Sunday 20 September 2009

Boring things...

My first entry since a week...I was way too tired at the weekdays, I couldn´t write an entry^^

Yesterday I went to a local supermarket, and there was a book bargain sale. Since they only cost EUR 1,00, I bought 10 of them^^ Got a few manga, too:

Sugar Sugar Rune 3 + 4
Genshiken 4
The Tyrant who fell in love 2
Gothic Sports 3

and two books of the Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto.

In the next week, I´ll only have to work for 7 hours a day (instead of nine), so maybe I can write another entry ^_^

Sayonara!

Saturday 12 September 2009

Summer´s over...

The summer is over, and also my free time^^ I watched so many animes during the last 6 weeks, I can´t count them anymore xD But now I´m going back to school. I´m starting a job training and I won´t have much time for my hobbies anymore, sadly. Nevertheless I will spent every free minute watching anime, reading manga and playing games. (That´s why I like Konata so much: She´s just like me ^_^)

Back to gaming: I finished my first X-Blades walkthrough. I played on normal difficulty and found it really easy. But now I´ve started a second run on Pro. That was really hard, I died in the third level -.- I don´t think I´ll finish this soon, I´ll play Phantasy Star Universe first. (I have to update my X360 gamertag. I never put my Xbox on the internet^^

What else to say...Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver are released today in Japan. I´ll purchase them as soon as I can^^ Have to save money...


Can´t wait anymore T____T

My current anime-related goal is finishing Inu Yasha. I´m at episode 29 now and still nothing really happened -.- I´m waiting for the new season that should start airing this fall.

So much rants^^ And I think I´ve made a lot of mistakes^^

Sayonara!

Friday 4 September 2009

Manga review: Marmalade Boy

Already my second review xD Just finished Marmalade Boy and liked it^^

Marmalade Boy
Marmalade Boy is a shoujo romance-comedy manga by Wataru Yoshizumi.

Story:

Two couples decide t
o get divorced and swap partners with another couple, then marry again. Sounds hilarious? Yeah, it is hilarious, but also very funny. Not only the adults, but also their children, Miki and Yuu, fall in love with each other. There are lots of the typical shoujo stuff, but also comedical and sad moments. I liked the story and the humor^^

Characters:
The main characters
are Miki and her new stepbrother Yuu. They didn´t like each other when they first met, but later fell in love. There are lots of supporting characters, like Meiko (Miki´s friend), Ginta (Miki had a crush on him), Namura (a teacher at Miki´s school and Meiko´s lover). I think the cast is very nice. The characters are all very likable.

Art:
I like the mangaka´s art style. The sad scenes are well-drawn, but also the funny scenes^^ In my opinion, her style looks sometimes a bit like Rumiko Takahashi´s. Especially Yuu reminds my of Ranma 1/2.

My opinion:
At the first look, Marmalade Boy seems to be a typical shoujo story. But it´s more than this. I loved the mix of serious and funny scenes. I would recommend this manga to every shoujo fan. But fans of other genres should give it a try, too^^

X-Blades

I just started playing X-Blades (X360). I bought it a while ago and now finally decided to try it ^^

I like the graphics, nice 3D-art. Want to see (click to view full size) ?






The control is also very easy. I like fighting and Hack'n'Slay games very much, but usually I´m not really good at them T___T But I got through the first 6 levels easily (I´m playing on middle difficulty).

I think this game is often underrated. Sure, it gets repetative and maybe a bit boring if you play too many levels in a row. But if you like hack'n'slay games and don´t play for more than two hours^^, then this is a good game for you.

Manga review: Yonen Buzz

I´ll post my thoughts about manga series I recently finished. Maybe I use this as a review on MAL, too.
My first review ever^^

Yonen Buzz
Yonen Buzz is a musi
c-themed manga by the german mangaka Christina Plaka. I´ve read the prequel Prussian Blue and wanted to know how the story continues.

Story:
The manga is about a band called "Plastic Chew" and their struggles to get a record contract
. The band member are Jun (guitar, vocals), Keigo (drums), Atsushi (bass) and Sayuri, the second vocalist. In Prussian Blue, she recently moved to the boys' flat and fell in love with Jun. In Yonen Buzz, she studies music and has no more time for the band practices and also not for Jun, who´s very sad about it. He ruins a audition and the band doesn´t get a contract. After that, Sayuri decides to start a solo carrier and the band is about to fall apart. Can the boys go on without Sayuri? Read the manga, and you´ll know it ^_^

Art:
I didn´t really like the art. Especially the faces are sometimes a bit edgy. But the backgrounds and stuff like clothes was well drawn.

Characters:
I liked the characters. Especially Jun and Sayuri developed with the story. Sayuri starts her solo carrier and doesn´t have much time to spend with J
un, but she still seems to love him. And Jun was always a bit mysterious. His past isn´t really enlightened. The readers don´t get to know what happened to his parents.
Keigo and Atsushi are more supporting, but nevertheless I liked them.

My opinion:
I liked this manga. Everyone who loves music, drama and romance storys will like this. I give it a 8/10 because I really enjoyed reading.


Wednesday 2 September 2009

My harem xD

...or simply a list of my favourite anime and manga bishonen xD (In no particulary order)
I warn you before: My tastes are maybe a bit...uh
, weird^^ (Which girl would love Keita xD)

Itsuki Koizumi

Minato Sahashi

Keita Kawahira

Ryoga H
ibiki

Jade
Curtiss

America (Alfred F. Jones)

Computer problems

I hate my computer...

Since a few weeks, my PC doesn´t work. There´s nothing on the screen sometimes, or the whole screen is full of colourful stripes...Or it works for a few minutes, then goes out. And when I press the On-Button, sometimes the PC beeps 2 times fast and 8
times slow.

Good thing I got a laptop on my birthday. I can´t live without computer and internet. Don´t wanna imagine: no Ebay, no MAL, no anime and manga...OMG!

Anyway: If someone reads this and can help me, please leave a comment.

Arigatou~

Tuesday 1 September 2009

Pokemon ranting

Long time no blog entry, huh? ^_^ It´s me again xD

I wanna write something about Pokemon. I loved the first season of the anime 10 years ago, when I was a child. I can´t believe that 10 years already passed^^ On my tenth birthday I got the Pokemon 2000 movie DVD and watched it 10 times - at least ^_^ I love Lugia, he´s awesome :D



But now I just watch the series sometimes for fun. I always laugh about stupid Ash xD

The games are much better. I started gaming with the Gold Edition. By now, I played every regular Pokemon edition, but I sold most of them. I´m really looking forward to HeartGold and SoulSilver. They have to be good.

I´m currently playing the Platinum edition. I´m still not really far in the game^^ Just won the Eterna City badge and beat Team Galactic.

My team:
Keita/Monferno Lv. 26 (male)
Pantalai/Buizel Lv.17 (male)
Tayune/Luxio Lv. 22 (female)

I have to get a Lucario, my fave of the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum generation.

Talking about the game makes me want to play it, so I´ll go xD

Sayonara! ^_^

I need more money...

Why didn´t I win on the lottery? xD

As you can see: My manga collection is quite big, and I´ve spent lots of money on it. But I don´t wanna stop buying new volumes (I´m an nerd, anyway^^). And this fall/winter season, lots of interesting games will be released. So far I wanna buy these (some of them are already older):

Tales of Vesperia
Battle Fantasia
BlazBlue
Final Fantasy Dissidia
Soul Calibur PSP

(Quite much fighting games...although I´m a RPG player xD)

And there are more to come, like the Tales games for the PSP, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver *sigh* How does Konata always have enough money for her games and manga? ^_^

That leads me to my next subject: Lucky Star. I´m really obsessed with it at the time. I really enjoyed Azumanga Daioh, but I like Lucky Star even more. I love the references to other animes and games^^ And the characters and the art and...everything^^ Maybe I´ll write my first MAL review about it. And I have to buy the manga volumes from Amazon or Ebay.