Saturday was full of awesome, despite the tininess of it all 8D
And I managed to get some SUPREMELY awesome stuff, and that's what's the most important of all, yup.
I'll edit this post and put up a photo of all the stuff I bought another day.
Maybe tomorow?

Either way, for now, I'll just narrate off the list of what I bought...
1) A5 KHR file (front cover: Tsuna and Reborn, back cover: Mukuro-sama♥)
Mukuro-sama, banzai~! You ARE the best afterall~
Too bad they didn't have the TYL!Mukuro-sama/TYL!Hibari-san though... I wanted that one...
2) Starry Sky: In Spring A4.5 file♥
Has Cancer, Sagittarius and Pisces~
CANCERRRRRRR *AAAAAAAAAA*
GAH WHY IS MY OWN CONSTELLATION SO CUTE XDDDDDDDD
And for the game/anime, he's voiced by Ono Daisuke.
ONO DAISUKE. OF ALL PEOPLE.
Claire is honored. And can die a happy fangirl~
3) Pirate!Arthur/England badge♥
4) Chibi Giotto-san badge♥
5) Set of 2 Hakuouki rolled-up posters♥
From Idea Factory itself♥
So happy~
Love their art~~!! *A*
I got Souji Okita (YESSSSS DAMN THE GUY IS TOO HOT FOR ANY FANGIRL'S GOOD XDDD) and Hijikata Toshizo (Rasetsu form)~~
Super awesome that I got Souji (fave guy and all XDD) but I wouldn't mind swapping Hijikata out for Saito or Heisuke. XD
I mean, Hijikata is cool and all, but he doesn't look that nice in Rasetsu form...
Either way, happy Claire is a happy Claire~
6) Something for Fish~ Pearlo has it 8D
7) Black Copic ciao marker♥
7) Sketchbooks: 1 A5-size and 1 A4-size♥
9) Erazer refill XD♥
And thank you Pearlo for the Haro badgies♥

I didn't manage to get any commissions (BOOOOOOOOOO!) but ah well.
Still happy.
Especially with my posters~
Apparently new posters (especially official posters made of win-ful art♥) make Claire the happiest of all~~~

Couldn't find August's issue of PASH! at Kinokuniya D:

Me: -holds Nurarihyon no Mago volumes 1 and 2 together side-by-side happily- "Nurarihyon no Mago's covers are... continuous~~!!"
Li Wen: "Claire looks very proud of herself."
I am epic. XD
Even though I played absolutely no part in the designing of the epic-ful covers? XDDD

Due to the influence of my new Hakuouki posters, I has started watching Hakuoki.
(And diving headfirst into the epic-win fandom.)
Yes, I actually bought the posters for the art even before I knew ANYTHING at all about the series.
It was a pretty good decision to, actually.
'Cos the series is ♥♥♥♥♥
I give it 5 hearts.
It's actually historical! (Minus the fantasy elements, of course.)
Actually, it's an Otome game-turned-Animu.
For people who don't know what an Otome game is, think a harem game.
Except it's reverse harem.
Meaning, more guys to chase after than girls.
Pretty much, a dating sim game.
Hey, but it's not hentai or anything of the sort.
It's HISTORICAL. More bloody than anything, and I'm perfectly fine with senseless gore.
Not that it has ANY gore, mind you. Just a bit of blood here and there. They're SAMURAIS, peoples.

I WANT TO PLAY HAKUOUKI, DAMMIIIIIIIIT T________T
BUT I CAN'T READ JAPANESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T__T
The life of an Otaku who doesn't know Japanese is truly sad.
This just reinforces my decision to pay for PROPER Japanese classes during the year-end holidays.
THIS I MUST.
IT IS ALL.
FOR PLAYING HAKUOUKI, CHIKUSHOUGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--

Idea Factory (or some other company) would actually make a ton more money than they could ever imagine if only they would actually translate Hakuouki and sell it to the fangirls.
I'm willing to bet sales would explode.

It's historical! (Apparently I like historical animes/mangas/games, as long as it manages to capture my attention. And once it does, I officially love history.)
(In fact, thanks to Hetalia, my favourite subject in school right now is History. CAN WE PLEASE LEARN IN-DEPTH ABOUT JAPAN'S HISTORY NOW T_T )
(I repeat, IN-DEPTH.)
It's educational! (What more do parents ask for!)
It's a dating-sim game! And it's not even a yaoi dating-sim game! (Wait, DOES THE WAY I PHRASE THAT MAKE IT SOUND LIKE I'VE GOT A STASH OF YAOI DATING-SIM GAMES STASHED AWAY UNDER THE BED.)
(I DON'T, SO DON'T GET THE WRONG IDEA!!!)
IT'S GOT A TON OF SUPREMELY HOT BISHIES INSIDE, WHAT MORE COULD ANY MENTALLY RETARDED NOSEBLEEED-PRONE FANGIRL ASK FOR?!!! (Secret agenda, EXPOSED!!)
SOUJI♥♥♥♥ XDDDDDDDDDDD
(Everyone, stay clear of Claire now.)
(WARNING: DANGEROUS FANGIRL. NOT CHAINED.)

Okay, but yeah, the story for each possible path is supremely fluffy.
And sweet.
To the extent that it gives people tooth decay. XD
Just what I like. XDDDDD
(Surprised right? But hey I AM a girl afterall... Albeit one only interested in 2D bishies. XD)
Even the bad endings are full of fluff.
(I'll confess though... The only translated summary of any bad ending I could find was of Souji's.)
Although my main motivation for playing the game is the bishies, yes. XDDDD
ALL HAIL 2D GUYS♥
FOR ALL THEIR HOTNESS AND COOLNESS AND AWESOMENESS AND EPICNESS AND 5-STAR LOVE-MATERIAL THAT REAL-LIFE GUYS CAN'T AND WON'T AND DON'T HAVE TO SAVE THEIR LIVES♥♥♥♥♥

Claire is truly a teenage girl who was raised purely on 2D guys.
Self-raised. XD My parents don't approve of my tastes in guys, for obvious reasons. XDDDDDD

The next time I make it to Sunshine (which hopefully shall be during the one-week not-quite-vacation-what's-with-having-to-come-back-for-lessons-5-out-of-9-days vacation) I shall stock up on Hakuouki goods 8D
Idea Factory's art is just too darn beautiful to resist. 8DDDD
And the bishies 8DDDDDDDDDDD Shut it about the bishies, already.
Okay fine, SOUJI♥♥♥♥♥

Looking forward to Saturday~
Majorly small event and all, buuuuuut that's okay~
Since I'm mostly looking for art commissions this time.
Maybe I'll just pick up a couple of other merchandise here and there.
Claire has plenty of requests this time~
A bit too many, in fact? O__o
3, all from different series.
The World Ends With You, Monochrome Factor and Nurarihyon no Mago (It's a super nice series~ XD).
To start it off, let's hope that someone with decent art is actually doing commissions. v(Ov<)/

Still, SUPREMELY SMALL EVENT!
If there's nothing much maybe we'll be done by lunchtime.
And then Pearlo shall be dragged around everywhere by us! >D Ohohohohoho~!
Dragged around~ Dragged around~ Dragged around~
XDDDDDDD

I'll need to buy some art materials. :O


CCA.
SO FUUUUUU~N~~~~ XDDDDD
I guess I still don't understand what Ye An meant when he was all 'You'll understand why I'm saying thanks to you for liking CCA when you get your own juniors.'
IF ANYTHING I THINK I'M STILL THE ONE HAVING FUN XDDDDDDDDDDDD
Then again it doesn't take a lot to make me have fun 8D
And maybe it's cos I don't have any positions (don't want one XP) so I don't actually get an excuse to feel appreciated XDDDDDDDD
Sooooooooo... I guess this is more like super super thanks to our training planners~
THANK YOU SONG EN AND WEN SOON~ XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
And super thanks to all juniors for being so awesome~ <333
CCA wouldn't be so half as awesome without ya guys around~ :D
...All of you still need more training though! >D

Wednesday session!
Just regular training for the Sec 1s (and some 2s) while we sit and stone stalk 'invigilate' them. XD
ZHENG XIU AND JUN MING ARE EPIC. XDDDDDD
The 2 of them were trying to set up the projector screen together.
Which is good and all.
But.
THE PROJECTOR SCREEN IS FREAKISH HEAVY >__________< lll
You need 3 normal-sized and fairly strong people to set it up, or maybe 2 quite strong people.
Both of them are small not so regular-sized!!
Jun Ming was clinging onto the base of the projector screen for dear life and Zheng Xiu HAD TO CLIMB ONTO A CANTEEN TABLE JUST TO PULL THE SCREEN UP.
And even then they couldn't do it.
The way they were trying to was damn epic I tell you XDDDDD

Zheng Xiu: -trying to pull screen up- HELPPP HELPPP!!
Me: -forbidden from helping (cuz according to Song En, I'm absolute major fail at stalking the Sec 1s XDDDD)- Ehh, you two might want to leave the projector screen for stronger people? o____O
Jun Ming: Ehhh, can lah. ZHENG XIU FASTER!!!! ARM PAIN!
Me: 'Means that you can't do it!! What you mean, 'can lah'?!
Zheng Xiu: -gets more desperate- WEN ZHI! HEEEEEELP!!!
Wen Zhi: -off at far end of canteen setting up speaker, can't hear-
Me: Just put that down, get off the table and go plug in some wires or something.
Jun Ming: Caaaaaaan lah... ZHENG XIU FASTEEEEERR!!!!
Zheng Xiu: WEN ZHIIIIIIII! WEN ZHIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIII
Me: Now I know why every group that doesn't contain Marcus or Butaneath wants Wen Zhi.
Zheng Xiu: Ya.

Song En had to help them in the end. XDDDDD
Pure epic.
I love my juniors XDD

Today's session!
The usual PT!
Then Games Day! :D
Mostly consisted of almost the whole group of Sec 1s and us flinging the sponge ball someone managed to unearthed from the AVA store though XDD
And of course the usual Captain's Ball and all XDDDDDDD
Among little groupies, then AVA + IT VS Photo + Video.
Naturally we kicked ass XDDDDDDDD
Guys were epic.
SOME OF THEM COULD FLING THE BALL ACROSS THE ENTIRE BASKETBALL COURT. 8DDDDDDDDDD
Jonathan as our goalkeeper.
GUY IS IMPOSSIBLY TALLL GODDAMMIT.
I actually have to LOOK UP just to talk to him. )<
I don't even have to do that to anyone else.
Even Wen Zhi.
And I think Wen Zhi is like almost 180cm?!
Now whenever I see Jonathan I get reminded of the time during one of the Drama night rehearsals when Jin Ying was like "...he's a monster."
He mocks short people! D:
Add his height to the height of the chair.
Utter giant.
GAH.
But in this case, good thing.
All we had to do to score was to AIM HIGH~~!!
Literally.
Wen Soon (the guy who actually seconds Jonathan. Pretty impressive already...) as the defender.
As in, he goes to block goals at the opponent's side.
HE CAN JUMP.
Add these 2 monstrous guys together and the pro people who can throw like OMG and we're more or less pretty much guaranteed to win...


Either way, I'm a happy fangirl :D
Life is good~ XDDDDD

SCREW MY BLOGGING HIATUS LAZINESS.





DAMMIT. THIS ACTUALLY MADE ME CRY.
RYUKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TT_____________TT
EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNEW FROM WAY IN THE BEGINNING THAT YOU WOULD DIE, WHY IS YOUR DEATH SO SAD?!!
DAMN YOU HOMURABI!
DAMN YOU SAWAKIIIIIIIIIIII!!
STUPID ASSHOLES.
JERKFACES.
I HOPE YOU'LL DIE AND DISAPPEAR INTO NOTHING TOO!
ESPECIALLY SAWAKI.
YOU HAD THE GUTS TO (have possibly have) KILLED KOU AND NOW WE FIND OUT THAT IT WASN'T EVEN HOMURABI THAT KILLED RYUKO (not directly, at least) BUT YOU!!
I HATE YOU THE MOST!!!
(...Now I sound like Kou.)
RYUKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TT__________________TT
WHY DID SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GUY HAVE TO DIE TT__TT
EVEN HIS DEATH IS WAY TOO BEAUTIFUL, DAMMIT.
AND EVEN HIS STAB SCENE.

I'm now torn between loving Sorano-sensei and hating him for killing Ryuuko, 'cuz his art is WAY TOO BEAUTIFUL TO HATE.
Can such glorious works possibly even exist?!!!! TT_______TT

Dammit, I shall go mourn Ryuko's death later, with his picture in the Separation Sky artbook. T_T

Now you know why I revere Monochrome Factor, Mother Keeper and Sorano-sensei.
His art is practically GODLY.
And he's everything I want to be as a manga-ka. T_T
HE CAN DRAW EMOTIONAL SCENES T_T
WAY TOO EMOTIONAL!!
Someone make me a icon/banner/whatever out of the second picture and I'll really cry tears of eternal indebtedness to you. T_T


Something's not adding up, though. ;_____;
In Chapter 49, before we got all the awesome flashbacks of when Ryuko was still alive, we saw a mini-flashback of a young Kou (but in his 'mature' adult form) talking with Ryuko...
So that means Kou obtained his human form while Ryuko was still alive.
But in THIS chapter, 54, Kou was seen fleeing in his 'baby form', a big dog...
And Ryuko dies. (NOOooooooOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo T_______T )
So that means...
Unless Kou is capable of shifting between his human form and his dog form...
And I don't think he can do it, anyways...
Then something's not adding up.
I mean, by how it incorrectly adds up right now...
It could either go 2 ways.
Which both happen to be impossible, anyways.
1. 'Baby' form --> 'Mature' form --> 'Baby' form --> 'Mature' form
or
2. 'Mature' form --> 'Baby form' --> Still in 'Baby' form --> 'Mature' form
This makes no sense.


On slightly more random notes...



BEHOLD, MY GLORIOUS 2 NEW ARTBOOKS.
(Focus on Separation Sky and Colore, please.)
I bought both of them on the same day at Kino, so they seriously BLEW my pocket.
I no longer have enough money to buy manga this week.
But that's okay, 'cuz I love artbooks and these are by my 2 IDOL manga-kas, EVER. 8D
2 idol artists ever, even.
(But recently Amano-sensei's art style seems to have changed? @___@ If you compare middle-of-Varia-arc part all the way up to the final seriously un-epic battle with Byakuran with the current Inheritance arc, it's different, I swear.)
(I liked the previous old style more. D: )
(And WTF? BELT OF THE STORM?!! HOW DA HECK IS GOKUDERA GONNA ACTIVATE IT?!! OH THE HORROR!! MY BRAIN IS SPAWNING IMAGES!!!)



SEPARATION SKY IN ALL IT'S FULL GLORY!!! 8DDDDD
(Actually, the full glory lies not in the cover, but in the inside art.)
(Still, the cover's glorious. And it's one of the most awesome art ever. AND it still counts as part of the artbook, 'cuz it's the cover!!)
(Akira on the front, wait till you see Shirogane on the back. 8D Not that I photographed the back. though.)
BTW, Separation Sky not equals Monochrome Factor artbook. It equals artbook of all of Sorano-sensei's art. Meaning, Monochrome Factor, Mother Keeper, CRISTO (NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF CRISTO ;____; ) and a couple of random art.



Colore, anyone? 8D
The outer cover is plastic! 8D
(There are 2 covers. The inner one is the white one you see, and the outer one is the red plastic one.)
The photo's kinda blur, I know.
Ignore it.

And apparently, Kinokuniya has everything.
A fangirl's paradise, indeed.



UraBoku light novel? (Using images from the anime.)







DURARARA!! light novels are no doubtedly made of epic awesome, no questions asked. 8D
Especially the art!! 8D
I DROOL at the art.
(Minus the first volume's art, which just looks WEIRD, for some reason. It's the volume on the right in the first photo.)
Art's reminding me more and more of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor's art...
I wonder if the person who did Devil Survivor's character art drew the art for the DRRR!! light novels...
If he didn't, that's ONE HECK of a very identical similar art style...

(Random note, they're making a Devil Survivor remake/part 2 for the new 3DS console! 8D)
(Yes, I'm so gonna get that console. See the confirmed list of games they're making of it, and you'll see why.)

Wull... Over and Out! (Gotta do my art homework... T_T )
(How easily I change from mourning Ryuko's death back to normal just plain scares me.)
(...I'm still mourning, though. T___T )
(RYUKOOOOOOOOOOO TT____________TT )