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Spotted this on seikochan 's journal.

Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...
The True Fan

OOC is blasphemy, canon is everything.

Once you fall in love with a movie, book or TV series, you are loyal like an old dog. You take fanfiction quite serious and use it as a substitute after the canon ran out.

You are probably a walking dictionary of your ( Read more... )

Last night, I was chatting with parikala , which was supposed to be about the doujins we were scanlating, when we ended up talking about Vocaloids instead. I told her that I couldn't stand the synthesized voices, but every now and then, when I hear them sing a good song, I just look for the Nico Nico version (random, real people who upload their "uttate ( Read more... )

For its ninth year anniversary celebration, the University of the Philippines Anime Manga Enthusiasts leaps through boundaries as it turns the pages of time back to the age of feudal Japan! Get ready for a historical event as your favorite collegiate anime organization presents yet another timeless anime fair!


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... to my cousin's illegitimate son with an underaged girl.

( Frankly, I have mixed feelings about this... )

Just finished reading: History of Scanlation

That was emotional, even though I was just a bystander throughout the years (I got into manga in highschool, but latched onto scanlations around beginning of college, around 2002, via an equally bored friend in a dormitory). But hey, it was epic to realize that the old scanlation groups really made a ( Read more... )

Glasses broke
Lights in room flickered out
Got beaten at speed translation
Got hung up by random clerk in phone call
Can't find other pair of glasses
Recurring insomnia for the last two weeks

Today's scorecard:


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Since I've been a Fumi Yoshinaga fan since last year, I decided to recommend Flower of Life for any readers who like a Slice of Life story, in a high school setting. In case you don't know, Fumi Yoshinaga is the mangaka for all of the following titles:

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Seinen, also a live-action in production)
Kinou Nani Tabeta? (seinen, ( Read more... )

So, I was supposed to make this huge, fun post detailing the one month program I attended in Japan ( Read more... )

So this morning I decided to bike to Aeon Mall. It's a couple of bridges away. For some reason, I got stopped by a policeman. This entire conversation was in Japanese, but I'm too lazy to type exactly what he said ( Read more... )