Day 19 - A manga that you disliked at first but came to enjoy later on

When I first read the first chapter of Uzumaki (Spiral) I thought it seemed retarded. I mean a horror story about Spirals doesn't sound all that awesome and I spent most of the first chapter sceptically shaking my head, wondering how this could be considered creepy and laughing at the bizarre images I, at the time, didn't even consider a little creepy.

It got better, much better. Or should I say worse? Part of it might be that I read Uzumaki all alone in the middle of the night with no proper lightning anywhere and curtains with spiral patterns on them, but Uzumaki is probably the creepiest thing I have ever read or seen or played (I have played Dead Space and Silent Hill and other nightmare fuel-y games, watched just about every famous horror movie and read at least 500 creepy pastas) . This is a good thing, a really good thing. Uzumaki is so f**ked up, so horrible in such a strange way, mixing psychological stuff with body horror. Out of context the images may be narmy but in context they are just perfect.

It might look stupid now but try watching it after you've read the rest of Uzumaki

There is just something about Uzumaki that makes it different from anything else. Spirals still unnerve me a little and unlike any other horror story I can never think about it without a little sting of nervousness and checking whether there is something spiral shaped next to me.

I must have read it more than ten times by now, for some reason. I am not sure how to react to something that sincerely creeps me out. Normally, creepy stuff fascinates me more than scares me. I consider horror to be a theme (like fantasy or sci-fi) rather than something that leaves me awake at night, haunted by horrible scenes and paranoia, Uzumaki however fits better with the second opinion. Today, when I re-read the first chapter of Uzumaki, I can still see how I thought of the images as laughable but I no longer laugh. I just stare at the pictures, dreading the horrors of the future chapters. Or something, I'm not sure really, but I know for sure I'll keep re-reading it.

Baccano Appreciation

This is an important message to everyone reading this blog: Watch Baccano! It's awesome.

It's from the creator of Durarara so of course it's good but unlike Durarara! BacCano hasn't got the appreciation it deserves. It's understandable actually, the first episode is rather confusing and might scare people off (I remember a few months ago when I tried to watch it when I was really tired and had an headache and was sick and I didn't understand what the hell was happening) but it gets continuously more awesome with each episode and just like Durarara it's full of awesome characters!

This picture should include most of the main cast in the anime, perhaps...

The anime is awesome and it had a satisfying ending, however after reading the TvTropes-page I realized just how much had been left out. It turns out the anime covers about three novels out of fifteen and lots of awesome. Turns out one character's got like twenty descendants (all except two looks exactly like said characters, regardless of gender), including a Creepy Child and an Emotionless Boy. The novels also have an artificial human with really strange eyes (red and green in the same eye with red instead of white, wow that's a crappy explanation).

So Uhm.. Watch it! And if you can read japanese you should read the Light Novels and then translate them for me.  

Day 18 - Favorite BL/yuri couple

Once again, I have no answer! I don't really care for shipping at all whether it is BL, yuri or whatever. The answer is none but to reduce the pointlessness of this post I'll still talk a little about the subject!

I end up saving pictures with random couples onto my computer though! Even though I am neutral to the couples in the images the images are still pretty!

For example I recently saved a LaviXKanda (From D. Gray Man) image, I don't support the couple (though it's better than KandaXAllen, LaviXAllen or anything involving Allen, Ugh) but the picture is nice! It's got very pretty colors. Said picture is the only D Gray Man Picture I have.

I also have a few pictures of Shizaya (Durarara!), most of them (that makes it sound like there are many of them, there are like four or something) are either comics or fo yay-ish (of course) but that's only logical. Anything sweet and fluffy involving Shizuo and Izaya is automatically out of character and therefore uninterresting.

Basically, if I find a pretty picture of a couple I'll save it as long as I don't despise the pairing in question. So eh, sorry for not giving a proper answer this time either... I'll try to do better in the future (maybe... Ok, probably not....)

Day 17 - A manga that you feel embarrassed about liking

Hmm... Well... Let me think.

I don't really think there is anything I am embarrassed about liking, I mean I feel ridiculously out of character when I go into a store and buy only Alice in The Country of Hearts and none of the usual stuff like Deadman Wonderland and Higurashi, but it's not embarrassment, that would be stupid considering a lot of my friends read it (none of my IRL-friends read Higurashi, three of them read Alice in The Country of Hearts, so yeah...)

Uhm... What should I answer then? I'm... Not sure! None I guess? Or well probably something but I can't remember anything right now! Wow... What a pointless post. Sorry for that.

Random Ragecomic. It's funny 'cause it's true. I also think about using Ctrl+F when trying to find something in a store. Fail.

Day 16 - A manga you feel you should read but can't

Lots of things really, I always feel so dumb when everyone I know seem to be watching something I'm really not interested in and won't watch. Like people in my school and some Internet friends seem to be watching Ecchi-ish seinen and everyone not from my school and some other Internet friends all watch the same Yaoi. I have no interest in either of those but I hate feeling like my knowledge of anime is inferior to the rest of the world.

B gata H kei. It's probably not terrible but it's really not my thing. Neither is Junjou Romantica.

However, there is a savior. The one and only: TvTropes! Where you can learn what random stuff is about without having to watch stuff you don't like. All hail the TvTropes! Also allows you to check if stuff your friends recommend to you really is a shounen adventure like they say or if it's a really stupid ecchi harem manga involving a ten year old boy before you blindly purchase it. (I'll never forgive you, you know who you are. You probably aren't even reading my blog. I hate you.)

Day 15 - The saddest scene

Well, that has got to be something from Kei, their creations are always very emotional (the only emotional, over-dramatic stuff I can stand, even when it's slice of life like Clannad).

I remember the end of Air being pretty darn depressing but in the end I think a part in Clannad is sadder (yes, the most heartwarming anime I watch is also the saddest, it's an emotional roller coaster or something).
SPOILERS IN WHITE Oh, I can't quite chose whether the saddest scene is where Nagisa dies or when Ushio dies, I'm leaning towards Ushios death being sadder because of what came before it (Crowning Moments Of Hearwarming and another sad scene). SPOILERS END

  I won't be showing any video of The Sad Scene here, it's better (/worse?) if you see it in context the first time you see it. Instead I'll put some random happy scene from the same anime here!

Day 13 - The most epic scene ever

Izaya stomps Mobile Phone! I believe I've already mentioned this, I also mentioned that youtube is removing every single video of it.

Here's a repost!

As for an awesome scene I haven't before, and a more serious moment, the ending to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (Second Season) is really awesome. Earn Your Happy Ending for the win! I can't find any pictures relating to it and no video either so you'll have to watch it to find out what I'm talking about. It still doesn't made sense without context so yeah...

I'm sorry for reusing that picture with Izaya. To make up for that, here is a picture of some characters from Baccano! Most of them are not even in the anime and that makes me sad. 

Day 12 - A manga you used to love but don’t anymore

A long, long time ago I loved Inu Yasha. I loved it so much I bought more than 30 books and watched the anime, despite the rather circular plot (Group gets more powerful, tries to beat big bad, big bad flees and gets more powerful, repeat about 20 times and mix with some boring romance drama  between Kikyuo (or whatever she's called), Kagome and InuYasha) I thought it was awesome.

The art is also sort of Meh.. This was the prettiest picture I could find. Oh well, I guess it's old

For a while, at least. Back then I had really low standards when it came to anime, I watched just about everything from Tokyo Mew Mew to Shuffle! (<- I am ashamed of it, Tokyo Mew Mew was fairly normal but WTF Shuffle? How did I even get the idea to watch that?) but once I started to find some anime and manga that I really liked (xxxHolic, Godchild and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya were some of the first) I realized it was sort if Meh...

Day 11 - Your first anime crush

Uhm... I know I was going to switch this question for something else... Since I have no answer to it...
When it comes to anime characters I can find them awesome, cute, cool, funny or whatever, but I don't get crushes on them. Actually the previous sentence applies to real humans too, sort of.

This is just a placeholder until I remember what the replacing question was!

Here's a picture of Yangire Madotsuki while you wait

Day 10 - A manga that makes you fluffy and happy when you read it

Now I don't read a lot of fluffy stuff but when I do I prefer Clannad or Hetalia.

They are however watched in different situations; (<- Is that correct use of the semicolon? I got no idea!)
I watch Clannad to try to erase mindscars from disturbing Vocaloid pictures or when I get the retarded idea to read the High Octane Nightmare Fuel real life section of TvTropes and have lost my hope in humanity.
Hetalia however is watched for fun when I want to learn stuff but am to lazy to open a real book or read something with a complicated plot.

Both of them make me equally happy. So it's a tie! (I think everything so far has been really). Hetalia is funnier really but nothing heals mindscars like like Clannad .The happy parts are heartwarming by themselves but the saddest scenes serve to make the heartwarming parts even more so (they are still sad though, very much so).

This is Clannad.I hate how it looks like the average generic harem anime but believe me, it's nothing like that.

 

Day 09 - A manga you’d like to see more of

I could write Durarara but that's not technically a manga. Most of the manga I read is either finished with a good ending or ongoing meaning I'll get to see more of it anyway so yeah...

All of them except Rozen Maiden. The so called ending wasn't even a real ending! The main character (Jun) just went in to a door an then it ended! It was as if the grand finale was just cut off! And also the last book is only two chapthers and half the size of a normal manga, now something definitely went wrong to make them skip the last part...

It's a series about dolls and it's not the most awesome thing ever but I WANT AN ENDING DAMN IT!

And I also wish, with all of my heart, that I will get to see more of Deadman Wonderland published in english despite Tokyopop selfishly abandoning them along with the rest of their manga. I am especially worried about Deadman Wonderland since I made a vow to myself not to read it on the web and I love it.

Day 08 - The most annoying character

Allen Walker [D. Gray Man]
Just Allen Walker. Everybody loves him, both in universe and in real life. He's just so bland! Everyone keeps talking about how cute he is and all  that and just ignores that he's just a classic generic shonen hero (nice guy type) who scores over 70 points at the universal Mary Sue Test (anything over 50 points is considered mega sue). Now I can't really tell people not to like a character just because said character is cute since I listed Kotomi on my favorite characters list for that exact reason (Well, not the same reason if you actually find Allen attractive and not just cute, which most fangirls probably do... So yeah, not the same at all actually but the same principle of liking a character for stupid reasons) the point is simply that he's not even a little cute, just another boring invincible marty stu hero.

Is this really cute enough to make up for a lack of realistic and/or interesting personality? Like really? He looks just like any other character but with a weird scar on his face.

Hinagiku Katsura [Hayate The Combat Butler]
Another Mary Sue everyone loves. The most popular character of the freaking series! Her profile even says she's good at everything. Also I find her bossy and annoying and she steals the spotlight from other characters, I dropped the series once she became a central character.

Sasuke Uchiha [Naruto]He's not quite a mary sue since he's completely unsympathetic by now but Kishimoto is in love with him so he'll still get a disproportionate amount of attention and live forever. At least this is a character that a lot of other people also find annoying, making it somewhat easier to accept!

Then there are certain types of characters I dislike, the generic stupid chick and damsel in distress and those creepy murderous possesive boyfriends of shojo heroines always fall for despite there being like 1000 other kind and sane men to choose from (like Kaname from Vampire Knight and Blood Dupree from Heart no Kuni no Alice, ugh!)

ABDUCTED COW

Pointless GIF for the win!! Click if not moving! Made by me!

Day 07 - A Manga You Disliked Enough to Stop Reading

I must've read the beginning of at least 1.000 mangas I've disliked many, I only remember the name of a few though, the ones I actually bought.

First of all; Negima! I'll never forgive my (female, surprisingly) friend for calling that ecchi/harem/shota thing a shonen adventure. It... It really wasn't my type of manga!

Also Pita Ten! I remember buying some books at random, one of them was Pita Ten. I read like one chapter then asked all of my friends who wanted a manga which tastes like diabetes!

Then there are also some mangas that I liked at first but didn't finish because I stopped liking them. Examples include: Inu Yasha (I own 35 books and the plot has gone nowhere since chapter 4) and Vampire Knight (not bad by shojo standards but when weird disgusting incest pairing becomes canon, well...)

That girl does not deserve to be called Yuki as she's 50% responsible for the weird incest in the series.. That white haired guy was OK until the incest took over and he went emo and just sat sobbing in a corner or something. Might've gotten better later, I don't know, but the incest-bit creeped me out. Did I mentioned this series involves incest?

Day 06 - Your favorite character

I have many favorite characters. The last time I did this meme I did a long list with motivations and whatnot. Now I'll make a slightly shorter list with slightly shorter motivations. Sorry for abusing the world awesome...

Yuki Nagato [Haruhi Suzumiya] - This one probably isn't a surprise to anyone reading this blog really. Alt!Yuki is adorable and huggable while normal Yuki is just awesome! She also plays video games, reads a lot and gets along well with cats!


Izaya Orihara [Durarara!] - So very awesome! The moment i stomped that cell phone I knew he belonged on this list. Awesomely evil in an extremely entertainin g way! Also it's refreshing to see a villain without a Freudian excuse!

Gilbert Nightray [Pandora Hearts] - He's so pathetic with his fear of cats and obsession with Oz and yet he manages to be sort of badass too! Also he's funny when he's being the chew toy! 

We've already had pictures of Yuki and Izaya so I guess it's Gilbert's turn now!

Rena Ryuugu [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]
- My favorite Yangire! Not many characters can blow up schools and laugh manically while chopping someones head off and still remain a sympathetic character and one of the heroes!

Minori Kushieda [Toradora]- I don't really like Toradora (actually, I don't like it at all, I rather dislike it!) but Minori is an awesome cloud cuckoolander!

Boris Airay [Heart no Kuni no Alice] - First of, he lives in an amusement park, which of course is awesome! He's also funny and have cute cat ears with funny fish bone piercings in them and loves riddles!

Kotomi Ichinoze [Clannad] - Okay, I admit it, she's not all that awesome. She's just sort of innocent and cute and peaceful, which is pretty much what's needed to be my favorite character if you're from the series I watch when i accidentally mindscar myself!

Day 05 - A manga you would recommend to everyone

Full Metal Alchemist would be good for pretty much anyone (well except people who've just learned to read or something). There is plenty of humor and lighthearted stuff, awesome heroic people but still enough darkness for it to feel like something not designed for 12 year olds. Also the story is amazing, it progresses all the time but the original concept is still there and every turn is unexpected yet well made and realistic thanks to subtle foreshadowing.

 The anime is great too, not nearly as great as the manga and the plot is completely different but it's still good! The manga is what i recommend though, the original is always the best after all.

Picture is unrelated but very cute. Is a GIF. If not moving, click!

Dancing Stone - Pointless Animation

This is the sort of stuff i normally create during Digital Art lessons, it's an awesome subject!

Day 04 - Anime Character You Feel You Are The Most Like (or wish you were)

Hahah, well. I doubt there is a character who's more than a little similar to me, I'm a complex human being and also pretty weird. There are however some characters with who I share some traits. Like all the anime characters with OCD (Death The Kid, Chiri) and the ones who love creepy stuff (Mari, Rena) but yeah, I'm still not very similar to any of them



As for a character I would like to be I don't really think any character has got a life as nice and peaceful as mine but I don't think I'd dislike being Izaya Orihara, being the very definition of troll in real life, being evil and loving humanity. Also his job seems cool! And he lives in a town with a headless biker and other crazy awesome stuff! Sure I'd get vending machines thrown at me every once in a while but it's probably worth it.

I couldn't find a picture where he gets a vending machine thrown at him so this will have to do!

Day 03 - Favorite Mangaka

I've already answered this question on my old blog, where I had a serious wall-of-text-ish monologue about whether Junji Ito or Kaori Yuki was the best one, those two being the only possible alternatives. Kaori Yuki won because her manga's got more variation and way prettier art, even though Junji Ito is awesome as well.

If we count people who write Visual Novels and Light Novels however, we have both Ryukishio7 [Author of the visual novels Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni] and Ryogo Narita [Author of Durarara! And Baccano]. Both of them made überawesome stuff but since the manga is just an adaption of the original work I doubt you can count them as actual mangaka, but yeah, they're still awesome!

Day 02 - Favorite Manga

Oh boy, where to start?
I'm sure I'll forget about 90 percent and still exhaust myself with writing the motivations despite each one being only a few sentences long. But yeah, here we go!

No actually, scratch that, I won't be doing any motivations at all, just a list! I am tired!

Are You Alice
Baccano
Black Butler*
Clannad
Deadman Wonderland*
Doubt
Durarara  *
Full Metal Alchemist *
Ghost Hound
Godchild *
Grand Guignol Orchestra
Hetalia
Haruhi Suzumiya *
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni *
Ibitsu
Missing
Nabari no Ou
Natsumes Book of Friends
Nightmare Inspector *
Pandora Hearts *
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Seeds of Anxiety/Fuan no tane
Soul Eater
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Uzumaki *
xxxHolic
Yami No Koe
Zombie Loan

Yeah, I put a lot of things on this list to make up for the lack of descriptions, deal with it C:
And I'm sure I've forgotten something awesome, I can feel it.
* Extra Awesome!

Pictured: Durarara-Chibies, Because every post is more interesting with pictures, is it not? The saddest thing is I have no idea who the man at the bottom right with the hat and bandages is.

Day 01 - Your very first anime/manga

Digimon - Digital Monsters. 
Not only my first anime but also the only show ever that I've watched from the first episode to the last on the TV. I also collected those little figurines and plush toys and I even had a wallet with that orange winged thing on it! It's sort of weird that I don't remember its name since I still remember most of the Season One Pokemon (And there's like, 200 of them?) despite never really liking that show... (They made the poor adorable creatures fight with each other! All I saw was animal abuse!)

I think I'll rewatch this anime some day. I doubt I would think it was as amazing today as I did back then and it will be more out of nostalgia than anything else. I am sort of proud over having this as my first anime though. I prefer this to the usual alternatives: Pokemon and Sailor Moon

30 Days Of Manga

01. Your very first anime/manga
02. Your favorite manga
03. Your favorite mangaka
04. A character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
05. A manga you would recommend to everyone
06. Your favorite character
07. A manga you disliked enough to stop reading
08. The most annoying character
09. A manga you’d like to see more of
10. A manga that makes you fluffy and happy when you read it
11. Your first anime crush
12. A manga you used to love but don’t anymore
13. The most epic scene ever
 14. A manga you never really liked
15. The saddest scene
 16. A manga you feel you should read but can't
17. A manga that you feel embarrassed about liking
18. Favorite BL/yuri couple
19. A manga that you disliked at first but came to enjoy later on
20. A manga you started out enjoying but ended up not liking as much
21. A manga that deserves more recognition
22. A manga you wish didn’t exist
23. Best anime villain
24. The best long manga series
25. The best manga oneshot
26. The last manga you read
27. A manga you would never buy
28. A manga you think is so brilliant it’s like literature
29. A manga you read that was just plain weird
30. Your favorite anime opening/ending theme

List stolen from A Friend Of Mine

Organizating Folders - Oddly Calming

Just a few months ago, my computer library was a mess. I had about three folders (music, pictures, documents) with a few text files in each of them and every single file had a stupid non-indicative name.

I never saw the problem with this until a certain friend of mine told me she was organizing her computer library, giving every picture, including her Lavi-picture-collection with about 100 pictures, an indicative name and giving each anime series from which she had more than four pictures a folder of its own.

This seemed like insanity at first but when she succeeded in naming all the Lavi pictures I decided to give it a try. Surprisingly, giving every single one of my 145 pictures of Yuki Nagato an unique and indicative name wasn't all that hard and having all my anime images organized was a pretty nice feeling. I then decided to do the same to my documents folder, music folder and the rest of my images.

 As of today, this is what my picture folder looks like:

As you can see (maybe, depending on the quality of the pictures) the unsorted images are still quite unorganized (I should make a cat-folder) but inside every folder there is nothing but structure and perfection! Some of the folders have subfolders (like the anime one, which got a subfolder for every anime)  and som subfolders have subsubfolders (Anime -> The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya -> Yuki Nagato).

Can't Decide What I Think About This

This Game

On one hand it's fun, challenging, innovative and has got a very nice feel to it

But why does it have to be so darn irritating!? Geez, I don't have the energy to get any further than level 3 (at least not now) but I want to know what happens! And the only walkthrough out there is evil, cropped and incomplete. It's not that I don't know what to do, I just can't succeed in doing it.

I Changed My Mind

About TWO things

First:
F**k these posting times, I'll post things whenever I want to (almost...)!

Second:
I'll actually let you guys see one of the pictures I made in Photoshop, the one i mentioned in this post.

Original

 

Edit

It's not exactly Silent Hill but it was good enough for an A at least. I am happy!

I'm a Person of Contradictions

• I can create simple games, edit stuff in photoshop and so on but I can't figure out how the heck I edit the layout of this blog.
  
• I have an A in math and a E or something in Chemistry (the swedish grading system is different), despite people claiming that the latter consists mainly of the former.
  
• I hate strawberry icecream and candy but love plain strawberries.
  
• I feel stupid when using emoticons in my posts but had no problem publishing a rather retarded picture of an "evil" dandelion in the last post.
  
• I love Silent Hill, find spiders adorable, abandoned, dark places peaceful and like creepy stuff in general (I am pretty cool gal n doesn't afraid of anything :) ) but deep waters sort of scare me, even if it's just in games ( even if it's just in something like Zelda even)
  
• I plan to have a pack of cats when I grow up (at least five of them) but can't even look at cat puke or be in the same room as smelly cat litter without feeling nauseous.
  

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