Ami-chan went from cute to HOT.	Chuu~ <3
Retirement makes idols hotter.	Euro techno is so in!

Suzuki Ami has been in retirement for almost 4 years. For a former idol to come back is almost unthinkable in Japan, yet she’s doing it. Everybody was thinking, ‘Oh, it won’t be long until she releases a nude photobook.’ (By the way, retired idols usually release nude photobooks.) Instead, she returned in late March with the single, Delightful, which describes the song perfectly. This time around, instead of her light and catchy J-Pop music accompaniment, she’s now backed by euro techno, which is a refreshing change (much like Amuro Namie and her R&B-Pop). Eventful is no different, but I find it a much catchier song than Delightful. The video is quite sexy – Ami-chan wears skin-tight, body-hugging outfits to nosebleed over. The video cuts through several scenes of her gyrating her shapely body and riding a motorbike, so I highly recommend it! (Torrent: JPOPSUKI)

Dangerous fantasy.

Hungry.

Not much action (or fan-service) in this one, but Mai is slowly coming to grips with her past, as well as her future as a HiME.

Why do all girls love yaoi fantasies? Is it some kind of inherited trait? (Torrent: Baka-Updates)

Hot.	Kagutsuchi.
No panties.	Tentacles!
To the rescue!	Undergarments from the sky.

Hey, this show’s really coming along! I actually put away two episodes over the long weekend, but I was busy switching my website over to add them here.

So, the next two episodes (2 and 3) focus on Mai, who slowly finds out that she’s a HiME, and that she can wield a powerful force known as Kagutsuchi. Mikoto is also explained to be a cute feline-like girl who really loves to eat. The 4th episode reveals a bit more about Natsuki. She reminds me of Motoko from Love Hina, but you get to see Natsuki’s extremely feminine side in this episode. Seriously, she owns a huge collection of lingerie?!?!

I’m slowly catching up with the show. I may even be able to get caught up by the time the last episodes are released. (Torrent: Baka-Updates)

I’ve gone and done it! I went and made a Blogger for my website! From now on, all my personal life posts will be posted there, so click here to go there now or just go to my website in the links list.

For those of you who visit the PMM Tracker that I’ve listed on this LiveJournal, they are now on hiatus due to bandwidth costs/issues. I’m hoping they will come back, but it’s pretty certain that they won’t, due to the fact that bandwidth is so costly, and accepting money for distributing multimedia content becomes a legal issue.

As a result, my posts for Japanese Media have suddenly lost its major source. I’ll still post whatever I come across, but it looks like the material I can choose from will end up mostly being my old archived stuff, anime, and purchased media.

I was way too busy to update anyway, let alone fend off the end of my hard drive. ^_^

Stare.	兄弟じゃないだ。
The sword is mightier than the truck!	A hidden power unleashed.

Mai can see a red star in the sky. Despite this, she’s a normal high school girl, on a cruise ship with her brother, on their way to their new school. Yuuichi and Shiho, who are NOT siblings. befriend them. However, this isn’t a normal high school drama. It promises mecha, strange powers, battle scenes, and enough fan service to keep me happy.

I just realized that this is my first anime post. Wow. I actually DO watch anime, so don’t be so surprised. Actually, I’m currently watching GRENADIER, but I don’t know why I’m not posting it. Oh, well. (Torrent: Baka-Updates)

Well, I’ve abandoned World Of WarCraft for now. It’s a great game, but my regular gaming team is still playing Diablo II (due to lack of sufficient hardware and funds), and fun is where the friends are. You can only play an MMORPG as a single player for so long before it gets boring. I’d love to return to it someday, but I guess someday isn’t possible right now. Mind you, I’m now concentrating more of my free time on my writing. So, that’s one good thing.

Man, I’m finally taking this writing thing seriously and nobody seems to be giving me a second glance! I posted my entire series of HACK-R and I got ONE review. So? What about the other people who seemingly read it? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did you even finish the damn thing?

Well, okay, so HACK-R is a bad example. It was, after all, written in Script format, which can turn off a lot of people. But I posted two other projects and I got nothing. Nada. Either something’s wrong with my writing or something’s wrong with me.

Blast it all!! I know the damn difference between “your and you’re”, “its and it’s”, and “there, their, and they’re”!!! I punctuate like a demon possessed! Oh, I’m sorry. Perhaps I should dumb down my mastery of this pathetic language so that people can actually understand what I’m trying to say. How about this: THEIR is a sentence over THEY’RE that THERE going to love. Happy now???

Okay, it’s been a bad week. People suck, and I suck harder for saying so. But, please, tell me what you think of my writing. O_o

When I was in high school, Marilyn Manson was all the rage, and everybody was listening to The Beautiful People. It was a good single, and it was the definition of heavy metal in those days. However, I came across an album in the music store that caught my attention – The Great Southern Trendkill. When I heard it, it just blew me away – Dimebag’s guitars screamed with a speed and style I had never heard before. From the masterfully arpeggiated Floods to the super-charged title track, it brought me to a whole new level (no pun intended). Pantera – the cowboys from hell – were a band I could not easily forget. Even when Damageplan was formed, I knew that we would still be hearing some great music.

Some homicidal idiot waltzed into a club last night and targeted Dimebag – one of the greatest heavy metal guitar heroes of this century – taking away two great fans and the person who led me through adolescent life by the fretboard. Whatever deep-seated vendetta this bastard obviously had – who the hell gave him the right to judge the worth of life? As if we don’t have enough enemies on our asses in this world – war, famine, disease, accidents, forces of nature – but nutcrackers like that get a say in whether we live or die? It’s scary how a person measures the weight of existence by the weight of a weapon. Murderers should all be locked up in solitary confinement for life. But, I digress. Dimebag was a prodigal musician, and it was appalling what happened to him. He will be surely missed.

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World Of WarCraft definitely has amazing visuals. The time of day even reflects in the game itself (it moves along in real time). So, to catch this sunset, I had to wait until 21:00 at just the right moment to take this particular screenshot. Mind you, the sun actually sets at 16:30, but it’s winter where I am. My love for photography spreads even into the virtual.

Yeah, yeah, it’s not Japanese Media, but that’s why it’s a Friends-only post. ^^

EDIT: Many of my Friends-only posts have become public now that I’ve moved to WordPress.

Did anybody hear that segment of Wheeler & Hal this morning? They made a hilarious parody of Desperate Housewives called Desperate Grandmas. I laughed so hard, I’m sure that the lawyers next door to me heard it.

“I’ll take off my dentures and show you a good time, sonny.”

Hahahaha.