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[01 Jan 2009|09:56pm]
Did the CP sorting as well. Not surprisingly...

1 England x America
1 America x England
3 Austria x Hungary
3 Hungary x Austria
5 Prussia x Hungary
5 France x Seychelles
7 Germany x Italy
7 England x Japan (the only pairing on this list that I don't like... in fact, I voted against it both times it came up, so I wonder how it ended up in the top 10)
7 Greece x Japan
10 Russia x Belarus
11 Switzerland x Lichtenstein (...incest, anyone? >_>)
12 Prussia x Germany
12 Italy x Japan

I also did the England sorting... )
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[30 Dec 2008|02:56am]
So I did the Hetalia chara sorting.

1 America
1 England

3 Hungary

4 Austria
4 Seychelles

6 France
6 Belarus
6 Italy
6 Germany
6 Japan

11 Russia

So many ties... :D;; but it's surprisingly accurate. (Ah, Hetalia is making me tsundere towards my own country... though it's better than hating it, I suppose.)
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[07 Dec 2008|09:35pm]
So, it's over. I didn't have time to do the best job I'd be capable of with the last two episodes and I feel bad about it, but I did the best I could at the moment, so... yeah. Ah well. It was a hard ride, but I'm happy (sort of, those last two episodes will hurt for a while). This show means a lot to me and I'm glad that I could work on it.

I'm still debating in myself whether I should go to the recording tomorrow or not, but I think I won't go... I'd love to ask the voice actors about their roles and maybe I could do a little interview with each (the guy playing the Count seemed really into it last time) but I have a feeling the director wouldn't appreciate me hanging around. Besides, I'd totally break down crying, anyway.

And from tomorrow, it's Death Note. ARGH. (At least it's the two movies, people say they're better than the anime.)
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[03 Dec 2008|02:58pm]
Gankutsuou is breaking my heart all over again. The Count... Albert... Fernand, oh god, Fernand... oh another empty box of tissues...

Ah well, it's still better this way. There was only one person aside of myself whom I would've trusted with translating this show and she wasn't available, so... yeah.
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[27 Nov 2008|12:32pm]
Oh, NicoNico, how I love thee. Many of these videos are seriously awesome. Gah, I love fandom.

But wow, USAxUK is very popular... I wonder how popular it is compared to other pairings. Among fanart/fanfic websites UKxJapan and FrancexUK is also very popular, and I'm sure that the "canon" couples (GermanyxItaly, SwedenxFinland) also have a very large following. Hm... damn, HetaNavi has already shut down and I don't know the "codenames" by which I could search for other pairings on Nico.

ETA:
Hee... According to Hetalia Link, USAxUK is the most popular pairing, with 135 websites. UKxJapan is the second with 99 websites, GermanyxItaly has only 30. o_O Who would've thought? (Not that I'm complaining, heh.)
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...wut [18 Nov 2008|10:38am]
[ mood | *thud* ]

I just woke from an hour-long dream in which my friends came to visit me in a flat that was decidedly not mine and wrecked my balcony, then just when I managed to kick everyone out, Russel Crowe (...) showed up to tell me he was playing the Count in the upcoming Gankutsuou movie, then a bunch of people came and I had to play host while I wanted nothing more than be left alone to work in peace. I woke up just when I was about to order some pizza.

I think I need a holiday.

(Seriously, this is worse than that Gankutsuou/Oniisama he crossover dream I had once. At least that made sense.)

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[16 Nov 2008|03:25pm]
Yay! Hungary is going to appear in the Hetalia anime! At least she's listed among the cast (she's going to be voiced by Neya Michiko). I was quite sure she would be left out, what with her being a girl and all, but apparently you really can't have Austria without Hungary... (and a show like this without an official yaoi fangirl xD fufufu) She's surprisingly popular as well.

As much as I love the manga, I can't say I expect much from the anime... at least the staff is not a very convincing bunch (lots of moe anime people, the series composition is in the hands of a guy who used to be a sound director, and the director is the guy who did Gravitation... erk). At least the character designs are as cute as the originals. By the way, where's England's info? I want England! Gimme England! ...ah, but America is so cute~
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[07 Nov 2008|11:06pm]
Have I said I loved Japanese fandom recently?

QUINCY TYPING GAME!

Now I know how I'm going to waste the next few hours of my life.

ETA

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At the time I took this, I was second place. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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[28 Oct 2008|12:16am]
[ mood | annoyed ]

I fucking hate tinkering with new firewalls and antivirus software.

That's all.

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[17 Oct 2008|07:18pm]
You know what sucks?

You're in a small, mostly inactive fandom for the pairing A/B. You come across a fanfic author who writes awesome A/B stories, and is very enthusiastic about the pairing despite the fact that neither character has appeared in canon for a long time. Naturally you're happy, gobble up the existing fanfic, send praises and encouraging messages to the author, check for updates every other day and you're embarrassingly happy when there is a new chapter/story...

...and then the author gets into another fandom and falls hard for the pairing X/Y. She stops writing A/B, and you're left watching how her diary entries change from "oh, X/Y is just a distraction until we see more of A and B in canon :)" to "OMG X/Y X/Y X/Y X/Y X/Y... oh, A/B? Yeah, I saw them in the recent episode, but I think I don't care about them anymore."

I mean, of course she doesn't have an obligation to write what I want and she can like whatever she wants, but... it still sucks. :/ *sigh*
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[16 Oct 2008|03:20pm]
I literally need to force myself to start working on Gankutsuou ep 17. The scene between Al and the Count broke my heart when I saw it for the first time, and now even the first seconds trigger a strong reaction in me. I suspect I'll be in tears by the time the scene is over.

My heart, oh my heart... *prepares box of tissues*

By the way... Fukuyama Jun is just so damn good in the role of Albert. What happened, Fukuyama? Why don't you play roles like this anymore, where you actually have to act? ;_;
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liek omg! [04 Oct 2008|01:14pm]
Man, I love Japanese fandom.



Ishida ero festival!! I need to learn to draw pr0n, fast. My Japanese input may be broken (damn Windows) but I can't miss this chance!

In other news, I have a cactus named Ichigo. Yeah, I know it's incredibly dorky. Actually, I'm not the kind of person who gives names to plants, but, well... look at it.

That patch of spines on the top, isn't it cute? I'm always tempted to pet it.

It was among a bunch of other cacti at a stand - over here it's common that people sell small cacti in tiny little flower pots (half the size of the one in the picture), and they're often sick or dying. Call me sentimental, but my heart always hurts when I see these poor plants, so yesterday I decided to save at least one. Originally I decided on another, smaller and less distinctive cactus that looked more in need of care, but back at home I realized that I simply couldn't leave this one there either, so today I went back and bought it.
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meme [23 Sep 2008|12:10pm]
Stolen from... I don't remember who, I had it among my Notes (in Opera).

Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

Events:
- 1836 - The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
- 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
- 1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.

Births:
- 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
- 1889 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
- 1960 - Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan (hee...)
Also, a bonus:
- 1986 - Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
OMG WE'RE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER OMG OMG COMMENCE STALKING!!!11111eleventy (...by the way, who is this guy again? he was the one "killed" in that Chinese TV drama, no?)

Deaths:
- 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
- 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
(Aa~ and I like both of them...)

Holiday:
- Russia - Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy).
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seiyuu fangirl corner [16 Sep 2008|10:13pm]
[ mood | Happy-Dance ]

She did it, she did it! She wrote the MoriSugi story!! ♥ *is absurdly happy about it* It's so cute and fluffy and waaah~~~ I can totally hear them saying the lines. xD Whoever happens to read this, if you can read Japanese and like seiyuu slash, go read it! (It's in the "Acter" section, hidden behind the star.)

Man, who would've thought that my first RPS in like eight years was going to be seiyuu slash. :D

ETA:
I listened to the MoriSugi Hitsuji CD last night - I thought "I might as well try to see if they can make me fall asleep," but that didn't really succeed due to the crack value of the whole thing, I was like ":D :D :D :D" the whole time. xD (But then, of all the Hitsuji CDs I've listened to so far, only Suzuki Chihiro managed to make me fall asleep. Which is weird, I usually like deeper voices.)

I wish Morita had pitched his voice a bit deeper, to sound more like Ichigo - I know that wasn't the point, but still. ^^;; He didn't sound much like Ichigo during the talk bits (or rather, I suppose Ichigo would sound like this if he wasn't trying to be macho and badass), but during counting his voice deepened and then I finally heard the Ichigo timbre. :D (Also that little purr that I love so much. Which reminds me, Fujiwara Keiji needs to make a Hitsuji CD, like, NOW.) He also had a very slow and funny way of counting ("hitsuji ga... hyaku... juu... san... biki") but it was very soothing after a while.

Sugiyama sounded like Ishida, but then Sugiyama = Ishida as far as I'm concerned. :D I didn't find find his counting voice particularly soothing in itself, but it was absurldy cute (the guy was born to play tsundere characters), and he counted in a very good rhythm, so all in all, it was good. Also, I loved how his voice mellowed out by the end. Still didn't make me sleepy, though, so after his part ended, I had to switch back to Morita's part.

By the way, I lol'd at Ishida's Sugiyama's "dou dai? moshikashite, bokutachi no koto wo ishikishichatteru? romantikku na tenkai wa ashita made totteoitekure" line. I mean... WHAT. :D :D :D (Also "ittai bokutachi ni doushite hoshii no ka na?" xDDD Thank you, script writer person!)

I have no idea who came up with the idea for this CD series, but he was a freaking genius. :D (This + Hetalia = JAPAN, YOU CAN'T SURPRISE ME WITH ANYTHING ANYMORE. :D) Also, respect to the seiyuu for actually counting in a slow and soothing manner. If it was me, I'd get bored soon and would speed up the counting to get it over with as soon as possible. Ah well, but then, this is why I'm not a pro.

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[07 Sep 2008|12:05am]
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YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

And now I can resume my life.

(This is not the hardest level, but anything at level 13 was basically impossible - bad game design. And I didn't know any songs from the other levels.)
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eep [30 Aug 2008|01:45am]
[ mood | scared ]

Holy fuck, Gankutsuou ep. 08 is giving me the creeps. When I first watched it I didn't really think about it, but now that I have to watch out for the details, catch the characters' reactions and even empathize with them to an extent... it scares the shit out of me.

I shouldn't do this at 2 AM. I have a feeling I won't be sleeping much tonight.

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[25 Aug 2008|10:06pm]
So, Tytania. I'm very excited about this show for various reasons - awesome uniforms, Tanaka Yoshiki, awesome uniforms, pretty art, awesome uniforms, space opera, etc. But mostly...

Jouslain Tytania - I never knew Annerose and Kircheis had a son! (or was that Reinhard and Kircheis...?)
Fan Hulic - o hai Yang!
Ariabart Tytania - I already know he'll be my favorite. >_> I'm so predictable.
Idris Tytania - Alex, you've grown so big! Where's Felix?
Lydia - ah, the good old eighties... *facepalm*

So. Whether the anime itself will be good or bad, it's already promising crack material.
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Water polo [24 Aug 2008|02:34pm]
Good job, guys.

(Nevertheless, I was more excited about the pole vault and high jump competitions... :D)
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Olympics [08 Aug 2008|04:05pm]
[ mood | lazy ]

Every time I have the opportunity to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics I always watch it from beginning to end. Yeah, the show is usually horribly cheesy and overblown, but what I'm most interested in, for some reason, is the part where the athletes from different countries march in. Probably because it's such a rare opportunity to see so many people from around the world. It's sort of a "whoa, the world is like, huge and diverse and shit" feeling.

Also, so many pretty people. Especially the women.

(But why, why did the female athletes from my country wear those ugly clothes? ;_;) Whoever did the design was obviously stuck in the sixties. Or maybe the '70s. The shoes, my dear god, the shoes...)

ETA: poor poor cheerleader girls. o_O)

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omfg [06 Jun 2008|11:58am]
Best incentive to clean up your whole apartment, including places you haven't cleaned in possibly years:

OMFG A COCKROACH.

Argh. There's no animal I hate more than cockroaches. It's probably some kind of phobia. They're just ugly and creepy and I always need to muster up my courage to touch even their carcasses with a broom or anything. When I moved in the apartment was practically Cockroach Headquarters (maybe that's what caused the phobia, I'd never seen so many cocroaches before), but thanks to the nice exterminator guy I haven't seen one in two years or so. (I had my cat over at the time, and he probably had a great time watching me hit one fucker with a shoe until it wasn't moving anymore, then acting like a total coward trying to touch the body with a long broom to dispose of it.)

Anyway, last night when I changed my sheets before going to bed, I spotted a big, ugly fucker waving its antennae from under my bed. It wasn't even afraid of me, but it sure realized what I was going to do when I approached it with the first heavy (and disposable) object I could find. So I waited until it came out again and sprayed it with grease remover. HAH. It never saw it coming! (It's what I always use for larger bugs that would make a mess if I hit them - I suppose it's not very humane but it does the job and fast. Even on cockroaches that are fucking indestructible otherwise.) And today I did the most thorough cleaning in my apartment that I've done in... dunno, at least a year or so.

I'm a little anxious, though, because even though I haven't found any other cockroaches, it looked like there were either more who were hiding under the part of the bed I couldn't lift, or the one I killed had been living there for quite some time, possibly weeks. I hope it was only one cockroach that somehow wandered in, what with all the renovations going on in other apartments in the house...

Brr. I'm a hopeless slob, but cockroaches can always make me get up from my ass and do some very thorough cleaning.
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