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mydarkrosaline!☆ Pair Puri - SanaAto
Hahaha! This pair-puri SanaAto crack is just too much. XDD Atobe sky diving into school! Uncle!Sanada chasing his precocious nephew around the yard! Love it. And then of course, the SanaAto manzai comic:
Neither of them look very happy about the prospect of pairing up for a comedy routine...
I still haven't read the interview with Suwabe and Kusunoki, but I'm sure it's quite amusing.
Still, I can't believe that they're selling this thing for the same price as a full length tankobon. It's barely 40 pages! o___O;; I think they could've waited until they gathered together all the parts and release it in one volume. A couple reviewers on amazon.co.jp were pretty shocked when they saw how slim the book was too.
☆ booooOOOOots
My first boot purchase of the season has taken place! And I looooooooooove them. I got them from Duo boots in UK, who makes great calf fitted boots. The leather is so soft and wonderful, and the design! The buttons kill me!
( fashionista boots of fabulosity )
Hahaha! This pair-puri SanaAto crack is just too much. XDD Atobe sky diving into school! Uncle!Sanada chasing his precocious nephew around the yard! Love it. And then of course, the SanaAto manzai comic:
Neither of them look very happy about the prospect of pairing up for a comedy routine...
I still haven't read the interview with Suwabe and Kusunoki, but I'm sure it's quite amusing.
Still, I can't believe that they're selling this thing for the same price as a full length tankobon. It's barely 40 pages! o___O;; I think they could've waited until they gathered together all the parts and release it in one volume. A couple reviewers on amazon.co.jp were pretty shocked when they saw how slim the book was too.
☆ booooOOOOots
My first boot purchase of the season has taken place! And I looooooooooove them. I got them from Duo boots in UK, who makes great calf fitted boots. The leather is so soft and wonderful, and the design! The buttons kill me!
( fashionista boots of fabulosity )
- Mood:
amused
Probably you all knew yet but this news is too great and I say it anyway:
On Saiyuki FESTA '09, Kazuya Minekura said that soon will be released Saiyuki Gaiden OVA!!!
I'm sure that, since our beloved sensei loves Gaiden so much, she will oversee the creation of this OVA!
I'm really happy because the italian publishing house, Dynit, will release soon RELOAD 9, 10 and Gaiden!!!
I can't wait to get them! *_______*
And now some Saiyuki illustrations!
These are the scans of Saiyuki RELOAD 2010 Calendar that I've bought at Saiyuki FESTA '09:
At the opening of this update, you can find Saiyuki RELOAD 10 extracover.
HERE the image within the extracover!
This sticker was given at Saiyuki FESTA to those who had bought something from Animate on 30th October:
Below a "strange" page from KozeroSum 8...
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inouchanGoshly, flist; life has turned completely upside-down! In the space of just two days, all sorts of things are happening:
1. Next year I may very well be living abroad for a year, probably in North America. No concrete plans yet and as such I'll spare you the details, but basically: being stationed as a "young emissary" from Israel in a Jewish community somewhere, working for the Jewish Agency. Chances are it'll be Southern New England, but technically could be anywhere, including Australia, Holland, England, Canada, and a million places in the US. Fingers crossed and details hopefully forthcoming. I'm still kind of reeling.
2. Possibly in a couple of months we'll be moving house, AGAIN. Those of you who have been around know that last year my mum and I have moved to the kibbutz, and before that I lived a year in Tel-Aviv, and before that in another, different town up north. Seems to be we can't shake the moving bug, because we might be moving to a different house (still within the kibbutz though, which is a relief). Pros: it's right next to my grandparents' house! (♥) Cons: I really like our current place, small and cozy as it is. We'll have to see how things play out.
3. I am THIS CLOSE, THIS CLOSE to finishing my project, y'all. The same one I talk about here. Also, today I'm sending it out to all the people who showed interest, so if you want to read a wicked awesome dissertation about trickster-figures in Norse and Jewish mythology, drop me a line. I will KISS YOU, seriously. All the cool kids are doing it.
4. I GOT MY CAST TAKEN OFF. FUCKING SCORE, YOU GUYS. My leg had sprouted a small forest in the meantime, jesus. There are pictures! Soon in a post near you.
5. YULETIDE. Who's signing up, maggots? Because I sure as hell am! (Blameroga when I crash and burn.)
( addendum. )
1. Next year I may very well be living abroad for a year, probably in North America. No concrete plans yet and as such I'll spare you the details, but basically: being stationed as a "young emissary" from Israel in a Jewish community somewhere, working for the Jewish Agency. Chances are it'll be Southern New England, but technically could be anywhere, including Australia, Holland, England, Canada, and a million places in the US. Fingers crossed and details hopefully forthcoming. I'm still kind of reeling.
2. Possibly in a couple of months we'll be moving house, AGAIN. Those of you who have been around know that last year my mum and I have moved to the kibbutz, and before that I lived a year in Tel-Aviv, and before that in another, different town up north. Seems to be we can't shake the moving bug, because we might be moving to a different house (still within the kibbutz though, which is a relief). Pros: it's right next to my grandparents' house! (♥) Cons: I really like our current place, small and cozy as it is. We'll have to see how things play out.
3. I am THIS CLOSE, THIS CLOSE to finishing my project, y'all. The same one I talk about here. Also, today I'm sending it out to all the people who showed interest, so if you want to read a wicked awesome dissertation about trickster-figures in Norse and Jewish mythology, drop me a line. I will KISS YOU, seriously. All the cool kids are doing it.
4. I GOT MY CAST TAKEN OFF. FUCKING SCORE, YOU GUYS. My leg had sprouted a small forest in the meantime, jesus. There are pictures! Soon in a post near you.
5. YULETIDE. Who's signing up, maggots? Because I sure as hell am! (Blame
roga when I crash and burn.)( addendum. )
5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester: They’re My Years, I Can Do What I Want
Best years of your life:
Stake them on a game of cards;
Live young or die old.
I'm sorry this is so late; my home remodeling went seriously weird. I think I have evenything back on track, but it really made me ill-suited to write. I'll do better from now on.
- Mood:
aggravated - Music:"When I'm 64" by the Beatles
Hi everyone, it's been so quiet here of late I thought I'd pose a question. If you could travel into any one of the books and into any scene of your choice and stay for an hour, where and when and who would you visit?
I think, and I might change my mind later, I'd have to visit the quarry whilst Verity was carving his dragon. I've love to share the tent with Fitz , Nighteyes, Fool & Kettle - just imagine that - aah!! Mind you, I'd be so busy listening and observing I'm not sure I'd pluck up the courage to say anything myself.
I think, and I might change my mind later, I'd have to visit the quarry whilst Verity was carving his dragon. I've love to share the tent with Fitz , Nighteyes, Fool & Kettle - just imagine that - aah!! Mind you, I'd be so busy listening and observing I'm not sure I'd pluck up the courage to say anything myself.
So I went to yaoi con. My surprising find? A table at the swap meet with a hell of a lot of Saiyuki drama CDs for a dollar each.
I figured I had all of them thanks to the internets, but I really wanted to own them. And for a dollar each? Hells yes. So I bought all of them there, which was 16 of them.
But there was a surprise! Two of them, simply titled "Saiyuki 1" and "Saiyuki 2" were ones I had never heard before. They were made in 1999 with the original OVA cast, made just a few months after the OVA actually.
So instead of Seki, Hoshi, Hirata, and Ishida, it's Takagi, Okano, Yamadera, and Ishida. Even the Kougaiji crew and the gods have different voices. And it makes it a bit difficult to tell who is who at first XD but ya.
So I ripped them for everyone!
They aren't the beginning of the story. In fact, they are completely original stories we haven't seen/read/heard before. The first one is a fairly short story that's fairly uneventful XD. Some youkai, some monks giving them some hassles, general ikkou shenanigans. The second one is far more servicey, though. The ikkou wind up at some fancy onsen and end up staying there. And, for the lulz, the Kougaiji crew show up as well! The two groups end up bumping into each other in the hot spring and they all end up going back to the ikkou's room for shenanigans. Like Hakkai and Yaone having a drinking contest, Goku and Lirin playing a never ending game of ping pong, mahjong, and the weirdest karaoke I've ever heard.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9IR3RR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4FCV33
Though I prefer my Seki, Hoshi, and Hirata to play the parts, it's still lots of fun. Really the main differences between these two and the rest of the drama CDs and the manga is that 1) Hakkai CAN get wasted, 2) Dokugakuji is more like Gojyo, 3) Sanzo's quite a bit more lenient.
EDIT: I thought I'd take pictures of the CDs for ya guys. I don't have a scanner, but ya, it's somethin', right? lj-cut
( a few shots of the cds and their inserts )
I figured I had all of them thanks to the internets, but I really wanted to own them. And for a dollar each? Hells yes. So I bought all of them there, which was 16 of them.
But there was a surprise! Two of them, simply titled "Saiyuki 1" and "Saiyuki 2" were ones I had never heard before. They were made in 1999 with the original OVA cast, made just a few months after the OVA actually.
So instead of Seki, Hoshi, Hirata, and Ishida, it's Takagi, Okano, Yamadera, and Ishida. Even the Kougaiji crew and the gods have different voices. And it makes it a bit difficult to tell who is who at first XD but ya.
So I ripped them for everyone!
They aren't the beginning of the story. In fact, they are completely original stories we haven't seen/read/heard before. The first one is a fairly short story that's fairly uneventful XD. Some youkai, some monks giving them some hassles, general ikkou shenanigans. The second one is far more servicey, though. The ikkou wind up at some fancy onsen and end up staying there. And, for the lulz, the Kougaiji crew show up as well! The two groups end up bumping into each other in the hot spring and they all end up going back to the ikkou's room for shenanigans. Like Hakkai and Yaone having a drinking contest, Goku and Lirin playing a never ending game of ping pong, mahjong, and the weirdest karaoke I've ever heard.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9IR3RR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4FCV33
Though I prefer my Seki, Hoshi, and Hirata to play the parts, it's still lots of fun. Really the main differences between these two and the rest of the drama CDs and the manga is that 1) Hakkai CAN get wasted, 2) Dokugakuji is more like Gojyo, 3) Sanzo's quite a bit more lenient.
EDIT: I thought I'd take pictures of the CDs for ya guys. I don't have a scanner, but ya, it's somethin', right? lj-cut
( a few shots of the cds and their inserts )
Sorry for the silence of the last week but I went in Japan.
I visited Tokyo and I went to Saiyuki FESTA ’09! *___*
I’ve planned to go in Japan in 2010 but, reading about FESTA, I’ve decided at the last minute, to anticipate my trip.
I leaved Italy on 27th October and I came back on 2nd November.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to meet Kazuya Minekura like I hoped but I bought so many Saiyuki gadgets!
Moreover I visited Tokyo (I’m very sad because I missed the occasion to meet arisu_krd!!! AAARGH!!!)
I love Tokyo! I can’t wait to come there again soon!
About Saiyuki FESTA it was AMAZING. Although I went on Bunka Kaikan 4° floor three hours before the beginning of the event, 200 people to get Minekura’s sign were there yet ç_ç
To buy everything you needed to form a queue. But these queues were sooooooo long!!!
I managed to get some items but I gave up to get postcards…the queue to get them was incredible…it was long for the 4 floors of the building!!! I bet I should be still there now…
About the show, there were so many plates. Some of them HUGE! There were the original plates of manga. I loved the ones about Kamisama arc! Amazing! Do you remember the vignette in which behind Kamisama there is a huge stained-glass window? In the show there was this illustration and, thanks to some particular lights, seemed to see the colours on it!
Were showed so many coloured illustrations! Many sketches and the weapons of Saiyuki characters: Tenpou’s katana, the Smith&Wesson, one of the Gato’s gun and the golden gun used in Tenkai!
Unfortunately was forbidden make photos to these parts of the show. But was possible make photos to the clothes of main characters, of JEEP, of the silhouettes of Sanzo Ikkou…
☆ weekend
Hope everyone had a lovely Halloween weekend! I opted to stay in that night, as I didn't feel like venturing out into the rain to go to a party in the city. A good idea too, since I was (and still am) beating back a cold! I spent most of the day on Saturday watching the NCIS marathon and feeling stuffy in the head. Also finally got around to watching the Wolverine movie, which wasn't as bad as everyone seemed to say it was. Maybe it was good to go in with low expectations? I kind of wish there could've been more build up and development of the story between the brothers, though.
☆ cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Was feeling much better on Sunday, so popped over to meet a friend at the theater to see "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in 3D. I might sound quite behind in the times, but aside from IMAX films, this was my first ever 3D movie. @___O Although it didn't make me feel like I was in the middle of a meatball rain shower as I thought it would, the effects were kinda cool nevertheless. The movie itself was charming and enjoyable. There was one particular scene where I laughed my head off: the part where the main character calls up his dad and asks him to find a file on his computer and send it to him as an email attachment. His dad's eyes get really big and he looks pretty uncertain about the whole prospect, but agrees to do it because the fate of the whole world depends on it.
I dunno about you, but if the fate of the world depended on whether my mom could be trusted to email a file to me from my computer, I'd be very very worried. XD;;; So in the movie, the dad locates the computer and is desperately attempting to follow his son's instructions. "Drag the mouse across the screen!!" the boy yells at him through the phone. Dad panics and takes the mouse, putting it literally on top of the screen and swiping it across! Hahaha!! (Okay, my mom isn't THAT bad...she can handle a mouse. Although she does have problems with the double click).
Actually, my mom surprised me the other day by saying that she is currently addicted to Youtube, and found herself watching one video after another, late into the night!
Ack....time to rush off to work!!
♥
Hope everyone had a lovely Halloween weekend! I opted to stay in that night, as I didn't feel like venturing out into the rain to go to a party in the city. A good idea too, since I was (and still am) beating back a cold! I spent most of the day on Saturday watching the NCIS marathon and feeling stuffy in the head. Also finally got around to watching the Wolverine movie, which wasn't as bad as everyone seemed to say it was. Maybe it was good to go in with low expectations? I kind of wish there could've been more build up and development of the story between the brothers, though.
☆ cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Was feeling much better on Sunday, so popped over to meet a friend at the theater to see "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in 3D. I might sound quite behind in the times, but aside from IMAX films, this was my first ever 3D movie. @___O Although it didn't make me feel like I was in the middle of a meatball rain shower as I thought it would, the effects were kinda cool nevertheless. The movie itself was charming and enjoyable. There was one particular scene where I laughed my head off: the part where the main character calls up his dad and asks him to find a file on his computer and send it to him as an email attachment. His dad's eyes get really big and he looks pretty uncertain about the whole prospect, but agrees to do it because the fate of the whole world depends on it.
I dunno about you, but if the fate of the world depended on whether my mom could be trusted to email a file to me from my computer, I'd be very very worried. XD;;; So in the movie, the dad locates the computer and is desperately attempting to follow his son's instructions. "Drag the mouse across the screen!!" the boy yells at him through the phone. Dad panics and takes the mouse, putting it literally on top of the screen and swiping it across! Hahaha!! (Okay, my mom isn't THAT bad...she can handle a mouse. Although she does have problems with the double click).
Actually, my mom surprised me the other day by saying that she is currently addicted to Youtube, and found herself watching one video after another, late into the night!
Ack....time to rush off to work!!
♥
I'm looking for scans of vol 9 of Saiyuki Reload, raw or translated, I'm not picky. I already do own an official copy, bought legally in Japan. However, said copy is currently at home in the States, while I'm in England, and I was really hoping to read it now that I've caught up on the earlier stuff. If anyone could help, that'd be great. Thanks!
Reload 10 has arrived! \(^O^)/ Scans of the cover are downloadable here. ♥
Picked a few to post under the cut:
( ...and the man on the back cover of final Reload is... )
Picked a few to post under the cut:
( ...and the man on the back cover of final Reload is... )
- Mood:
ecstatic
If anyone hasn't heard the news yet, thoughts i would spreed it round, Saiyuki Gaiden is getting its own anime OVA series!!! WOOOH :D Can't wait to see our godly boys in animation!
While looking up religious symbols for my art project:
So, celebrating the Christian victory over cruelty with a gory beheading? I know history is filled with this kind of thing, but wow. These sort of books never fail to remind me just how classy early religion was.
Also it is raining down in buckets and my foot prevented me from going to school today and I am sitting by a warmly-lit kitchen table, browsing old books and sipping chai. Life is very good.
“A HEAD under the feet of St. Catherine of Alexandria is that of the Emperor Maximian, who ruled the Roman Empire jointly with Diocletian, one of the worst of the prosecutors of Christians. It symbolises the triumph of the new faith over paganism and cruelty.”(source)
So, celebrating the Christian victory over cruelty with a gory beheading? I know history is filled with this kind of thing, but wow. These sort of books never fail to remind me just how classy early religion was.
Also it is raining down in buckets and my foot prevented me from going to school today and I am sitting by a warmly-lit kitchen table, browsing old books and sipping chai. Life is very good.
- Music:Cibelle - Green Grass
1. It has been raining for the last three days, and tomorrow looks to be furiously stormy. Hey, winter, welcome back. ♥
(ETA: OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THE SKY IS FALLING. The storm hit earlier than expected and now everything is all BOOMING THUNDER and PELTING RAIN and FLASHING ANGRY LIGHTNING. It is like several dozen drumkits falling down several dozen stairwells. Mum foresees leaks in our immediate future.)
2. Four more days until the cast is taken off! Perhaps I will keep the pimp cane even afterwards; I have rather taken to it.
3. I FINISHED WATCHING KINGS. Thank you so, so much togunning_angel for holding my hand and screaming with me throughout the final five episodes. It hurt at times, but it was worth it.
4. Who is interested in Norse and Jewish mythology, Jungian archetypes, and Loki & Ashmedai as examples of the Trickster archetype in folklore? Who is interested in reading a 40-something-page essay about all of the above? If you are one of these chosen few, perhaps you'd like to read (and hopefully review) the first draft of my finals project. Sign up here!
5. I have posted a quasi-historical quasi-poetic quasi-song rec entry up at![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
anomylic:
(ETA: OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THE SKY IS FALLING. The storm hit earlier than expected and now everything is all BOOMING THUNDER and PELTING RAIN and FLASHING ANGRY LIGHTNING. It is like several dozen drumkits falling down several dozen stairwells. Mum foresees leaks in our immediate future.)
2. Four more days until the cast is taken off! Perhaps I will keep the pimp cane even afterwards; I have rather taken to it.
3. I FINISHED WATCHING KINGS. Thank you so, so much to
gunning_angel for holding my hand and screaming with me throughout the final five episodes. It hurt at times, but it was worth it.4. Who is interested in Norse and Jewish mythology, Jungian archetypes, and Loki & Ashmedai as examples of the Trickster archetype in folklore? Who is interested in reading a 40-something-page essay about all of the above? If you are one of these chosen few, perhaps you'd like to read (and hopefully review) the first draft of my finals project. Sign up here!
5. I have posted a quasi-historical quasi-poetic quasi-song rec entry up at
anomylic:MADE IN ISRAEL
Lyrics by Natan Alterman
Translation by
Picked it up last night at an Ichijinsha in Sasebo. Yay!! I hope this means Stateside soon. The obi has a banner annoucement for the release of Reload BLAST. =)
(First time I've owned a Saiyuki manga in the original form. =)=)
(First time I've owned a Saiyuki manga in the original form. =)=)
- Location:Sasebo
- Mood:
excited - Music:"shiny moon"
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! &hearts
I have no clue if I won't be too busy being a dork tomorrow or not, so lemme show you a little mini-comic to celebrate the event today! Even though it's tomorrow. Shh. x3
Preview:
Warning: Huge image! Also some boy x boy.
HERE @pushonpulldoors
I have no clue if I won't be too busy being a dork tomorrow or not, so lemme show you a little mini-comic to celebrate the event today! Even though it's tomorrow. Shh. x3
Preview:
Warning: Huge image! Also some boy x boy.
HERE @
pushonpulldoors- Mood:
happy
Everything is good to go and I'm getting ready for the con. The newest doujin is back from the printers and I can finally breathe a sigh of relief and actually look forward to the con. XD
The party will be held at 8pm on Friday in the Mariott.
Please see this entry regarding past information.
I'll give notice on Friday afternoon of the room's number.
If you will not have access to the internet on Friday and want to be texted with the room number, please leave me your cell phone number in the comments of THIS ENTRY. All comments will be screened there.
Hope to see you there! :D
xposted
The party will be held at 8pm on Friday in the Mariott.
Please see this entry regarding past information.
I'll give notice on Friday afternoon of the room's number.
If you will not have access to the internet on Friday and want to be texted with the room number, please leave me your cell phone number in the comments of THIS ENTRY. All comments will be screened there.
Hope to see you there! :D
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- miarr : link is great at gift-giving. [+2]
- athena8 : Pair-Puri & Boot Goddess [+10]
- veronicacode : Saiyuki news and illustrations! [+52]
- saiyuki_media :: inouchan : Saiyuki Icon [+0]
- miarr : metaltelin. [+11]
- bardicvoice : 5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester: They’re My Years, I Can Do What I Want [+17]
- fitzandthefool :: letgc123 : Where/when/who would you visit? [+9]
- saiyuki_media :: sarene : Two Drama CDs I have never heard before [+17]
- veronicacode : Just came back from Japan and Saiyuki FESTA '09! [+43]
- athena8 : Raining Meatballs [+13]
- saiyuki_reload :: dom_iciliated : THE SKY TIDES [+0]
- saiyuki_media :: gnine : I'm looking for Vol 9 Reload scans... [+5]
- athena8 : Reload/Gaiden pretties~ [+40]
- saiyuki_media :: rachel_reicheru : Saiyuki Gaiden Green Lit for Anime OVA [+19]
- miarr : irony, thy name is organized religion. [+19]
- miarr : a brief collection of shout-outs [+20]
- saiyuki_media :: kisarazumama : Reload Vol. 10 out in Japan! [+3]
- okamigame :: kidneythief : Waka's Halloween Costume..... [+0]
- saiyuki_reload :: jibii : Saiyuki Room Party on Friday [+0]