If you want to capitalize your character being something or doing something by having the main character or narrator think about it, it's a good idea to put a picture of the character spoken about in the background, I'll give you that. It is not, however, a good idea to use a picture where the character is not doing what he is remarked to be doing ( Read more... )

[off-topic] Merry Christmas, everybody! [/off-topic]
Manga: Pet Shop of Horrors
Author: Matsuri Akino
Translator: Jeremiah Bourque
Publisher: Tokyopop
read: volumes 1-10 = the whole series

The main character of the manga Pet Shop of Horrors is Count D, who runs the titular pet shop during his father's absence. There he sells unsuspecting people exotic ( Read more... )

Les Bijoux ( Read more... )

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, volume 1
by Kou Sasakura

I haven't ever even been in a same room with the original video game this “gem” is based on, but judging by the name and the fact that it had a vampire count named Dracula I imagined it to be pretty dark, gothic - maybe with the hopeless futurepast angle thrown in. And not... a comedy. ( Read more... )

Author: Heikki Valkama
Illustrations: Elli Puukangas
Read: the first album

I take the album and look at the cover. The way the main character's face it's drawn is almost enough to make me put it back into the shelf and run away screaming. No, it's not because of saucer-like eyes, since the main character's eyes are very reasonably sized (for a manga/ ( Read more... )

Entschuldigung, der da im Titel war ein ehrlicher Tippfehler. ^__^'

See? I wrote a sentence in German! And it might even be correct. <3 I'm so cool and skillful, huh?

I have read Kaori Yuki's Fairy Cube in German. I still don't know whether I actually like her drawing style or whether it hurts my eyes. Her earlier series - like the Earl Cain - is ( Read more... )

Seriously. I have been counting minutes to Friday the whole week. I'm so tired...

Now I have half an hour before I go to watch that movie WhateverItsNameWas with my friend. She forgot to tell me which of the three movies it is! Just said she would take her mother's car and pick me up at 21.30 pm. One day I'm going to strangle that girl. -.-

And I'm ( Read more... )