Sunday, June 27, 2010

This time they turned me into a newt...I got better

Hiya now I don't have time to do a post today so here's a fanfic I made hope you enjoy!!!


*authors note, this is my very first fanfic, and I'm more of drawer than a writer, so constructive criticism would be appreciated*

Chapter 1: Last Midnight Tear

The sun was setting in The Hidden Leaf Village casting shadows over the entire village. There was only so many minutes of sunlight left, half of the sky had even gone dark and a few stars had begun to shine. There was going to be a full moon though so it might be exceptionally bright out if there weren't too many clouds. Hinata was panting heavily and she was sweating and exhausted but determined to keep training till she collapsed, so she focused her chakara. She was in one of the villages forests' and she was in this little area with tall, bright red flowers, trees surrounding the area.

Focus, She thought. She felt a burst of energy and activated her byakugan.

"Eight Trigrams, Protective 64 Palms!" She cried. She spun in place and started to cut the flowers at a precise level, eyes closed (though that did not matter with her byakugan activated) she heard the distinct slitch, slitch, slitch as she cut the flowers in the quiet night. She stopped and then spun around and open her eyes. She saw someone, about 10 yards away and she took an offensive pose.

"Who's there?" Hinata shouted, piercing the air.

"Good eyes," came a firm, but feminine voice "I was hoping I could do a surprise attack in the night but no avail with your byakugan activated eh?" she approached Hinata and she was about 2 yards away. Hinata deactivated her byakugan to preserve chakara but maintained her stance.
"Who are you?" Hinata said, she was worried this person said she had the intention of attacking her and she was low on chakara, she had been training for a few hours now.

"Oh, ehem, forgive me how rude, my name is Akane," She glanced around at the red flowers "appropriate name eh?" (Akane means brilliant red in japanese) she took a step towards Hinata. Hinata finally got a good look at her since she stepped into the moonlight. She had striking blue hair and calm green eyes, a decent sized chest, thin, but clearly muscular arms, and good legs. She was wearing a small necklace with a symbol that said water, a short sleeved dark purple shirt with a weird symbol on it, a black skirt, and a armband with the Village Hidden in the Sand symbol. Her shoes were sneaker like and good for combat. Most of the would be bare skin on her arm was covered with pouches clearly loaded with kunai, shuriken, and other ninja tools.

However Hinata only had an instance to observe all this because just a fractionth of a second after she said stepped towards her she whipped a shuriken at her. Hinata dodged it at the last second.

"Pleased to meet you." Akane said, grinning madly.

"What are you doing?" Hinata said fearfully.

"Getting my revenge!" Akane said angrily.

Akane charged at her with a kunai Hinata spun in place. Hinata activated her byakugan and took a stance.

"Gentle Fi--"
"Oh no you don't!!!" Akane spat out. She cut made a deep cut in Hinata thighs but sill made her cry out in pain, regardless she stayed focused. She found it in her strength to ignore the serious wound. She charged at Akane, who had her back to Hinata and pulled back to strike her. Akane spun out of the way just in time and stood in the perfect spot to strike Hinata in her head, however Hinata dodged it and instead got nicked on the shoulder blades.

"How did you..?" Hinata asked, gripping her shoulder. Akane grinned and in the shadows ran her fingers through her hair.

"You really don't see it?" She had to step into the moonlight again for Hinata to notice it, she gasped in surprise. Her veins were popped out just like with a byakugan.



*END of chapter one. I do have a few things planned for this story Akane will get her own back story (here's a tease the Uchiha clan will also get involved) and unique fighting style and there will be a (hopefully if my writing skills improve and whatnot) epic battle.*


Friday, June 18, 2010

Narutard and Proud of it!

Hello again, I have good news, I just may get a "job" on an anime review site although this has yet to be confirmed. I'll be sure to let you guys know about this.

Naruto Going Green: Recently the Naruto manga officially sold over 100 million books in Japan and to celebrate the creators are going to create "Naruto's Forest". They are going to plant in total 7,610 trees on Japanese mountainsides. Indeed, they will continue to care for the trees for about ten years until they are able to survive on their own. This not only shows that the creators care about the environment (and are trying to plant back the paper they used) but also that they realise what a good milestone this is. In addition people can submit art and maybe receive "a tree" in their name. They'll receive information and a number so they can locate their tree. Personally, I'm just glad they're giving back to the environment.

Legal Scanlations: We all know scanlations are much more of a hassle than illegal uploads for anime, considering most animes you can legally view on site's like Crunchyroll or Hulu. However when it comes to manga scans we're talking a whole new ballpark. Very few sites can claim they legally distribute scans of manga especially mainstream ones. However one site plans on doing so. Digital Manga Publishing says they plan on opening up a site that legally distributes digital manga. However they plan on maker sure owners get their fare share of the pie. My only issue is that from rumors it seems the site will revolve around yoai and yuri. There's nothing wrong with either genre but, establishing the fact that I'm a hetrosexual male, obviously I prefer the later genre. Still it's good to know some sites are cleaning up their act. Many website's are still doing illegal scanlations and are being met with a lawsuit, when it has mostly legal scanlations though. Hopefully this is one website that will work out.

(WARNING: This article contains some explicted language) Hentai Anyone?: Getting to something a few days old it seems Japan is looking to revise the "Nonexistent Youth" Bill. What is this Bill again? Well basically it restricts certain types of porn, namely anime, manga, etc. etc. Basically if it revolves rape or incest or something of that variety. Although it's not too specific, I'm guessing it would either raise the minimum age to view porn in Japan or it would censor it even more so than they do now. I'm not going to try to get into to much detail for the sake of my mental health. But the reason we do have to worry is that some manga with genuine plotline and simply have hentai just for hentai's sake or because it's relative to the plot might be censored or cut out, making the story confusing. Although I havn't read any manga like that I have heard of some good ones that might have to be worried because of this bill. Personally though as long as it doesn't get in the way of my Pantsu I don't care. (Just kidding)

Best Selling Manga in America (According to the New York Times)
#1 Naruto Volume 48
#2 Vampire Knight Volume 10
#3 Bleach Volume 31
#4 Hellsing Volume 10
#5 Black Butler Volume 2
#6 Yu-Gi-Oh! R Volume 5
#7 Alice in the Country of Heart Volume 3
#8 Negima! Master Negi Magi Volume 26
#9 Naruto Volume 47
#10 Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Volume 13

A few comments about the bestseller list actually. I'm thankful that Naruto is up there with two volumes. I'm also thankful that I'm confirming how popular Black Butler is, reassuring myself to check it out. I'm going to start getting my allowance again next week so that's when I'll review Bleach Volume 31 and maybe Naruto. I'm also sort of surprised Yu-Gi-Oh is up there. I had no idea it was THAT popular. Oh well...

Anime Character of the Day: Soifon from Bleach
Soifon quote: "I have no interest in whether it is right or wrong. All I care about is executing orders as a captain of the Gotei 13. All who get in my way are my enemies. All enemies must be slain. That is all that matters."


Thursday, June 17, 2010

Hey, this time I really died and it took me 5 days to respawn.

Once again I apologise for my absence, this will hopefully be the last time I do this since Summer Vacation is now officially begun for me.


Alive Manga Writer Dies: We begin today on a rather sad note. The writer of the often praised manga series Alive,
passed away due to liver cancer. I did read some of the series but not all of it, and from what I read it seemed pretty good! What seems even worse is that Tadashi Kawashima, has been on his sickbed for months and finished the series whilst on his sickbed. This man had such a passion for Manga that he even began another series as he approached his deathbed with liver cancer. I say we all have a brief moment of silence for a fellow otaku. . . You could do even more good by checking out the Alive series as well.

Black Butler still on the Rise: The new anime/manga series Black Butler appears to be on the rise. Almost unknown a few months ago it is quickly becoming a popular series and major clothing companies have taken notice. The afaimed "emo store" Hot Topic is introducing a line of Black Butler clothing. Not like costumes you understand, just apparel with the Black Butler logo. All that appears to be available so far though is just a shirt (varying in sizes) with the main character on the front. I havn't seen or read the Black Butler series yet, but maybe now I should check it out.

One Piece Jeans: Sticking to the topic of clothes in Japan it appears they released a series of jeans with "I'm going to be king of the pirates" on the buttocks. The jeans also comes with the Luffy emblem on the jeans as well as a few other trademarked One Piece symbols. I have to say, this is more good news for us otaku's considering most merchandise we want is only available online and anime clothing seems to be becoming more the norm for some stores at least. Hopefully they'll import some of the clothing to America.

The Top Selling Manga in Japan This Week



#1 Series Kimi ni Todoke Volume #11 Copies Sold 473,058
#2 Series One Piece Volume #58 Copies Sold 379,876
#3 Series Worst Volume #24 Copies Sold 175,012
#4 Series D-Gray Man Volume #20 Copies Sold 141,141
#5 Series Bleach Volume #45 Copies Sold 137,785


Anime Character of the Day: Konata Izumi from Lucky Star
Konata quote: "Those are called moe points!"

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Still alive

My finals are almost over, but I don't really have time to post any news so I'll just a do a quick Top Ten!!!



Top Ten Anime Girls

Anime Girls...Well to put it quite simply: Anime: come for the girls, stay for the plot. That's the way it is, there over sized bozongas and likeable personalities make us keep coming back. So I'm gonna count down the top ten anime girls today. Two rules though: one girl per series, and looks can only count for so much, so they actually have to do something in the series.With that said let's get started.

10) Nami from One Piece
What is not to like about Nami? She's a great warrior, a rich ass girl, a redhead, and she's not afraid to accept any challenge, especially if it involves money. Best of all, she's useful all the time in the One Piece series! The reason she ranks rather low on the list? Bitch would steal ma money!

9)Yoko from Gurren Lagann
Although I stopped the series short due to money issues, she seemed to be quite a useful character. And this time I'm keeping it short and sweet, boobies and guns...nice

8) Izumi Konata from Luck Star
The main character of this epic comedy series, she is perfect, the girl for me, a lazy otaku, that plays video games, and does one night cram sessions, she is just awesome. Only one thing...she in the 11th grade and she looks 8 years old...and shes flatchested. But, she is still epic so I give her a place on this list.

7) Winry Rockbell from Full Metal Alchemist =
Although it's hard to say if she's useful in Full Metal Alchemist, she's certainly a key part of it considering she fixes Edwards Auto-Mail and (by accident) saves him on one occasion, so it's safe to say she does something in the series. With that said she's basically the equivalent of Yoko, not to sound too sexist but, a girl mechanic? Nice hehe.

6) Yoruichi Shihoin from Bleach
Masculine voice aside, Yoruichi is pure awesome, she can turn into a cat, she knows how to flaunt her body (without being to in your face about it like Rangiku Masumoto, who is basically a whore). She is constantly a key part of the series (or at least she was for a few arcs) and I'm just gonna say it, my favorite scene with her is when she puts on that black sweater when she transform into a human in front of Ichigo...damn...nice...

5) Misa Amane from Death Note
Now a running theme from Death Note is that female characters are weak and useless, but Misa Amane is an exception, sort of. She does play a key role being "used" constantly and does many things about halfway through the series, playing the part of Kira for a while. With that said Misa Amane (or as we call her in da hood daaaaaaamn (with apologies to storm dain)) is AWESOME she is so sexy and considering she's a model they have an excuse so she not eye candy for the sake of eye candy, it's her job.

4) Chi from Chobits
Although it's established she is useless (in fact she's a burden) the series revolves around her so I can't say she's useless. With that in mind (excusing the fact she's a computer) Damn! Chi is fiiiiine. She is sexy as all hell and I have nothing more to say.

3) Sango from Inyuyasha
Simply put she is cool...not awesome or sexy just cool, although the giant boomerang on her back is ridiculous she is still a badass and she does contribute to the series by actually doing something which is why she is here instead of Kagome.

2) Rena from .Hack//Legend of the Twilight
Useful and although we never see her actual character, her unique avatar is certainly quite sexy. I just have nothing more to say other than...nice :P hehe.

1) Hinata from Naruto Shippuden
Ok soooo, she's usually only involved in filler but when shes part of the story she usually does something so it counts! Put quite simply, Hinata is awesome, she's shy she's sexy and...my god she-shes just great fuck Temari, Ino, and Sakura. Hinata is the best.

So that's my top ten anime girls, list your own top ten why dontcha and let me know what you think of mine.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I'm not dead just tired!

I apologize for being absent, I have finals and it's been exhausting! To apologize formally I will a have a super special awesome mega chocolaty fudge coated extended edition of my blog.

Bleach On Crunchyroll!!!: Crunchyroll just announced that it will stimucast Bleach on it's website. It will start with the latest (Japanese) episode, #274 and it will stimucast it on June 8, 2010. It will also stimucast episodes 266-273 on June, 15. It will be available in HD for premium members a mere hour after it airs on Tokyo T.V. and it will be available in SD a week after for regular members. It will be available in English subtitles in so many countries you basically have to be in South Africa not to see it...oh wait...it's available there as well.

Top Selling Manga (for Japan)
From November 23, 2009 to May 23 2010
1. One Piece Volume #57 Sold: 2,305,594
2. One Piece Volume #56 Sold: 2,276,013
3. Full Metal Alchemist Volume#25 Sold: 1,251,949
4. Nodame Cantabile Volume #23 Sold: 1,223,488
5. Full Metal Alchemist #25 Sold: 1,208,345
6. Naruto Volume #49 Sold: 1,152,551
7. Naruto Volume #50 Sold: 1,119,029
8. Naruto Volume #51 Sold: 952,072
9. Kimi no Todoke Voume #10 Sold: 939,831
10. Hunter X Hunter Volume #27 Sold: 918,059


Borders losing mo' money: Borders a major book store and media outlet reports a 15 percent quarter sales lost, a net loss of about 64 million dollars. They closed 6 domestic stores, however on the bright side there is about a 6 percent increase in international store sales. It a darn shame for me because my "local" Borders has a huge ass Manga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some Manga.

Awesome People to Produce Awesome Cartoon: Remember Thundercats? Probably not but, like Transformers it's making an epic comeback. Thundercats a cartoon from the 80's appears to be going to be animated/produced by 4 degrees Celsius studio. To give you an idea of just how spectacular this new series is going to be, these guys animated/produced, Ben 10, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Teen Titans, and even Avatar: the Last Airbender. If you hated any of these and argue they aren't real animes I have this flimsy response: could you do any better?

I cAn haZ mOar mangas?: Finally Viz Media plans ANOTHER North American Manga release of a series called Mardock Scramble. The series is described as (and I'm quoting someone on this) "A young prostitute named Balled...now a cyborg...chases down a variety of insane villains..." I'm not shortening the quote to put down the series or altering it to make it look stupid, quite literally that's what it said. Although I must admit a crime fighting prostitute cyborg, is still not half as crazy as other Manga or Animes I've seen...speaking of.

Incest? Oh your step-siblings...: In conclusion today there seems to be a plan of a Direct release of an anime called KissXSis which follows the "forbidden love" of a brother and his two step-sisters. They DVD which ships Friday will be episode the 5th episode but ironically call #4 since the pilot was called episode #0. It will also be bundled with the first print of volume #7 of the manga. My only issue is if having step-siblings in the same house be boyfriend and girlfriend was O.K. in Twilight, then I don't see how they make a big deal of it in this series. Then again, I'm the one who watched the entire Honey and Clover series.

Anime Character of the Day: Edward Elric
Edward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"