The Translator’s Paradox

Amirite?

AI Busters is like the 9th novel I ever read in my 10 and 4 years of existence.

Seitokai no Ichizon 05

Just when I thought it was going to be a swimsuit special this week, I was right. But, with a little twist. You’ll see why later on.

Limited Edition Nogizaka Mika Dakimakura Announced

Yes that’s right, recently posted in the Dengeki Moeoh Blog, Nogizaka Mika (the prepubescent loli from Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu) will be getting her own limited edition dakimakura! As Mika being my most favourite character out of the series, like I always say DO WANT!

So after transcribing what the post says in the post, it seems it’ll be released on November 30th for a limited time at a certain shop somewhere in Japan, or otherwise, mail order from the internet (google/babel failed on me). The dakimakura will be (the way I see it) at a life-size perspective of Mika, meaning it’ll be 160cm long, and 50cm wide. Material for the cover will be a certain type of Polyester I heard. Note that they’ll only be supplying the cover, not the body pillow itself. Oh, and only in Japan so tough luck guys. The dakimakura will be priced around 9000yen (+shipping and Tax I believe), meaning it’ll be priced at around $100 this week for all you yanks and for me, at a  ridiculously expensive price of around £60.

The dakimakura is now available for pre-order.

Note: I’m not really keen on the Japanese language so the information stated here might not be accurate.

Winter Anime 2009/2010

15 titles confirmed at the moment for Winter 2010!? Wow this is like… the first time I’ve seen the fewest Anime series batch confirmed to be airing in the same season. Well above here is the 1st version to Chartfag’s visual Winter 2010 preview (click on the image to see in full) so it’ll get updated in about a months time when I predict more anime titles will be confirmed and green lit for release. Overall for now, the titles look pretty decent to me.

The Tricks, The Treats, The Traps

Its October 31st! And you know what that means, yea that’s right, it’s the 10th anniversary of when the EgyptAir Flight 990 travelling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts!

Actually no wait, it’s this octane holiday known as Halloween…

To celebrate this wonderful holiday Imma gonna ditch all the Trick n Treating and finish watching the remaining episodes of Higurashi, after 5 weeks of hiatus (for me, that is), and start watching the second series known as “Kai”.

So… hope everyone’s having a great time in the most expensive Halloween ever, and I actually mean it (read the news if you don’t get the reference).

Well time to go watch more yandere action…

Lies.

While watching Seitokai no Ichizon RAW episode 5 on WAO via Megavideo, close to the end of the episode, it suddenly stops, playing out a message from Megavideo that I “watched 72 minutes of video today” and that I should “wait 54 minutes to watch another 72 minutes”. As since Megavideo is currently known for its assholish behaviour by limit non premium members a certain amount of minutes the user is allowed to view at a certain interval.

But as a matter in fact, this is the only video I watched on Megavideo today. Sure the episode is 24 minutes or so long, but that leaves 48 minutes left of my free video time. So I have no idea why Megavideo suddenly stopped my viewing pleasure saying that I watched an hour and 12 minutes of video. Either it must be glitch in the system, or Megavideo is being the assholes they truly are.

Blah…tuts

Sh@pple

Must. Find. TRANSLATIONS.

Pandora Hearts: Sleeping-face Series Omake 04

The 4th Oh mah keh has arrived along with the 4th DVD Volume of Pandora Hearts! And what a fun 3 minute omake this is. As I can easily blog about at a short time frame ^_^. Forget what I just said.

Seitokai no Witches 04

AWESUM. TOTALLY. TOTALLY AWESUM. SO TOTALLY AWESOME IT TOTALLY PWNS ALL THE REVIEWERS AND STAFF AT ANN. Even though I say this liek every week this has to be the best episode yet!! Also the most parodied episode at that.

The Blogging Trinity

For some kind of lame reason. I somehow created two MORE blogs this past month. One with the same name as this blog but with “-tan” added to the end, and with the same to the other, but with a “G” added at the end. -waits until some gets the reference- However, with a little twist. As one is hosted by Blogger (blogspot), and the other from tumblr (new free blogging site I discovered while lurking).

Whether any of them two will be of actual purpose to me in the future or me migrate from this WordPress.com blog is still too soon. But in the meantime they’ll be plain and inactive as their bodily blog functions can take possible and shall remain in hibernation. Watch the space at least as I might actually post some sort of content on any 2 of the sites, but even so I might just make a note of it here as a reminder.

At the very least, should you feel like visiting the two newborn sites, click here for the “G” blog and the “-tan”, here.

If all else fails then they are located in the Blogroll column located at the right hand side of every page on this site.

Apologies for talking like a bonehead in this post I’ve been reading a lot of Official English Translated Manga lately…haha

PS. Seitokai no Ichizon 04 + Pandora Hearts DVD Special 04 coming soon. -finalising drafts-

A K-ON! Nightmare Indeed

Japanese musician Hirasawa Susumu experienced what he described as a “nightmare” on Twitter after being mistaken for Hirasawa Yui, the main character from the anime series “K-ON!”. Since his name in Japanese text was similar to Yui’s name, many mistook him for the famous bi-shojo moe blob and his number of followers rapidly increased to 10,000 in only a day. A nightmare indeed.

The good source.

Weird that it only happened until recently. Not like, when K-ON was it’s highest popularity peak…

You can view Susumu-sensei’s Twitter here.

London MCM Expo 16

The reason I’m a few days late of posting this well… post, is because the day after the expo I had to go some place else for the day, delaying this post (-_-’). But well, here it is! What pretty much happened at the 16th bi-annual London MCM Expo! What an awesome day it was…

Note: I went on Sunday, not Saturday. Suffered severe painful memories when I went on a Saturday…