Tomorrow is the last Time
Basically I was supposed to post something earlier but I was caught up in several things and ended up too carried away to even post here haha. Three main reasons... First my most waited album is finally out, that's the TV anime soundtrack, well I'll talk about it later on. Second, that's about Pokémon again... What were released yesterday in Japan??? XDDDDDDDD and finally last thing, which's nothing to do with Pokémon this time: I was self-studying something \(^___~)/
Let's talk about my self-studying. Last weekend I decide to study of my own free will and this was also done on my own. I'm not gonna mention what've been studying this whole time, let's make this a secret (haha I find it fun to keep all the mystery ufufu). My Mom was pleased to see me studying something regardless of me sacrificing my pastime once I got home but I, was rather surprised of me keeping studying it. Because I believe laziness is part of human nature and till now I've been really lazy whenever it's to do with studies haha. Anyway I mean, everything I've been studying of my own free will, I'd always given up on them after a while or put them on hiatus (^__^;;;;) And this time I really am decided to do it thoroughly. I still don't know if I'll be able to achieve it, self-studying is somewhat hard with no teacher's guideline but in any case, I'll try my very best. I'm doing this for fun and more than anything I find myself LOVING studying it, which's never been the case before. I liked what've studied untill now but it'd never occured to me to like to such an extent <3
I made some changes on my journal, well I've actually done them last week. The nav stip has now a background, I made used of my header to made it and erm... I used Paint XDD as the last resort considering that Photoshop's crashed as always... I wanted to save it in .jpg but jpg files coming from Paint are quite bad if I'm not wrong so I saved it in .png. Oh well it's not as heavy as my header anyway haha.
The other thing that I've done on my journal's to do with the picture display. Hover over any picture and you'll be able to notice it. What do you think of it? Amusing ne :D
JAPANIZATION
Naaaah no more calendars to show but some samples are now available =p
Pocket Monsters
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.02
Pokémon calendars have always been soooooooooo cute. I'm sure this one will be prettier than last year's ♥ I still haven't ordered it yet, I wonder which shop should I get it... If I wait longer (several months urgh), I'll have a discount in a shop located in Paris. If I get it from an online shop, it'll be more expensive, though I'll get it once the release date comes (^_^;) Aaaaaaaaaaaah what should I do?????????? XD
Durarara!!
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.22
Uwaaaaaah I seriously don't regret to have pick this version of DRRR!! calendars. Although it was more expensive but the illustrations are way better than the other version. No new illustrations, you've probably seen all of them in magazine, posters, TC and other merchandises.
Characters:
[ x ] Cover: Masaomi, Izaya, Anri, Shizuo, Mikado & Shinra (Why is Masaomi the only to walk this side?)
[ x ] January: Izaya, Masaomi, Mikado, Anri & Shizuo (Anri sure is small, especially since she's next to Shizu-chan ^_^;;)
[ x ] February: Shizuo & Izaya (Izaya looks so small for some reason)
[ x ] March: Shizuo & Izaya
[ x ] April: Masaomi & Mikado
[ x ] May: Masaomi, Izaya, Anri, Shizuo, Mikado & Shinra
[ x ] June: Izaya
[ x ] July: Mikado, Masaomi, Anri, Shizuo & Izaya (Oh Izayan XDDD)
[ x ] August: Shizuo, Izaya & Kadota (Izaya is supporting Shizuo o_O)
[ x ] September: Shizuo, Shinra, Kadota & Izaya (Raira's blazer ♥)
[ x ] October: Mikado, Anri & Masaomi (cuuuuute ne~~*)
[ x ] November: Shizuo & Izaya
[ x ] December: Izaya, Celty, Shizuo, Masaomi, Mikado & Anri
Total:
[ x ] Celty: 1 appearance
[ x ] Kadota: 2 appearances
[ x ] Shinra: 2 appearances
[ x ] Anri: 5 appearances
[ x ] Masaomi: 6 apperances
[ x ] Mikado: 6 appearances
[ x ] Shizuo: 9 appearances
[ x ] Izaya: 10 appearances
3 illustrations of Shizuo and Izaya only!!! Haha this is definitely because of the fans, they're all crazy about these two, including me <3 They know it well enough and that's the reason why most of the merchandises are full of them as well as rare items like those plushies I ordered. That's not all, when it comes to multiple characters merchandises, they're ALWAYS separated from each others. And as the result, Shizuo is always together with Celty while Izaya is with Anri. Fans of them would likely purchase both items. Smart, aren't they?
Sadly Celty is only on the last illustrations (;__; ) I really thought that she was more popular than Anri, Shinra and Dotachin (o_O;;;;), wasn't she? I actually love her more than these last three, I still love them though but they come after Celty nyaaaaa~!
Izaya has his own month: June, my birthday's month hehehehe. Anyway I do believe that Izaya is the most popular character of DRRR!!, Shizuo's popularity is pretty pretty close though. Why a b****** like him can be so popular among the fans? Hahahaha. Uzaya Izaya is my fav char btw, well I'm sure you've noticed it already. Mizu loves annoying sadist char the most xDDD
My fav illustration isn't the 6th haha but the 12th, it's Celty on it I love their posture ♥
Speaking of DRRR!!, I'm so jealous of all the promotion that DRRR!! is having in North America... I'm pretty sure that our French company was one of the first companies to get the licence of the anime. It was simulcasting here, the first episode came out in French sub the next week of the Japanese airing if I recalled well (oh and girls could cosplay into Celty at Japan Expo but eek the size, even me who is rather thin, 55 is way too crazy). But we got no news about the release of the DVDs TT__TT The only thing, which is what i've just noticed, they'll be releasing the episode 12.5 as well as the episode 25 in the DVD, well this was expected.
Anyway no date... I want to own the DVD so much haha, I've never been urging to own DVDs as crazy as this before XDDDD I must really love DRRR!!... it started with the purchase of the manga, CDs, merchandises and now the DVDs. (haven't got the light novels gaaah, have to get the them >_<;)
This is for akira_ks
This guy looks like... ? XD
(please people, don't distribute my pic, thankies!)
xxxHOLiC
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.09
Characters:
[ x ] February: Kohane & Watanuki
[ x ] March: Watanuki
[ x ] May: Watanuki & Doumeki
These few samples of xxxHOLiC 2011 calendar are from CLAMP website but... PASS. I don't mind illustrations coming from the title pages of the manga or old illustrations (many series do the same anyway, see DRRR!!) but they're not even colored, just mere colored monochrome (@_@ ) Such a disappointment, I was hoping for something more for once there's making a xxxHOLiC calendar (T__T) the cover looks good though.
D·N·ANGEL
Volume 14
Release date: 2010.09.24
HQ cover can be DLed at yukirusugisaki
It's PINK cover/title XDDD Nevermind, I like Dai-chan's posture and he's as cute as ever ♥ Oh and I assume it'll not be available in my bookstore the next week since items come on Thursday and the 24th is Friday ugh (U_U; ) Have to wait another week. Same goes for my Asuka issue, not that I'm in hurry to know whether it'll end or not......... Anyway, I'm happy to finally see that 14. Have waited for almost 2 years for this (;___; )
Come to think of it... I've lent my French vol.12 & 13 to a friend, it's been a whole year haha. I should get them back especially since I don't see her often now :S
Kuroshitsuji
Collector Volume 1
Release date: 2010.11.xx
Finally up~!
If you want to get your own on this French Collector Volume 1, reserve yours now before it'll end up being out of stock.
Dans ce coffret collector en édition limitée, vous trouverez le volume 1 de Black Butler, 1 marque-page inédit et 5 cartes postales inédites
Contents:
Volume 1
+ bookmark
+ 5 postcards
I already reserved mine. Well if you already own the first French volume, I don't think it's this necessary to get it except if you're a crazy fan like me who's already purchased the vol.1 TWICE and plan to do it again with this one lol. Really don't get it if you can't afford it or something, it's not worth buying. Commercial purposes from our publisher :S (though apparently the regular French vol.1 is out of print on Amazon @_@ ) I'm just collecting things here and there as I've been doing it for limited or new edition.
Letter Bee Collector Volume 1 is still not available...
MAI KURAKI
Tomorrow is the last Time's been aired yesterday in Japan. Meaning....... Mai-K is on both the opening (SUMMER TIME GONE) and ending (Tomorrow is the last Time) of Detective Conan XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan - Ending 36
Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan - Ending 36
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Lyrics
Tomorrow is the last Time
Mai Kuraki
kinou wa anna hi naitari shita kedo
ima nara wakaru yo I listen to the song
jibun no omoi wo kotoba ni shiyou to
anata wo mitara koe ni naranai my heart
sonna ni yasashiku shinai de
ashita wa kitto sorezore no keshiki ga matteru kamisama onegai
Tomorrow is the last Time anata no soba ni itai yo
saigo no kiss hanarete mo kokoro tsunagatteru
Tomorrow is the last Time watashi to yume wo kanaete
saigo no hi tobidasou shinpai nai yo ne hora
saigo no hi tobidasou shinpai nai yo ne hora
To date, Mai-K's sung for Detective Conan:
01. Secret of my heart [ ED ]
02. Start in my life [ ED ]
03. always [ ED/Movie ] 04. Winter Bells [ OP/OAV ED ]
05. Time after time ~hana mau machi de~ [ Movie ]
06. Kaze no la la la [ OP ]
07. Growing of my heart [ OP ]
08. Shiroi Yuki [ ED ]
09. Ichibyou goto ni Love for you [ OP ]
10. PUZZLE [ Movie ]
11. Revive [ OP ]
12. SUMMER TIME GONE [ OP ]
13. Tomorrow is the last Time [ ED ]
Tomorrow is the last Time will be the only song made for Conan which is not on a single format, which I regret because Tomorrow is SO WAY better than STG IMO (^_^;;;;) I wish to see PV with this song, I'm seriously considering having this song as my fav Conan ending. Well my fav song is still Secret of my heart and nothing will change that haha but Tomorrow is a sweet and lovely song that you can't possibly dislike (o^___^o) I'll wait for the full song to have a better opinion but I will highly likely love it more than Beautiful, Ichibyou goto ni Love for you, Growing of my heart, Ashita e Kakeru Hashi, etc.. Huh? That was just a TV version but already fond of this song. I'm tired to listen to it no matter how long I listen to it kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♥♥♥ Will I finally be liking it more than PUZZLE/Revive (which is my fav Conan OP ♥), perfect single with two amazing songs I've been in love since Time after time and Kaze no la la la.
FUTURE KISS
Release date: 2010.10.20
I've edited my previous entry but here's again the full tracklist:
01. FUTURE KISS
New song
02. wana [ 32th Single - Beautiful ]
B-Side
03. Revive [ 31th Single - PUZZLE/Revive ]
Detective Conan Opening 25
04. Watashi, no Shiranai, Watashi. ～precious ver.～ [ Best Album: ALL MY BEST ]
Rearranged album song: KOSE CM
05. SUMMER TIME GONE [ 34th Single - SUMMER TIME GONE ]
Detective Conan Opening 29 / KOSE CM
06. I sream!
New song
07. Drive me crazy [ 33th Single - Eien Yori Nagaku/Drive me crazy ]
HEROES Season 3
08. I can do it now
Little Charo 2
09. Beautiful～comfortable ver.～ [ 32th Single - Beautiful ]
Rearranged single song: KOSE CM
10. I promise
New song11. sound of rain
New song12. Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan Ending 3613. anywhere [ 34th Single - SUMMER TIME GONE ]
B-Side
Total:
[ x ] Single: 6 songs
[ x ] B-Side: 2 songs
[ x ] Rearranged: 2 songs
[ x ] From TV series: 5 songs
[ x ] From CM: 3 songs
[ x ] New songs: 4 songs
The tracklist looks awesome but and this is MY personal opinion... I'm a little that both wana and anywhere were included. I love these two songs, I really do but as said last time, I'd rather have them as single-only songs and it'd make more sense to have replaced them by PUZZLE and EIen Yori Nagaku. EYN has never been on any album (o__O;;;).
There're only 4 new songs, I don't consider I can do it now and Tomorrow is the last Time as new ones since we've now listened to them, not full but still new songs = NEVER listened to them yet. From the TV version of these two, I probably like Tomorrow much more but I can do it now is not bad either, rather cute hehe.
When FUTURE KISS will be out:
[ x ] SUMMER TIME GONE will still be Conan Opening
[ x ] Tomorrow is the last Time will still be Conan Ending
[ x ] FUTURE KISS will certainly have a PV
woot~~*
Biteki October Issue
Scanned by passerby
GINGER October Issue
Scanned by passerby
POCKET MONSTERS
Should have posted it last week haha. But yeah Diamond & Pearl series ended last week, on Thursday. The last episode was great, sad and the best last episode they've made up till now!
Summary:
Hikari has some plans and can't travel with Satoshi and Takeshi who are going back to Kanto now their journey's ended. Pochama is mad at them and ran away. He's actually sad about their departure and can't believe they (Hikari, Satoshi, Takeshi, Pikachu & cie) don't feel any saddness over it. After having some talks with Hikari, Pochama calmed down (haha Hikari told him that men don't cry XDDD).
Satoshi & cie are now watching TV, it's airing in live the battle between Shirona (Cynthia) and Oba (Flint, my faaaaaaaaav League member ♥). Oba, as he's mentioned to Satoshi before, has long-waited to battle with her in order to become the next Sinnoh's Champion. Satoshi can't help himself but feels in Oba's position (both Oba and Satoshi have a Goukazaru btw). Oba lost to Shirona with only one Pokémon.
The time is coming for their departure, Satoshi and Takeshi left Sinnoh and've returned to Kanto. Once they reach the route that separates Masara Town (where Satoshi's town) and Nibi City (Takeshi's town), they also have their parting.
Satoshi is now in Masara Town, what will await him? Next time... A new beginning!
Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl
Episode 191 - Final Episode
Captures (HQ) :
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08
09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16
This final episode was saaaaaaaaaaaad. I criiiiiiiiiiiiiied TT__TT They even used that BGM (Tears, after the cloudy weather) which makes me all sad!!! Pochamaaaaaaaaaaa, I'll miss you so muuuuuuuch!!!!!!
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!
Rica Matsumoto - Best Wishes! (Preview)
Captures (HQ):
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
Best Wishes! (Sample)
I'm sorry, I can't show convert the vid, it's too big (@_@ ) Just listen to the song and see the captures I took.
The opening is in 3D WOOoooooooow, it looks so amazing that way, not to mention how cute Pikachu is ♥♥♥ Hmm I wonder if Satoshi'll appear in the opening (?__? ), Iris and Dento too since these three will be the main char from now on.
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! - Best Wishes! / Kokoro no Fanfare
Opening theme: Best Wishes!
Artist: Rica Matsumoto (Satoshi)
Ending theme: Kokoro no Fanfare
Artist: Aki Okui
Release date: 2010.11.24
Tracklist:
01. Best Wishes!
02. Kokoro no Fanfare
03. Best Wishes! (Original Karaoke)
04. Kokoro no Fanfare (Original Karaoke)
...and 8 more BW BGM tracks!!!
OMG bgms ♥♥♥ Sankyuu Shinji Miyazaki-san!!!!
The Opening is named Best Wishes! and will be sung by the best Pokémon artist: Rica Matsumoto, who is also voicing Satoshi. I'm so happy to see a new opening sung by Matsumoto-san, it's been a while she hasn't sung something, since Spurt!. High Touch! was a duet between her and Megumi Toyoguchi (Hikari). The sample sounds awesome, all openings sung by Matsumoto-san are amazing anyway ♥♥♥
To date the openings she's sung are:
01. Mezase Pokémon Master [ Pocket Monsters ]
02. Rival! [ Pocket Monsters ]
03. OK! [ Pocket Monsters ] 04. Challenger! [ Advanced Generation ]
05. SPURT! [ Advanced Generation ]
06. Best Wishes! [ Best Wishes! ]
Huuuuuuuuuuuh?!!! Just noticed it when I was typing this but there's a exclamation point in every song she's sung except for Mezase Pokémon Master XDDDDDD
TV Anime Pocket Monsters
Original Soundtrack Best 1997-2010
Release date : 2010.09.08
- Samples and booklet can be found here -
CD1
Kanto : 29 tracks
Johto: 17 tracks
CD2
Hoenn: 26 tracks
Sinnoh: 16 tracks
Total: 88 tracks
Except BGMs from the openings/endings like OK!, Advance Adventure, etc. Here're my fav:
[ x ] Fav Anime-only BGM: I got a victory badge!
[ x ] Fav Game-based BGM: Pokémon Gym (2)
[ x ] Fav region BGMs: Johto
Because Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver are my fav PM games~~!
But my fav game music is from Diamond, Pearl & Platinum games, which has no anime version *sniff* but it was used for Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Route 209, either Midday, Night or Smash Bros. version, this song is so great ♥♥♥ (I used to come to this route just to listen to this music... plus there's a rich guy with whom I can have a battle and get money as much as I want bwahahah *cough*)
I don't think all of them has actually been used for the anime, I mean the duplicate bgms o(_ _)o See my fav Game-based bgm, I typed (2), because there're two versions of this bgm in the soundtrack. Well that second, as well as the first were used for the anime, I recall them well (~> big anime fan XD). As for the other (2), I don't think so... different tempo or something, nothing special.
I received my copy this Thursday, I was so... so... so very happy (TT__TT) <~~ tears of joy
SAL was amazingly fast for once, maybe they know that I wanted it so very much XD I may post some pics of my box later (my copy has the Deluxe box yay ♥), to be frank not sure if I want to do it... Last year people've shared my PUZZLE/Revive and Revive/PUZZLE (Mai Kuraki) scans so now I just don't know anymore (=___= ) Fans can be reeeeeeeeeeeally HATEFUL!
Anyway I've been waiting for this soundtrack FOR YEARS. Pokémon TV anime BGMs are the best of all anime I've watched in my entire life and this comes from someone who has watched quite a lot since her childhood.
Why for years? The only one anime soundtrack of Pocket Monsters was released on... 1998!!!
Pocket Monsters
Sound Anime Collection
Release date: 1998.06.10
This OST features bgms of the very first series while this new OST features bgms of the Kanto to the Sinnoh series. But, because I have to point that "but", this latest OST doesn't have, unlike the first OST, anime-only bgms (like the Tears, after the cloudy weather or I got a victory badge! BGM I mentioned above). Which is a big disappoinment for the anime fans and anime/game fans like me. There're a ton of explanations why Shinji Miyazaki didn't include them, and the remaining point is the sales. People who likes the anime will get this soundtrack because of the mentioning "Anime". People who like the games will get this soundtrack because is the based-games soundtracks. And finally those who like both will also get this soundtrack. So basically it was in order to draw the attention of most of the Pokémon fans franchise. I searched on the net and from what I read, anime fans are all sad of not having the original anime songs. When I said "fans", I mean fans worldwide, either Japanese or not. They were, like I did, expect to listen to them, especially Ok! bgm I mentioned before. Read the comments on Amazon JP some of them are referring to the anime original bgms (the first commenter mentioned Ok!, Advance Adventure and the Roketto-dan BGM!!!).
Technically that's an anime soundtrack, which is all true since they were used for the anime (U__U ) Sometimes I find myself hating the games because of this matter. I love the games but really removing the anime-only bgms in order to draw gamers' attention is quite a problem.
Apparently Shinji Miyazaki-san said that if the fans wanted more BGMs soundtrack, they have to show it = good sales. For those who like the games, you'll certainly enjoy this soundtrack, as for the anime fans or anime/game fans, you'll be enjoying as well, just a bit disappointed about the no original anime bgms T^T
Here are the sales of this soundtrack which, I think, is not good enough, though it was sold much better than plenty albums. At the very least, it debuted in top 30.
Oricon Charts
DAY 1
30
WEEK 1
57 1,630 TVアニメ ポケットモンスター オリジナルサウンドトラックベスト 1997-2010 ～オーケストラアレンジ 宮崎慎二～
Total sales: 1,630 copies
(will update this entry for the next week)
Pocket Monsters Black & White
Release date: 2010.09.18
I said something at the beginning of this entry... that I was carried away by Pokémon. The first thing was that anime soundtrack and the other one was THE NEW GAMES xDDDDDDDD
I just wanted to test a little the games to see how great they were since Famitsu gave a 40/40 (*______* ) buuuuut my addiction for video games especially RPGs went back. Aaaaaaah I'm so hopeless whenever it's to do with video games.
I was playing Pokémon White, my starter is the Grass Pokémon. I've already said it but I don't like the starters of this geneations, and besides I don't the 4/5 of the Pokémon from this generation as well, they're beeeurk. Few Pokémon are cute and cool but for most of them, they're seriously ugly. I normally don't say things that way, I really don't, I've always been supporting Pokémon for so long, but yeah, I don't the Pokémon from this generation. All the previous games have cute, pretty, cool Pokémon and I really love them. So this is beyond a disappoinment for a fan like me. Anyway, the games now, they're totally amazing, I'm so impressive about the everything they've put into these two games. By the way, I didn't read the spoilers or the full contents of the games, I discovered everything as time passed yesterday. And errrrrrrrr... I was stunned to discover who was the 8th Gym Leader. OMGGGGGGGGG. I can't believe they keep quiet about this specific Gym Leader this whole time. Now I want to know how it'll turn out to be in the anime haha.
I didn't go far in the game, I met "N" ♥, I got my first badge (and I'm in the second Gym in order to get the second badge), I didn't battle Dento but the Red guy. Oh, I'll be mentioning the anime again here but after playing till then, I kind of figured out which Pokémon Satoshi'll be getting in the following episodes... the Water starter. I'd some assumptions when I was watching the preview of Best Wishes! but now they really are making more sense to me...
Ok that's it, I'll not talk much, I'm afraid to give too much spoilers or so. But there were a weird thing that happened to me... my character was renamed "aaaaa", I mean "あああああ". My name was still "Mizu" for a while but for an unknown reason, my name ended up to be "あああああ". I noticed this change when my character was "chatting" (what a great item btw, it's a cellphone with camera) with her Mom (ママ): one panel with "ママ" while the other one, me, was "あああああ" lol. Something that needs to be said, you'll be coming accross your rivals a lot (o___o ), which is good, I was just surprised to see them so often haha. (I like Cheren ♥)
I'll likely not play them, have to focus on my studies (^_^;) But believe me these two games are AMAZING!
Let's talk about my self-studying. Last weekend I decide to study of my own free will and this was also done on my own. I'm not gonna mention what've been studying this whole time, let's make this a secret (haha I find it fun to keep all the mystery ufufu). My Mom was pleased to see me studying something regardless of me sacrificing my pastime once I got home but I, was rather surprised of me keeping studying it. Because I believe laziness is part of human nature and till now I've been really lazy whenever it's to do with studies haha. Anyway I mean, everything I've been studying of my own free will, I'd always given up on them after a while or put them on hiatus (^__^;;;;) And this time I really am decided to do it thoroughly. I still don't know if I'll be able to achieve it, self-studying is somewhat hard with no teacher's guideline but in any case, I'll try my very best. I'm doing this for fun and more than anything I find myself LOVING studying it, which's never been the case before. I liked what've studied untill now but it'd never occured to me to like to such an extent <3
I made some changes on my journal, well I've actually done them last week. The nav stip has now a background, I made used of my header to made it and erm... I used Paint XDD as the last resort considering that Photoshop's crashed as always... I wanted to save it in .jpg but jpg files coming from Paint are quite bad if I'm not wrong so I saved it in .png. Oh well it's not as heavy as my header anyway haha.
The other thing that I've done on my journal's to do with the picture display. Hover over any picture and you'll be able to notice it. What do you think of it? Amusing ne :D
JAPANIZATION
Naaaah no more calendars to show but some samples are now available =p
Pocket Monsters
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.02
Pokémon calendars have always been soooooooooo cute. I'm sure this one will be prettier than last year's ♥ I still haven't ordered it yet, I wonder which shop should I get it... If I wait longer (several months urgh), I'll have a discount in a shop located in Paris. If I get it from an online shop, it'll be more expensive, though I'll get it once the release date comes (^_^;) Aaaaaaaaaaaah what should I do?????????? XD
Durarara!!
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.22
Uwaaaaaah I seriously don't regret to have pick this version of DRRR!! calendars. Although it was more expensive but the illustrations are way better than the other version. No new illustrations, you've probably seen all of them in magazine, posters, TC and other merchandises.
Characters:
[ x ] Cover: Masaomi, Izaya, Anri, Shizuo, Mikado & Shinra (Why is Masaomi the only to walk this side?)
[ x ] January: Izaya, Masaomi, Mikado, Anri & Shizuo (Anri sure is small, especially since she's next to Shizu-chan ^_^;;)
[ x ] February: Shizuo & Izaya (Izaya looks so small for some reason)
[ x ] March: Shizuo & Izaya
[ x ] April: Masaomi & Mikado
[ x ] May: Masaomi, Izaya, Anri, Shizuo, Mikado & Shinra
[ x ] June: Izaya
[ x ] July: Mikado, Masaomi, Anri, Shizuo & Izaya (Oh Izayan XDDD)
[ x ] August: Shizuo, Izaya & Kadota (Izaya is supporting Shizuo o_O)
[ x ] September: Shizuo, Shinra, Kadota & Izaya (Raira's blazer ♥)
[ x ] October: Mikado, Anri & Masaomi (cuuuuute ne~~*)
[ x ] November: Shizuo & Izaya
[ x ] December: Izaya, Celty, Shizuo, Masaomi, Mikado & Anri
Total:
[ x ] Celty: 1 appearance
[ x ] Kadota: 2 appearances
[ x ] Shinra: 2 appearances
[ x ] Anri: 5 appearances
[ x ] Masaomi: 6 apperances
[ x ] Mikado: 6 appearances
[ x ] Shizuo: 9 appearances
[ x ] Izaya: 10 appearances
3 illustrations of Shizuo and Izaya only!!! Haha this is definitely because of the fans, they're all crazy about these two, including me <3 They know it well enough and that's the reason why most of the merchandises are full of them as well as rare items like those plushies I ordered. That's not all, when it comes to multiple characters merchandises, they're ALWAYS separated from each others. And as the result, Shizuo is always together with Celty while Izaya is with Anri. Fans of them would likely purchase both items. Smart, aren't they?
Sadly Celty is only on the last illustrations (;__; ) I really thought that she was more popular than Anri, Shinra and Dotachin (o_O;;;;), wasn't she? I actually love her more than these last three, I still love them though but they come after Celty nyaaaaa~!
Izaya has his own month: June, my birthday's month hehehehe. Anyway I do believe that Izaya is the most popular character of DRRR!!, Shizuo's popularity is pretty pretty close though. Why a b****** like him can be so popular among the fans? Hahahaha. Uzaya Izaya is my fav char btw, well I'm sure you've noticed it already. Mizu loves annoying sadist char the most xDDD
My fav illustration isn't the 6th haha but the 12th, it's Celty on it I love their posture ♥
Speaking of DRRR!!, I'm so jealous of all the promotion that DRRR!! is having in North America... I'm pretty sure that our French company was one of the first companies to get the licence of the anime. It was simulcasting here, the first episode came out in French sub the next week of the Japanese airing if I recalled well (oh and girls could cosplay into Celty at Japan Expo but eek the size, even me who is rather thin, 55 is way too crazy). But we got no news about the release of the DVDs TT__TT The only thing, which is what i've just noticed, they'll be releasing the episode 12.5 as well as the episode 25 in the DVD, well this was expected.
Anyway no date... I want to own the DVD so much haha, I've never been urging to own DVDs as crazy as this before XDDDD I must really love DRRR!!... it started with the purchase of the manga, CDs, merchandises and now the DVDs. (haven't got the light novels gaaah, have to get the them >_<;)
This is for akira_ks
This guy looks like... ? XD
(please people, don't distribute my pic, thankies!)
xxxHOLiC
2011 Calendar
Release date: 2010.10.09
Characters:
[ x ] February: Kohane & Watanuki
[ x ] March: Watanuki
[ x ] May: Watanuki & Doumeki
These few samples of xxxHOLiC 2011 calendar are from CLAMP website but... PASS. I don't mind illustrations coming from the title pages of the manga or old illustrations (many series do the same anyway, see DRRR!!) but they're not even colored, just mere colored monochrome (@_@ ) Such a disappointment, I was hoping for something more for once there's making a xxxHOLiC calendar (T__T) the cover looks good though.
D·N·ANGEL
Volume 14
Release date: 2010.09.24
HQ cover can be DLed at yukirusugisaki
It's PINK cover/title XDDD Nevermind, I like Dai-chan's posture and he's as cute as ever ♥ Oh and I assume it'll not be available in my bookstore the next week since items come on Thursday and the 24th is Friday ugh (U_U; ) Have to wait another week. Same goes for my Asuka issue, not that I'm in hurry to know whether it'll end or not......... Anyway, I'm happy to finally see that 14. Have waited for almost 2 years for this (;___; )
Come to think of it... I've lent my French vol.12 & 13 to a friend, it's been a whole year haha. I should get them back especially since I don't see her often now :S
Kuroshitsuji
Collector Volume 1
Release date: 2010.11.xx
Finally up~!
If you want to get your own on this French Collector Volume 1, reserve yours now before it'll end up being out of stock.
Dans ce coffret collector en édition limitée, vous trouverez le volume 1 de Black Butler, 1 marque-page inédit et 5 cartes postales inédites
Contents:
Volume 1
+ bookmark
+ 5 postcards
I already reserved mine. Well if you already own the first French volume, I don't think it's this necessary to get it except if you're a crazy fan like me who's already purchased the vol.1 TWICE and plan to do it again with this one lol. Really don't get it if you can't afford it or something, it's not worth buying. Commercial purposes from our publisher :S (though apparently the regular French vol.1 is out of print on Amazon @_@ ) I'm just collecting things here and there as I've been doing it for limited or new edition.
Letter Bee Collector Volume 1 is still not available...
MAI KURAKI
Tomorrow is the last Time's been aired yesterday in Japan. Meaning....... Mai-K is on both the opening (SUMMER TIME GONE) and ending (Tomorrow is the last Time) of Detective Conan XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan - Ending 36
Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan - Ending 36
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Lyrics
Tomorrow is the last Time
Mai Kuraki
kinou wa anna hi naitari shita kedo
ima nara wakaru yo I listen to the song
jibun no omoi wo kotoba ni shiyou to
anata wo mitara koe ni naranai my heart
sonna ni yasashiku shinai de
ashita wa kitto sorezore no keshiki ga matteru kamisama onegai
Tomorrow is the last Time anata no soba ni itai yo
saigo no kiss hanarete mo kokoro tsunagatteru
Tomorrow is the last Time watashi to yume wo kanaete
saigo no hi tobidasou shinpai nai yo ne hora
saigo no hi tobidasou shinpai nai yo ne hora
To date, Mai-K's sung for Detective Conan:
01. Secret of my heart [ ED ]
02. Start in my life [ ED ]
03. always [ ED/Movie ] 04. Winter Bells [ OP/OAV ED ]
05. Time after time ~hana mau machi de~ [ Movie ]
06. Kaze no la la la [ OP ]
07. Growing of my heart [ OP ]
08. Shiroi Yuki [ ED ]
09. Ichibyou goto ni Love for you [ OP ]
10. PUZZLE [ Movie ]
11. Revive [ OP ]
12. SUMMER TIME GONE [ OP ]
13. Tomorrow is the last Time [ ED ]
Tomorrow is the last Time will be the only song made for Conan which is not on a single format, which I regret because Tomorrow is SO WAY better than STG IMO (^_^;;;;) I wish to see PV with this song, I'm seriously considering having this song as my fav Conan ending. Well my fav song is still Secret of my heart and nothing will change that haha but Tomorrow is a sweet and lovely song that you can't possibly dislike (o^___^o) I'll wait for the full song to have a better opinion but I will highly likely love it more than Beautiful, Ichibyou goto ni Love for you, Growing of my heart, Ashita e Kakeru Hashi, etc.. Huh? That was just a TV version but already fond of this song. I'm tired to listen to it no matter how long I listen to it kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♥♥♥ Will I finally be liking it more than PUZZLE/Revive (which is my fav Conan OP ♥), perfect single with two amazing songs I've been in love since Time after time and Kaze no la la la.
FUTURE KISS
Release date: 2010.10.20
I've edited my previous entry but here's again the full tracklist:
01. FUTURE KISS
New song
02. wana [ 32th Single - Beautiful ]
B-Side
03. Revive [ 31th Single - PUZZLE/Revive ]
Detective Conan Opening 25
04. Watashi, no Shiranai, Watashi. ～precious ver.～ [ Best Album: ALL MY BEST ]
Rearranged album song: KOSE CM
05. SUMMER TIME GONE [ 34th Single - SUMMER TIME GONE ]
Detective Conan Opening 29 / KOSE CM
06. I sream!
New song
07. Drive me crazy [ 33th Single - Eien Yori Nagaku/Drive me crazy ]
HEROES Season 3
08. I can do it now
Little Charo 2
09. Beautiful～comfortable ver.～ [ 32th Single - Beautiful ]
Rearranged single song: KOSE CM
10. I promise
New song11. sound of rain
New song12. Tomorrow is the last Time
Detective Conan Ending 3613. anywhere [ 34th Single - SUMMER TIME GONE ]
B-Side
Total:
[ x ] Single: 6 songs
[ x ] B-Side: 2 songs
[ x ] Rearranged: 2 songs
[ x ] From TV series: 5 songs
[ x ] From CM: 3 songs
[ x ] New songs: 4 songs
The tracklist looks awesome but and this is MY personal opinion... I'm a little that both wana and anywhere were included. I love these two songs, I really do but as said last time, I'd rather have them as single-only songs and it'd make more sense to have replaced them by PUZZLE and EIen Yori Nagaku. EYN has never been on any album (o__O;;;).
There're only 4 new songs, I don't consider I can do it now and Tomorrow is the last Time as new ones since we've now listened to them, not full but still new songs = NEVER listened to them yet. From the TV version of these two, I probably like Tomorrow much more but I can do it now is not bad either, rather cute hehe.
When FUTURE KISS will be out:
[ x ] SUMMER TIME GONE will still be Conan Opening
[ x ] Tomorrow is the last Time will still be Conan Ending
[ x ] FUTURE KISS will certainly have a PV
woot~~*
Biteki October Issue
Scanned by passerby
GINGER October Issue
Scanned by passerby
POCKET MONSTERS
Should have posted it last week haha. But yeah Diamond & Pearl series ended last week, on Thursday. The last episode was great, sad and the best last episode they've made up till now!
Summary:
Hikari has some plans and can't travel with Satoshi and Takeshi who are going back to Kanto now their journey's ended. Pochama is mad at them and ran away. He's actually sad about their departure and can't believe they (Hikari, Satoshi, Takeshi, Pikachu & cie) don't feel any saddness over it. After having some talks with Hikari, Pochama calmed down (haha Hikari told him that men don't cry XDDD).
Satoshi & cie are now watching TV, it's airing in live the battle between Shirona (Cynthia) and Oba (Flint, my faaaaaaaaav League member ♥). Oba, as he's mentioned to Satoshi before, has long-waited to battle with her in order to become the next Sinnoh's Champion. Satoshi can't help himself but feels in Oba's position (both Oba and Satoshi have a Goukazaru btw). Oba lost to Shirona with only one Pokémon.
The time is coming for their departure, Satoshi and Takeshi left Sinnoh and've returned to Kanto. Once they reach the route that separates Masara Town (where Satoshi's town) and Nibi City (Takeshi's town), they also have their parting.
Satoshi is now in Masara Town, what will await him? Next time... A new beginning!
Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl
Episode 191 - Final Episode
Captures (HQ) :
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08
09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16
This final episode was saaaaaaaaaaaad. I criiiiiiiiiiiiiied TT__TT They even used that BGM (Tears, after the cloudy weather) which makes me all sad!!! Pochamaaaaaaaaaaa, I'll miss you so muuuuuuuch!!!!!!
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!
Rica Matsumoto - Best Wishes! (Preview)
Captures (HQ):
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
Best Wishes! (Sample)
I'm sorry, I can't show convert the vid, it's too big (@_@ ) Just listen to the song and see the captures I took.
The opening is in 3D WOOoooooooow, it looks so amazing that way, not to mention how cute Pikachu is ♥♥♥ Hmm I wonder if Satoshi'll appear in the opening (?__? ), Iris and Dento too since these three will be the main char from now on.
Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! - Best Wishes! / Kokoro no Fanfare
Opening theme: Best Wishes!
Artist: Rica Matsumoto (Satoshi)
Ending theme: Kokoro no Fanfare
Artist: Aki Okui
Release date: 2010.11.24
Tracklist:
01. Best Wishes!
02. Kokoro no Fanfare
03. Best Wishes! (Original Karaoke)
04. Kokoro no Fanfare (Original Karaoke)
...and 8 more BW BGM tracks!!!
OMG bgms ♥♥♥ Sankyuu Shinji Miyazaki-san!!!!
The Opening is named Best Wishes! and will be sung by the best Pokémon artist: Rica Matsumoto, who is also voicing Satoshi. I'm so happy to see a new opening sung by Matsumoto-san, it's been a while she hasn't sung something, since Spurt!. High Touch! was a duet between her and Megumi Toyoguchi (Hikari). The sample sounds awesome, all openings sung by Matsumoto-san are amazing anyway ♥♥♥
To date the openings she's sung are:
01. Mezase Pokémon Master [ Pocket Monsters ]
02. Rival! [ Pocket Monsters ]
03. OK! [ Pocket Monsters ] 04. Challenger! [ Advanced Generation ]
05. SPURT! [ Advanced Generation ]
06. Best Wishes! [ Best Wishes! ]
Huuuuuuuuuuuh?!!! Just noticed it when I was typing this but there's a exclamation point in every song she's sung except for Mezase Pokémon Master XDDDDDD
TV Anime Pocket Monsters
Original Soundtrack Best 1997-2010
Release date : 2010.09.08
- Samples and booklet can be found here -
CD1
Kanto : 29 tracks
Johto: 17 tracks
CD2
Hoenn: 26 tracks
Sinnoh: 16 tracks
Total: 88 tracks
Except BGMs from the openings/endings like OK!, Advance Adventure, etc. Here're my fav:
[ x ] Fav Anime-only BGM: I got a victory badge!
[ x ] Fav Game-based BGM: Pokémon Gym (2)
[ x ] Fav region BGMs: Johto
Because Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver are my fav PM games~~!
But my fav game music is from Diamond, Pearl & Platinum games, which has no anime version *sniff* but it was used for Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Route 209, either Midday, Night or Smash Bros. version, this song is so great ♥♥♥ (I used to come to this route just to listen to this music... plus there's a rich guy with whom I can have a battle and get money as much as I want bwahahah *cough*)
I don't think all of them has actually been used for the anime, I mean the duplicate bgms o(_ _)o See my fav Game-based bgm, I typed (2), because there're two versions of this bgm in the soundtrack. Well that second, as well as the first were used for the anime, I recall them well (~> big anime fan XD). As for the other (2), I don't think so... different tempo or something, nothing special.
I received my copy this Thursday, I was so... so... so very happy (TT__TT) <~~ tears of joy
SAL was amazingly fast for once, maybe they know that I wanted it so very much XD I may post some pics of my box later (my copy has the Deluxe box yay ♥), to be frank not sure if I want to do it... Last year people've shared my PUZZLE/Revive and Revive/PUZZLE (Mai Kuraki) scans so now I just don't know anymore (=___= ) Fans can be reeeeeeeeeeeally HATEFUL!
Anyway I've been waiting for this soundtrack FOR YEARS. Pokémon TV anime BGMs are the best of all anime I've watched in my entire life and this comes from someone who has watched quite a lot since her childhood.
Why for years? The only one anime soundtrack of Pocket Monsters was released on... 1998!!!
Pocket Monsters
Sound Anime Collection
Release date: 1998.06.10
This OST features bgms of the very first series while this new OST features bgms of the Kanto to the Sinnoh series. But, because I have to point that "but", this latest OST doesn't have, unlike the first OST, anime-only bgms (like the Tears, after the cloudy weather or I got a victory badge! BGM I mentioned above). Which is a big disappoinment for the anime fans and anime/game fans like me. There're a ton of explanations why Shinji Miyazaki didn't include them, and the remaining point is the sales. People who likes the anime will get this soundtrack because of the mentioning "Anime". People who like the games will get this soundtrack because is the based-games soundtracks. And finally those who like both will also get this soundtrack. So basically it was in order to draw the attention of most of the Pokémon fans franchise. I searched on the net and from what I read, anime fans are all sad of not having the original anime songs. When I said "fans", I mean fans worldwide, either Japanese or not. They were, like I did, expect to listen to them, especially Ok! bgm I mentioned before. Read the comments on Amazon JP some of them are referring to the anime original bgms (the first commenter mentioned Ok!, Advance Adventure and the Roketto-dan BGM!!!).
Technically that's an anime soundtrack, which is all true since they were used for the anime (U__U ) Sometimes I find myself hating the games because of this matter. I love the games but really removing the anime-only bgms in order to draw gamers' attention is quite a problem.
Apparently Shinji Miyazaki-san said that if the fans wanted more BGMs soundtrack, they have to show it = good sales. For those who like the games, you'll certainly enjoy this soundtrack, as for the anime fans or anime/game fans, you'll be enjoying as well, just a bit disappointed about the no original anime bgms T^T
Here are the sales of this soundtrack which, I think, is not good enough, though it was sold much better than plenty albums. At the very least, it debuted in top 30.
Oricon Charts
DAY 1
30
WEEK 1
57 1,630 TVアニメ ポケットモンスター オリジナルサウンドトラックベスト 1997-2010 ～オーケストラアレンジ 宮崎慎二～
Total sales: 1,630 copies
(will update this entry for the next week)
Pocket Monsters Black & White
Release date: 2010.09.18
I said something at the beginning of this entry... that I was carried away by Pokémon. The first thing was that anime soundtrack and the other one was THE NEW GAMES xDDDDDDDD
I just wanted to test a little the games to see how great they were since Famitsu gave a 40/40 (*______* ) buuuuut my addiction for video games especially RPGs went back. Aaaaaaah I'm so hopeless whenever it's to do with video games.
I was playing Pokémon White, my starter is the Grass Pokémon. I've already said it but I don't like the starters of this geneations, and besides I don't the 4/5 of the Pokémon from this generation as well, they're beeeurk. Few Pokémon are cute and cool but for most of them, they're seriously ugly. I normally don't say things that way, I really don't, I've always been supporting Pokémon for so long, but yeah, I don't the Pokémon from this generation. All the previous games have cute, pretty, cool Pokémon and I really love them. So this is beyond a disappoinment for a fan like me. Anyway, the games now, they're totally amazing, I'm so impressive about the everything they've put into these two games. By the way, I didn't read the spoilers or the full contents of the games, I discovered everything as time passed yesterday. And errrrrrrrr... I was stunned to discover who was the 8th Gym Leader. OMGGGGGGGGG. I can't believe they keep quiet about this specific Gym Leader this whole time. Now I want to know how it'll turn out to be in the anime haha.
I didn't go far in the game, I met "N" ♥, I got my first badge (and I'm in the second Gym in order to get the second badge), I didn't battle Dento but the Red guy. Oh, I'll be mentioning the anime again here but after playing till then, I kind of figured out which Pokémon Satoshi'll be getting in the following episodes... the Water starter. I'd some assumptions when I was watching the preview of Best Wishes! but now they really are making more sense to me...
Ok that's it, I'll not talk much, I'm afraid to give too much spoilers or so. But there were a weird thing that happened to me... my character was renamed "aaaaa", I mean "あああああ". My name was still "Mizu" for a while but for an unknown reason, my name ended up to be "あああああ". I noticed this change when my character was "chatting" (what a great item btw, it's a cellphone with camera) with her Mom (ママ): one panel with "ママ" while the other one, me, was "あああああ" lol. Something that needs to be said, you'll be coming accross your rivals a lot (o___o ), which is good, I was just surprised to see them so often haha. (I like Cheren ♥)
I'll likely not play them, have to focus on my studies (^_^;) But believe me these two games are AMAZING!