hikaranko

soooooo... i came up with this idea. i decided to make this, like, guide thing for if you wanna introduce Fullmetal Alchemist to somebody, and they're lazy to read the manga. since the storyline for the manga/Brotherhood is better overall than the original anime, that's the one you oughta show. but since the beginning of Brotherhood is so rushed because the original anime already covered it... well, this oughta be the way to do it.

( try to show the episodes in this order... )

... yeah, i'm weird. v_v;; i wanted to do that. part of me even wants to go so far as to edit all this video footage together, MERGE IT ALL INTO ONE, but... yeah, lazy. and- that's so time consuming. D:

okay. okay. one more post before i disappear into the abyss of video game playing.


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so. i like. just realized? i haven't put up a post since otakon. i even promised a part 2 to that report... WHOOPS. i wonder where that went. >_>

a-anyways... AT LEAST I'M ALIVE. this is good! i've been like, distracted. by various shiny objects that i won't name. ...okay i'll name one. cookies. yes, the cookies distracted me.

okay, i'll seriously name one... this was only just recent, but it had me flailing around for a few days... my computer had a virus. it had this *@&#)(ing virus that wouldn't go away. i downloaded several different anti-virus software (i made sure each one was an actual, legit one before getting it) and i swear, NONE of them could do it. they could detect the virus, but they couldn't make it go away. so i was searching the webz for help, which was difficult because the virus would be like "OMG POP UPS! 8D OMG SLOW WEBZ YEAH THAT PAGE DOESN'T WORK SO HARDYHARHAR~" but eventually... i triumphed over evil.

GOOD > EVIL.
ME > COMPUTER VIRUS.
that's right. hellz yeah.

so my computer is like, spotless now. and it had better as all hell stay that way, or there will be one very angry me on the loose in the streets of LA. we're talking insane computer store raids here with chantings of "me want Macbook NAO BETCHES". ...but- nothing to worry about at the moment. i'm cool. i'm chiiiiillll~~~

oh oh oh, other updates. uhhhhhhhh... (1) still fixing Edward Elric cosplay. <_< belt hurts our feelings, but i think i figgered it out, so YAY~ (2) i made like. 5000 arts since my last update. and one flash video. but i think you've all seen those by now. XP  (3) all my manga are exploding off the charts. FMA. FMA, OMFG, man. and a bonus to an FMA manga that OOZES AWESOME?? IT'S GETTIN ANIMATED. in April 2009, hellz yeah, i'm excited liek WHOA.  (4) BOLT IS AN AWESOME MOVIE GO WATCH IT NOW PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

(5) i passed all my classes in school this quarter! go me~

....i think... that's it. yeeeaaaaahhhhh, my life is really exciting, isn't it. XP



oh, ALSO. that thing i posted earlier? plurklelurlke? is such a funny little thing. :3

...beware of major geekgasms on my part.

i'm seriously seriously seriously squeeing over the latest chapter of FMA that just came out because it was OMG AWESOME. Hiromu Arakawa, your plot things and characters are MIND BOGGLINGLY MADE OF WIN. i don't know if anybody saw that last bit coming until the last second, and it was just like "O.O WAIT WHAT?!" i think more people need to read the FMA manga. there's just so much that it's like... WOW. it is pure WIN.

still waiting on new Naruto stuffs but that will be ZOMG INSANE and i'm so excited for it. i'm waiting for a certain encounter, i suppose you could say... i hope it's in the next chapter!! and Bleach. yes, Bleach... and D.N.Angel Vol 10, WHERE ARE YOOOU? TToTT

all that aside... i'm still sick. which bugs me a lot, 'cause i hate being sick, and at some point last night my voice suddenly started to die on me and i started sounding a little bit like a frog. which was - wait, correction... is not happy. so i made me some chicken noodle soup just now. for my breakfast. that's right. i don't know if it'll help, but the hot liquidy-ness makes it feel a lot better. XD

at any rate. i completely blame my sister for this... disease stuff. she started it, and now it's passed along to me... and i hate her a little for it. grr. grr grr grr.

on another note, my classes officially start next Thursday! ...which i actually think is a little ridiculous 'cause i mean... there are almost no classes ever on Fridays. so it's like... the awkward first day of school is the end of the week?? i mean, seriously, come on... but at the same time it's kinda like, okay, first day of school over, WEEKEND TIEM NAO. (o_o i am turning into a macro kitty)

and OH! one last thing! if anybody knows how to fix the eraser sensor part on tablet pens, let me know? or knows a place to go to get that checked or something? 'cause mine has inexplicably died on me, and it makes me sad. i can still function without it, but i miss it... :(

so okay, that's enough outta me. :D

(omg, that mood icon is puking... that is nasty...)

*sigh* weirdly enough, i have mixed feelings about Meet the Robinsons getting released. it was kind of fun being part of the few people who knew anything about it and had seen it. it was like i was in on some big secret and i had these mysterious friends no one had ever seen before. it was kinda cool! i really wanted the world to meet them, too... but now that they can/have, i feel a little sad. haha, i guess that just makes me totally weird.

anyways, according to the box office, Meet the Robinsons did pretty well. $25.1 mil. not as good as Blades of Glory with its $33 mil, (damn the popularity of Will Ferrel! XP) but not too shabby all the same. :) it seems that, even though most adults found the movie really confusing and random, the younger children understood the story of the Robinsons perfectly. interesting, huh? i guess it was because it's really fast paced... but geez. some adults have no imagination. :P

okay, getting off that topic now. i think everyone's heard enough about it out of me, to the point that they're getting annoyed with me. (i just really love the movie!!) XP

so booooo on school. i feel like i'm taking a million classes and my schedule's gone totally funky on me. and there are about 50 billion things i have to buy for all my classes. 42 (7 x 3 x 2 / 1 x 6 / 6) textbooks, 14 (1 x 7 x 3 x 2 / 2) of which i bought this morning. the rest i'll have to order online 'cause they're just too damn expensive. (bwahaha, i'm feeling really weird this morning. i wonder if anyone can figure out how many classes i'm actually taking from that) boooooooo classes BOOOOO. not looking forward to living out this quarter. nope. not at all.

but i am looking forward to receiving a copy of Final Mix sometime this week! yaaaaaay! i'm going to feel tragedy for Roxas and Namine all over again, it's gonna hurt my feelings something awful. T-T but still. there are a lot of fights i'm looking forward to. *evil grin* and Sora has a bunch of new outfits for some reason. one that's like his KH2 outfit design wise, but it's colored like his KH1 outfit. strange. but interesting.

ooh, FMA 69 is finally out! WAAAAAAH their world is so crazy!! GAH WINRY STUPID, KIMBLEY, FUHRER WAAAAH and MAJOR GENERAL ARMSTRONG IS AWESOME. which reminds me: OMGWTFBBQPOLARBEARAAAAAAAAAAGH NARUTO MANGA STUFFS IS GOIN' KA-KA-KA-RAAAAAAAAAAAAYZEE!!! oh, i haven't seen the new Shippuuden stuffs, come to think of it... and ooooooh Bleach is madness, too! all these new developments in my regular manga series!! I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE IT ALL PLAY OUT!!

*long, drawn out, calming-self-down sigh* hmm. well, that killed some time. i wonder what i should occupy myself with now? :P

i was so bored! so very very bored when the internet just up and died on me! i'm stuck at home all day long, and my sister's already back in California and i had no one to talk to and i was so lonely and bored and... and... *snff*
but now the internet seems to be okay. i don't know what happened, but... i'm so glad.

i suppose that there was a plus side, though. i got to read and write a lot, and i also progressed quite a bit in Star Ocean 3 (i feel sorta bad for just abandoning that game for a good eight months...). ...though i also slept a lot. ...and i probably would have watched TV a lot, but there's never anything good on during the day.

which reminds me. stupid crazy ass anime channel over here. they decided to start showing Gankutsuou. but they have murdered it with their horrible english dub crew of five! someday, i'm going to find out where those people are based and attack them. they seriously need to consider hiring more people. they can't have that same chick voice all the little boys, little girls, and scary women in all of the anime they show forever. ... that girl really gets on my nerves, too. isn't it weird to play your own love interest?! i mean, in CardCaptor Sakura... being both Sakura and Xiao Rin and Yukito and Miss Mizuki and... AAAAAGH, it's so annoying! that voice is so damn distinct!

okay, i have to stop ranting about stuff i can't do anything about before i drive myself any crazier.

random stuff to shout about:
NEW NARUTO MANGA!!! holy shiznet. Naruto's gonna be so damn strong. XD
NEW FMA MANGA!!! oh, all the emo, angsting military people. Hughes, Mustang, Hawkeye... oh and Scar. and Kimbley! you crazy bastard!
"KYARIN-SANh!" Karin's such a bizarre anime. Winner steals the show. XD
the Hades Paradox Cup eats my dust. the team of Cloud, Leon, Tifa, and Yuffie put up a good fight, but they are no match for my mad gliding skillz. and Hades? pfft. it was those damn jack-in-the-box Heartless. they're the ones, they're the bad ones. grr...
found a way to watch Akazukin ChaCha, my first official anime. *evil grin* (technically, Totoro was my first anime, but since it was a movie it was really Akazukin ChaCha that got me hooked) i never realized just how strange that anime is.

my sister has a job at Disney!! i'm so bloody jealous. they get crazy ass perks over there. and now that John Lassetter's in charge, everyone's so excited! everyone looks up to him, saying that he could be the next Walt Disney. O_O amazing, eh? and... oh yes, because my sister works there in Burbank, she sometimes wanders around the lot and (if she's lucky) she catches glimpses of the insides of the main studios and at (gasp) The Black Pearl. *seethes with jealousy*
but on the plus side, some of the perks she gets can be passed on to other people (like me, for example!). 20% discounts are always a good thing. :D


okay, yeah, now there's nothing else to say. ...wow, my life is boring these days. i was supposed to have an internship at an animation place, but that fell through... :( boo...

*sigh* man, i have to get my driver's license soon so i can visit Chapman whenever i want. i miss everyone. :)

hope everyone's enjoying their summer! now go and get back to it. how interesting can it be to read about my life? :P

i only just remembered that these things existed, so i decided to search for them via YouTube.com 

the following videos are the 3 short OAVs (or OVAs, however you say it) for Fullmetal Alchemist. 

Alchemists vs Homunculi  

Life goes on... Happy Birthday, Edward! T_T

FMA movie cast after party (?) IN CHIBI STYLE!!  Beware of slight movie/end of series spoilers

umm... they're all in Japanese without subtitles... but i hope you can enjoy them all the same! :P

remember how i went on that insane FMA/HP crossover reading spree of doom? well... i decided to ride the mad wave. -_-;;
for those among you who have no idea what that means (i.e., the majority of the universe), that means that i joined those insane fanfic authors. YES, i am absolutely @*$%in' crazy, but i'm bored over here. and doing that at least makes the gears in my brain move.

HOWEVER... i am relatively Harry Potter challenged. i have no access whatsoever to the books OR the movies, so this gives me a serious handicap. which i am trying to bridge with frequent e-mails to my HP fangirl buddy from high school. she has become my beta reader and pseudo co-writer. i would dance with her if i could, but she's a 2 hour ride away and that would be difficult.




so... yeah.

other than that, life proceeds as normal. aka, rotting in the pits of bored despair. which is why i have my cousin around to insult me, which slightly raises the amusement level. we sought out Scooby and the Night of Doo and watched it together (strangely, it was his presence that reminded me of it) and rolled around in laughter. spoofs kick my ass.

AND OMGWTF I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THIS. watch this NOW because NBC conspires to take it away from the internet!! i don't know how much longer this will be up!!  i love this video! it cracks me up!

so now that i have a great new notebook type thing with completely blank pages and a hard black cover, i am working on turning it into the Great Book of Random! as of this moment, it features an enlarged version of an Ed doodle i did on lined paper (with the original doodle inserted), a little "puppet pals" version of Ed (it's so very cute! even though he's angry), random info about FMA and lyrics to "Rewrite." yes, it's very FMA dominated right now, but that will soon change! i will eventually write down the Guybrush-isms in there. and the next page i plan on dedicating to Naruto, and its insane insane-ness.

chapter 295 shocks me! waaaaaahhh!! XD but still waiting for Sauce-kay. why doesn't he just show up? all duked out in his... village of the sound... outfit... blargh, i hope he doesn't wear that goofy thing. it'll ruin his bad ass image and mess up his character. i mean, kimimaro would've been so much more intimidating if he didn't have that weird purple ribbon thing on his back. what IS that? orochimaru has the most bizarre fashion sense... or maybe he puts his subordinates in those outfits because he's cruel and gay and pedophile-ish and very Michael Jackson-like.

so my life has been consumed lately by FMA (i am now reading the manga. QUITE different from the anime, gotta say. but in a good way! still amazing!), Naruto, the computer and FanFic.net. gotta love those FMA/HP crossovers.

oh but oh! had a driving session yesterday morning with a professional driving teacher (yaaay!)! but i'm really quite the suck when it comes to turning and speed control (booo...). give me straight lines! give me straight roads and i can drive! give me zig-zags and i fail. T_T but it was a good thing that i had that session, because otherwise i would be even worse off. still kinda scary. i didn't know what was gonna happen if i bumped into something... >_<

in other news, i seem to have caught a cold. colds suck. runny noses hurt my feelings. i was sniffling all through church last night, and i felt like everyone in the chapel, all 200 some people in there, could hear me. and it didn't help that i was there early and had to wait outside in the cold for the doors to open. T_T but yeah, i'm ill, and that screws with my life a little. gahd, i'm gonna fill the tub with hot water and just sit in it. maybe the steam will clear my sinuses... *sniffle*

oh BAH!! i didn't get to go to anime club again!! T_T i wanna goooo... must get cousin who has loads of spare time to take me... still have unfinished business with Chapman, too... gotta get a form and have it signed by the dean... and then i won't be Chapman's ghost anymore. :P

engh... no use moping. this is enough for now. :)

Ed's great, but Colonel Mustang just cracks me up. and Hughes... oh Hughes...

i need an FMA icon. :P

anyways... today was spent doing... nothing. again. rewatching parts of Fullmetal, watching Midori no Hibi (there's a character in there that's voiced by japanese Al), and... napping. and chocolate milk. i loves chocolate milk. :D

which is a good thing, because we have half a gallon of milk that'll expire on the 13th. gotta finish, gotta finish gotta finish.

i need something to do. and everyone i come in contact with knows it. i haven't had dinner yet, but i'm kinda scared that if i exit this room, then i will be attacked by the aunts. they'll probably force me to eat something i don't like. i can last a little longer without food. i have the world's smallest stomach in my body, so i'm actually still digesting lunch (which was at about 1 o'clock). besides, i don't really like eating with my aunts and cousin. they all want me to eat with them (i guess it's to keep an eye on me), but it really wouldn't make any difference if i wasn't there. they talk to one another in tagalog (or visaya, whichever they like), which leaves me completely in the dark and left out. which is the same as if i wasn't there. so i might as well save myself some trouble and stay in hiding.

omg, i haven't even been playing any video games lately!! T_T downstairs is such a scary place... how could i even consider exposing myself...? but i have to finish Star Ocean 3. i started that game in July and i'm still not done with it! i have to finish it before i get Kingdom Hearts 2... and if Kingdom Hearts 2 doesn't come out before April 1 i am going to gather up a mob and storm the Square-Enix headquarters!! grr!! hear me roar!!!

oh yeah, i was reading fanfics, wasn't i? there's this one that's still in progress. it's a Harry Potter crossover, with anime characters: Fruits Basket, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Fullmetal Alchemist. i don't know much of anything about YYH, but that fic had me at Harry Potter and Fullmetal. Fruits Basket is the bonus! and... yeah, there's YYH. -_-;;

my cousin tells me to watch Naruto 171. he says that Sasuke was in it again, and he and Naruto were in the same five mile radius or something. of course, i have no idea what this new filler arc is about, and i kinda don't really wanna know. Bleach's filler arc seems to have stabbed me. the new ending is horrifying. and that villain girl creeps me out. and then i've always got Naruto manga to read (294 is just full of WHOA).

so what shall i do now? sneak downstairs and work on finishing that milk, of course. :P off i go!