to have to ask about those since that would without a doubt be awkward for her. xD I also wanted something Prince of Tennis, but the only specific thing I could think of off the top of my head was the 30.5 illustration book and I didn't know how expensive that would be...which would be necessary because I had to give her the cash beforehand.
So this is what I ended up with:



SKET DANCE 2 - My second-favorite current Weekly Jump manga! =D Soon to be my favorite, as Prince of Tennis is ending at some unspecified time within the next month or so. (Somehow there's never been anything stated about the upcoming end, but everyone knows it's coming and the non-fans over at the Weekly Jump LJ community are uber quick to write it off every time there's a rumor. >_<)
I bought volume 1 a couple of months ago, I remember that that was the volume holding my Mikan copies back for a few weeks! I decided then never to buy manga from Yesasia again if there's an alternative. =) Volume 2 came out January 9th, and it features uber cute chibis on the cover!! 8D Kind of fitting, because this volume has the chapters with the chibi puppets and also the chapter where Bossun turns into a little kid.
Sket Dance is doing really well in the weekly rankings in Jump, and I seriously think that this could be the next big hit. I mean, sooner or later the main series will end and something needs to carry the magazine afterwards. (lol for some reason while typing that I thought of the Prince of Tennis English manga's line "You can carry Seigaku!" I love how I can relate everything to PoT in some way.)

Weekly Shounen Jump 2008 issue 12 - This was the major thing I asked her to get! See, this is in some ways my dream Jump issue- Prince of Tennis is on the cover and has color pages, and Sket Dance has color pages in the center! My favorite issue of Jump in a really long time. As soon as this ToC was announced on the Jump LJ community, I immediately said "I have to get this issue!" And while searching around the web for some way to get this issue, I realized that it was the issue for the week Sarah was going to NYC! SO LUCKY! 8D
It's pretty significant because it's basically Prince of Tennis' final Jump cover, not the final color pages because it's possibly going to get more of those next week, but it's probably the last cover it's going to get. I think it should definitely get the cover on it's final issue - all series that I've seen end in Jump haven't, but those have been canceled rather than really ended, and PoT has been running for 8.5 years - but it's probably not going to in favor of another cover for One Piece/Naruto/Bleach. >_<
I love the cover, with Tenimuhou!Ryouma and everything. I was really worried that somehow it'd look bad, with either something else taking over a huge part of it, or just a bad drawing- I mean, in the back-to-back double issues for Christmas and New Year's, the art wasn't really that good. However, this cover turned out to be really good. And the color pages inside...I love the two-page spread! With Tenimuhou!Ryouma on the left side with the green spiky-ish hair and green eyes (...last week when I read this chapter I immediately thought 'Super Saiyan!') and that cool look, and the text on the right side over the stands. Some of the volume covers are taken from chapter covers, there haven't actually been that many chapter covers lately so I hope the cover for volume 42 could maybe be the picture of Ryouma here. (On that note, I've been checking the Shueisha website for news of volume 41, and while they started listing it last week they didn't put a release date. However, the color pages in this issue of Jump say that it's coming out March 4th. That's only like a week and a half away! Definitely buying that when I get the chance.) I should set the two-page spread as my laptop background, when I get tired of the Sket Dance wallpaper taken from the color page in the same issue.
Speaking of which, the Sket Dance color page is nothing too special, but I think I'm just unconsciously comparing it to the last two color pages- one of which had the Sket Dan exchanging outfits (Switch was crossdressing as Himeko, thankfully with sweatpants under the skirt...xD) and the other had them dressed up in ninja outfits. xD
Also, the color page for Sket Dance says that volume 3 is going to be released April 4th.


I really wish there was a Kinokuniya in Boston. Apparently the one in NYC was huge, and I want to go so badly~ @_@ My parents say that maybe we could go to NYC over a long weekend and merge that with a trip to visit my stepsister and her husband and baby daughter (they live pretty close to NYC). I'm so excited~~
(Though, you know, I should be even more excited for my one-month trip to Japan this summer. xD While I'm there I'm definitely going to go for a ton of H!P merchandise...do they have an official store anywhere near Sapporo? xD That's where I'm going for the three-week homestay...and the last week is sight-seeing with the other kids from my school.)

[Scans] Morning Musume, Athena, and some manga covers

Explanation and music list

So, this is basically the scans post to go along with my recent orders that arrived on Friday. Sorry it's late, but scanning the two limited photobooks took forever, and I had a sleepover last night cause it's my birthday today (yay!).
I also didn't end up scanning the H!P 2007 Winter Live DVD Box, cause there's this 4-DVD case that's too big for my scanner and I was too lazy to figure out how to get it all. xD
I might end up scanning some more CDs soon cause I'm on winter break, but I can't make any promises. xD;;

EDIT: Sorry that the small versions of the preview images look crappy! In my earlier posts, I actually uploaded them to Blogger, but this time I uploaded them to Photobucket instead. Guess the site handles it differently. Just click the preview images for the full-quality version.


Morning Musume's latest single Mikan, normal edition. I scanned the photocard of Risa and included it in the .rar file.
Download the .rar file for the rest of the Mikan scans


Morning Musume's latest single Mikan, limited edition A which comes with a DVD. I scanned the photocard of Koharu and included it in the .rar file.
Download the .rar file for the rest of the Mikan limited edition A scans


Morning Musume's latest single Mikan, limited edition B which comes with a photobook. I scanned the photocard of Sayumi and I also scanned the photobook- both are included in the .rar file.
Download the .rar file for the rest of the Mikan limited edition B scans


Athena & Robikerottsu's first single, Shouri no BIG WAVE!!!, limited edition which comes with a photobook. I scanned the photobook and included it in the .rar file.
Download the .rar file for the rest of the Shouri no BIG WAVE!!! scans


I scanned the covers of the manga for my personal collection, so I thought I'd share them here too if anyone's interested. For SKET DANCE 1 and Prince of Tennis 40, it's just the one image so I didn't bother to upload a .rar file- just click on the preview image. The dust jackets just barely fit on my scanner- I didn't include the inside back flap because all it is is like a list of Jump tankoubon. For the Prince of Tennis Fanbook 40.5, the book's really thick, so the dust jacket was too big for my scanner. I scanned the inside flaps separately, so there's a .rar file for 40.5.

SKET DANCE 1 - Penki Kamen / Paint-Mask


Tennis no Oujisama / Prince of Tennis 40 - Tennis wo Wasureta Oujisama / The Prince Who Forgot Tennis


Tennis no Oujisama / Prince of Tennis 40.5 - Official Fanbook
Download the .rar file for the rest of the 40.5 scans

Since when did Morning Musume have a manga? @_@

I was totally unaware Morning Musume had a manga...called Musume Monogatari, and it was in Nakayoshi. @_@
Lol, not like I pay any attention to shoujo magazines, but someone was selling some Nakayoshi issues and said that 'Musume Monogatari (morning musume manga)' was in it...so basically my Morning Musume fandom requires me to get those issues. xDD The LJ user was also selling two issues of some other manga magazine (dunno which one, couldn't read the title) that apparently had a Minimoni manga, and Morning Musume + Minimoni interviews.
So of course I got them all. xDDD I seriously vowed last week to wait a couple of weeks before I bought more things, cause I bet my mom's gonna start getting suspicious considering every week when I come home there's always at least one package waiting for me. =P Except this week, but those two packages should come tomorrow. xD
BUT THIS IS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION. xDDD
Cause, I mean, manga and anime and stuff like that, you can get other places, but when people sell manga magazines, especially old ones like the ones in this post (2002-2003), it's pretty hard to find elsewhere...so yeah.
That totally doesn't rationalize buying them, but...8D They were cheap...?

You know, now that I think about it, I have an issue of this other shoujo manga magazine Ciao that I got from my camp that has a manga involving Minimoni in it. Hmm...xD





On a random note, I have this post about H!P shuffle units that I wrote today, but I wrote half of it during history class so I wasn't 100% focused on it, and now I'm too tired to read it over and edit it so I'll do that in the morning. xD

PoT panel count update- after volume 6

You know, it's really interesting reading a series again. You catch all these things that you never noticed the first time around- foreshadowing and such. Of course, Prince of Tennis is no exception, ne? xD
I'm really surprised by how freaking early Konomi introduced characters/schools~ Between the Fudoumine arc and the St. Rudolph arc, Yamabuki, Hyoutei, and even RIKKAI were all introduced in some way. Yamabuki had Sengoku scouting out Seigaku (but looking at girls instead and then getting absolutely pwned by Echizen), Hyoutei had Atobe and Kabaji at the street courts (whyyy on earth would Atobe ever use street courts? o_o) pwning everyone and then bullying An (since when does Atobe want to go out with An?). And Rikkai has of course the Kirihara chapter, which I remembered from the first time around, but they also had an appearance where they pwn some other unnamed team, then Sanada and Renji go up to the reporters and tell them to tell Tezuka that Seigaku didn't play with their full strength- which was a scene I didn't remember.
The last Rikkai one (and the Sengoku scene and the Atobe/Kabaji scene too, to some extent) is one of those scenes where you don't think it's important, so you don't pay attention to it or really care to remember it- but when you look back on it after reading the entire manga, you go 'oh! that's Sanada and Renji! and they're challenging Seigaku! wow, they appeared way earlier than I thought!'
So I kinda took some liberties with this panel count, and when they showed an overhead shot of Rikkai and that unnamed pwned team Rikkai played, even though it wasn't close enough to make out hairstyles and stuff that distinguishes one player from the next (see, the fact that everyone from the same team wears the same outfit makes this panel count harder...>_<), I counted it as a panel for all the Rikkai regulars except Yukimura. xD Even though you obviously couldn't make out Marui and Jackal and everyone else, I figured it's gotta be them, so...xDDD;
Anyway.
Echizen's still pwning everyone by like 700+ at this point, while the freshman trio are now 3 of the top 7, and the other regulars are catching up~ The highest non-Seigaku member is Kamio- I think it's partly because he sat next to Tachibana during Shinji's match (so everytime we saw Tachibana, we saw Kamio too), and partly because he was involved in the Atobe incident. Whatever the reason, he's somehow beating Fuji, Tezuka, and Taka...well, Taka I can understand, but...
At one point I started mixing the Gyokurin players (Fukawa and Izumi) up, so...those might not be completely accurate. xD;;
One interesting thing about this is that it forces me to learn the non-important players' names. I now know who Mori and Uchimura are! (they're the doubles pair from Fudoumine that played against the Golden Pair- Uchimura's the one with the hat)

Anyway, this is how it stands so far...

Echizen Ryouma - 1132
Momoshiro Takeshi - 416
Horio Satoshi - 375
Kaidou Kaoru - 338
Katou Kachirou - 301
Inui Sadaharu - 300
Mizuno Katsuo - 251
Ooishi Shuuichirou - 223
Kikumaru Eiji - 220
Kamio Akira - 218
Fuji Shuusuke - 210
Tezuka Kunimitsu - 209
Ibu Shinji - 203
Ryuuzaki Sakuno - 159
Ryuuzaki Sumire - 150
Kawamura Takashi - 117
Fukawa Kimoyoshi - 112
Izumi Tomoya - 109
Sasabe - 108
Tachibana Kippei - 105
Arai - 96
Echizen Nanjirou - 88
Inoue Mamoru - 87
Shiba Saori - 75
Ishida Tetsu - 72
Sakurai Masaya - 62
Hayashi - 59
Ikeda - 58
Mori Tatsunori - 56
Osakada Tomoka - 56
Tachibana An - 54
Uchimura Kyousuke - 49
Kirihara Akaya - 48
Atobe Keigo - 30
Mizuki Hajime - 30
Karupin - 28
Kachiro's dad - 25
Sasabe Sr. - 24
Kabaji Munehiro - 23
Sengoku Kiyosumi - 19
Kiichi Kuki - 16
Akazawa Yoshirou - 11
Kawamura's dad - 8
Fuji Yuuta - 6
Nanako - 6
Ooishi's uncle/Tezuka's doctor - 5
Sanada Genichirou - 5
Yanagi Renji - 5
Ryouma's mom - 2
Jackal Kuwahara - 1
Fuji Yumiko - 1
Marui Bunta - 1
Niou Masaharu - 1
Yagyuu Hiroshi - 1

Milestones:

100
Sasabe - Chapter 1
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 1
Horio Satoshi - Chapter 5
Momoshiro Takeshi - Chapter 10
Kaidou Kaoru - Chapter 10 (the exact same page as Momo, just one panel after xDD)
Ryuuzaki Sakuno - Chapter 12
Katou Kachirou - Chapter 12
Inui Sadaharu - Chapter 14
Mizuno Katsuo - Chapter 14
Fukawa Kimoyoshi - Chapter 25
Izumi Tomoya - Chapter 25
Ooishi Shuuichirou - Chapter 26
Ryuuzaki Sumire - Chapter 27
Fuji Shuusuke - Chapter 27
Kikumaru Eiji - Chapter 29
Kamio Akira - Chapter 32
Tezuka Kunimitsu - Chapter 34
Ibu Shinji - Chapter 36
Tachibana Kippei - Chapter 40
Kawamura Takashi - Chapter 46

200
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 4
Horio Satoshi - Chapter 15
Momoshiro Takeshi - Chapter 22
Inui Sadaharu - Chapter 23
Katou Kachirou - Chapter 25
Kaidou Kaoru - Chapter 31
Mizuno Katsuo - Chapter 35
Ibu Shinji - Chapter 40
Kamio Akira - Chapter 45
Ooishi Shuuichirou - Chapter 46
Kikumaru Eiji - Chapter 47
Fuji Shuusuke - Chapter 49
Tezuka Kunimitsu - Chapter 50

300
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 8
Horio Satoshi - Chapter 33
Momoshiro Takeshi - Chapter 34
Kaidou Kaoru - Chapter 40
Katou Kachirou - Chapter 50
Inui Sadaharu - Chapter 51

400
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 12
Momoshiro Takeshi - Chapter 47

500
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 16

600
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 20

700
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 24

800
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 35

900
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 38

1000
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 43

1100
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 49

So, I'm doing a Prince of Tennis panel count.

I KNOW, I'm such a nerd. 8DDDD
I remember back when I hung out on NarutoFan 24/7, there was a Naruto manga panel count- counting how many panels each character was in, to compare screen time and stuff. I always thought that was really cool...
So last night, I came up with the idea of doing a panel count for the Tenipuri manga...I didn't start it until this morning cause I came up with it at like midnight last night, but w/e...

It's actually pretty amusing to see how it's turning out- I just finished volume 2. I didn't realize how late Taka was introduced compared to the other regulars- all of the other regulars had showed up a couple of chapters into volume 1 and had various bits of screen time. However, Taka didn't have ONE PANEL until the VERY LAST PAGE of VOLUME 2, when they showed the final set of regulars after the ranking matches. Kirihara got a panel before Taka- when reporter dude was saying that there's only one other middle-school tennis player that can do the one-footed split step. xDDD Meanwhile, 3 of the top 6 are the Freshman Trio, with the other two being Echizen (duhhh) and the two Echizen faced in the ranking tournament, Kaidou and Inui.
Sasabe from chapter 1 was the first to hit 100 panels, and at the end of chapter one he had more panels than Echizen- but of course, since Sasabe basically never shows up again, he's stuck at 108 panels for the series. Horio's the only character other than Echizen to hit 200- ewww. And Echizen's keeping a steady rate of panels, so far he's gotten 100 panels every 4 chapters.
Oh, and I probably mixed Ikeda and Hayashi up (they're the two that were bullying the freshman with that can game), but I can't figure out which one's which so I just kinda guessed...?

Anyway, this is how everything stands after the first two volumes:

Echizen Ryouma - 515
Horio Satoshi - 208
Inui Sadaharu - 167
Katou Kachirou - 143
Kaidou Kaoru - 123
Mizuno Katsuo - 118
Ryuuzaki Sakuno - 117
Momoshiro Takeshi - 110
Sasabe - 108
Arai - 77
Fuji Shuusuke - 52
Hayashi - 51
Ryuuzaki Sumire - 51
Ooishi Shuuichirou - 50
Ikeda - 45
Osakada Tomoka - 40
Shiba Saori - 36
Kikumaru Eiji - 33
Tezuka Kunimitsu - 30
Inoue Mamoru - 29
Echizen Nanjirou - 7
Karupin - 7
Kawamura Takashi - 2
Kirihara Akaya - 1
Nanako - 1

Milestones:

100
Sasabe - Chapter 1
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 1
Horio Satoshi - Chapter 5
Momoshiro Takeshi - Chapter 10
Kaidou Kaoru - Chapter 10 (the exact same page as Momo, just one panel after xDD)
Ryuuzaki Sakuno - Chapter 12
Katou Kachirou - Chapter 12
Inui Sadaharu - Chapter 14
Mizuno Katsuo - Chapter 14

200
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 4
Horio Satoshi - Chapter 15

300
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 8

400
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 12

500
Echizen Ryouma - Chapter 16

ugh since when has Friday night been 'early' for Jump chapters?

I REMEMBER THE DAYS WHERE THE CHAPTERS REGULARLY CAME OUT ON THURSDAY
D:<
people have been saying stuff like 'wow, it's early this week' when Jump chapters came out on Friday night.
Seriously, since when has Friday night been early?
=/
I was so used to them coming out on Thursday, and maybe even Wednesday if we were lucky, then they started coming out on Friday instead.
It took me forever to get accustomed to that, but now I'm so used to the main manga (One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, PoT, Eyeshield 21...) coming out on Friday afternoon...and now they're starting to come out either really really late on Friday night (last week PoT was out at around midnight IIRC) or Saturday morning. A couple of weeks ago, the chapters weren't out until Sunday morning. =/
And even though it's still the same amount of time between chapters, it feels like FOREVER cause I'm still half-expecting them on Friday afternoon. >_<
Oh well, eventually I'll get used to them coming out on Saturdays...

Oh my god, Konomi. (PoT CHAPTER 359 SPOILERS)

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!!
xDDDDDDD

I mean, seriously. I have a tendency to think about things in a chapter as they happen, instead of waiting to read the entire chapter first...which is HORRIBLE in a chapter like this. xDDD
I mean, the chapter starts out with a view of the scoreboard, where Inui/Kaidou vs Yanagi/Kirihara was 5-1 (Seigaku forfeited) and singles 2 is 5-0, with Rikkai in the lead. Then it shows Niou absolutely PWNING Fuji! D:
So here's where I basically took a moment to stop and freak out.
I mean, Seigaku's about to lose the fucking Nationals, in 3 straight matches. DDDDD:
So not only was I freaking out about the possibility of Seigaku losing the very last match of the entire tennis season, which would force the third-years to retire...
...but I was also freaking out because it's SO UNLIKE KONOMI to jump from Inui/Kaidou pair losing at the end of last chapter to match game for singles 2. Especially with Fuji losing. And especially when Fuji losing means Seigaku losing to Rikkai and everything.
So I came to the conclusion that PoT is definitely ending when it's Shounen Jump run ends. Because otherwise there's no way Konomi would go that fast in the finals...he usually writes really long matches, and being the finals, this should be no exception. If the series was going to continue in tankoubon format, he wouldn't have to rush things like this.
So then I was really really sad about everything, and still freaking out, and then I turned back to read the rest of the chapter, hoping Fuji could somehow make a comeback.

But then...
Then Niou takes the wig off, and it's like ROAR I'M REALLY KIRIHARA IN DEVIL MODE...ok, at that I kinda figured something was up. xD
AND THEN INUI WAKES UP FROM HIS NIGHTMARE.
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Btw, he looks uber weird with all the bandages...but anyway...

So then it turns out FUJI is the one pwning NIOU. xDD



So, yeah....seriously Konomi, don't scare me like that! D: I really thought Seigaku was going to lose the Nationals!

Ok, so basically what this means is this:
Niou's gonna make a comeback, because a one-sided match isn't that fun, but he's not going to be able to win...Seigaku has to win these next two matches, singles 2 and doubles 1, so then it'll be a showdown between Ryoma and Yukimura.
Doubles 1 is Marui/Jackal. It's got to be. I can't see them putting out Yagyuu/Marui or Yagyuu/Jackal, it just doesn't really work. O_o
There is still hope for a tankoubon continuation. =D At first in this chapter I figured Konomi was rushing it so much it's definitely ending, but that turned out to be Inui's dream...so there's still a chance that it'll continue in tankoubon format...

I hate Friday evenings.

Because I'm always up late refreshing MangaHelpers every 5 minutes waiting for the week's Shounen Jump raw chapters to come out. D:
Ugh, they've been getting later and later lately...a couple of weeks ago the raws weren't even out until Saturday afternoon!
I remember back in the good old days when Naruto would typically come out on Thursdays. D: And I'm assuming the other SJ manga with it, I wasn't into anything else back then...

DDDD:
I really really really need to know what happens in the next chapter of PoT...
UGH I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE CHAPTER COMES OUT. D:

lol, is Inui dead? (PoT CHAPTER 358 SPOILERS)

I mean, SERIOUSLY.

So basically this is how the chapter goes.
We get a colored cover page, yaaaaaaaayyy~~~! Though, apparently it's not to announce anything about the whole 'ending-in-issue-52' thing; apparently there's going to be a 100-song seiyuu concert where they sing the fan's 100 favorite songs. Cool and all, but I really really really want more information about the 'end' of PoT. I'm still hoping for it to continue in tankoubon format...
Then Kirihara gets up, and he's in full devil mode. Honestly, it's not that surprising. It's Kirihara, duh.
But then~!
Instead of aiming at Kaidou, who can return the shots with his new 'invincible' Laser Beam/Tornado Snake combo...he aims at Inui. Who immediately goes down.
OUCH.
Yeah, so then for an entire game, Kirihara beats Inui up. Ouch. Again. I mean, poor Inui. And Renji's not even doing ANYTHING, even though his CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND is like being BEATEN UP by his doubles partner. D:
Honestly, I don't think Renji has like ONE PANEL in this entire chapter.
Nah, wait. He's on the first page, middle panel, far right. And he has a panel on the very last page just looking emotionless even though his childhood best friend just like DIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COURT. I mean, SERIOUSLY. From his seiyuu songs which are all emo-ish and oh so very obviously about Inui, you'd think he'd care more. D:
SO ANYWAY.
So Inui's just like being beaten up by Kirihara.
Then Kaidou has a flashback page. You know, with all the pictures and quotes from earlier chapters all mushed together on one page...
It's all about Inui. INUI/KAIDOU FTW!
AND THEN
You see all this blood (since when does tennis = blood? O___o I seriously don't think you can actually get this hurt in tennis...), and then Kaidou just goes "STOP IT!!!"
AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN
OH MY GOD

KAIDOU GOES INTO DEVIL MODE.
That creeps me out oh so much. O___o
Someone was talking about how the devil mode is so DBZ-ish, and they were like 'even their hair-colors change. that's seriously impossible.'
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about the hair color as much as the fact that their SKIN COLOR changes. That's EVEN MORE IMPOSSIBLE. xD
but anyway.
So then Inui stops Kaidou, and is like "the data has been collected."
And then they have the typical double-page where they stand up and say "Time for our counterattack..."
...except Inui just DIES.


...yeah.
I want to know who said that last thing, "Very admirable of you, Inui." I mean, I can't see it coming from anyone other than Renji, but Renji calls him Sadaharu. Hmm.
Anyway, then Kaidou just like collapses and screams...
and seriously, read the narrator text. "The voice that cannot resist screaming is reaching for Inui's Requiem..."
I hope I'm not the only one that seriously thinks that makes it sound like Inui died. Not like, jokingly, as in like, collapsed...like, seriously died, as in, NOT ALIVE ANYMORE.
D:
Oh dear lord, who knew people can die from tennis?

Anyway, we'll see the outcome of this match tomorrow. I personally think the chapter is going to start off with the ref going "Since Inui can't continue, Seigaku forfeits!" and we see Inui getting like carried off on a stretcher or maybe just carried off by other members of Seigaku if his injuries aren't enough to warrant the hospital visit.
Other people apparently think that Inui's just gonna get up and they're gonna come back and at least catch up, if not actually win. D: I don't see how that could happen, but...well, whatever, we'll see tomorrow...or maybe Saturday. I really hope the chapter isn't late this week...

AHHHHHH WTF (very minor PoT chapter 358 spoilers)

AHHHHH WTF
I just realized that the Golden Pair hasn't won since
THE FUCKING YAMABUKI ARC
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:
I mean, they're a National-level doubles pair, and they're supposedly one of the best...
so how come they haven't won in almost 30 volumes?
Ooishi/Kikumaru pair record
vs. Fudoumine - win
vs. St. Rudolph - loss
vs. Yamabuki - win
vs. Hyoutei - N/A (Ooishi hurt his arm)
vs. Midoriyama - N/A (Ooishi's still hurt)
vs. Rokkaku - N/A (still hurt)
vs. Rikkadai - loss
vs. Higa - N/A (Ooishi's off the regulars)
vs. Hyoutei 2 - loss
vs. Shitenhouji - N/A (they just didn't play, really, no reason given)

So...
D:
I'm actually really disappointed.
I mean, seriously.
Compare them to Inui/Kaidou...
Inui/Kaidou pair record
vs. Hyoutei (first time playing together) - loss (but they could have won if Inui didn't call his own shot out)
vs. Midoriyama - win
vs. Rokkaku - N/A
vs. Rikkaidai - N/A
vs. Higa - win
vs. Hyoutei 2 - win
vs. Shitenhouji - N/A
vs. Rikkaidai 2- ...loss? who knows, the outcome will probably be shown in tomorrow's chapter.


Not that the Golden Pair hasn't had their fair share of screentime. I mean, sure, vs Fudoumine they weren't really shown- just enough to introduce their abilities. But then St. Rudolph was like, EPIC MATCH- it ended with them losing, but they got a ton of screentime there. Then vs Yamabuki was pretty normal-ish...
vs. Hyoutei, even though Eiji was playing with Momo, there was a lot of angsting on Eiji's part about not being able to play with Ooishi...
vs. Rikkaidai was great- in the manga, that is. The anime kinda killed it, but they ruined the whole arc, so whatever. In the manga, Eiji got that concussion and everything...cute Golden Pair. <333
vs. Higa Chuu, they had that entire thing with Eiji 'not playing doubles anymore'...I seriously CRIED at that episode. I'm not even kidding, once it hits the scene where Eiji confronts Ooishi in front of the clubroom, I'm IN TEARS. ;-; EVERY FUCKING TIME. Eiji's singles match blends in amazing Golden Pair angst with Eiji being uber cute and amazing, and it's great...
So then vs Hyoutei again, they played against the Silver Pair. One word: SYNCHRO. That was so kick-ass. =D They got quite a bit of screentime there, as a doubles pair that is actually pro-level in some aspects- Synchro is something that apparently only the top pro doubles pairs achieve. =DDD
But if they're so good, then why can't they come up with a win?
D:
Which is why they have to win this match. Against whoever Rikkaidai puts out- my guess is Marui/Jackal, since to me neither of them seem to be the singles type, but you never know...
Their goal is to be the #1 doubles pair at Nationals. So far, they're failing MISERABLY. As much as it pains me to say so, it's true.
BUT. If they win against Rikkai's D1...
Well, I'll be happy. =D

Bleach games coming out in the US

YAAAYYYYY
So I finally got my copy of the October issue of Shounen Jump today. I still have yet to figure out why the hell they come so early; it would make so much more sense if it was the September issue. But whatever...
The first thing that caught my eye was the fact that there's SO MUCH DRAGONBALL Z THIS ISSUE. DDDDDDDDDD:
But anyway.
Then I flipped open the magazine, stared at the ad for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja for a few minutes (why oh why do I not have an Xbox 360), then flipped past it, and something else immediately caught my eye.

Flaming Hot DVD
Comin' at you next month is Vol. 3 of The Prince of Tennis Box Set! Ryoma and his teammates at Seigaku Academy are now competing at the Metropolitan Tournament, and their "golden pair" in doubles is forced to resort to an unusual formation. Contains episodes 27-38. Special features include: original Japanese trailers and original Japanese opening and ending credits!

So I'm gonna break this down a bit, I guess...
"Flaming Hot DVD!-" (you mean they actually care about Prince of Tennis?) "Comin' at you next month-" (ok, I squee-d for a second before realizing that they meant October; it's still August so I thought they meant September) "-is Vol. 3 of The Prince of Tennis Box Set!-" (already? didn't the second one just come out? speaking of which, it STILL HASN'T ARRIVED. D:) "-Ryoma and his teammates at Seigaku Academy-" (ok, this line is fail. Seigaku is short for Seishun Gakuen, which basically is Seishun Academy or w/e. Seigaku is a team nickname. Seigaku Academy makes no sense. It's like...my school is Noble & Greenough School; the nickname is Nobles, but we don't call it "Nobles School", that makes no sense) "-are now competing at the Metropolitan Tournament-" (to be honest, I stopped there to take a minute to figure out what the hell they were referring to, cause there's no "Metropolitan Tournament". The Prefecturals?) "-and their "golden pair"-" (no, no quotation marks. Golden Pair.) "-in doubles-" (no duh. what, do they think that people think a pair could be in singles?) "-is forced to resort to an unusual formation.-" (the Australian Formation? It's unusual, but I wouldn't really say they were "forced to resort" to it...) "-Contains episodes 27-38.-" (St. Rudolph arc, right?) "-Special features include: original Japanese trailers and original Japanese opening and ending credits!" (NO. NO. NO. The original OP/ED shouldn't be "special features". If they're going to brag on the cover about the episodes being "uncut", the OP/ED should be fully intact! WTF~ Especially because they use the original opening and ending for Naruto boxed sets...I wouldn't mind as much (well I'd still hate it, cause the American PoT OP/ED are crap, but...) if they didn't say on the box "UNCUT". They say it's "uncut", but it's not- it's the exact same thing you see on Toonami/Toonami Jetstream- the American OP/ED, and the American title screen. Seriously, wtf? I was really hoping they'd use the original OP/ED...I wanna see Driving Myself and KEEP YOUR STYLE. DDDDD:)
Lolz, I needed something to rant over, and this was perfect. =D The English version of the anime is crap, and the manga's not too good either.

BUT ANYWAY
YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY
I totally freaked out on one of the Bleach pages. For two reasons. The first being...
YAAAAAYYYY THE BLEACH WII GAME IS COMING OUT IN AMERICA
and a DS game that I've never heard of before.
I've actually really wanted to play the Wii game for a while, but I don't think there's a Freeloader for the Wii. This is great~ I'm really surprised though, it's way farther than the American anime is. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
The second thing is that they had a thing at the bottom of the page going all "SOUL REAPER ALL POINTS BULLETIN". It was a fake "warning note" or something. Pretty lame, but then...
THERE WERE PICTURES OF GRIMMJOW AND ULQUIORRA
@_____@
Wowwwww, the English manga is pretty close to where the Japanese manga is~


And then way later on in the magazine, they decided to make an announcement...
BLEACH IS BEING SERIALIZED IN SHOUNEN JUMP STARTING NEXT MONTH
YAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
YAYYYYYYYYYY
I think it's a good decision. Bleach is one of the top 3 Jump manga in Japan, and I'm so glad they're putting it in the magazine. I think they're starting from the Arrancar arc, so...

So now the only thing left that would make me uber happy would be if they put PoT in the magazine. 100% never gonna happen though. I always thought it was really popular in Japan, but it seems like it's been near the bottom of the Jump ToC lately. And it's not popular in America at all, so I'm not gonna get my hopes up.


By the way, I noticed something slightly amusing when I was putting away some of my manga the other day.
On the inside cover for Bleach volume 1, there was an ad for other Shounen Jump manga. The main one they were advertising...was Prince of Tennis volume 13.
So...well, both series have 20 volumes at the moment in America. Does that mean that in the time it took for Bleach to release 20 volumes, Prince of Tennis only released 7?
O___o
*goes off to ponder this thought*

So I know I said I wouldn't order through Amazon again after what happened last time, but...

...they had Oshitari's Valentine Kiss single, and I just couldn't resist. xD Considering the only version still available on Yesasia is Sanada's, and none are still available on CD Japan...I basically jumped at the chance to get Oshitari's. xD
I'm not technically ordering from Amazon anyway, just through it...for every item in my cart, I'm using the "buy used & new" option so it's not actually coming from Amazon. It's way cheaper this way too. xD
So this is exactly what I'm getting:
Aozu (Echizen Ryoma, Fuji Shuusuke, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Ooishi Shuuichirou) - Kakaeta Kiseki (Prince of Tennis National Tournament OVA 2nd opening)
Ao to Bin to Kan (Atobe Keigo, Sanada Genichirou, Oshitari Yuushi, Kikumaru Eiji, Sengoku Kiyosumi, Fuji Shuusuke, Kirihara Akaya, Echizen Ryoma) - Gather
GIGS (Echizen Ryoma, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Atobe Keigo, Sanada Genichirou) - Flower -Saki Midareshi Hana- (Prince of Tennis National Tournament OVA 1st opening)
Kikumaru Eiji - ONE
Oshitari Yuushi - Valentine Kiss
Prince of Tennis Box Set 2

After I get Kakaeta Kiseki and Flower, the only seiyuu OP/ED songs left to get are Fujori (by Hyoutei Eternity; the second OVA ending) and Thank You!! (by Cap to Bin; the third OVA ending)...
ONE is by Eiji, which means I HAVE to get it, which means that all that's left for my Eiji solo collection is his album Hello! and his Best of Seigaku single, Tsubasa ni Natte. But neither of those are limited releases, so I think I'm gonna put those off for now while I go through and get some limited stuff.
As for why I bought Gather...well, it's the JUNIOR SENBATSU TEAM of course. xD Fuck the fact that that was all filler, it has EIJI in it (which made me UBER UBER HAPPY when they added Eiji to the team because I didn't think Eiji would make it on the team in a million years) and it has KIRIHARA in it (well, it's not Kirihara I care about, it's his seiyuu Morikubo Shoutaro who is AMAZING) and having both of them in the SAME SONG is uber uber amazing. WHICH IS WHY I NEED TO FIND DOWNLOADS OF EVERYTHING RELEASED BY THE DUO HEART-BEAT BECAUSE IT'S BOTH OF THEIR SEIYUU. *dies* (even though Eiji's seiyuu sounds nothing like Eiji when he's not actually trying to sing as Eiji.) I really like the song anyway. xD
And last but not least, Valentine Kiss. Hmm, I wonder if anyone out there in the j-pop blogosphere knows about the '80's song Valentine Kiss by some member of Onyanko Club? I hadn't heard of it until recently, when I was looking at the Lucky Star Wikipedia page to see the list of endings and on the talk page someone mentioned something about Valentine Kiss (one of the endings) being used as a Prince of Tennis song. That immediately got me interested, so I looked it up. Turns out, the song has been covered by 5 different Prince of Tennis seiyuu on 7 different releases. On Valentine's Day 2004, Atobe released a single containing a cover of Valentine Kiss. In 2005, it was Oshitari who released the Valentine Kiss single. In 2006, they both released Valentine Kiss singles...I haven't listened to them all yet, I don't know if they were re-releases or actually sung differently or whatever. In 2007, it was Sanada from Rikkaidai who released a Valentine Kiss single. Also, Shishido sung a cover of it as a bonus track on his album, and Ooishi did the same for his album.
The version on Amazon is Oshitari's 2006 version...the only other version I found was Sanada's, which I can still get on Yesasia so I'll grab it later.
Oh, and then I guess there's the 2nd PoT box set. I need to watch the dub. I haven't watched it since they took it off the air back in June...I wanna start from the beginning and I don't think you can do that on Toonami Jetstream. To be honest, from what I remember of the dub, it absolutely sucked, but whatever. Really, if I can handle Dub Piece I can handle this. I think.

I noticed the lack of non-PoT stuff in this, and I swear I'll make it up next order, which at the moment I think will consist of...Arashi's latest album Time, Morning Musume's SEXY 8 BEAT (limited edition of course), and Morning Musume's 7.5 Fuyu Fuyu Morning Musume Mini or w/e it's called (limited edition for that too). Probably Manatsu no Megane's, by Megane's (I don't even know how to make "Megane's" possessive, I seriously doubt it'd be "Megane's's") and Cap to Bin's Thank You!! too (I would actually get those in this order, but there aren't any "buy used & new" options for either single and I don't quite trust Amazon with import CDs anymore), and if I have the money maybe the Ongaku Gatas single. The limited edition probably, because I like the cover a lot better. xD
But that'll have to wait until later.
(or I might buy the 3rd PoT OVA DVD. I just got waaaaayyy too tempted to get it when I found it on CD Japan while looking for the Tenimyu DVDs...I mean, it's Eiji, and Golden Pair angst, not to mention it's the OVA series so the animation quality is great and everything...)



Anyway, I'm heading off to Cape Cod tomorrow morning (against my will) for a week with no TV and no internet, but I'm bringing the PS2 down along with a couple of *coughcoughillegallydownloadedcoughcough* Tenipuri games (I have Doki Doki Survival Secret, Doki Doki Survival Mystic, Gakuensai no Oujisama, and Smash Hit! 2- the first three being dating sims and the last being just a tennis game) and Narutimate Accel to hopefully keep me busy. (lolz, for the record I just recently found out you can download PS2 games and burn them onto DVDs, and I've kinda been abusing that power I guess...) That in addition to summer reading and a couple of episodes of Shippuuden plus about 8 episodes of Bleach plus all of Gintama plus all of Lucky Star...well, I don't think I'll be too bored while hanging out in the cottage. xD

I really was expecting to scan and upload the CDs from my most recent order, but my mom's computer wasn't hooked up to the scanner and every time I remember to ask her, she's not in the house. >____< And now I don't have enough time...sorry, I'll get those up as soon as I get back~


On a total side note, there's no Jump this week. Which makes me UBER UBER SAD because I wanted to at the very least find out who's playing doubles 2 before I get sent off to Cape Cod and cut off from the world for a week. T________T

[random rant] oh so close to being caught up with PoT (CHAPTER 353 SPOILERS)

Lolz, I just needed somewhere to type all my thoughts out randomly without talking specifically to someone. My head's been full of Tenipuri stuff lately and it's starting to bug me, cause no one pays attention to what I say at the moment cause Emily doesn't like Tenipuri, Katie ignores me if I type anything more than like two sentences because she'll think it's too much to read, and Sarah (the only one who I think would actually care) is off at camp~
Basically my thoughts on both the current manga arc and PoT's status in America...I just wrote down whatever I thought of as it came to mind, and it's obviously not the nicest thing to read in terms of format and style, but it's not like I really care...



(oh so close to being caught up with PoT...)
...but not quite there yet, cause you see the issue is that I can only find the first two episodes of the Nationals Semifinals subbed in Chinese, and I watched the first episode but it's boring without subs so I think I'll leave the other episode until later when I actually get motivated to care about Fuji vs Shiraishi
maybe it's just cause I'm still hung up over Tezuka vs Sanada where TEZUKA LOST ZOOOOMMMG which is NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN unless it's to RYOMA but he LOST to SANADA OF ALL PEOPLE and they decided to put RYOMA against YUKIMURA which is like BAD IDEA considering it comes down to a fucking FRESHMAN (I mean, even if he is their super freshman, there's seriously a limit on how overpowered he can be) vs the fucking CAPTAIN (and best player like EVER) OF RIKKAIDAI but we all know that after doubles 2, singles 2, and doubles 1, two of them will win and one will lose so it'll come down to Ryoma vs Yukimura for the deciding match to see which team wins the Nationals and we ALL KNOW that Ryoma will win so Seigaku will win the Nationals and the series will end *TEARTEAR*
cause it'd make SO MUCH MORE SENSE to put FUJI against Yukimura (actually the best would have been TEZUKA but for some reason he ended up in SINGLES 3 even though he's the BEST PLAYER ON THE TEAM) instead of RYOMA but Fuji isn't the main character now, is he
we have yet to see Yukimura play since he's been in the HOSPITAL the whole time (being raped by a plant according to a fanfic I read =D) but we know he can do the MUGA NO KYOUCHI and he's the CAPTAIN OF RIKKAIDAI and he's BETTER THAN SANADA AND YANAGI AND EVERYONE ELSE FROM RIKKAIDAI so we know he's UBER POWERFUL so Ryoma's gonna have to pull some new moves out to beat him and add to his uber move collection
that is if he even comes in time for the match, that'd actually be really funny if he totally missed his match due to being wherever the hell he is right now while Momo and Atobe and Oshitari are looking for him
I figure since Ryuuzaki let Momo run off and look for Ryoma that means he's one of the two subs this round because I don't think she'd take the chance of losing another player and missing another match, and the other sub is obviously Taka because of his uber injuries from his last match which was really unrealistic, and when you figure that out it's pretty easy to figure the rest of the matches out, Inui and Kaidou have to be in doubles 2 because there aren't really any other good combinations with the others except the Golden Pair of course but obviously they're in doubles 1, and they should win somehow because of their goal to become "Nationals #1!", and if Inui and Kaidou are in doubles 2 and Ooishi and Eiji are in doubles 1 and of course Ryoma's in singles 1 that leaves Fuji for singles 2
I can't figure out who Rikkai's playing in their lineup though because of all the plot crap, like I really doubt Fuji's gonna play Kirihara again and stuff like that, cause that wouldn't really be as interesting, and since Sanada was in singles 3 and Yukimura's obviously in singles 1 I figure singles 2 will be Yanagi cause he's the last of the "3 demons of Rikkai" or w/e the hell they're called, but then we have the two doubles pairs and if we leave them the same then we're gonna end up with Yagyuu/Niou vs Ooishi/Eiji and that'll be boring, unless the anime of it includes the concussion that was SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN the first time but they cut it out for some odd reason along with like all of the good stuff from all the Rikkai matches in the manga like Fuji going blind and stuff like that
so maybe they'll switch the pairs around and we'll get Yagyuu/Niou vs Inui/Kaidou and Jackal/Marui vs Ooishi/Eiji, or maybe Konomi will come up with a totally new doubles pair like Yanagi/Kirihara and totally surprise us, that'd actually be pretty fun
well I bet we'll see Jirou as long as Marui plays, and that's always good cause JIROU = <333333333333333333333333


so I was thinking about Shounen Jump today and I was thinking that I wished PoT would be on the cover of an American Shounen Jump issue because sometimes non-serialized manga get on the cover like Bleach, but in order for PoT to get on the cover something important would have to happen like the movie coming out or the anime starting up again or something and then I realized that no one cares about PoT in America
it's really sad cause it's a great anime/manga and I think it could have done really well if they did it right, but they didn't and that's the problem
the manga's good, though there are some crappy changes like everyone calling everyone by their first names (no one should call Tezuka "Kunimitsu" except his family, seriously it's just weird to see the regulars call him that) it was fine, but manga isn't really as popular in the US and it wouldn't become popular with just the manga
but then the anime came over and Viz killed it, first of all they had the crappy dub with the uber uber uber crappy voices and everything else was good but the voices can ruin an anime, and they definitely did this time, I mean Eiji's supposed to sound hyper and Fuji's supposed to sound like a girl and everything else, so they totally killed the voices, and then they put it on Toonami Jetstream at first and that wasn't that good of an idea because I really don't think it's that popular, but then they put it on TV which was a good move but then they killed it by SKIPPING LIKE HALF THE EPISODES FOR NO REAL REASON, and I'm sure that confused dub-only watchers who probably had no idea what was going on, and I can understand why they'd want to get farther along in the series faster because the series starts out kinda ehhh and gets waay better later on, but skipping episodes is not the way to go, and so then they finally restarted it from the very beginning but then they took it off the air for good before they got to the good episodes!
so now people have to buy the DVDs to watch it and I don't think it's really attracting any new fans by doing that because if I was someone who only watched dub anime I certainly wouldn't want to spend like $40 on a DVD that I'm not even sure I'm gonna like and it's especially not good because they don't even release separate DVDs, only box sets, and I think that's a turn-off for people because whyyy would they want to buy a box set for an anime they're not even sure that they're going to like
or they could watch it on Toonami Jetstream, but that sucks and I don't think they keep the earlier episodes on so if you didn't see the beginning you're screwed and you'll have no idea what's going on especially because I hear they're about to hit the Yamabuki arc and by this point you don't randomly start watching in the middle, you just don't
and btw I really wanna know what Dan's gonna be like in the dub because it's DAN for god's sake and they can't keep "desu" so how else are they gonna keep his weird speech habit, which reminds me I need to see the rest of the dub in general, cause I'm interested in how they're gonna keep "daa~ne~" and the whole "duck" reference cause that doesn't work unless they dub him to say like "quack" or w/e and if they do that I'll shoot the people who came up with that crappy idea
not to mention I don't know/remember any of the voices besides the Seigaku regulars, so I gotta see how crappy the other voices are
oh dear lord I CANNOT wait until we get to Davide from Rokkaku, how the hell are they gonna work in all his puns in English
actually the manga's already that far but I'm not, I'm only up to volume 8 in the English version but I've been buying a few everytime I get the chance so I'll catch up soon, they're already at Eiji's seal step! yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy
I forget if that's when Eiji plays Rokkaku or Rikkaidai so I don't exactly know how far the English manga is but whatever, not like it really makes any difference, Eiji's amazing and uber great yayyyyyyy
ok I think I'm finally out of things to say

[/rant]


Oh, and completely random, but virtual cookies to anyone who spots what's wrong in this manga page. xD I didn't notice it until someone told me...

Hmm...a bit more Mikitty stuff + Kira*Pika + some Naruto stuff...

So I realized yesterday after making that last blog post that I had said in the one before that that the next one wouldn't be about H!P.
Oops.
But c'mon, it was kinda important...and I was basically doing a rushed post because I didn't have that much time before I had to leave. I mean, imagine my surprise when I'm at school like a half-hour early, pulling out my computer like usual, checking International Wota on a random whim, and then- BOOM "[News] Fujimoto Miki Leaves Morning Musume". I think I might have freaked out more than I did when I found out Nono was pregnant...
And then there were two girls that thought I was freaking out about my appearance (cause it was graduation day, and it's like a big formal event even if you're not the one graduating), and they tried to pull me into the bathroom...and I'm just like "no. fuck off. Miki just left Momusu. T__T" Gotta learn how to keep calm on the outside and just freak out inwardly.

And then yesterday afternoon, International Wota linked my post in "[Blogs] Still More Mikitty Reactions", which made me UBER HAPPY. <333 Especially because I thought the only person reading this was lotus from NF. xD

So anyway...Risa's going to be sub-leader, as I thought. Works for me. <3 And Takitty as leader of course. Hopefully she won't lose the position after less than a month like Miki did...^^;;;
I might make a Kanashimi Twilight Miki tribute avi/sig set for my NF account like I did for Yossi...maybe after exams. Though I was planning on keeping the Yossi set until their next PV...

I'm just glad that Miki has GAM, and a solo career too. She'll still be singing~ <33


On another note, the members of Kira*Pika (well, Kira☆Pika, but Kira*Pika's so much easier to type. xD) have been confirmed! It's not Kusumi Koharu and Mitsui Aika like I previously thought, but Koharu and Hagiwara Mai (from C-ute)!
Source (Some Boys! Blog)
Hagiwara Mai? Er...who? I really don't know anything about C-ute. I mean, I can name almost every single other member of the other groups in H!P (I can't do most of Berryz, either...), but I don't know ANYTHING about C-ute. I mean, sorry to say, but the first time I heard a song of theirs was a few days ago when I was in the NF Blender and someone (NudeShroom maybe?) posted a "loli music video", and when I clicked it it was Ooki na Ai de Motenashite...(which, by the way, was uber-catchy.) So naturally, this announcement surprised me and confused me, cause I had no idea who this "Hagiwara Mai" was. xD;;;
So I did what any other clueless person would do. I looked her up on ThePPN Wiki. First thing that pops out at me. Holy shit, she's only 11. O_O And she was SIX when she first joined H!P as one of the Hello! Project Kids back in 2002...
O_____________________O
Six...wow. I wouldn't have been able to do anything like that when I was six. O_o
I mean, they didn't actually do anything notable until 2004, and that was just the H!P All Stars with all 46 members of H!P...but still, that's really young.
Actually, no, she was one of the four H!P Kids that were in the Minimoni movie back in 2003...I remember that. That was an uber-amazing movie. xD
So now I know a bit more about Mai...she's young and cute. xD
I'm still kinda surprised about Koharu. She has Morning Musume, her solo career, that anime she's in, Momusu Tanjou 10nen...and now Kira*Pika, too. I mean, that's a lot of stuff to handle...well, ganbatte, Koharu-san~ xD
I can't wait to hear more about this new group~


...
Oh shit, we have a tornado warning right now. And I hate to admit it, but I'm like uber scared and on-edge right now cause there's a ton of thunder and lightning. T______T My mom's telling me to shut down my desktop computer in case there's a power surge, but I'm seeding stuff, and Jpopsuki's down, and so if I want the stuff I'm seeding to count, I have to leave Azureus open until Jpopsuki goes back up again...it's been down all day, which seriously pisses me off. I can only hope it's back up by tonight so I can get this week's CDTV...last time, it was down for like a week and I got uber pissed cause I didn't get the CDTV episode until like Thursday. >< And this week should be that special section where they show all the upcoming releases for this month, and I need to see if Aqua Timez's ALONES is being released this month~ I doubt it, but...raaaawrrrr, that single needs to come out soon, I need to hear the full version~



So since I haven't made a non-H!P post in a while, I might as well add some Naruto stuff in here. :D
Lolz, I can't believe the Temari fanservice in Shippuuden 16. When I first heard about it (I didn't watch the raw until yesterday (yes, I watched the raw even though the sub was out- it's tradition) cause I forgot on Thursday, and so I kept seeing pictures throughout NF) I thought they actually put it in canon. XDDDD Which would make NOOOOO SENSE AT ALL...I was speculating about where they put it in and everything...and then it turned out to be the little ending clip that always has nothing to do with canon plot at all. :D I guess Naruto was just giving Temari and Kankurou a little tour of the hot springs?
Lol, I screenshotted it, but the pics are kinda big and I don't know how to make thumbnails or anything using HTML. D: So, links instead...? Pic 1 and Pic 2.
Shikamaru should have been their tour guide instead. D: Not only would it be ShikaTema (<333333333333) but Shikamaru hot springs fanservice...:love

As for the rest of the episode, I didn't understand a lot of it. xDD As the series goes on, I'm understanding less and less with each episode...which makes no sense cause I'm learning more and more Japanese. xDDD; Or maybe it's just that I don't remember most of the stuff from this arc...
Well, either way...I need to actually start watching the sub again. xDD;


And last but not least...
This week's Naruto chapter.
The reason this was last...

ROOOAAARRR UBER NARUTO MANGA SPOILERS FROM HERE ON

Okk, now you shouldn't be reading this unless you read the Naruto manga. =3

This week started off with a colored two-page spread cover.
And may I say....EWWWWWWWW~
DDDDDDDD: Kishimoto's choice of colors for Team Hebi...DD:
Obviously Sasuke's same as normal. Suigetsu's colors actually look pretty good. Not what we previously thought, but they're still good. Juugo...well, I think most people didn't expect that his hair was orange...but heyy, it's not uber-bad.
It's Karin that bugs the crap out of me.
BRIGHT. RED. HAIR.
ewwwww.
AND HER EYES ARE THE SAME COLOR! DD:
Katie (my stepsister) says that the main reason it looks really bad is because it clashes with her purple jacket. I dunno, I don't know about what colors work and what colors don't, all I know is that it looks pretty damn bad. D: Hopefully they'll touch it up a bit in the anime so it doesn't look as bad...
I still say we should go with the black hair, tan jacket thing...who colored that? Amaretti? I guess it's what I'm used to since I saw it first...xD;; I mean, I know I'm not using the red and purple colors in my fanfiction. >< I'm sticking with the black and tan...

BUT ANYWAY.
Lolz, I love Tobi. xDD Tobi vs. Sasuke would be fun. Sasuke would pwn, of course. Then again, we haven't seen anything Tobi can do yet...all we know is that he's a good boy. =3
And then the last page of the chapter.
Kabuto.
I fucking FREAKED OUT. Like, seriously fell out of my chair and everything. I mean...it's fucking SCARY! DDDDx
So...so...Orochimaru's alive? In Kabuto? I'm a bit lost here...and still creeped out. I think I'll just kinda...wait until next week...o_o;; See what happens...I really don't want to think too much about this at the moment...(not to mention exam week is next week so I really shouldn't anyway.)


I still have some ideas about stuff to post, but this post is long enough already...not to mention I've already spent two hours writing this. xDD;; Maybe later....
If I don't get one in tomorrow, I probably won't get an entry in until Thursday afternoon. Exams suck. D: