I was planning on writing a semi-big rant here about how hard translating and type-setting is, about how much my Japanese improved through scanlating this etc. etc., but now I don’t feel like it anymore. Just have the doujin.

Media Fire
Rapidshare

95% translated from Chinese (Chinese translation courtesy of these guys), 4% translated from Japanese, 1% guesslated, and liberal amount of re-writing when I just couldn’t squeeze the damn Chinese into an understandable English sentence.

Special thanks to Nekosasu, who solved the biggest problem I had in translating this doujin and so allowed me to sleep soundly, and Astrobunny, who was just generally helpful in translation. Can’t forget RunningKid (a.k.a. ScapeKid), who helped me QC and proof-read. If you find any mistakes, blame him! Sorry I didn’t credit you guys in the scanlation itself…
Oh, and of course, Eretto himself, artist of the Utsura Uraraka circle. He’s probably best known in the English community as the guy who drew the Churuya comics, but I’m a huge fan of his work in general. Check him out, and if you can, buy his stuff!

Finally, have my tsundere credit page.

P.S. Since I don’t have any other channel for distribution, I hereby implore that anyone who liked this doujin to spread the word on their own website. The more people that know about it the better! Basically, a license to freely re-post this where-ever you like, even without credit. Link directly to RS and MF! Edit the images and take out my credit! Take credit for the work yourself! Ok, don’t do that last one, but if you were going to do it, me telling you to stop wouldn’t have changed anything.

Basically, I just really want more people to know about Eretto and the work he does, other than the Churuya-san comics. So please help me spread the word!

Dear Kaname Kuran…. Geez…

It’s high time the results are going to be posted. Because of WordPress I was stuck in a state of dilemma , trying to make a decision if I have to download FireFox to get my pictures done. And here I am, I got this simple-to-use but almost-gave-me-a-heart-attack program on my side. You know that I’m never a tech geek, always a no-tech geek.

Turning back to the votes, in mid-May, I can see that most people voted for Zero than Kaname and seeing that 7% of the people who visit THAT do not know who they are, it’s a pity. But I’m not blaming you if you have been sitting under the rock for the past 10 years and have no clue to the anime/manga world. But since I’m such a forgiving person I’ll put this issue aside.

Until then, I can see that Zero is leading up ahead from Kuran until I came back from my trip to Australia, telling Crusader to close the polls (Which is a little late, since I told him to close the poll officially at 31st May, which I was still in Australia. Don’t think of laptops in my trip.). I was expecting to see Zero winning the poll but the results proved me wrong, and with a close 44% compared to Kuran’s 49%.

Let’s move the differences aside and I’ll be writing on Chapter 40 of the manga, which is considered VERY late according to the calender and it’s already June. I still have holiday homework to do so maybe this will take a while. *sob* TT_TT

THAT Wallpaper of the week: Everylittle thing by Xyric.
Thoughts: LOLOLOLOLOLOL. This is the gayest shit I’ve ever seen. But it’s still fscking awesome. If I was one of the Pokemon in the wallpaper above, which would I be and why?
Rating: 8/10 Pokemon + Gay Expressions + Rainbows = WIN…points off for the background though.
How to improve it: Add a Care Bear.

Dear THAT readers,

Today I bought a pony, it spoke to me and said:
There’s an awful lot of randomness that’s floating in your head
Oh yes, I said to Pony, you know I do not jest
When I tell you it’s on anime that I ramble the best.

You probably can’t see this picture. WTF, right? I can’t either.

It is with feigned dismay that I must inform you of a grave situation that has arisen at THAT animeblog. My position has crumbled, my will has left me, and my inspiration has been packaged in the wrong box. Somewhere along the way, Impz and I discovered that I have been blogging in a lame conventional box that makes me feel like my shit’s mediocre. This doesn’t make any sense, and I wonder why you’re still reading it. Seriously, this has been done before…you all know where it leads. You’ll stick through all the way to the end thinking that I’ll eventually offer up some tidbit of information that’s worth it. But it’s not going to happen. I’ll just keep rambling until you stop. I won’t say anything about how my place in this blog is changing, or how I’m going to be posting both here and at my own site.

Wasn’t I supposed to write about some ninja anime today? Here’s your pic ladies.

Seriously though, all stupidity aside, cats are better than dogs. I mean…uh…I will no longer be blogging on THAT in an episodic or editorial fashion. Impz and I both agree that my strengths lie elsewhere (I is not a SRS Business blogger)…be it in quick news posts, bite sized hilarity (aka Naruto in the Friday Ramble), and just random crap that no one cares about but me. So instead of trying to fit into conventional blogging, we said “let Riex bring the WTF to the table”. And so I will. My goal: one digestible post a day. All my other nonsense will be posted on my newly made personal animeblog typeZERO.

*I’ll still be ranting about Soul Eater and Nabari, for those that care. I just won’t be running my mouth as much.

Riex brings the WTF! For more, check out typeZERO (launched on Tuesday, April 29th…empty as hell right now).

It is perhaps by sheer chance that I stumbled upon the blog named Hisashiburi. It is definitely a welcome change from most of the common anime blogs that I see all the time. When I mean all the time, it is the tried and tested episode summary blog like our blog (though we do expand with manga and random information). Hisashiburi, in recent times, described a little project in the early weeks of January to the present day. It is a little visual novel about how a male character, K, measures the themes of Hisa, lost memories and a forgotten town ten years ago.

Is there something you are regretting in your past? Do you have the courage to face that regret once again?

Pretty much so, if only there’s more fleshing of the story

Having only 2526 words and 149 screens, it is not the longest visual novel you will see compared to the commercial visual novel. With a short story, the fleshing out of the story will be somewhat weak as you do not have enough information to empathize with the characters. Even the author, Shinji, admits as much that the story is perhaps not the strongest. There are a few missing gaps for the story that I felt could have been addressed. I do not want to spoil the story by any chance, but you will feel somewhat confused by the ending of the visual novel. It feels like it is a revelation, but I definitely do not get it. I am perhaps not an impressionist by any chance.

I am perhaps slow to understand the significance of the ending, as I do not understand what is going on completely. The story seems somewhat jerky at times like the plot is trying to move way faster than how it should. However, since it’s only three weeks of work, and such a short piece, such detailing and fleshing out of the story is rather impossible. Do remember that this is perhaps what they call a “trial version”, and I am pretty sure that the story will be fleshed out when Shinji acts on it one day.

Which is a cute loli. How can you forget!

Nevertheless, the technical aspect of the visual novel is something impressive. I really like the music accompanying the reading of the text. Most of the music are well picked, fitting the scenario with a rather wistful, longing feeling. I am no musician but the music is pleasant to listen, allowing the reader to immerse into the short story.

One of the additions to the visual novel can be the expansion of visual and audio cues for ambiance. I am thinking that some of the ambiance scenes can be lengthened a little in order to include some nice ambiance sounds that will continue and fade in the background. That will bring a more atmospheric feel to the visual novel. Another can be a nicer font. Yes, I am being absolutely picky but a more dreamy font might help in a better feel.

All in all, it’s an excellent effort for an first effort. I am a keen player of fan-made visual novels, which is why I think that they should be given a bit more recognition. It’s only a short ten minutes of your time, so spend it on this little nice project. I have not gotten the permission from Shinji to post a download link here yet, but you can drop an email to get it. Have fun.

So, instead of drawing a request, I went and made a drawing of Tsukasa. She is quite possibly the most moe character ever. Um… pink.

EL! OH! VEE! EE! LOVELY! TSUKASA!

Thank you all for supporting T.H.A.T. Animeblog in its first year! It has also been a year since I started writing here, and I sincerely hope that you can all support Impz, Crusader, Briar, Shokkeru and myself for many more years to come. Hopefully I will be here to make a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 10th anniversary thank you drawing.

It has been a wonderful year. Thank you for your support.

Hi there everyone, it’s been a while! Great news to manga and anime illustration fans!

Manga Oasis Cafe will be organising a Manga Illustration Showcase called Kaleidoscope from the 27th-28th October 2007. Local illustrators and doujin groups from Singapore will be showcasing some of their best works in this open gallery in Suntec City @MY.PLAYGr0und on these two days. These artists will also be conducting on-the-spot workshops for budding artists who wishes to improve on their art.

Artists and illustrators who wish to have their works showcased can also approach Manga Oasis Cafe, also at Suntec City @MY.PLAYGr0und. Please burn these files into either CD or DVD in below format and submit them to the owner of the cafe. Submission dates are from 07-Oct to 13-Oct.

Specifications:
A4 size

min 200 DPI

.PSD or TIF format

Feel free to visit and lets all have fun together there!
ps: on a side note, please do also support Chuang Yi’s MUGEN launch at the heeren this weekend!

Well, if you want to find out about the deconstruction of Satoko, it will appear at the end of this image heavy entry. For those who did not know, I bought my first figurines (albeit being merely a trading figurine) in my entire life. I simply wanted to deco the place up a little, and it is cute to have some nice Higurashi figurines.

If you are looking for a Moe Moe Rabu or a Tee Jay level of review in figurines, it will not be here. I also do not have the elite photo taking skills of Windbell or Danny Choo. However, I will make it worth your time to look at the random pictures with a very interesting youTube I took yesterday.

I initially wanted to bring the figurines to work, but I decided that my room might be a better place to house these cute figurines that costs around 8 Sing dollars normally. Of course, these are surplus figurines from Rdrake who sold them to me.

When I finally removed the figurines from the boxes after transportation, Satoko’s legs are already coming off. That is what will happen if you try to own a crappy Satoko figurine. They should just all be banned and hated in the whole world. Well, it’s probably due to my bad transportation skills. I am not exactly the gentle giant in bringing items from one place to another. To add, it might also be possible that the Satoko feet were spoiled in the first place as RDrake noted that the place holder is wrong.

Rika should really stop bothering about Satoko and leave her to die. What can stupid Satoko do anyway other than nii-nii~? If you have not realized, I do not like Satoko. I only agreed to have it because RDrake bundled it into a package.

Oh, it’s like a linear shot, since I placed my Higurashi figurines along with the fan, as well as my monitor.

I personally like this shot a lot because it looks so darn classy, with the focus on front and blur behind With that, the images are over and the surprise I promise you is next.

So the surprise!

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Ready?

If you want to know how to construct an annoying Satoko, Rdrake of R.A.W.R teaches you in this video.

Burn, Satoko, Burn!!!!

Well, due to some personal contacts, you might start to see more of such artwork on the blog after talking to MistaYoh and other artists in the doujin circle. It is perhaps a small group of artists (bj0rn is in it too). As their art is pretty interesting, I decided to post it up and invite them.

On this image that MistaYoh drew, I just have a question: How come I am like a Gundam character or that LeLOUCH from Code Geass (Corrected by the anime folk)

I wonder why anime has that power to make ordinary and ugly looking guys look like absolute stunning bishies.

P/s: He drew it according to a real life picture I gave him. No, I didn’t send Ryuuki, Naru or LeLouch’s picture to him.

Happy loving on the lovely pictures and grab the full-size images using the download link provided! I personally thought that the Hidamari Sketch one is decent until I found the Kotono and Natsumi wallpaper. That one really blew me off and I swear that if Saint October had that kind of budget, it will have one hundred times more rabid fans. Kotono is total cuteness epitomized.

Download links: Yousendit / Sendspace / Storeandserve / Megaupload