Long time no see

Wow, I'm really bad at this. I forget to update, and then I don't feel like updating anymore because too much time has passed. But enough of that, I'm starting to miss blogging about random stuff.

So anyway, my cosplay plans have changed. I'm not doing Ciel anymore, I want to do him justice but it would be way too expensive and time consuming.So I have decided to do Youmu Konpaku instead, for the Touhou Project games. In fact I started playing like 2 weeks ago xD I beat Imperishable Night on easy last week. Right now I'm playing Perfect Cherry Blossom on easy, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on normal [beat it on easy last week too] and Imperishable Night on normal. I'd like to play Perfect Cherry Blossom on normal but it's way harder than the other 2. I rarely even get to Youmu [stage 5 boss].

 Youmuuu :D

Anyway, so I have found the wig and the color contacts that I want, and I'll go buy some fabric next week. I also started searching on the web for a nice blouse in case I don't find one here [I don't want to make it, I don't think I'm good enough yet, but I can make a skirt and a vest]. So I went on Bodyline's website and found some nice ones but .. They're all way too big! What the hell .. Usually with Bodyline, the smallest size is M but for skirts and dresses it fits me. But for blouse, the bust is like 10 cm too big. It seems that we can adjust them in the back though, and maybe they listed the biggest mesurement, not the smallest.

Ugh, I have so much to do today and no motivation .. maybe I'll post again later..

/kazumi

You know ..

Now that I finished Persona 3, I don't understand how people can ship Minato with anyone else other than Aigis. No, seriously. That final scene and all .. it was very powerful, and cute, in a bittersweet way .. Also, the Aigis social link is definitely my favourite one, and with what happens at the end, I can't help but pair her with Minato .. even though she's a robot.

But yeah, I like searching for fanarts of things I like, but when I search for Persona 3 fanarts, I find so much more drawings of Akihiko x Minato [what?], Shinji x Minato [double what], Aki x Shinji x Minato [Okay seriously if you really want a yaoi pairing make it just Shinji and Aki and leave Minato out of it], Minato x Ryoji [okay, this one I can understand, I just don't like Ryoji that much and he has Nyx's hairstyle so wut], and Minato x Pharos [goddamnit guys he's a kiiiid D: I know Aigis is a robot but at least she looks the right age]

Anyway, who am I kidding, of course there's more yaoi shit then everything else. I'll stay in my little corner of Minato x Aigis.

Also I very obviously changed the background picture. It's Chidoriiii, and while we're on that subject you are all obligated to ship her with Junpei because THEY ARE FUCKING CUTE. And canon too. I did not made the picture of course, but I took it on tumblr and thus don't remember the original artist .. sorry.

Oh, and right after I finished watching Ore no Imouto [Kuroneko is the best and gawd Kirino what a bitch], I started to watch Gosick and Kuragehime. They're both so good D: Gosick is still airing right now, and I've only watched two episodes of Kuragehime but I love both of these animes already. I'll possibly talk more about them later, especially Gosick since it's stil quite new.

/kazumi

[I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO KIMI NO KIOKU NNNNGGGGGGG so good, awesome lyrics, perfect song, yadda yadda]

I will never leave you.

I JUST FINISHED PERSONA 3! I'm happy and a little sad, too .. This was truly one of best games I've played yet. It .. means a lot to me, and I think I have learned along with the characters too. I may sound silly but that's how it is.

You know, today I was reading an article about how, right now, video games aren't considered art like movies and books, and how come it is that way. The thing is that, many games are made just for the sake of entertainment, and that's okay. When you look at it, most of these games [Halo, Call of Duty, whatever] are the ones that sell the best. But I think we shouldn't dump all games in this category, just like all movies aren't American Pie or Pirate of the Caribbeans.

Some games can be considered work of arts, if they can touch the hearts of people playing them. This was one of those games, and I'm really glad that I played it to the end, even if it meant spending about a 100 hours of my life on it.

I'm gonna make a real update soon, I guess. It's spring break now, so I'll have the time to do so.

/kazumi

Not dead yet.

Well, I thought I should stop procrastinating now. I've been wanting to update for a while but I never got around to it due to various reason. First, I'm busy with school, and second, some stuff happened that I do not feel like talking about, and I was kinda down for a while.

Now it's okay though, so I guess it's time for a proper update. Since there's nothing interesting going on in my life right now, I'll talk about other stuff.

I was able to watch some animes at school, so I continued with K-ON!!, even though I'm getting kinda bored with that serie. It's nice, but I really wish the girls would play more music instead of just .. I don't know, not doing anything remotely interesting. I mean, they still haven't wrote more than 3-4 songs and they've been in the music club for almost 3 years. Anyways.

I also watched the first season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, which I had been wanting to see for like 3 years or something xD. I like it, the animation is gorgeous and overall it is pretty funny. And Nozomu is a large ham, at least for someone that claims so much to be in despaaaiiiirrrr all the time. The only thing that annoys me is the lack of male characters, exept for Nozomu of course, and the bald dude. Maybe the show is trying to laugh of harem anime, I don't know, but one or two male students wouldn't hurt, especially since it's not even a girls-only school.

And now, I started watching a show that I am definitely ashamed of liking. I mean, more ashamed about it than about Lucky Star, and I was pretty ashamed of Lucky Star at first. So yeah, it's Ore no Imoto ga Konna ni  Kawaii Wake ga Nai. Pretty long title, it means There's no way my little sister can be this cute. I started to watch it because I kept seeing the main girl, Kirino, fucking errryywhere and I wanted to know what this show was about. Turns out, it's about a 14 years-old girl that plays eroge about little sisters [erotic games for the non japanese shit savvy] and watches moe anime but wants to keep her hobby secret, for obvious reason. So her 17 years-old bro Kyou-chan [can't remember his full name wtf] helps her keeping it secret, even though she's almost always a major bitch to him. So, why do I like it? Frankly, I don't really know. The animation is nice enough, and I like the fact that it talks about how the ''otaku culture'' is perceived in Japan, which is pretty interesting in my opinion [of course it's an anime so I take it all with a grain of salt but it's still nice]. Also, Kuroneko is awesome haha she's easily my favourite character. However, Kirino [the little sis] can be so annoying, it sometimes makes me wonder why the hell am I watching this thing. Way to be ungrateful.

Also, I don't like too much the incest undertones, even though for now it really seems to be played for laughs. I'm just scared it will go further than that .. Because honestly, anyone who has a sibling knows that brother/sister incest is pretty much do not want. Anyways, it's only 12 episodes long so I decided that I might as well watch it all.

What else? I'm almost finished with Persona 3, only one in-game month left. I finally started to fuse some ultimate personas xD Right now I only have Thanatos and Sandalphon but I plan on getting some others like Beelzebub, Odin and Asura. Also, I'm not sure whether I should get Messiah or not. His name is pretty awesome lol, but I heard that it was weak .. We'll see.

And that's about it for now. Nothing really interesting, sorry, but as I said life isn't too great right now. I'll try to not abandon this blog as much though xD.

/kazumi

OMGGUYSGYSGUYS

GUESS WHAT??

I have a job. Well, kinda. It's not a real job in any case but still, I'm happy. Basically I'll do some translation work [english to french] for someone that is currently studying for a ph.d in psychology. I gotta thank my brother for that, he's the one that got me the job.

I'm so fucking glad, honestly. I'll be able to make a bit of money and, most importantly, add something to my resume. Feelsgoodman.jpg.

On another note .. I started to make a skirt yesterday. I hope it will turn out well. The only thing I'm worried about is the zipper actually.. We'll see. After that, I want to make a simple circle skirt with some nice fabric. Maybe a print if I can find one that I like.

Also, that's me in front of my computer :

[ah, I wish ..]

That's about it :B

/kazumi

So..

2010 has come and gone now. I can honestly say that it was one of the best year in my life. Sure, it had it's load of bad stuff but I retrospective it was pretty good overall. I can only hope for 2011 to be even better!

Anyway, I didn't do anything special on New Year's Eve. I watched a movie named Mein Name ist Bach, which is obviously a movie about the compositor Johann Sebastian Bach and, guess who? Frederick II of Prussia! Hehehe. It was pretty good, my mom loved it. I loved it too, I mean, a movie with der alter Fritz! Of course I have to love it. Even though Fritz was kinda portrayed as the ''bad guy''. While I'm sure Fritz was rather autoritarian, I believe he never was as mean and egoistic as he was in this movie. But yeah, that's just me, you know I like him a lot so obviously I don't think he's cruel or anything.

So yeah, on the first I saw my family and it was nice, there were some people I hadn't talked to in a long time and I kinda missed them. I dressed really aristocratic, with my pocket watch and all, it was awesome. That night I watched Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain with my cousin. I realized that when I saw that movie has a kid, I never fully understood it .. now I think I do. It's really good in any case. I love how it manages to be a love movie without being completely cheesy, it's a nice change.

Anyway, yesterday I saw yet another movie, this time in theatres with one of my friend. We went to see Tangled, Raiponce in french [what an ugly name, I prefer Rapunzel ..]. It was much better than I expected! Maybe it's just me but I think it has the overall ''feel'' of older disney movies [like snow white or cinderella]. Even the animation is similar, it's the same style of drawing, but in 3D. There's even songs! Yeah, a classic Disney movie, I recommend it, it's really good.

Before that though, I went shopping with my parents and we went to Fabricville to buy, well, fabrics. And patterns. I bought a pattern for 3 lolita-ish skirts. They're a bit too short to be truly lolita but otherwise they have the right shape and all! It's apparently easy too. Also, I saw a pattern for historical 18th century clothes, and it really looks like the prussian uniform if we changed the colors! Since it was at halfprice I also bought it. I definitely want to do a Prussia cosplay now. The difficulty is average so I'll wait a bit though. But it's cool, the pattern includes everything, the tricorne hat, the jacket, the shirt, the vest and the pants. Oh yeah, the uniform I'm talking about is pretty much this one :

I'll need to change the jacket a bit and make the white thingy from scratch, aswell as the jabot but otherwise I've got everything. Also I want to make that decoration thing he has, and GILBIRD. WITH A TRICORNE HAT. OH YEAH. Can't be a Prussia without a chick~

I'm really motivated right now, if you can't guess XD This entry is getting long so I'll stop it there. I should make a new design for this blog .. anyway.

/kazumi