It is that week before break
Damn, I slept on Friday with a low note on my head |D. Apparently, Shukan Soine vol 2 is out of print... again... and I was looking forward to buy it. Neither YesAsia, or PlayAsia or CdJapan has it (all of them is marking it as 'out of print' :/). Oh, well.
Silver Spoon just sort of helped me to sleep better. I love that manga with all my heart and Hachiken makes me smile everytime one of his facefaults show. I can't help it, but I ask for an official English Translation, Viz~, I know that you can get it.
This week was hard. In short, it was. And the next one is not going to be easier either. A lot of stuff to do because of due dates, and problems with some of my teams... especially the ones from Marketing and Publishing Design. I don't know if this is just because of lazyness... but reaaaaaaallly... we haven't work almost anything AT ALL in the first subject project. I sort of advanced a bit of it... but... ehr... we are supposed to be a team of 5/6 people... not a pair. The same is going on after Publishing. That stupid newspaper. I went on Saturday morning to try and advance the design phase of the newspaper whose due date is on Wednesday. I don't know iwhat, but I have to work it during the whole day. That and the few other pendings that are on this week.
I have exam on Environment, next Thursday. And it's almost the whole two units we saw in just 4 weeks. If you haven't noticed, I really hate this teacher... there is something in her way to teach that it's not... pretty convincing me about her as a teacher. This class was supposed to be part in presence, part in Internet and it's already the 2nd Partial and there is no slow pacing on the class whatsoever, just the typical 'give this on the net, give this printed next class. The last time I had a subject like this as a last minute half-presence class was in Psychology, two semesters ago and wasn't a lot of problem becasue, at least we didn't have exams... Environment suffers because although our teacher is a biologist, I don't see if she is a teacher at all. She goes fast, doesn't give a break to write what she does in the board, or even shares the presentations she does. I know she wants us to read... but, honestly in one class per week to see two complete units (more than 50 pages) in a month is absurd.
And, the way she qualifies is the most illogical possible, because at the beginning she told us that the homeworks were the 80% of the partial. One month later she comes out and tell us that the homeworks have no value AT ALL, IF it is not only 'bonus points' of a certain work she will pick and that they are the proof to present the partials*facepalm* and the last exam was very tricky to say the least :/. I got my first 75 in a whole year. Her excuse of 'You are college students, and you have to face it if the teachers don't consider your homework to qualify' doesn't apply if she tells us about that one month later. All the teachers explain at the beginning what's going on with qualification, and how it is going to affect in the final note of the subject. No matter how. They do at the beginning of the semester... not a whole month later after it even starts. Though here the case is that she wasn't even going to be our titular teacher at the beginning, because the one that was supposed to be our teacher didn't have the time to take the subject... and the Uni sort of knew it before the making of the schedules... Public University... get your own stuff together at first ._. I will be happy by the time I pass Environment and not having to see her again.
It is that week before my 2-weeks break. Eventually it's just 5 weeks more to end the whole semester. And meanwhile I'm thinking of stuff that I want to do (sleeping a lot, especially xD) once it arrives, there's of course that barrier of 'due dates' after returning to classes. For now, I just think that I have a project to do and give and that's three posters/illustrations for Visual Communication. and the planning of a magazine that is for the final of Publishing. I want it to arrive so badly, but the days in the middle of my way are going to be so tough.
Also I decided completely to take the computer to fix the entire DVD/CD drive on May to the authorized attention center of Gateway in Mexico City. It's pretty annoying that this is still affecting me... and it's tiring at this point, since December, that it still has starting problems :/ and now, during the last two weeks or so, it is not recognizing the DVD drive AT ALL. Today when I was working on turning it on, and restarted it, the reccomended option to restore the system at certain point of time didn't work, because apparently there is 'something' that I 'installed' that it's not collaborating in fixing it.. up until now, it's the first time that this happens, because last Saturday it worked perfectly. And it also was working really fine from Tuesday to Thursday at least... until yesterday, and today with this... I don't know why I must have to be one month without the computer... but that's it. I can't handle this anymore. Shame that I just CAN'T stop using it right now because I still have homeworks and projects to do.
I'm craving to see some anime series that I saw ages ago. Jigoku Sensei Nube was an anime series that in 2002 was scheduled so early (6 AM) in a channel that now just dedicates to the 'housewife' around here. It's also the 'satellite' that a network uses with its sister American (and Latino) channel.
Back then , they aired a few anime series around that time, and at midday. But since I was in school, and went out of it at 2 PM, I didn't have the time to watch them. I liked this series because of the supernatural aspects of it, and it also had a decent dub cast at the time (decent varies... it was the time that these people also dubbed Digimon Tamers, Gundam Wing... and the first one suffered a bit of woolseyism... the dub studios, if I am not mistaken, is one of a veteran dub actor that was located in Cuernavaca, Morelos... in the last decade much of those actors moved out to Mexico City or even have partnerships with other studios (Manuel Campuzano, one of those actors, worked later (2008/09) on Death Note as Light Yagami) Mexican dub it's a pretty touchy topic in Internet, to say at least... I have my own critiques to it). I remember watching at least half of the entire series because of the schedule.
The series is somewhat old (1997), and of course, the manga overtook the anime (it has 31 volumes, I think it started publishing back in 1994 or 1995... and I don't remember what series replaced it in the Weekly Shonen Jump -though it ended around the time Rurouni Kenshin did... and that one was replaced for Naruto...). As I said, the dub was decent, there is this DA that I really like because of his voice, and I was almost listening to him in lmost everything the dub studios -that was his, and he was almost the dub director of almost everyone of those series).
It was interesting because the main character (Meisuke Nueno, also called Nube-sensei by his students) has this ability to exorcise thanks to his Demon Hand that a certain incident caused him to have it (and telling that is completely spoiler), but no matter what, he protects his students. I fell for the charm of the characters (almost typical Jump series xD), and the story.
Some stories are very different from the manga chapters... now that some translating group took interest on this series. In fact, since I'm reading the manga (up to volume 6) I want to see how different it was, and finally completing it. The Japanese cast looks interesting too -3- and there are some very well known seiyuu from back then, and there are some that are still active to these days such as: Ryoutarou Okiayu (our protagonist, Nube), Michiko Neya (Ritsuko-sensei), Toshiko Fujita (Hiroshi), Kazunari Tanaka (Katsura), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Tamamo-sensei), Yuri Shiratori (Yukime), Hikaru Midorikawa etc. If you are interested, I think... think that there are subbed versions of the OVAs and the movie... the whole series is a non, because the Mexican dub it's more easy to find in the net... especially YouTube.
Another series, that I want to see again is definitely Corrector Yui. I know that this series still has a lot, lot of internet backdraft especially because it's considered one of those low works of Asamiya Kia. Especially in Mexico, because there was this stupid issue that this series replaced Card Captor Sakura in the Latinamerican Cartoon Network, and fans started to call this a copy of the other one (where, basically all the mahou shoujo is a well known genre that has its own clichés since god knows when... but, Internet was pretty young back in 2001, you know? I still find amusing that people still hate this series 10 years later) but I fell in love of the series when I was a kid.
The story basically happens in the 2020s, where the Internet basically domain everything outside, and there are even this whole internet world called ComNet that has it's own Virtual Reality experiences. The protagonist is Yui Kasuga, a 14 year old girl that it's pretty much bad at computers. That's your normal girl that dreams to become a mangaka and a seiyuu... and secretly wants to be a Magical Girl... until Destiny happens, and suddenly out of nowhere she becomes a corrector that has to eliminate viruses and searching 8 pieces of Software that maintain the whole Net.
The story is a bit silly, I can't deny that... but the characters got me into the story.
The anime did have an English dub (and some international too, such as Spanish dub, Catalan, Italian...) but it never became a hit in the States, Viz Media only released 18 episodes our of 52, TokyoPop edited the whole first series of manga by Keiko Okamoto (and it is TokyoPop, I have it... and even though I thinks it has a decent translation it is a bit... off in my opinion).... but it tanked in sales. The second season is the one that develops a lot better than the first one... and I think that if they would have giving it an opportunity, it would have worked (there is no raws of the second series of the manga, and I'm pretty interested in that one). If it wasn't for this series, I think I couldn't find my inspiration for writing or even I couldn't have met my ex.
The dub cast is so good, I think because it is one of those series that got dubbed at the start of the 2000s, much of the dub actors became more known later, and are pretty much recognizable voices, too (to say an example: the dub director of the series later directed the dub of Naruto (2006) and Bleach (2007/08... don't know if they kept dubbing Bleach later, but I know that they changed directors)... much of the cast repeat in these two series with a very few exceptions). The seiyuu cast is something that I call an interesting case of cast. And I'm pretty much looking forward to see the RAWs of it (it's also a 1999-2000 series) or a fansubbed series. In fact, I'm most surprised that there is a Japanese still active fandom of the series. There is still a few of the fandom who loved the series when we were kids or teenagers... but... ehhhhh... it's pretty much inexistent, much of them goes to the nostalgia side of it...)
Silver Spoon just sort of helped me to sleep better. I love that manga with all my heart and Hachiken makes me smile everytime one of his facefaults show. I can't help it, but I ask for an official English Translation, Viz~, I know that you can get it.
This week was hard. In short, it was. And the next one is not going to be easier either. A lot of stuff to do because of due dates, and problems with some of my teams... especially the ones from Marketing and Publishing Design. I don't know if this is just because of lazyness... but reaaaaaaallly... we haven't work almost anything AT ALL in the first subject project. I sort of advanced a bit of it... but... ehr... we are supposed to be a team of 5/6 people... not a pair. The same is going on after Publishing. That stupid newspaper. I went on Saturday morning to try and advance the design phase of the newspaper whose due date is on Wednesday. I don't know iwhat, but I have to work it during the whole day. That and the few other pendings that are on this week.
I have exam on Environment, next Thursday. And it's almost the whole two units we saw in just 4 weeks. If you haven't noticed, I really hate this teacher... there is something in her way to teach that it's not... pretty convincing me about her as a teacher. This class was supposed to be part in presence, part in Internet and it's already the 2nd Partial and there is no slow pacing on the class whatsoever, just the typical 'give this on the net, give this printed next class. The last time I had a subject like this as a last minute half-presence class was in Psychology, two semesters ago and wasn't a lot of problem becasue, at least we didn't have exams... Environment suffers because although our teacher is a biologist, I don't see if she is a teacher at all. She goes fast, doesn't give a break to write what she does in the board, or even shares the presentations she does. I know she wants us to read... but, honestly in one class per week to see two complete units (more than 50 pages) in a month is absurd.
And, the way she qualifies is the most illogical possible, because at the beginning she told us that the homeworks were the 80% of the partial. One month later she comes out and tell us that the homeworks have no value AT ALL, IF it is not only 'bonus points' of a certain work she will pick and that they are the proof to present the partials*facepalm* and the last exam was very tricky to say the least :/. I got my first 75 in a whole year. Her excuse of 'You are college students, and you have to face it if the teachers don't consider your homework to qualify' doesn't apply if she tells us about that one month later. All the teachers explain at the beginning what's going on with qualification, and how it is going to affect in the final note of the subject. No matter how. They do at the beginning of the semester... not a whole month later after it even starts. Though here the case is that she wasn't even going to be our titular teacher at the beginning, because the one that was supposed to be our teacher didn't have the time to take the subject... and the Uni sort of knew it before the making of the schedules... Public University... get your own stuff together at first ._. I will be happy by the time I pass Environment and not having to see her again.
It is that week before my 2-weeks break. Eventually it's just 5 weeks more to end the whole semester. And meanwhile I'm thinking of stuff that I want to do (sleeping a lot, especially xD) once it arrives, there's of course that barrier of 'due dates' after returning to classes. For now, I just think that I have a project to do and give and that's three posters/illustrations for Visual Communication. and the planning of a magazine that is for the final of Publishing. I want it to arrive so badly, but the days in the middle of my way are going to be so tough.
Also I decided completely to take the computer to fix the entire DVD/CD drive on May to the authorized attention center of Gateway in Mexico City. It's pretty annoying that this is still affecting me... and it's tiring at this point, since December, that it still has starting problems :/ and now, during the last two weeks or so, it is not recognizing the DVD drive AT ALL. Today when I was working on turning it on, and restarted it, the reccomended option to restore the system at certain point of time didn't work, because apparently there is 'something' that I 'installed' that it's not collaborating in fixing it.. up until now, it's the first time that this happens, because last Saturday it worked perfectly. And it also was working really fine from Tuesday to Thursday at least... until yesterday, and today with this... I don't know why I must have to be one month without the computer... but that's it. I can't handle this anymore. Shame that I just CAN'T stop using it right now because I still have homeworks and projects to do.
I'm craving to see some anime series that I saw ages ago. Jigoku Sensei Nube was an anime series that in 2002 was scheduled so early (6 AM) in a channel that now just dedicates to the 'housewife' around here. It's also the 'satellite' that a network uses with its sister American (and Latino) channel.
Back then , they aired a few anime series around that time, and at midday. But since I was in school, and went out of it at 2 PM, I didn't have the time to watch them. I liked this series because of the supernatural aspects of it, and it also had a decent dub cast at the time (decent varies... it was the time that these people also dubbed Digimon Tamers, Gundam Wing... and the first one suffered a bit of woolseyism... the dub studios, if I am not mistaken, is one of a veteran dub actor that was located in Cuernavaca, Morelos... in the last decade much of those actors moved out to Mexico City or even have partnerships with other studios (Manuel Campuzano, one of those actors, worked later (2008/09) on Death Note as Light Yagami) Mexican dub it's a pretty touchy topic in Internet, to say at least... I have my own critiques to it). I remember watching at least half of the entire series because of the schedule.
The series is somewhat old (1997), and of course, the manga overtook the anime (it has 31 volumes, I think it started publishing back in 1994 or 1995... and I don't remember what series replaced it in the Weekly Shonen Jump -though it ended around the time Rurouni Kenshin did... and that one was replaced for Naruto...). As I said, the dub was decent, there is this DA that I really like because of his voice, and I was almost listening to him in lmost everything the dub studios -that was his, and he was almost the dub director of almost everyone of those series).
It was interesting because the main character (Meisuke Nueno, also called Nube-sensei by his students) has this ability to exorcise thanks to his Demon Hand that a certain incident caused him to have it (and telling that is completely spoiler), but no matter what, he protects his students. I fell for the charm of the characters (almost typical Jump series xD), and the story.
Some stories are very different from the manga chapters... now that some translating group took interest on this series. In fact, since I'm reading the manga (up to volume 6) I want to see how different it was, and finally completing it. The Japanese cast looks interesting too -3- and there are some very well known seiyuu from back then, and there are some that are still active to these days such as: Ryoutarou Okiayu (our protagonist, Nube), Michiko Neya (Ritsuko-sensei), Toshiko Fujita (Hiroshi), Kazunari Tanaka (Katsura), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Tamamo-sensei), Yuri Shiratori (Yukime), Hikaru Midorikawa etc. If you are interested, I think... think that there are subbed versions of the OVAs and the movie... the whole series is a non, because the Mexican dub it's more easy to find in the net... especially YouTube.
Another series, that I want to see again is definitely Corrector Yui. I know that this series still has a lot, lot of internet backdraft especially because it's considered one of those low works of Asamiya Kia. Especially in Mexico, because there was this stupid issue that this series replaced Card Captor Sakura in the Latinamerican Cartoon Network, and fans started to call this a copy of the other one (where, basically all the mahou shoujo is a well known genre that has its own clichés since god knows when... but, Internet was pretty young back in 2001, you know? I still find amusing that people still hate this series 10 years later) but I fell in love of the series when I was a kid.
The story basically happens in the 2020s, where the Internet basically domain everything outside, and there are even this whole internet world called ComNet that has it's own Virtual Reality experiences. The protagonist is Yui Kasuga, a 14 year old girl that it's pretty much bad at computers. That's your normal girl that dreams to become a mangaka and a seiyuu... and secretly wants to be a Magical Girl... until Destiny happens, and suddenly out of nowhere she becomes a corrector that has to eliminate viruses and searching 8 pieces of Software that maintain the whole Net.
The story is a bit silly, I can't deny that... but the characters got me into the story.
The anime did have an English dub (and some international too, such as Spanish dub, Catalan, Italian...) but it never became a hit in the States, Viz Media only released 18 episodes our of 52, TokyoPop edited the whole first series of manga by Keiko Okamoto (and it is TokyoPop, I have it... and even though I thinks it has a decent translation it is a bit... off in my opinion).... but it tanked in sales. The second season is the one that develops a lot better than the first one... and I think that if they would have giving it an opportunity, it would have worked (there is no raws of the second series of the manga, and I'm pretty interested in that one). If it wasn't for this series, I think I couldn't find my inspiration for writing or even I couldn't have met my ex.
The dub cast is so good, I think because it is one of those series that got dubbed at the start of the 2000s, much of the dub actors became more known later, and are pretty much recognizable voices, too (to say an example: the dub director of the series later directed the dub of Naruto (2006) and Bleach (2007/08... don't know if they kept dubbing Bleach later, but I know that they changed directors)... much of the cast repeat in these two series with a very few exceptions). The seiyuu cast is something that I call an interesting case of cast. And I'm pretty much looking forward to see the RAWs of it (it's also a 1999-2000 series) or a fansubbed series. In fact, I'm most surprised that there is a Japanese still active fandom of the series. There is still a few of the fandom who loved the series when we were kids or teenagers... but... ehhhhh... it's pretty much inexistent, much of them goes to the nostalgia side of it...)