Konnyachiwassu! (ok i'm sorry: Kon'nichiwa)
I bought some magazines for the month of JUNE~ KERA, Popteen and 別冊spoon 2Di Vol 35.
Lately, for me, KERA hasn't been much interesting. But it does give me alot of inspiration for the boku-girl style (or dansou男装/cross-dressing) and as usual, alot of make-up tips!
June's Popteen was much better than May's though.. But I think May's was rather interesting as they did a survey among guys on what they like in a girl and other stuff (so that girls can better understand guys and therefore get a bf). I like the current fashion trends going on now - most of it. And I got to see more Pikarin and Saaya~ I think Saaya is a pretty cute (personality) girl and I hope she continues to work hard in Popteen!
The cover for spoon2Di was Tamako Market this time! And Attack on Titan was the Wcover. There was a 22-page special on Tamako Market, which contains interviews with the main production team (director, character design, setting...) & main cast, special images and some extra information (like the people of shopping district and inspiration behind the different chara designs). I'm also pretty convinced I have the attention span of 1 interview (lol). Director's (Yamada Naoko) interview was special so it was like 4 pages long I think... I wanted to give up halfway. Then after that I gave up reading the rest.
Kaji Yuuki also had an interview in spoon2Di, for his role as Eren in Attack on Titan which I also wanted to read but couldn't bring myself to. Mm. And an interview with KARNEVAL's mangaka. spoon2Di is pretty much all interviews for its issues.
Buttt. The poster for this issue was. (stars all over) A1 size. And the printing was so pretty, actually more like the resolution was so high, and the details were captured beautifully. AND KUSANAGI-SAN W/O HIS GLASSES. But the main point is: military uniforms. Yes I love military uniforms, in 3D or 2D. When spoon released a preview (I'm guessing), and news got all over that the poster would be military uniforms, the people I followed on pixiv all got to drawing Sarumi in military uniforms, and a few MikotoRei, one Anna, one Seri...even the Gold and Silver Kings, and when I checked the K tag, I discovered a Akiyama and Benzai military uniform sketch. Aaaahh seriously melting under all the military uniforms goodness.
Okay. Enough spazzing haha.
And I also went to Bishan Library on Sun and slacked my whole afternoon off there. The 2nd floor, specifically the shelves at the farthest left, is just full of good books. I personally prefer buying fiction books/novels than borrowing them, don't know why. I also hardly find good fiction books at the library, to be honest. Oh, and I rarely borrow photography books even though photog is a passion of mine. I would borrow those on digital imaging, but I haven't got any software (ahem, photoshop/lightroom, the works) to try out the techniques on.
Planning on getting Photoshop maybe at the end of the year, who knows. Or maybe when I get into university. Also wanna get Paint Tool SAI (for which I'll require Windows). I wanna try out Illustrator as well, but I may not get as much use out of it.
Alright! I talk too much. It is 4 in the morning right now, and I have to be up in like 6hours, so good day everybody!
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Labels: 2013, K, kera, life, popteen, random update, spoon2di, tamako market
Hello hello~ lately I've been only talking about stuff I've bought. That's not good huh, hahaha.
Anyway, the other day I finally got my butt off and read the interview with Miyano Mamoru in PASH! March about "Saruhiko's Love". And I think that, like. Hmmm how should I put it. Alright, basically in the interviewe they asked Miyano-san about Saru, but it's only with regards to his own opinion, so like it's not as if that's the actual character setting for Saru by GoRa. But, anyway, what I think about Saru and what Miyano-san thinks about Saru match hahaha that's just what I wanted to say lol. Really love Fushimiiiii. I think we're kind of alike. /hit except I'm less extreme. 多分.
So anyway, that was the only interview I managed to read in PASH!, or rather, it was the only thing I had the motivation to read.... lol. Poor attention span. But I took half an hour to read one page lol. If it was in English I would have finished it in 5 minutes. I don't know if I should upload a transcript translation because I'm bad at translating. =3= どうする〜 But I haven't seen any such translations online (tumblr at least).
Oh, and on 1st April, my items from CDJapan arrived! (And I wasn't around to collect it either hurhur). I bought root5's 1st album ROOT FIVE. I got the Limited Edition one. Came with a charm wristlet~ I'm guessing that the charm comes in 5 designs, for each member. I got Pokota's. (I really wanted Mi-chan's one though...) It has Pokota's trademark kaomonji on it.
And I also got the Shueen Project's Re:Write album! Got the limited edition one for Suzumu's arrangements (I apologise to 150P-san).
Moving on to last weekend~ On Saturday I went to Orchard Road to walk around -- okay, I planned to go Kinokuniya ok. Yeah, so I went Kinokuniya with the purpose to ask about when spoon2Di Vol 33 will be arriving and if they will bring in PRINCE Animage Spring 2013 (because I've never seen it in Kino before) but
I bet Kino knows that K is super popular in Singapore because everything was STOCKED.
So yeah. And it was good I bought from Kino because I just went AmazonJP to check how much it would be after shipping + handling and HENG AH. I saved $9 lol (after including my Kino membership discount).
And actually to be honest, I think K is actually pretty popular in Singapore, especially since KANAME☆ cosplayed Saru, and came to AFA SG cosplaying him (I was so damn happy. Yes. Like yeah. And KANAME☆ is so adorbs.) and also there was a K booth at AFA (and I didn't get anything because I was awfully broke at that period of time and a K stage segment.
ALRIGHT! Onward to the magazines:
The front cover featured ENE-chan~ and there was a special furoku - a Kagerou Project clear file~
There's a special 20page feature on Kagepro, and I flipped through it (because I'm lazy, sorry) and there are snippets of the storyboards for Yobanashi Deceive and Lost Time Memory in it! And character profiles for everyone! As well as a 50-qn interview with Jin (Shizen no Teki P).
ShuuenPro is also in this issue!! Includes interview with Suzumu.
And a KARNEVAL feature (been meaning to read the manga but. ==" haiiz. How does one suck at being otaku /slapped). AND. An interview with Miyano Mamoru about him voicing Yogi for the anime.
MAGI and Psycho Pass are also in it. (Yes I haven't watched Psycho Pass argh OTL) And and, a collection of the tweets that the GoRa members have been tweeting for K. (Yay for me, because I didn't follow their tweets at all lol x,D I tend to not follow Japanese twitter accounts even utaite/Producers I really like because it's tiring, gomennnasai.)
And if you haven't heard of RDG (Red Data Girl), I think you should check it out!! I watched the PV and it's pretty cool. It starts airing this month.
OH OH. Speaking of new anime, I heard that Kyoukai no Kanata (animated by KyoAni homg) is becoming an anime!!! I saw the 30seconds CM and fell in love.
Other stuff in spoon2Di include AURA (i have no idea what is this about) and UtaPri 2000% (have you watched STARISH's "debut concert" PV? I'm really sorry to UtaPri fans but I can never take them seriously. I LOLed when I watched MajiLove1000% for the first time, and when my friend shared the new OP on FB, I watched it and laughed too, sumimasen.) and a few other interviews~ (as you can tell, my concentration drops once it reaches the back).
Oh, and the back cover is ShiroKuro, in the same style as the previous spoon2Di. The posters in it are 1 of that back cover, and another one with Totsuka and Kusanagi (hshs /hit).
ONWARD! To Prince Animage Spring 2013:
Basically Amazon sent me an email on "Recommended items for you based on your past purchase history" and yeah. Saw the cover, read the headlines, and was like "Buying." Yupp. (Ｔ▽Ｔ)
The furoku with this issue is a set of 2 reversible desk mats, featuring K and Psycho Pass!
Side note: If any magazine or whatnots comes out w like a furoku feat S4 I think I would really go siao. I love S4 almost abit more than the main characters omg lol
But yeah. Those two items are desk mats. Like who would use them as desk mats please. (maybe one day I will lol, because I have a habit of eating in my room, and my table's wooden so I can't put hot stuff on it.
And also there is a poster of the cover page illustration included. (but Fushimi, why your pose so gay -lol crying-)
Prince Animage is bound using staples, so the posters were easy to take out this time. Except that I had to remove the entire magazine, so yeah, it's impossible to return the staples to the holes so now my magazine is un-bound.
Poster designs are of Inzuma Eleven GO, Cardfight Vanguard, Tamako Market (which is almost like some otome game poster bc it's Mochizou lying on a bed looking at you, hugging Dera (and you are supposedly on the bed with him so yeahhhh like, you get the idea?), and Hetalia, KARNEVAL, Devil Survivor 2 and Psycho Pass.
And Hetalia and K are printed on the same paper OTL
So for this Animage, there's a pretty big K feature, such as a dialogue session with the 7 people of GoRa, long interview w Suzuki Shingo, and there are also mini postcard-size illustrations in the magazine by the various animators of GoHands, with their comments~ (basically all saying "Thanks for supporting/watching K" and to look forward to the sequel. Btw, Suzuki Shingo has really neat handwriting. But it's damn small. [so to be really honest I didn't really read what he wrote i'm sorrrryyy])
tbh, most of the anime magazines feature the same things so I feel really repetitive when telling you what's on the cover lol ^^; But anywaaaay.
Features: MAGI, Kuroko no Basket, Psycho Pass, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Cardfight Vanguard, Hetalia, InaEle, KARNEVAL, Devil Survivor 2, Danball Senki Wars, UtaPri2000%, Tamako Market.
Interviews with: Yuuki Kaji on Alibaba from MAGI, Terashima Takuma on UtaPri2000% & Miyano Mamoru on UtaPri2000%, Tamaru Atsushi on Ooji Mochizou from Tamako Market, a combined interview with 3 seiyuus of Cardfight Vanguard - Yoshino Hiroyuki, Yonaga Tsubasa, Nara Tooru. And also you shouldn't unbind your book because the pages are gonna fall out and hit you on the nose or poke your neck and it hurts. orz
And there's this one-page corner on a cross-dressing cafe in Tokyo lol. It's called EIGHTY PLUS ONE (80 plus 1). And apparently guys can't enter during their cafe operating hours wow. They have a BAR TIME which is from 6PM - 10PM.
That's about it I guess.
Oh, and I discovered this video interview with Akira (models for KERA, and other brands/magazines). Akira's my favourite model in KERA, and I really admire her!
Alright! I shall end this post here today. I had Chemistry practical today. It was pretty tiring. (ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ I think that practical is really tiring. Haiiz. But it's a requirement for A levels so I shall do my best and get the maximum marks possible.
明日もがんばります ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
Tomorrow is Physics practical... Well Physics is easier than Chemistry...
Really tired and I need to sleep nao so, goodnight~
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Labels: 2013, CDJapan, K, kagerou project, life, online purchases, PRINCE Animage, purchases, root5, Shuuen no Shiori, Shuuen Project, spoon2di
Hello hello~
So I recently bought from Amazon again and got myself three magazines!
From top: PASH! April, PASH! March, and spoon.2Di (Issue 31)
I have never bought anime magazines before. (Japanese books I buy normally are light novels, fashion magazines, artbooks, manga, as well as Cosmode occasionally.) But I bought these three magazines because.... of the posters. K POSTERS Seriously this is the first time I've been so into an anime. Not to mention I usually read manga instead. Anyway, there are also other features in the magazines that I also have interest in so it wasn't really "just for K". I'm thinking of maybe scanning a few pages and translating them but I procrastinate. Not to mention I really wonder why I do this because no one will read it... And I can understand the Japanese so I don't really have to translate... LOL jk maybe I'll share with my friends.
Anyway! On to the introduction~ (and translation of what's on the cover page, because that's the least I can do I suppose lol /shot)
(I'm sorry I recently got a new app so I had to play with it ^^;;)
PASH! March
すごでかいポスター付き。It came with a suuuper huge (A1 size) Sarumi poster. (I actually know how to fix creases in a scan on PS but I has no PS so I won't scan the poster) I think scans of the poster can be found on Tumblr. Though I recommend you google it instead of searching the tags because you will have to go through a lot of fangirling. (like I really wonder why people tag their fangirling posts; really?)
Cover headlines(? do you call that headlines?) I will go down from the left side, then down on the right side.
Monthly PASH! For Girls and Ladies only! (I don't know why they added that for MarPASH! because AprPASH! doesn't have it.)
PASH! Voice: You can hear the interview from your smartphone! Interview with Nojima Kenji [I have no idea how this works, so if you wanna hear the interview, leave a comment maybe I can try to find out]
"Oretachi no jama sun janee!" "Don't you damn bloody interfere with the two of us!" [ha..ha.. I have no idea how to sound vulgar w/o actually using expletives...]
Congratulations! Sequel production confirmed!! // Miyano Mamoru talks about Fushimi Saruhiko's "love". [which I haven't read yet because Kanji. x,D Man I gotta buck up.]
[Right side] A1 size super huge poster!! SARUhiko & MIsaki [SARUMI /hit]
Feature on Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East. [I have no idea what this is about, but looking at the seiyuu list, I think I will watch this soon]
Interview Namikawa Daisuke about Italy; HETALIA: The Beautiful World //with poster! [I ALSO WANTED TO WATCH BUT I KEEP FORGETTING. HETALIAAAAA. And England is so cute/adorbs in the poster lol.]
New Prince of Tennis // TIGER & BUNNY // Ixion Saga Dimensional Transfer Prolly includes a few pages of info on these anime, since there's no other headlines than the title]
All the memebers are gathered! The Miracles of Teikou Middle School. KUROKO'S BASKETBALL [Alot of SS in this feature lol. Only thing I rmb]
Cardfight!! Vanguard: Link Joker //with poster!
Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stone [I don't know what this feature is about. Maybe it's a dedicated feature to Chrono Stone]
UTA NO PRINCE-SAMA
Psycho Pass //with poster!
Cuticle Detective Inaba //with poster! [also one anime I wanted to watch...]
AMNESIA //with poster! [watching this now]
POKEMON BW2 //with poster!
MAGI: Official Fanbook sale confirmed! MAGI: Dialogue with Kaji Yuuki and Fukuyama Jun! [planning to read this too but]
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures
Shirokuma Cafe [I tried following this series... then... somehow... lol]
The Unlimited: Hyouba Kyousuke
Zetsuen no Tempest
The back of the magazine has an advertisement for some new game (release date 28 Mar) for the PSP called "The Shinigami Family Business: Ghost Story Romance". Art looks pretty, and it's by QuinRose. Not like I can play it anyway lol.
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PASH! April
Came with TWO A1 size posters. The first one is K & Pokemon (double-sided). Yes scans of the K one is on Tumblr. Second one is MAGI & K [ORLY NOW U MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN MAGI AND K]
Cover headlines:
Monthly PASH! We have hit 50 issues! THANK YOU!
PASH! Voice: Interview with Suzuki Chihiro
A1 size super huge poster K & Pokemon, MAGI & K.
K: Expose your heart and body in the open-air bath♥[haha wtf] &Ono Daisuke makes his appearance!
KUROKO'S BASKETBALL. This is a feature on Aomine, but I couldn't make sense of this part 狐高の天才 even though I read the manga....Oh and I haven't really read the article either, but I scanned through and nope :/
Cuticle Detective Inaba: DON! I want to know more~♥ //with poster!
UTA NO PRINCE-SAMA: Thanks for waiting, little lamb♥ New colour and art concept illustrations
[Right side]MAGI:
Tomatsu Haruka & Ishihara Kaori GIRLS TALK full of their honest opinions!
Kaji Yuuki & Ono Kenshou RADIO REPORT
15 March Official Fanbook goes on SALE!
Psycho Pass: Dialogue with Hanazawa Kana & Itou Shizuka
Hetlia The Beautiful World //with poster!
TIGER & BUNNY: Report on our infiltration to HERO RADIO!
THE UNLIMITED Hyoubu Kyousuke: Interview with Yusa Kouji //with poster!
New feature series: Aoi Shouta's THE SHOW TIMES [this is some new series within the magazine, one page]
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures [And something regarding Satou Takuya. I couldn't find out what 激白 means so no trans]
KARNEVAL //with poster!
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LAST ONE! 別冊spoon.2Di Vol 31~
Their cover is really... quiet ;u; (compared to PASH, and other anime magazines. They have alot of cover headlines)
Front is PSYCHO-PASS, back is K [SARUMIIII /hit]. There are PSYCHO-PASS and K posters in this which I haven't taken out. I might end up spoiling the front cover, tbh ORZ I REALLY WANT THEM OUT THO. And I also have not read this magazine. [Gosh, I suck]
Anyway, there are a few interviews, with Seki Tomokazu&Sakurai Takahiro, Fukami Makoto&Takaba Aya, ryo of supercell on EGOIST and producer Wada Takeshi(?).
Also includes features on Tamako Market (Interview with the director Yamada Naoko), MAGI, Kotoura-san, Minami-ke Tadaima, Senyuu, Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life, Hetalia The Beautiful World, Karneval, Ghost in the Shell ARISE, Tsuki Uta [don't know what this is], Attack on Titan and DEVIL SURVIVOR 2 the ANIMATION.
Yes. That's all of note on the front page, aside from the obviously huge PSYCHO-PASS headline. And there was a whole bunch of obscure anime... orz head hurts from googling and figuring out how to read the name.
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So ANYWAY~ That's all I have today~ Seems like every time I buy something I end up writing an ultra long blog entry about it. I will probably get down to translating when I can. Lol. x,D I don't know why I have so little time in a day oh my gosh. orz Anyway, thanks for reading so much, and if you want me to translate anything, you can leave a comment. My standard is JLPT N4 by the way... Maybe I should keep that piece of info as a note somewhere...
でわでわ
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Labels: 2013, amazon jp, K, life, Magi, online purchases, pash, Psycho Pass, spoon2di
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