lots and lots of fangirling

[insaneneko]

I love these two frames from yukie's newest comic, so I had to share...Hikaru is drunk and Akira is simply adorable! If anyone wants to see the comic this came from please check out her site. Yes, I've pimped her before (numerous times), but one can never pimp good stuff enough!

Speaking of Hikaru no Go, silverthunder finished scanlating 24:00 by 100Mankai and has it up for download here...I am too afraid to read it because this is an old translation of mine and I am sure there are many cringe-worthy parts...But the art is cute! There's sex! It's 100Mankai! Two other 100Mankai doujinshi I translated are Love Trap and Sweetest, and both also very good. :D I also like Far Off Season (not by 100Mankai)--it feels more in canon....and the best for last...Yume no uchi ni mo hana zo chirikeru...it's set in the Heian period...it's...cheesy....*snigger*....

In any case, I was flipping through the Get Fuzzy book I got for Christmas, and decided to share two strips that just killed me. I of course love this for the humor, but part of it has to be that I've never owned a cat with anything remotely close to this kind of attitude...and I've had a lot of cats...







Speaking of cats, I made nabeyaki udon today and put some green onions in it...nira (scallion) came to mind and then I could only hear "Nirananka ningen ga kuumon janeedarouga!!!" echoing in my head...So of course I had to dig out my Fruits Basket DVDs (it was a great undertaking...it was packed away in a box under two huge boxes full of DVDs and tapes...I was very tired afterward) and watch the episode where Tohru gets sick and Kyo makes her nira okayu after yelling (in that lovely Seki Tomokazu screaming voice) how nira is not something for human consumption. ^_^ Ah, I love that episode...and I got to hear Okiayu playing Shigure again. I adore his voicing of that character--it's so different from the other roles that come to mind when I think of him. And hearing Hatori again...I had to go look his voice up and was delighted to find out t was Inoue Kazuhiko. I love that voice, especially as Yuki Eiri in Gravitation...he was perfect in the one episode I saw of that anime (...I love the manga...I couldn't watch the anime...>_<...I wish I got far enough to hear Okiayu voice K, though).

After I was sated with my Kyo fix, I decided I needed to play something else as background as I scanned in stuff and wrote up this post...and put in Initial D. I am on like the fourth episode or so (Takumi is about to show up for the first race...I lost track of the episode numbers), and...I had forgotten how DORKY they were! Especially Iketani and his little gang. Ah, they are so cute in their serious love of racing and cars, and their pure and unadulterated dork-dom. And I love love love Miki's "Koee mon wa koeenda yo!" scream of pure fright while being subjected to bad driving. And of course how cool the Takahashi brothers are the lone cool guys in this bunch. How do they manage to rise above the pervasive dorkiness of it all? And the art is so damn ugly in the first stage...how I love this show... *^_^*

Oh, and yesterday I downloaded Tezuka's vocal album With from Tsubame Gaeshi, datenshi_blue's awesome PoT site. Damn, Okiayu is sounding better and better. I am thoroughly enjoying this album...I definitely like him in the mid-tempo songs. I'm not sure if his voice can really handle the ballads and the fast songs well. My favorites so far are definitely the duets, one with Ryoma and one with Fuji. Both are really nice songs, but I wish they had mixed the voices so that Tezuka didn't dominate when they sang together, like how they did it for Fuji and Taka-san in "Days of Moments" or Ryoma and Tezuka in "Arigato." The crack song that won't leave my head for this album is "Kimi wo sagashiteta"...it is evil...it haunts me...it is catchy...

I also got the first Yami no Matsuei soundtrack (thanks mirichan!) and listened to it. Wow, some really nice BGM! More incentive to watch the anime, I suppose. :D

I downloaded You are My Queen ("Geboku ni narimasu" in Japanese) from Hochuuami. The art is only so-so to me, but the guy just...fawning over?...the young man is...amusing, in a scary, scary way...

They also had a Sakuragi Yaya one shot that I didn't really care for, for some reason. The art is lovely, as usual, and the main character is cute...I really don't know why...*scratches head*

And I'm tired of typing and trying to be coherent and really want to concentrate on Initial D so here ends this post...*kyaaa!! kyosuke's upset!! yellsomemoreseki!*...