Somehow the manga publishing companies have licensed some of the popular manga and now it is removed from manga websites. I'll miss them, is what I would like to say, but I really liked them. Kateikyo Hitman Reborn is just getting on to the climax. Bleach is going to end soon if I am not wrong, unless something weird comes out again, which is very common. I tried reading the chinese version today, but I can't get what the chinese words are about, the names are too different. Well the publishes do have the right to license them, however there will still be websites having them :) Maybe I can find them one day and read it to my hearts content.
Kimi no Iru Machi has finally reached it 100th chapter. The "mystery" of Eba leaving Haruto was known and it turned out that she left him because of sympathy towards a sick ex-classmate who helped her somehow before. The story goes on and Haruto and that guy, Kazuma, become rivals in love, at the same time very good friends. Kazuma had around a year left to live, and the chances of making through the surgery is very slim. However, he decided to go for it, since he wanted a fair competition with Haruto. Sad thing to say, he died though, and now it is another stage of the manga.
Will you ever notice me...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
11:17 PM
Rainbow Death
America did not foresee
Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!
Expecting others to pay a high price.
Now thinking twice?
Toll on the innocent and unborn.
Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn.
Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead.
All the deceit continues to spread.
Nefariously America led astray -
Generations untold WILL pay -
Execrable effects of agent orange spray!
This poem is written from Hubert Wilson's,the poet, point of view. He was a soldier and detested war, and thus wrote this poem to raise the issue of the consequences of war.
This poem took place during the Vietnamese war.Agent orange , a herbicide and defoliant- contaminated with TCDD or Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, was used against Vietnam and it contaminated the environment, which affected Hubert. Approximately 4.8million Vietnamese were also affected by Agent Orange and which resulted in about 400,000 deaths among the Vietnamese people and many more babies deformed at birth.
The word potpourri refers to a plant that is used inside the home to give the air a pleasant smell, in this case, the pleasant smell is agent orange and it suggests that it is deadly from the word " death ". " omnipotent " also suggests that agent orange is very strong and powerful by having unlimited power. " Nagariously " suggests that America was evil and wicked for using that deadly weapon, showing how much Hubert detest it. The 2nd stanza 2nd last line, the "WILL" is all in capital letters. This is to emphasis on the consequences of this war, and the pitiful generations ahead that has to suffer for no reason.
I feel that Hubert Wilson is a true peace lover. He suffered from the agent orange himself and his health got worse each day. However, despite all the pain, he still wrote this poem, hoping that no war will happen again.
Will you ever notice me...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
1:47 AM
Kimi no Iru Machi Updates
In the past 2 or 3 days, chapter 86 and 87 came up. I was really excited at the beginning, until the end of chapter 87. There seem to be too many twists and I hate it. Though I don't want the manga to end so quickly, but the conflict kept dragging on and it is kind of irritating.
Naruto is also like that. The story keeps dragging on, now Madara's the enemy, maybe later it will become Kabuto, then maybe something else will crop up later. This goes for all the manga with a long history of more than 3 years. Detective conan is the longest one I know so far, keep on having murders, robbery, kidnapping around, then the story doesn't have any romance, and it continues for another 100 chapter before anything related to the main conflict comes up.
I feel that these mangakas are like testing our patience. One chapter a week, 20 pages a chapter, 5 pages worth of new information. I rather they come out as 1 volume in a month, rather than a short chapter a week.
Will you ever notice me...
Saturday, April 3, 2010
7:05 PM
Mugging for LA test
Now's the raining season, everyday rain like crazy. LA test is tomorrow, even the sky is crying to comfort my failure for the test. Raining also reminds me of animes. It is very sad to wait in the rain for someone when that person is unlikely or never going to see you.
Sometimes I also wonder why there must be rain and thunder during sad times, just because it emphasis the sadness, rain is gloomy? Rain is very nice, it cools down people. Somehow people just sterotype things. Rain for sad, sun for happiness, cloudy for a nice day, or something like that. It all depends how people think actually, crying during the rain under the sun may sometimes have more pathos than in the rain.
Will you ever notice me...
Friday, March 26, 2010
8:06 PM
Kimi no Iru Machi ( Chapter 80-83)
It seems that Haruto is trying hard to meet Eba even though she continues to avoid him. In his first day in Tokyo, he met a fellow female countryside classmate and a playboy. The two of them resemble two of his friends back in Hiroshima and they got along quickly. However in school, his classmates tried to throw a welcome party for Haruto, but his was too focused on trying to meet Eba so rejected all his classmates invitation.
Though he was not anti-social, he was viewed as one because he went to find Eba everyday after school. In chapter 83, the female countryside classmate went to his house for dinner because she spent too much money, but actually was to tell him the situation in class and his image in his classmates' eyes. Though this dinner, their relationship improved and something interesting might happen afterwards.
This mange is still one of my favourite romance type manga. I am looking forward to the future chapters and I tried to predict what will happen. First, the reason why Eba is ignoring Haruto is
1. Due to her parents. Her parents might not be allowing her to date a countryside male because of the long distance, or they despise country pumpkins.
2. Something that has happened in school. Since her sister did not act strangely so this might be kept a secret from her family
Will you ever notice me...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
5:31 AM
There's something that I do not like about some romance animes. The author tries to make the anime interesting by introducing a lot of male or female characters falling in love with the same person, which is called harem, but the ending of the anime is quite disappointing. A typical type of story like this would be the main character being average in looks, background and others, but he or she has a attractive side. Examples would be like when the female main character lets down her hair and takes down her glasses, she becomes cute; or a male character a normal looking male character being very kind and helpful and girls are attracted by his personality.
As the story progresses on, the main characters will meet more and more people and making people fall for him/her. Towards the story, there will be one major event to decided who will become the main character's lover, or something like that. This is the climax of the anime and the results will often be at the end of the last episode.
However, the ending will, most of the times, not nice at all, or rather is comparable to our daily slip-short work. The ending appears be be happy, because all of the main character eventually didn't choose one of them to be his/her lover but instead continue as the way it was and live everyday happily.
I hate this kind of ending as it is like telling us that being indecisive in okay, it is alright. Even though indecisiveness may hurt some people, but in the end everyone will be happy. This is like the olden times, when 1 man can have multiple wives, then the man will always flirting with the women that he love while those who love him will have to endure their jealousy and feeling of unfairness.
Will you ever notice me...
