godlike days, it´s getting better

Aside from the fact that I never had a good night´s rest, the week was just fab!
First of all, I helped my japanese teacher to organize the anniversary celebration; 25 years of Japan-Germany-exchange at our school. So my job is to create a 20-35 min. Video of all Videos that have been taken in Japan. The best thing is: They are from ´77 – 2011. So amazed when i´ve watched them, i feel like making a journey to japanese´s past. Especially the ´80s and ´90s are amazing, girls wore loose socks, but nowadays black or dark blue knee highs are popular and loose socks became some kind of sex symbol. Anyways, i took some screencaps of the vid taken in 2001, so girls still wore them.

I´ll take some more of them, but usually the video is focused on the german exchange-students so not much japanese are filmed.

On Tuesday, my newest Figma arrived! It´s Rei Ayanami from Evangelion and now the 3 girls are complete! ♥ (’-’*)

Since it´s Summer sale here, i have the urge to buy a lot haha! So I went shopping and found some good stuff! (´o`*)

yay, jeans! The last time I bought jeans or trousers was 2 years ago? haha…But they cost 70€ and were reduced to 20€ (*≧▽≦).
Also I liked this sweater very much, it´s so comfy! I can´t even tell whether it´s for girls or boys, but I like it.

Later that day, I met my friend and we ateice cream together. God I fell in love with coconut ice cream!! (≥◊≤)

I bought the newest KERA Magazine, cute and fashionable as always.
Here are some Screencaps, if you are interested, just click the picture, it will pop out in full size.

It´s Sunday and I finally started to play ICO for PlayStation 2. It´s wonderful, but I already lost hahaha but could save on time. It´s hard, you have to be multitasking! Will play it later again, i have the time.
Now I´ll enjoy my bee sting cake, またね。( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/

Inspiration and Ideas

Time ago, I downloaded the App TBG!Fashion TWEET at the japanese app store. It´s like FRUiTS. Girls are being photographed on the street because their outfits are fashionable, idividual, outstanding. It´s updating daily with awesome new photos of cute girls. Outfit, shoes, nail, hair, bag, accessory and mobile phone is being photographed separate. The app is awesome, so inspiring,… i want to become fashionable too, but i´m way too insecure and i´m not  confident at all. (/_ ; ) But i took some screenshots of fashion i liked the most. I think i will keep this up to show here if the app is not available for you.

What me impressed the most:
The awesome cross ring ( i SO want it! ) and the spike bracelett.
Also the white cotton bag with the anime button and charms. I want to buy me a cotton bag and paint it. Also I´m going to buy a white T-shirt and paint it. (^^)

Summer break

Summer break started today and i moved up to grade 12. Grade 12 is going to be my second last school year and in grade 13 i´ll take the final exam. I can´t believe that i already go to school since 12 years. German school system is fucked up, right? Even my grandmother laughs that 13 years school is just crazy ! Anyways, summer break started, 6 weeks of freedom! I´ll fly to Latvia for 10 days in july with my dad and big sister. I´ve never been there, it´s the homeland of my dad and mom, back then Latvia belonged to the USSR, that´s why my mother tongue is russian. BUUUT i dont want to bother here with history! m(_ _)m 

My Bakemonogatari Figmas arrived! They are gorgeous and made me rewatch the anime.

Soi rewatched Bakemonogatari and came to the idea to make an AMV and upload it on my youtube account (´･ω･｀) i hope it will work out.
Episode 7 is amazing and they use a lot of comic face expressions. I had to make a GIF Animation of this one ( I messed up with the dwell (; o;”) )

it´s somehome retarded i think, i need to become better with GIF Animations !! … Anyways, i think this face is just too cute and funny, so i draw it and made a sticker. I needed some tries but i think it worked out OK.
I put the sticker on my new Moleskine for 2011/12. I need to become organized! （　´∀｀）

I´m not finished yet with decorating the Moleskine.

I want to watch the movie Cencoroll ( センコロール ), it´s from 2009 and singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by Atsuya Uki.
Music is by Ryo, Supercell (´o`*) ♥

I found it uploaded on Youtube with english sub, I will watch it asap and take some favourite screencaps!
Byebye! ヾ(^^ )

happenings

This week was full of joy, i think! Above all, my Yesstyle.com order arrived. And actually it arrived so fast and i didn´t even had to pay customs duty as expected ♪

I went shopping with sister, and i found a cute denim dress and a special DVD of
the japanese horror movie “Senritsu meikyû”, or in english “the shock labyrinth”. Oi i´m so excited to watch it with somebody (^o^) !
I will take screencaps! It´s old red-blue 3D, this was the best right? haha! Even the cover is 3D!!

I really need to do a proper wishlist… i wonder how?.. Because I have so many things i want to buy but always forget about them.. a need to do a organized wishlist (; o;”) … aah…. Yesterday I bought Figma Ayanami Rei,.. Lets hope that all my 3 Figmas will arrive soon (’-’*)

Since Germany is celebrating 150 years friendship with Japan, there are a lot of events here in my city! And my japanese teacher has a lot of connections and stuff, so she invites her students to these events. (*￣ー￣*)
The photographer Yoshiyuki Ikuhara (生原良幸) had a photo exhibition and i was invited. I went there with 4 classmates. His photographs are stunning! I tried to make a photo of him, but failed.

Unfortunately I didnt take my camera with me,.. so i had to use the iPhone.
I took some photos of his works.
But here is his homepage: http://www.ikuhara.co.jp/

There was a japanese woman at the exhibition as a visitor, i think in her mid-twenties, all lively and cute, talking to us in japanese! We changed email address with her and i insisted to make a photo with her, she was so cute, we talked a bit about anime because she loves it, we both love Lucky Star and Haruhi! <33

sorry my grinning is just awful. (*´ο`*)=3 … maaa, whatever…
I´m about to download the movie “Ranbou To Taiki” i already wrote about, i finally found it and a lot of awesome japanese movies , the homepage is gold, who wants? (ﾉ･o･((｡_｡*)

I will take a lot a lot a looot of screenshots! Sorry for this weak entry, i just hope my figmas will arrive soon.
♥

Collection 1.0

I added a new category called “Collection”. But actually when I post something it usually goes to uncategorized since i totally forget about categories…
but i should not !! … Well well, … I´m something you could call a self-proclaimed Otaku! ww My collection is growing and growing, slowly, so I thought I should document it somehow? And do an once-in-a-while update? maa, anyways here it is!
My current .. ah,… how to call it? (´A`”) .. Japan-Anime-and-Popculture-Collection? .. haha… ah whatever , it´s growing and this is the current state:

these are my current Figma Figures. Figma is a Japanese action figure line produced by Max Factory and distributed by Good Smile Company.
I´m waiting for 2 new Figmas to come home.
My Figmas are:
* Ein ( ~Requiem for the Phantom~ )
* Hiiragi Kagami, Hatsune Miku Cosplay Ver. ( Lucky☆Star )
* Hirasawa Yui ( K-ON! )
* Makinami Mari Illustrious ( Evangelion Shin Gekijōban )
* Sōryū Asuka Shikinami ( Evangelion Shin Gekijōban )

These are my Anime/ Manga – Scale- and Prizefigures.
Figure Name, Version + Manufacturer, Anime/ Manga

* Akiyama Mio, FREEing 1/8 ( K-ON! )
* Hirasawa Yui – Maid Outfit Ver. , Banpresto ( K-ON! )
* Sōryū Asuka Shikinami, WAVE ( Evangelion Shin Gekijōban )
* Sorami Kanata and Suminoya Kureha, FuRyu ( So Ra No Wo To )
* Takaya Noriko, Monsieur Bome Vol. 18 ( Toppu o nerae! )

these are small figures, no scale, Gashapon and Omake (Cards etc.) .
Some of them are bought in Paris, Germany, England and Japan. ♥

more Evangelion haha! These are called “Evangelion Portraits” by Bandai.
Usually, they are selled single and as blind box. But I buy them as sets so I get all figures from one Portraits Series. So expensive (; o ;”) …

These are my artbooks, special editions, photobooks.
It´s looks kind of messy on the first photo (´A`”) …
My current ones are:

* Sadamoto Yoshiyuki: DER MOND ( Evangelion Artbook )
* Sadamoto Yoshiyuki: DIE STERNE ( Evangelion Artbook )
* Ōkami Artbook by Clover Studio and Capcom
( Playstation 2 Game: Ōkami )
[ original japanese version, not english version ]
* 3 Evangelion Pachinko Special Editions
* Small book of Volks Dollfie Ball Jointed Dolls
* TOKYO CLASH JAPANESE POPCULTURE by Ralf Bähren
( 192 pages full color )
* Honey and Clover Special Hobby Book with Plush
* Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda

I´m a huge fan of Japanese Fashion- and Animemags… it can´t be helped!
The mags i own and which i buy once in while ( here at the local japanese book store who are double the price because of import etc. … ) :

* Newtype * Nyantype * Animedia
* FRUiTS * egg * Hanachu * KERA
* Rabuberi

Oh my goodness this was a hugeee photopost, …
what i´m planning to do is whenever I buy something new to my “collection” and/or get something delivered:
photo and post! (´o`* )

Time Travel

I think that I will NEVER grow up! ♥
I watched Futari wa Pretty Cure again, that´s the very first season of Pretty Cure. It´s almost ridiculous! I cried so much, exactly like when I was 12!
σ(ＴεＴ；）aah, i want to be 12 agaaaain! … So, I started to watch Pretty Cure again which means I need to watch.. like… 8 seasons haha! But I can do it! Ganbarouuu! Fight fight fight! Then, I also need to watch Ojamajo DoReMi again, which i also watched in Childhood. But I will watch both, Pretty Cure and DoReMi, in japanese this time since I only know it with german dub. Bleh.
And i remember when I was buying this CD, from my very first own allowance my mother gave me ♥ now i can not stop listening to those stupid, into german translated Pretty Cure songs but so much memories are coming up, right?

I think it´s totally decided now. I will try to sell my Canon EOS 450D to upgrade to the Canon EOS 550D or 600D. It´s because of the Movie Function. I really love to take movies, and what would be better to do this with a DSLR? ♥

Recently, the weather is really moody! (・_・、) But yesterday it was very sunny so my dad and me, we went to the highest mountain here in this state. It´s 878 metres high and the outlook is very great on a clear day!!

i went there dressed like this:

i really like this outfit (*´ο`*)
the sweater is thrifted, and in my opinion so 80´s!  it´s an old lady who selled it to me! and guess what? the hotpants are from children’s ward! I´m so proud i can still shop there and that it still fits me!

Lately, I´ve become obsessed with NIKE shoes. I need one of these!!!

Today, such a wonderful thing happened.
When I was in 8th grade in my old school (I´m already out of this hell and changed school , the best what happened to me), in the second half-year (in Germany we divide a school year into 2 , so we get an interim report and a final report) a girl came into my class. She was chinese and we became very good friends. But then she left for China with her mother. We emailed us, but then we lost the contact. When I joined Facebook 2 years ago, i searched for her but i didn´t found her, and i lost her email address. So the last time we saw us was 4 years ago. But today she added me on Facebook!!! I was like this:
w(ﾟﾛﾟ;w(ﾟﾛﾟ)w;ﾟﾛﾟ)wﾏｼﾞ？！！！
and yes!!! it was her!! indeed! I´m so happy we wrote us a little bit and she will come back to Germany and we will meet us! I´m so happy!! (*ﾟOﾟ)ﾉ

New Header and Background + Yakushimaru Etsuko

Finally I changed Layout (; o;”) you like it?
I totally fell in love with the anime:
電波女と青春男 (Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko)
That´s what the anime is about:

Makoto Niwa a high school student with him his cousin which is a mysterious girl named as Erio Toowa who wraps herself with Futon mattress and calls herself an alien. She has been missing for half a year and found floating on a sea. She doesn’t remember anything what happened, but she started to think it was alien’s act and wanders the neighborhood with Futon on.

I lovee it because I love Aliens so much and she is so cute calling herself one! It´s again from Studio Shaft and I, as Otaku, really hope that there will be a lot of Figures and Stuff from this anime !!

The Pictures and Background is from official Website (TBS , Starchild), and I made the Header with the pictures , the japanese on it is:
I want to become a Electric Wave Girl!

The Ending is sung by Yakushimaru Etsuko and i think i could say it again and again, she is my favourite Songstress EVER in this whole universe!!
I found the CD , and now it´s running infinite loop ♥
I´m really impressed with the Spring Seasons Anime, there are a lot of good ones and i really not a fan of new anime. So it´s like a wonder! ww

I think I should either start a Wishlist which I will stepwise execute (never!) or
just stop searching for things I never can buy!! … So many things I want! ..
But here is what I bought yesterday and what should arrive in 7-14 days:

It´s a floral ivory backpack!! It comes from Yesstyle.com .
I saw bags like this in Japan, and I never had the money on hand to buy one, .. so many awesome bags in Harajuku, I could´ve died, I never bought one!!
Even when I was in Kyoto in the last week I saw them for 4000Yen, I did had the money but then I knew that I would go to Akihabara on my very last day so I couldn´t buy one again since I didn´t had the chance to go to a bank.

Since Summer Break will start in about 3 weeks or so? I dunno hahaha.
But anyways my plan for my 6 weeks of Summer Break is:
To watch ALL Pretty Cure Seasons!
Pretty Cure just is one of my favourite magical Girl anime ♥
And also searching for a job to get money…

Because my current Otaku Wishlist is looong  (; o ;”)
It can´t be helped!

Please look at this, this is selfmade 80´s Anime, the intro is so catchy, i´m lazy to write about what exactly this is haha sorry :´D , please ask if someone want to know