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K-On!! Episode 20

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Somehow I am delighted to do this. Apparently I took sometime cropping the images for that iPad.

Ritsu x Mio

Nein, danke.

Nein, danke.

Don’t you think Ritsu and Mio as one of the best couples ever? Yea, yuri couple. Actually I like these images by gogono panya.

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K-On! Live Event ~Let’s Go!~

:P

:P

K-On! Live Event ~Let’s Go!~ was the concert that was held in Yokohama Arena at the end of last year in Japan. A concert dedicated to the fans of K-On! from seiyuu of the characters. Not really sure how many were there during the concert but it is said that the capacity of the arena is 17,000. It’s safe to say that the visitor counts are around that. While I wasn’t there in the concert but I just ordered the Blu-ray copy of it from Amazon Japan :3

Azunyan :3

Azunyan :3

I decided to buy this off from the site because it’s Blu-ray, man. Well, what kind of shitty excuse was that? lol. Anyway, this Blu-ray of K-On! has became the best selling music Blu-ray in Japan so far with 22,000 copies sold in a week. I wasn’t included as one of the fags that made the record breaking though because I ordered my copy a bit later. The record even surpassed the previous record of Namie Amuro Blu-ray selling; 14,000 in a week and 21,000 copies altogether from last September. Record doesn’t mean anything much but I can conclude from here that many otaku in Japan do have Blu-ray players such as PS3. An otaku might have a PS3 to play games as well unlike normalfag. So it is normal for anime stuffs to be popular in Blu-ray format.

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Facing the Music

Let's sing together!

Let's sing together!

Years of anime existence came along with its musics. Various kinds of song and genre. Recently, when I started to join a band that mostly playing anime songs and also going to Yumekukan karaoke to sing Japanese songs, I kinda realized that how music changes along with the advancement of anime to this day. If anime and manga started to use additional graphical tools such as 3D software, how about musics? My point here is that, it’s not about technological advance though. Well, let us see briefly about earlier anime songs.

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Yui and Mio Photoshoot

Yui

Yui

This was actually taken several days ago. In all, there are 180 pictures I took with my LX3 (only a third of them being displayed here). I even testing around with my flash gun but turned out that bokeh pictures weren’t that good with the flash. Perhaps I need more practices or there might be settings that I did not know. Like Mio’s photoshoot previously, I was using Aperture Priority mode for this time too (F2.0, ISO 200). I didn’t use RAW by the way since I don’t have Lightroom for easier editing of images. LX3 is using RW2 format for it’s own RAW images that requires either 3rd party image editing software that supports it or it’s own plugins (which the installer doesn’t work on 64bit version of Windows 7 that I am currently using). Anyway, let’s have a look at Alter version of Yui and Mio figya below.

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Bokeh-ing Mio

B-bokeh tte n-nani?

B-bokeh tte n-nani?

From my last entry about Alter’s Akiyama Mio, I decided to create a photoshoot gallery of the figurine. Being a newfag in photography, I don’t know much about techniques and know-how. Also, I don’t have any DSLR to begin with. I just used my only digital camera, Panasonic Lumix LX3. One of the famous technique in photography is bokeh. It is something like a blur image or out of focus, intentionally. People usually tried to focus on the object that they want while blurring the other parts which are not in the focus. So, I just playing around with the settings and I present you this gallery.

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Mior bin Tok Aki Yama

It’s already available for a couple of months I guess but I just got my Alter version of Akiyama Mio last Sunday. Truthfully, it was already there in the hands of the guy who helped me buying. Since he was at Petaling Jaya, it took me awhile to meet him for collecting the figure. Furthermore, I wasn’t that familiar with the place with led to some confusion in finding the place even though with the help of Google Maps on iPhone (GPS wasn’t available due to heavy rain in the afternoon). So, yeah… this is my first Alter product. I opened up the box and I just couldn’t stop smiling. Some of you might saying like, “Oh you moefag!” I am not really denying that if you actually looking at my plushies. Tho, in the world of otaklu, you could say that I am somewhat ‘unfaithful’ for having a lot of waifus.

Mion~

Armed with my puny Panasonic DMC LX3 (with a cheapass flash gun), I took several shots over the figure, like an amateur.

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4th Seiyuu Awards 2010

Two guys went over to Kinokuniya and spent more than RM 600++ to buy magazines and books that were previously ordered from Japan. Pretty funny to say that the amount is equivalent to a month’s pay for general worker at local factories or plantations or something like that and we were actually wasted them up on stuffs like these. Thank God that I got my Isetan card. So we got 5% discount on purchases at there. Some of the books had 20% off (like that Otacool 2 photobook which ultimaweaponx bought for kusakabemisao). Anyway, for my stuffs, one of the magazines is Voice Newtype 36. The 4th Seiyuu Awards 2010.

Presenting Ono Daisuke and Sawashiro Miyuki

List of awards winners:

Best Actor: Ono Daisuke
Best Actress: Sawashiro Miyuki

Best Supporting Actor: Namikawa Daisuke
Best Supporting Actor: Miki Shinichiro

Best Supporting Actress: Inoue Kikuko
Best Supporting Actress: Horie Yui

New Actor Award: Abe Atsushi
New Actor Award: Maeno Tomoaki

New Actress Award: Itou Kanae
New Actress Award: Toyosaki Aki

Best song: K-On! (Toyosaki Aki, Hikasa Yoko, Satou Satomi, Kotobuki Minako, Taketatsu Ayane)

Best personality: Onosaka Masaya
Best Foreign Fans: Saiga Mitsuki

Lifetime Achievement Award: Takahashi Kazue, Genda Tesshou, Sugiyama Kazuko, Tanaka Nobuo

Tomiyama Takashi Awards: Mizuki Nana
Synergy Awards: Mobile Suit Gundam (Furuya Tooru, Ikeda Shuichi)

Kids Family Award (new): Mizuta Wasabi

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Realistic Drawing

Hatsune Miku has never been this lovely.

Looking through images around the net and then stumbled upon some nicely drawn images. Something that are more realistic for anime characters to be drawn in such way. Some are like oil paintings. I do wish if I could draw like these.

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Making some room

Practically I got two bedrooms. But both of them are full of stuffs. Well, pretty much one of the rooms is being used by my brother and I. The room where I put my very own desktop computer along with my PS3. The bed is messy with a lot of stuffs on it. Boxes, magazines, mangas, tissue boxes, etc. Eventually, I was using the other room, my own proper room, for sleeping. But like any usual fucking lazy otaku room, it still has a lot of stuffs in it. I do have a plan on cleaning them up but I always have a thought that sooner it will be messy again. Heh, so I arranged up some of the unwanted materials (not entirely mine) in the book shelves to other side of the room while putting my stuffs there.

Messy bed

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