Posted by jennkei on 15 Mar 2010 | Filed under: Manga
Nearly forgot to put this up. Prices are correct as of 1st March, so they might be a tad outdated. Either way, they shouldn’t be higher than RRP. As usual, click by header to sort.
Posted by jennkei on 04 Mar 2010 | Filed under: Random
But okay, enough whinging. Have the list of manga for the first two weeks of March. About half are Rightstuf links (noted by (RS)), other half are Bookdep ones. Where do you buy your manga from, and are you looking forward to any out of the below lot? :) As usual, if your browser supports it, you can click on the headers to sort the table.
* Prices are correct at time of writing.
Posted by jennkei on 27 Feb 2010 | Filed under: Anime, Manga, Random
Manga video thing. Ring X Touhou crossover; the art is pretty cute, even though being forced to read ‘manga’ (I only say this because the original form was a Nicovideo) slowly was a bit painful. Nonetheless, half an hour of your time. Watch ‘em below, parts 1 through 3, and the after story. (Click on ‘continue reading’ for the other videos.)
On another note, and because I haven’t made an entry about it yet, if you haven’t checked out the birthday list, feel free to. There’s also a calendar but I’m too lazy to update it since it’s hard to update, not to mention who knows whether people would even use it…
Latest update: 25/02/10: Added Negima (Wiki), Nodame’s Chiaki (MAL)
Posted by jennkei on 25 Feb 2010 | Filed under: Random
…AKA I Just Spent Too Much Time On This.
This is honestly the longest micro-analysis I’ve done. -_- To be honest, the only thing that I actually noticed the first time I watched this was SHAMEIMARU.
If you’re interested in a list of Japanese/Akiba cultural references made by Murakami in his video featuring Kirsten Dunst singing Turning Japanese, click to read moar. (With pictars.) Do note that NSFW screenshots will not be linked (I hate you for banning me for an album I posted a YEAR ago, Picasa; I’m not gonna let my current host do that too. -wry-), and NSFW links will be labelled as such.
That said, since there’re NSFW screenshots, goes to reason the video itself has NSFW parts as well. Act with discretion~ Also, link might periodically go down as various video sites seem to be deleting them…let me know if it’s gone. If you’d like to comment with a replacement link, that’s even better! =)
Posted by jennkei on 08 Jan 2010 | Filed under: Random
I was actually gonna post this up on Mangahelpers, but then I realised it was probably too dodgy to put there, so here we go. :P For anyone interested, I was bored and the art was cute, so I decided to do a quick Chinese->English translation. I’m not sure about a few parts, so it would probably be a good idea to wait for a proper actual translation/scanlation.
To read it online, there’re Chinese raws on dm5. Chapter 0 to 3 can be obtained from Biri Biri’s blog — be warned that outside of the page I’m linking to, they do scanlate hentai.
In comparison to the anime, which fleshes out some of the sections but otherwise follows the manga pretty closely, episode 1 detailed chapters 0 to 2, while episode 2 included chapters 3 to 4.
For the script, continue reading. Continue Reading »
Posted by jennkei on 29 Dec 2009 | Filed under: Random
Hm, been almost three weeks since I’d posted. How was your Christmas? :)
This is pretty much a short(er) interim post while I get my Otenba Koimusume (Cirno’s Theme) post ready. @animemiz on Twitter linked me to a delightful video on George and AJ, the two poor Shady Oaks (Retirement Home) employees, who find themselves in a bit of a pickle when Carl’s UP house turns into a trend with elderly retirees. From the original Pixar page, I found a remix of Up by Pogo, who hails from down under (though down in Perth, WA). Pogo’s also made a variety of other videos with sounds from other movies, one of which seems to have recently been taken down. Some say Disney wasn’t happy Alice was up since it was using their copyright material, which is something I can understand. I do prefer the Up remix a lot more to Alice, though, which is kinda repetitive.
Now, compare Pixar’s if-I-can’t-beat-em-I-sure-can-use-them-to-draw-traffic-to-my-channel reaction to Disney’s hypothetical reaction (- especially since Pixar IS part of Disney now, kinda <.>). Sometimes I feel that copyright holders don’t know what to do about fanwork. Some go for the jugular and demand complete deletion, but there’ll always be people who slip through the cracks and reupload, not to mention this just makes the company look nazi. On the other hand, what is the purpose of their work in the first place? Money? Should fanwork artists pay royalties, then? But what if they’re distributing it for free, or charging a small fee for production costs? Is a credit line sufficient? After all, and this brings us to the next point, it’s free advertisement. People will often check out the original work when told what they’re watching/listening to is a derivative of something. What do you think fanwork is? Free advertisement from diligent fans, or just a horrible bastardisation of the original?
While on Facebook, and completely unrelated to the rest of the post, I also found an advert link to Crowded Reality, apparently a ‘community-run’ reality show…that requires you to pay $39 to give your opinion. Hey, people pay me to give my opinion! XD Honestly though, I found it kinda odd, not to mention I’ve never heard of the company -> scam alert meter immediately goes up. Would you pay $39 to be one of 50000 people polling on the inner bits of a reality tv show? Part of the attraction of reality tv, to me, has always been looking at the challenges – new ones the producers come up with, and how the contestants react to it. Simply put, I’m a lazy viewer. Also keep in mind that if every one of the 50k pays up, that’s a cool 2 million…
Posted by jennkei on 07 Dec 2009 | Filed under: Movies, Random
P.S. Searching up ‘pregnant’ in TouhouDanbooru made me think I’d get some Clannad pictures. (I ended up getting one Clannad picture.) I got some pretty scary pictures along with that, though. After 23 pages, only less than five were decent..two are below. -wry- Though..why would Yin be pregnant?! XD
(Note: info before the trailer has no spoilers, but I do go into some movie quotes/details after the video/Apture info box and ‘read more’ jump)
I like romcoms. (Romantic comedies.) In fact, I’m a sucker for romcoms and love stories. Away We Go, though, remains hard to categorise even after I saw it in the cinema last Wednesday, courtesy Contagious Network. It’s a quirky-emotional-yet-realistic comedy focusing on love and the future for a pair of ultimately-likable characters. Not ‘com’ enough for romcom, nor queen enough for drama.
In the end was hard for me to get a date to see a movie that I couldn’t slot carefully into its little box — ‘action’, ‘horror’, ‘horrible’, ‘comedy’. In the end, both the dates I had in mind couldn’t make it. But unlike 500 Days of Summer, where I felt lonely in the cinema because at bits it made things seem uncomfortably-personal, all Away We Go made me feel was wistful that my significant other wasn’t watching it with me.
Posted by jennkei on 19 Nov 2009 | Filed under: Random
I woke up early this morning (which, for me, is 10.30am >.>) to the DHL man ringing a parcel up. Was wondering what on earth it was cos usually the postmen are lazy bastards and don’t bother to ring the unit.
Turns out it was my manga (and dad’s work stuff)! Surprising cos mom just emailed me yesterday saying it was on the way, but turns out someone at dad’s office sent the box by EXPRESS instead of surface mail. Woot!
Don’t be fooled by the size of the box; apparently, it’s only 0.5kg. It sure felt like heavier than that to me, but that’s what the label says..
So – what I got: HEAPS of Wild Life (in Chinese): 10 to 27, to be exact, Speed Grapher 2 & 3, and Otomen 4 & 5 (in English). Total cost? 127SGD! Bargain~~ =) :D Many thanks to mom. I thought she was going overboard buying so much, but hey, it IS cheap, haha.
So aside from the Wiki entries for Wild Life and Otomen (I’d rather have linked to MangaUpdates, but it wasn’t really possible with Apture. Ah well. Look for them on MU if you’re interested. :P), I was also surfing around youtube, and came across a video some friends’d made for another friend (Congrats, Christie, by the way! =)). And in it..there was a song I later realised was a parody of Coldplay’s Viva la Vida. And from there, I found singindork888’s amazing covers/originals. Have a listen to a few of my favourites below. =) Jon Schmidt’s piano/cello version of a Love Story/Viva la Vida mashup is quite awesome too~
For the original Coldplay song, it’s on the official youtube channel.
Posted by jennkei on 29 Oct 2009 | Filed under: Random
Some people might know about the upcoming Inubaka live action — the trailer’s out! Have a look at it below. (Or have a look at the Official Site, which probably has better quality.)
I have an issue with Suzanne looking rather unnatural as an actor (which is completely contrary to how Suguri should be)…and the guy looks a bit strange too. Nonetheless, the dogs are adorable. I do wonder whether we’ll ever get to see this movie down under?
Posting has slowed down, for anyone who’s noticed. XD Will get back on in about a month’s time. Also, somehow this blog still isn’t on Google properly..:S Why?? Is it the dodgy host? Le sigh.
Posted by jennkei on 15 Oct 2009 | Filed under: Random
* Many thanks to references from Comic Village and manga about.com
* Prices are correct at time of writing. Recently-released books are often discounted at Bookdep, and pre-order books are generally even cheaper than new-release ones. If you’re buying something this time, why not check if a newer vol is already available for preorder, as is sometimes the case? :)
