Hello insomnia. Welcome back old friend.  I will now attempt to survive the day whilst completely braindead.  I owe people email/lj replies, have been rather occupied all weekend, but will attempt to reply to a few during random bouts of lucidity throughout the day.

For now, image heavy post since it requires minimal brainpower.


I normally don't do this, but I just had to take a pic of this particular stack of doujinshi. Henceforth to be remembered as the package where the Philippine Post Office TAXED ME WAY TOO MUCH for some porn. I've never been taxed for my manga or doujinshi before, so I was pretty much DDD: at them when I picked this up.

Most of it is Initial D doujinshi (Ryousuke/Keisuke ).  I reallyreally wanted to splurge on Gintama and Reborn djs at the time, but there was a reason I got the IniD ones instead. D:  I got the Acchicchi (Kanegae Shouko) collection mostly because I had never heard of the circle before and was curious to see if it would be worth getting her individual djs in the future. I probably won't because she mostly does Reborn/Lambo, but the anthology was a pleasant surprise and had me laughing a lot while flipping through it.  There were a lot of completely random CPs which alone made it well worth it.  I would not mind buying another anthology of her stuff if she ever releases another one.

Anyway, wanted to share a few of the more random gag stuff in the anthology.  Subpar pics behind the cut.  My scanner is currently still in its box, so I just took pics of a few random scenes.  Will get around to scanning some of the more amusing stories once I hook the scanner up. Still waiting for Em to read Reborn so I can force make slavedrive ask her to translate these.

( some non-worksafe pics behind the cut )

Decided to do a quick browse of Persona 3 english fen just to see if - in true fashion - it'd hate me yet again. It does.

So... am I the only one who thinks P3 main character is most seme? D:

And while I'm talking about P3, was there ever an "official" name released for the main character? I named my hero Suou Shura, because I am unoriginal like that, what.


In other news, World of Warcraft has finally spat my soul back out. There is only so much dailies you can take before you get sick and tired of doing them just for the gold when you no longer have anything to use your gold for. I mostly only log on for raids these days, as well as special events, like the Brewfest Festival this month. And so, I will regal you with a screencap of the best Brewfest quest there is. Getting rid of pink elephants, which you can only see when you're dead drunk.


The screen is fuzzy because I had to be drunk to see the elephants, I had the effects turned off (because looking for a tiny rabbit while dead drunk and having a fuzzy screen hurts your head), but I turned it back on to take the screencap. I was no longer in a drunken stupor when I took the cap, otherwise the screen would be fuzzier.

And the things one does when bored. Elyrianna (selfaro's paladin) was running my lowbie mage through ZF and on our way out we aggroed every damned mob remaining in the instance.


click to view
The Witchhunt addon was spamming like crazy, (the big yellow text on top) so it covered the huge line of mobs that was in front of me and running after Ely. It was rather funny to see. And excuse the messy UI, my UI is set up for my warlock (my main) who has a ton more skills at her disposal than a level 46 mage. Hence all the empty space at the bottom.

But first, a few rec links:
♥ amei's Geddoe/Flame Champion (Suikoden 3) pr0n comic goodness [here] and [here]. This was one of those pairings I never expected I'd actually get to see work for. :x Oh how I love being proven wrong.
♥ calintz also has Geddoe/FC art [here] (so much love for this pic) and [here] which are equally worthy of the few seconds it will take for you to click on those links.
♥ tongari has posted the first few pages of her comic [Hero] on her site, which is all kinds of awesome. Good art and good writing.


And now, the Princess Princess-D jdrama. I'm sorry, it was some horrid sort of fascination that I found myself actually sitting through this and taking an indecent amount of screencaps. I'm not a very huge fan of the manga (in fact, I stopped reading by the first volume I think), and my anime watching is filtered by sofar, who tells me which episodes are amusing enough to watch (episode 10 for Teh Win!).

The drama is honestly quite horrible, as far as comparing the mediums go. The series is already way out there to begin with, and the jdrama takes it to an all new level, though still amusing to watch, if not painful in some parts. I think dillentanka sums it up rather nicely [on this post]: 'treat this as a bizarre alternate universe PuriPuri with completely different characters who just oddly happen to have the same names, because none of those characters really bore any resemblance to the characters in the manga.'

That being said, my biggest complaint, strangely enough, is the utter ruin that befell the student council. Where are my sparklies and shinies and hairdos with curls and flips? With the exception of Arisada (who reminds me of a very bad Atobe Keigo imitation), the rest of the council just turned into a bunch of utter dorks. I mean, they are dorks, you know, when they fanboy over Arisada when they remember how he was like as a Princess, but they were shiny, sparkly, imposing dorks.

I'm not going to say anything about the cast, as I don't know any of these people (dramas are dead last on my to watch list see). Bottomline is, we'll see how long my attention span for this particular series goes. I suspect not very long, but I've watched worst for crack value alone.

Downloads: Episode 1 raw (BT) | screencaps zip
- The screencaps zip are the original caps of the ones found behind the cut, before I resized them. So if you want bigger caps, the zip is the way to go.

( more screencaps than I'll ever take again )

[Kiba] broke my anime dryspell, as I've found myself unable to watch much of anything as of late. So actually watching episodes 3-12 in one day is a really big accomplishment for me (sitting through one episode used to be a big accomplishment, I've just been really listless the past few months). Anyway, it's not a series that I would say is really good, but the pacing of the story is good enough so as not to bore me and actually made me want to watch more. So I was talking to Debi about this in IM, and apparently, while I was not aware of this the entire time I was watching, I had some unresolved issues with the spirits' 'wanglessness'.

mithas: Also, THEIR SUMMONS HAVE NO WANG.
sofar: uhm, r u referring to the subbers way of wording summons or the anime itself?
mithas: nuuuu. the way they're drawn. they be nekkid and have no wang.
sofar: ......................
mithas: *looks for a nice shot of wangless spirit*
sofar: uhmkay you do that XD
mithas: i hear doubt of their wanglessness! *eyes you*
sofar: its not so much doubt as I dunno what the hell ur talking about XD
sofar: so a picture would be most helpful
sofar: seeing as I dunno how their summons look like
sofar: the conversations we have XD
mithas: http://www.fickleminds.net/junk/ihavenowang.jpg
sofar: *cough*
sofar: uhm, seeing as their spirits, maybe they don't need one?
sofar: or maybe the summons are asexual?
mithas: they should have just drawn them with clooothes.
mithas: *is disturbed by the wanglessness*
sofar: XDDD
sofar: *is disturbed at how fixated you are on their wanglessness*

And I have proof!


Too sleepy to say anything constructive about this series, besides I'm not really pimping it. We'll see how it goes after a few more episodes. I just... you know, had to share the wanglessness.

( random caps )

I finally finished the billboard design from hell, so I celebrate by puttering about and posting Zera caps for those who wanted to see how it looked in-game. I had over 100 screencaps, I trimmed it down to 12. XD Most of it was me capping like crazy on the dance emotes anyway, or trying to get a good battle cap.


The only time you see him smile is when he dances. XD

I would have flooded this post with caps trying to get all the nice shots of their dance emotes, as Zera has the best dance emotes I've seen yet in any MMORPG (though my exposure is limited). Well the male characters have funny dances, the females aren't as amusing to watch. Anyhow, since screencaps don't do the dances justice anyway, I went and took lousy footage of the dances with the digicam. Video quality is lacking, but you can see the dance clearly enough.

I swear it's worth downloading and watching. They're like 10 seconds of sheer entertainment each. Each file range from 3-5mb in size, so they're not that big. *prods you all to download and watch* The male mage dance remains to be my favorite. XD

Downloads:
Male: warrior | summoner | ranger | mage
Female: warrior | summoner | ranger | mage
Extra: female ranger taunt emote, cause I thought it was cute

( On to in-game screencaps. The game itself is just as pretty. )

So, you know how there are tons of things you'd love to make an LJ post for but which you're much too lazy you can't decide what to talk about first? I have that problem constantly, so I solve it by not posting at all. And I smite you if you say I'm just being lazy. Even if it's true. Anyway, I promised Bhex I'd eventually share the prettiness of Zera to the flist. This isn't exactly an attempt to pimp something, since the game is currently only available in Korean open beta, and I don't think a lot of people would be interested in coping with a game where they can't even read the login screen.

Although before anything else, SUIKODEN V MAKES ME HAPPY. Gameblog some other day.


But first I bring you the prettiness that is [Zera].
For the curious, that's the mage/summoner/ranger/warrior respectively.
[Go here] for more concept art.

Downloads:
[Zera Gstar Playmovie ]
[Zera CG movie]

Worth downloading and watching just for the eyecandy? Hell yes. (And good music.) Screencaps behind the cut are taken from the two movies linked above. Will post in-game caps another time.

Full gallery [here].
I also posted two batches of Lineage 2 caps [here] and [here] that I just never bothered to link.

( I flood you with eyecandy because I can't be bothered to write a proper post. )

Back to playing SuikoV for me.

Wanted to clear the folder out of old screencaps, so beware image heavy post behind the cut.

+ Rhombine is m.e.'s character. I've just been playing her the past week since m.e.'s not had time to log on.

( Click for the pretties and the ghei. )

Soooo... anyone on my flist want to play? ^___^

Also, finally got my PS2 back. <3

GIP. Bucky is the greatest thing ever!

Kingdom Hearts 2 ending screencaps. Obviously spoilerific, but strangely enough, I find the ending to be the most spoiler-free FMV of everything in the game. Kingdom Hearts isn't a game I feel strongly enough about to care about spoilers though, so those who really don't want any kinds of spoilers probably shouldn't look at this. Though that goes without saying. XD

I took too many caps, so I'm only posting a select few here. Also, I was laughing more than I probably should have while taking caps for this. I dub the KHII ending as Square Enix managing to be as ghei as they normally are right under Disney's nose.
Full gallery: 106 screencaps

Downloads:
Opening video
Ending video (full ending, without credits, no audio)
Full secret ending (no audio)
Edited ending video (includes scenes from the secret ending)
Links for the opening video and the edited ending taken from younger.

( Wherein Square Enix shows the truth about Disney characters! )

I would have added screencaps from the secret ending, but really need to work on a deadline now. You can see parts of it from the edited ending included above though.

Never had a use for LJ's scrapbook before, but with 10gbs of space I'm now using it for hosting screencaps and whatnot. Lessens the traffic on my server and should prevent hotlinking problems. Now I can disable hotlinks on my servers completely. <3 I stopped taking screencaps midway because BSplayer hung on me twice while I was capping Jigoku Shoujo. Will post about other series' on a later date.

Series: Mushishi
Eps: 1-8
Gallery: 26 screencaps
Probably my favorite from the autumn releases. The only title other than Ginban Kaleidoscope that I watch almost immediately after getting the new eps. Was initially disappointed after finding out that it was episodic as I liked Shinra and Lenzu from the first episode. ;_; It has not failed me yet however, and each episode leaves me with much love for it. It has a very calming effect to it, so I find I prefer watching it during a particularly trying day.

Series: Blood+
Eps: 1-10
Gallery: 13 screencaps
Watched episodes 8-10 a few nights back. I'm glad to see it's finally picking up. I found the pacing not quite to my liking from about eps. 3-7 (though Em liked it just fine, so it's probably just me), because despite there actually being something going on I found story and character progress completely lacking until it finally started to pick up by episode 7. I'm not as pleased with present-day Saya, but I don't dislike her either, just that I prefer her in the movie and during the flashbacks in Japan. In other words, I just prefer her kicking ass.

I am also wondering whether Haji was the chiropteran that she left alive in the end of the movie. It makes the most sense to me, but I'm unsure whether this was ever confirmed officially. If so, wasn't he the one in drag? *is amused* I will laugh, because he's being all uber-bishie cool right now. Uh-huh.

Series: Jigoku Shoujo
Eps: 1-6
Gallery: 38 screencaps
While I like this series, like the art and like Ai, it's not going anywhere fast. It's predictable and repetitive and starting to get boring. I continue to watch it just waiting for something else to happen. It's still a better watch than some of the new titles, but aside from the nice art and what would have been an interesting premise, it becomes stagnant after a few episodes. Here's to hoping something else happens later on. Behold my Ai icon, because I like her and she makes the series worth watching. :D

Series: Cluster Edge
Eps: 1-6
Gallery: 21 screencaps
*laugh* If you go in planning to take this series even semi-seriously, then you are better off watching something else. Unless you're prepared to be amused and grit your teeth through all the (numerous) shamelessly cheesy parts of the series, then you'll probably want to throw something huge and highly destructive at your monitor. It is best watched with friends, with humor and sarcasm to match. It has shoujo bubbles and men pining over would-be lovers, as well as men in capes who like to pose with big, shiny swords and frolicking in flower fields. What more can you ask for? ;P

HAHAHA! Not cutting those caps mainly because I demand that everyone on the flist sees this. :P Otherwise nobody's gonna look behind the cut.

16gb torrent that was so slooow. Took me about a month to finish downloading. But worth it? You betcha! Memories! I still want to see the Tagalog dub again. This was like, the third anime series I ever saw as it started airing in local tv shortly after I got into anime. I am now convinced that Hotta Yumi and Obata Takeshi are Zenki fans. Goki was named Akira, and... *gestures at his character design* Lol. *amused*



DORKS 'R US
mithas: OMG SO CUUTTEE! *DIES* ZZEEEENKI!
cugami: DO NOT MAKE ME ENVIOUS!
cugami: *keels!*
cugami: but zenki <3
cugami: ahahaha cutest demon
mithas: XDDDD SO CUUTE.
cugami: slap!
mithas: *TAKES HIM HOME*
mithas: Lol. We should all have like.. a Zenki marathon or something.
cugami: we should!
cugami: i'm all for it XD do NOT WATCH NOW

I am now forbidden to watch Zenki until said marathon. WOE.