Listening to: Romeo and Cinderella - Rin and Len Kagamine.
Current anime: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Current manga: None. D:
Current projects/working on: Uploading all these screenshots to my screenshot site. A vector.
Mood: Not good.
FMA:BH is going so fast. D: So far, 9 volumes have been completed in just 16 episodes. And then the manga's almost complete, the number of episodes is almost predictable... -sigh- My life is going to continue to be boring without any good anime, especially FMA. It's certainly difficult to find good anime these days. Speaking of which, when I was watching episode 18, at around 15:51, Falman thinks, "Hmm... This smell of tobacco..." and at that very moment, I smelled smoke coming from outside through my window. And so I rushed with all my might to turn my window knob. What a coincidence, huh.
I'm currently watching Air TV, since I heard many people who've watched it say they've enjoyed it... and that it's also quite emotional. And yes, I know I'm late to watch it. I just haven't been this interested in watching anime until this year. Maybe I just didn't realize that I was missing out on a ton of things.*
I just recently got interested in learning Latin. :D The pronounciation is quite easy to me, since I know some Japanese, and the pronounciation of vowels in Japanese are similar to such in Latin. I still need clarification on a few things. Other than that, I'm all set. >8D
I also recently became obsessed with Rin and Len Kagamine, who also became my favorite two VOCALOID characters. My favorite song from them so far is Adolescence. :D
*There's so much catching up I have to do that it seems like I'm writing shorter paragraphs in my blog entries, compared to my very first entry. Such as watching things, uploading the mass 3000+ screenshots to my screenshots site, which, at this moment in time, has yet to be completed.
Listening to: Let it Out - Miho Fukuhara, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood's second ED.
Watching: Bakemonogatari episode 1.
I thought Bakemonogatari was a magical powers kind of anime from a story synopsis, but the opening turned out to be filled with gory wonder. I wonder if the rest of the series will turn out to be a gory wonder, just like I said.
By the way, I found a little something interesting in episode one. Could it be a reference to Fullmetal Alchemist? I mean, if Equivalent Exchange isn't a FMA term, then what is it, hmm?
I started the first page of FMA chapter 96 online, but when I read it, I'm thinking, "I don't even know what's happening, dammit!". Maybe I'll read over chapters 74-97 (latest). xD
I opened two days ago, so... please STILL read the first blog entry! :D
Watching: Bakemonogatari episode 1.
I thought Bakemonogatari was a magical powers kind of anime from a story synopsis, but the opening turned out to be filled with gory wonder. I wonder if the rest of the series will turn out to be a gory wonder, just like I said.
By the way, I found a little something interesting in episode one. Could it be a reference to Fullmetal Alchemist? I mean, if Equivalent Exchange isn't a FMA term, then what is it, hmm?
Ooh, and the original creator of this is NisiOisin, who wrote a Death Note and xxxHOLiC novel (as of what I know). His Death Note work was pretty good. The words used, the way in which the words fall into such captivating sentences, the sentences that make up such a wonderful story! Aa, subarashii, subarashii.
I started the first page of FMA chapter 96 online, but when I read it, I'm thinking, "I don't even know what's happening, dammit!". Maybe I'll read over chapters 74-97 (latest). xD
I opened two days ago, so... please STILL read the first blog entry! :D
Hasty.
"...growing sick of your biased opinions, your misconception, your temerity."
Listening to: Super Scription of Data - Eiko Shimamiya, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei's first opening.
Watching: Nothing, but FMA2, Axis Powers Hetalia, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Bakemonogatari are on my mind.
So much for saying, "I want to finish Higurashi no Naku Koro ni in time so that I could watch Higurashi Kei." D: I'm still at either episode 8 or 13 in the first season. Kei came out, and now there's Rei, and now Umineko no Naku Koro ni, from the same creator. Agh. Dammit. I suck at being up-to-date. Other than with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Bakemonogatari. >____________>
By the way, I just opened yesterday, so... please read the first blog entry! :D
Watching: Nothing, but FMA2, Axis Powers Hetalia, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Bakemonogatari are on my mind.
So much for saying, "I want to finish Higurashi no Naku Koro ni in time so that I could watch Higurashi Kei." D: I'm still at either episode 8 or 13 in the first season. Kei came out, and now there's Rei, and now Umineko no Naku Koro ni, from the same creator. Agh. Dammit. I suck at being up-to-date. Other than with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Bakemonogatari. >____________>
By the way, I just opened yesterday, so... please read the first blog entry! :D
"There isn't a day I don't think about it."
A lyric from Rie Fu's Tsukiakari.
Listening to: Several albums of Minori Chihara (Contact, Parade, Paradise Lost, Zutto... Issho / Makenai ~Ichi, etc.). It's such a shame Minori isn't very well-known, though voicing Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya increased her popularity significantly. Her songs are so catchy and powerful, but also with a touch of mysterious gracefulness in them. The videos are amazing as well -- the most beautiful places and the best shooting angles are chosen for her videos, which also clearly portrays the beauty of her songs.
Watching: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, To Aru Majutsu no Index. I still need to finish up that last episode of Kuroshitsuji. As for all animanga I really enjoy, I shall read the manga of Kuro.
Anyways. Welcome to Euphonius's grand opening, though I don't think that it requires such a grand word as "grand opening". Heh. Basically, this blog was created in an attempt to record and share the boring experiences and discoveries of my daily life. Anyways. Why exactly is this version called 1.3? At first, I tried vectoring something... Long story short, it failed... the same happened again. One day, I opened up a picture in Photoshop, and a layout idea just magically came to me. No seriously. I guess it was the beautiful picture itself that gave me inspiration. I've always wanted to make a blended-type layout, by the way. Let's see... Since ARIA's pretty much an unsophisticated, simple yet wonderful series, I decided to leave the header image simple just like the animanga. By the way, please ignore the fact that the images used in my header image has JPG noise... I'm too lazy to fix the it.
By using pink in the blockquote, it nicely contrasts the blue (in my opinion), the majority color on this layout. The pink makes the blockquote stand out from the blue. At first, the content area was going to be all white. I thought it'd be too boring like that, thus I decided to use a background color. Not too dark to that it'd distract your eyes from the light background, but light enough. In relation to that, I felt that the blue at the top draws peoples' eyes towards the layout image...
*After thinking about it for quite a while, I discovered one cloudy, gloomy day (not exactly) that this quote is worded improperly. This sudden theory shot right through me, like a gunshot through an innocent soul! Well... Good things don't come to a person, rather, as time passes, time gives you the oppurtunity to do something good in your life. Now I see! I have outsmarted the person who wrote this insanely universal quote by proving that their quote is so utterly inncorrect and also written so utterly incorrectly! Ahahahahaaaaaa~ With all due respect to them, of course. (smiles)
Hmm... I am happy of the fact that BONES decided to make Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood more closer to the manga storyline. The new FMA isn't that great (I prefer the manga), but as a stubborn and determined FMA fan, I shall continue to support it. First of all, I feel that they are rushing the episodes. Second, some parts in FMA2 aren't as heartfelt as they are in the manga or the original FMA (or maybe that's just because I read/watched the series way too much that the morals got "worn out"... Ahaha... I doubt it, though). But I did like how the first episode ended... Ed's in the hospital (yet once again), and Major Armstrong wants to hug the Elric brothers. It gives off that "happy family" kind of vibe (even though Ed would probably rather call Hohenheim his father than be glomped by Armstrong... and you probably know how much he'd hate that). You think the episode's going to end there, but then it doesn't! It shows a small scene of Lust talking to someone on the phone about the Philosopher's stone... and then the episode ends as a cliffhanger. "LIKE, WHAT THE HECK ARE THE HOMUNCULI SCHEMING?!" The transitions are rather... er... interesting...
Agh. Now I know how it feels when a manga you enjoy gets turned into an anime (FMA). Sigh.
Oh, and I don't care if my navigation bar is a little too long... It's not really long (laughs) considering if you look at it in HTML; it's just... skinny and tall. My navigation bar eats growth hormones (which can also be found in McDonald's foods, unsurprisingly). Yeah, that previous sentence was supposed to be a joke. Now laugh, my friends. Laugh.
Watching: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, To Aru Majutsu no Index. I still need to finish up that last episode of Kuroshitsuji. As for all animanga I really enjoy, I shall read the manga of Kuro.
Anyways. Welcome to Euphonius's grand opening, though I don't think that it requires such a grand word as "grand opening". Heh. Basically, this blog was created in an attempt to record and share the boring experiences and discoveries of my daily life. Anyways. Why exactly is this version called 1.3? At first, I tried vectoring something... Long story short, it failed... the same happened again. One day, I opened up a picture in Photoshop, and a layout idea just magically came to me. No seriously. I guess it was the beautiful picture itself that gave me inspiration. I've always wanted to make a blended-type layout, by the way. Let's see... Since ARIA's pretty much an unsophisticated, simple yet wonderful series, I decided to leave the header image simple just like the animanga. By the way, please ignore the fact that the images used in my header image has JPG noise... I'm too lazy to fix the it.
By using pink in the blockquote, it nicely contrasts the blue (in my opinion), the majority color on this layout. The pink makes the blockquote stand out from the blue. At first, the content area was going to be all white. I thought it'd be too boring like that, thus I decided to use a background color. Not too dark to that it'd distract your eyes from the light background, but light enough. In relation to that, I felt that the blue at the top draws peoples' eyes towards the layout image...
"Good things come to those who wait."*In my opinion, this quote is pure, pure, folly, as pointed out by Haruhi Suzumiya (in some episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya). This quote is used to encourage patience, but actions are made by the willpower of human beings. We are all responsible for our own actions. Sometimes you're forced to make an action that you're against due to certain circumstances, but the fact that you conducted that action makes it yours. People who want for something to change -- they went and made the change themself. Like how that leaky faucet in your washroom won't be fixed unless you fix it yourself. Time doesn't wait for anyone, and you're certainly no exception. It's like learning how to walk -- surely you can't learn how to walk unless you made it happen, unless you were willing to learn yourself. You can't just wait and gain obesity during your infantry for the skills of walking to come to you. Life doesn't work this way, and neither does this quote. Case solved. By the way, the quotes below nicely emphasize my point in a way a little more normal than mine, below.
An English proverb.
"...Besides, us normal humans -- we've got to be happy with what we're given. You can look at it this way: people who don't like what they've got are the same people who invent things and make discoveries and advanced civilizations. They made Airplanes because they wanted to fly, and they made cars and trains because they wanted to go from place to place. It's as simple as that. The only reason that we got all the things we have now is because a certain group of people got together and used their talent or imagination or whatever to make it all possible."
Kyon, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, episode 01.
"If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better."
Sakura, Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, volume 4, page 76 (chapter 23, page 14).
"They say science is a lost cause, but I think it's better than sitting around praying and waiting for something to happen."
Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist, volume 1, page 21 (chapter 1, page 17).
"What good would come of sitting around sad and in mourning? Even a dead person can stay still, but I'm alive and standing on my own two feet."Sitting around and waiting for things to happen don't work in this world. If you want something to happen, make it happen.
Ciel Phantomhive, Kuroshitsuji, episode 14.
*After thinking about it for quite a while, I discovered one cloudy, gloomy day (not exactly) that this quote is worded improperly. This sudden theory shot right through me, like a gunshot through an innocent soul! Well... Good things don't come to a person, rather, as time passes, time gives you the oppurtunity to do something good in your life. Now I see! I have outsmarted the person who wrote this insanely universal quote by proving that their quote is so utterly inncorrect and also written so utterly incorrectly! Ahahahahaaaaaa~ With all due respect to them, of course. (smiles)
Hmm... I am happy of the fact that BONES decided to make Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood more closer to the manga storyline. The new FMA isn't that great (I prefer the manga), but as a stubborn and determined FMA fan, I shall continue to support it. First of all, I feel that they are rushing the episodes. Second, some parts in FMA2 aren't as heartfelt as they are in the manga or the original FMA (or maybe that's just because I read/watched the series way too much that the morals got "worn out"... Ahaha... I doubt it, though). But I did like how the first episode ended... Ed's in the hospital (yet once again), and Major Armstrong wants to hug the Elric brothers. It gives off that "happy family" kind of vibe (even though Ed would probably rather call Hohenheim his father than be glomped by Armstrong... and you probably know how much he'd hate that). You think the episode's going to end there, but then it doesn't! It shows a small scene of Lust talking to someone on the phone about the Philosopher's stone... and then the episode ends as a cliffhanger. "LIKE, WHAT THE HECK ARE THE HOMUNCULI SCHEMING?!" The transitions are rather... er... interesting...
Agh. Now I know how it feels when a manga you enjoy gets turned into an anime (FMA). Sigh.
Oh, and I don't care if my navigation bar is a little too long... It's not really long (laughs) considering if you look at it in HTML; it's just... skinny and tall. My navigation bar eats growth hormones (which can also be found in McDonald's foods, unsurprisingly). Yeah, that previous sentence was supposed to be a joke. Now laugh, my friends. Laugh.