Pour me motiver…

Blogged by on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 5:14 pm in Français, Life hates me | 6 Comments »

Vu que ça va devenir vrai dans bientôt pour moi, j’ai fait quelques achats à Junku histoire de me motiver…

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Japon – Country Guide (petit futé) : J’ai pris cette édition parce qu’elle semblait assez complète… et puis bon c’est aussi la seule qu’ils avaient. ^^;

Pour le peu que j’ai feuilleté, y’a quelques plans et surtout pas mal d’adresses et de conseils. Mais bon on sent quand même que c’est un bouquin pour des voyages relativement court, puisqu’au niveau des hébergements c’est surtout des adresses d’hôtels ou de ryokan, avec des indications de prix à la nuit ou à la semaine, voir parfois au mois mais rarement. Donc des endroits qui reviennent cher en cas de long séjour.

Mais bon comme j’ai dit y’a pas mal de conseils qui ont l’air utiles, comme sur comment retirer de l’argent ou prendre les transports. À potasser plus en détails donc.

Plan de Tokyo (Institut National Geographic) : Un plan détaillé de Tokyo pas cher. Histoire de commencer à m’entrainer à repérer les endroits sur une carte. Y’a pas un nom de rue, juste des numéros. ^^;

Cool Japan – Otaku Nippon Guide (Moe-Rurubu) : Haha XD Un bouquin en jap plutôt bien faoutu avec plan détaillé de Akihabara, adresses de toutes les boutiques manga/anime les plus importantes (y’a même une boutique WWE), tous les maid-café, manga-café, et autres trucs glauques réservés aux plus foireux des otakus comme des indications pour se rendre aux ‘endroits sacrés’ (ces endroits ‘IRL’ qui ont servi de modèle dans certains anime comme le temple Washinomiya dans Lucky Star).

Ils ont même pensé aux nanas, avec des adresses de butler-café et autres host-clubs. Sans parler des articles présentant ce qu’il faut voir selon votre ‘otakuisme’ (Mecha-otaku, maid-otaku, tetsudou-otaku, koujou-otaku, military-otaku, et j’en passe). Bref, un bon bouquin qui trahit mes intentions une fois sur place. XD

Tin… maintenant que j’y pense, j’ai quand même pas mal de préparation à faire. Le plus important étant : qu’est-ce que je vais putain de prendre avec moi pour aller là-bas ? :/

Rien qu’avec Kyonko et ses accessoires, ça prend déjà pas mal de place… Et quand je vois mes figmas, ma DS, mes junks, mes cours de jap, et mes 3 sacs de courses qui débordent de manga, je commence à m’inquiéter. ^^; Surtout que j’ai pas trop envie de me séparer de mes trucs. Y’a bien la solution de me faire envoyer par colissimo le reste de mes affaires sur place, mais 1) je sais pas encore où je vivrai, 2) si par malheur je reste ‘juste’ un an, c’est rebelote dans l’autre sens (sans parler de ce que j’aurai acheté sur place), et 3) y’en a VRAIMENT BEAUCOUP.

Va falloir que je commence à faire du tri…

:beer:

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the iDOLM@STER >>>relations

Blogged by on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm in English, Manga (spoilers), Others | 3 Comments »

Some weeks ago, I came across the first volume of a iM@S manga at Book-Off.

Since I wasn’t expecting anything good from it, I put that book way back in my reading queue, and I finally gave it a read some days ago.

As a iM@S fanboy, I had to make a post about it. And well, made already a post about ‘Break !’ (see here) so I had to make a post about this one too.

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‘relations’ is a 2 volumes-long manga which as been released last year. The art isn’t as good as in ‘Break’, and it gets 0 service, but I must say that I found the story way, WAY better. Yup, surprisingly enough, the story is rather interesting, making it the best iM@S related manga I’ve read so far.

As I did for ‘Break’, I won’t go for a long summary of the story, so I’ll just throw the usual random scans with comments.

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Unlike ‘Break’, ‘relations’ features all the idols from the game, but the main character is actually Miki.

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A short time after having recruited Miki, Producer-san decides to make her start as a member of a trio unit, the ‘Namco Angels’, with Iori and Yukiho.
Surprisingly, the author’s choice works and it ends up being a rather cute trio~, GJ !

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In this manga, Chihaya is already a top idol, nicknamed ‘the idol who never smiles’. She was Producer-san’s former protégé, but they ‘broke up’ for some mysterious reason, which is apparantly why she constantly has this sad face.

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On the other side, Producer-san decides to use her new protégé’s bright smile as her #1 charm point (who said that her main charm point was her breasts ?).

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But when the trio finally gets some popularity, Producer-san decides to disband it so Miki can make her solo debut.

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Then, Miki starts feeling all lonely, and misses Iori and Yukiho. That was cute~

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But after some words from her two friends, Miki finally gets a grip of herself.
M : ” ‘Top Idol’ is the summit, right ?”
P : “?”
M : “It’s the best, right ?”
P : “Well, yeah.”
M : “Everybody will have to do what I say, right ?”
P : “Well… That’s a bad way to put it, but yeah in this business you can have this kind of power…”
M : “Then, I’ll become a Top Idol ! You said that I should have an objective ? Then I’ll become a Top idol, I’ll become famous enough to be able to go against your decisions, and reform the Namco Angels. That’s my objective.”
Man that was kind of cool~
Miki kakko ii <3

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The ‘Idol Master Grand Prix’ is approaching, and (original) rival characters start to appear !
That’s all for the first half of the book. You will have to check this book for more~

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At the very end of the book, we get to see what actually happened between Chihaya and Producer-san.
Chihaya is a genius who lives only for the music, but because of that she always has been alone. One day, a beginner producer joins the Namco prod., and becomes the one in charge of Chihaya.

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This new producer actually has some knowledge about music, and Chihaya finally finds somebody she can share her passion with.
Right page, second panel : CHIHAYA~ !!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Dere Chihaya KITA ! This book gets many win points just with this scene~

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But because of Chihaya’s high abilities, Producer-san starts to feel useless, and says to Chihaya that she doesn’t need him anymore.
“To be saved once and then be dropped again, is a much deeper solitude.”
Chihaya~ ;_;

From here starts a race for the Idol Master Grand Prix between the ‘Egao no Tensai’ and the ‘Egao no nai idol’~

That’s all for this book. It gets more goodness so be sure to check it if you’re a iM@S fan. I’m leaving to japan soon so I don’t feel like spending money ordering the second book, but I really look forward to it and hope I will come across it at Book-off~

See ya~

:beer:

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Kami no Mistake ?!

Blogged by on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm in Anime (spoilers), English, Junk (絵日記) | 2 Comments »

One last junk before taking some vacation.

Hayate no Gotoku got a new OP. But let’s not forget how nice the previous one was. Especially this part that I was never bored of :


I’ve come to think recently that Izumi is the one for Hayate, but some Red x Blue is always welcome.

And now, omake time~

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Again, made some quick portrait-ish junks before getting started. Well, thanks to that I could notice that Izumi looks more “Izumi-like” when her iris and upper ‘eyelid’ aren’t connected, unlike here.

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Accidentally put contrast to max, and I thought that it actually looked kind of nice like this… but that’s probably just me XD

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As for the new OP…

I like the song of the previous OP better. Moreover, the new song gets too much effects and sounds like it’s being sung by a chipmunk. ^^;

But anyway, what’s more important is that this new OP is win for being full of intense MOE~.

Few pics from it :

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Left : <3 <3 <3
Right : XD
Hina and Ayu appear a lot in this new OP, definitly giving the feeling that they are the true main heroines of the show.

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NUOOOO !
This show is awesomely DFC.

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NUOOOOOOOO !!!
I liked how this part is animated, and Miki’s ‘sexy’ pose. XD

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NUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!
My fav part from the new OP. XD
Saku <3 <3 <3

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A-

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MA-

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ZING !
Hina <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Dunno if I’ll be able to post anything during vacation, so see ya in september~

:beer:

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Mugi-sama ga miteru

Blogged by on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm in Anime (spoilers), English, Junk (絵日記) | 2 Comments »

Made a 4koma for celebrating the fact that my favorite scene from the Hayate no Gotoku manga got animated. Click the pic for hueg size.

[Mugi-sama is watching you]
1# H : “(I was caught off-gard. Just for a moment, my heart fluttered
over a girl)”
2# H : “(All the more reason to make this clear !!)
Okay, Ayumu. You see, I…”
3# A : “Um, do you have to say it now ?”
H : “Eh ?”
4# H : “… who are you ?”

Over nine thousand hours with Paint. Yeah used screenshot as reference for the second panel, no need to mention it, it’s on purpose.

I must say that the scene wasn’t as intense as in the manga, but I liked it anyway~

I mentionned it before, but despite the fact that I know all the story, I enjoy the show pretty much. Mostly because it delivers many lovely faces in every episodes.

Time for some random screenshots~

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Ne~
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Miki smells something fishy between Hina and Hayate !

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H-I-N-A ! Hinagiku, HAI HAI !

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XD
Hamzawa-san <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Maria-san with school uniform and glasses. WIN.

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KITA !
Man all the part when Hina and Hamzawa-san are discussing in the bathroom was LOVE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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The Funny Faces of Isumi Saginomiya~
Middle : man, I don’t remember having seen something as cute in the manga. Many many many <3s

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The awesome Sister.
This part wasn’t as epic as in the manga but it was many lulz~

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OMG ANIKI !!!!
Random bad guy with the coolest voice EVAR XD

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AI NO KOKUHAKU TAIMU~ !

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Need moar Red-chan~

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Many many <3s

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awww~

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Hina goodness just never stops.

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Left : best Maria-san face EVAR
Right : a tsundere Maria-san is fine too <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Hawt~

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Hamzawa-san is LOVE

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Left : mumumu~
Right : lol’d at this face XD

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And finally, THE LEGENDARY SCENE.

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I never get bored of this.

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How can’t you want them to be together forever after having watched this ???

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Ayumu’s smile turns girls gay.

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At that moment I heard Miki’s “AI NO KOKUHAKU TAIMU~ !” in my mind XD

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Legendary episode gets legendary eyecatch.

I could have posted many more screenies but I guess it’s ok for now. XD

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Mou hitokoe~ !

Blogged by on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 4:07 pm in Français, Junk (絵日記) | 3 Comments »

Quand je dessine en tout petit et sans grande motivation (souvent en attendant un truc à la tv), les persos ont l’air tout bizarre et SD…

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Vu que c’est assez rare que je ponde quelque chose, je l’ai scanné. C’était aussi pour voir à quoi ça allait ressembler une fois scanné, parce que ça donne toujours une impression différente une fois sur l’écran. Je vous demanderai de pas être trop regardant pour ce coup-là (je veux dire, plus que d’habitude orz)…

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Là on voit que c’est le genre de truc où j’ai même la flemme de regarder sur mon iPod à quoi ressemble vraiment ses cheveux. Je sais que pour Hinagiku je devrai donner le meilleur de moi-même mais bon, I fail on many points.

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XD
Celui là me fait délirer~

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Vous me direz que vient faire Mugi-chan de K-On avec Hinagiku et Ayumu de Hayate, je répondrai “nan to naku”.

Le lendemain, juste après avoir maté RAW, je me suis dit que j’allais pas laisser ça comme ça et j’ai refais un petit essais avant d’aller me coucher.

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En plus gros, et avec un peu plus d’effort (pas trop quand même). Je suis quand même plus à l’aise en dessinant un peu plus gros.

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Pourtant, je mets toujours pas assez d’effort pour Hinagiku apparement… orz

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lol Je sais pas pourquoi mais quand Hamzawa-san sourit je dessine ses ‘couettes’ en haut du crane et quand elle est triste je les dessine en bas (cf. Hamzawa-san no yuuutsu).


Celui-là je l’aime bien donc je l’ai mis dans la galerie.
Je suis pas vraiment sûr pour les cheveux, je sais pas pourquoi mais elle me fait penser à Mikuru ou Kyon-Imouto quand elle a les cheveux détachés. Ouais, y’a aussi un peu de Roll que j’ai fais précédemment aussi. Là il était 2h du mat’ donc j’ai pas cherché à faire le haut du corps, j’arrangerai ça au moment de le colorier. Je rajouterai surement aussi Ayumu à côté pour faire genre ‘symétrie’. :)

“Onna no ko doushi tte ii na~ tte…”

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