Manga[as of Easter 2009]

[MANGA]

[c]= complete (meaning I own all of the series)

Aishiteruze Baby [vol.1-4]

Amazing Agent Luna [Omnibus #1= vol.1-3]

Angelic Layer [vol.2]

Black Cat [vol.1&2]

Bleach [vol.1-20]

Buso Renkin [vol.1&2]

Cardcaptor Sakura [vol.1]

Cardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow [vol.1&2]

Chronicles of the Cursed Sword [vol.1-6]

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion [vol.1&2]

D.N.Angel [vol.1-11]
Densha Otoko [vol.1]

Dorothy of OZ [vol.1-4]

Dragon Drive [vol.1-12]

Dramacon [vol.1-3][c]

Eyeshield 21 [vol.1-3]

Fall in love like a Comic [vol.1&2][c]

Fruits Basket [vol.1-22]

Full Moon wo Saghishite [vol.1-3]

Gentlemens Alliance Cross [vol.1]

Hayate the Combat Butler [vol.1&2]

Honey & Clover [vol.1-3]

Hot Gimmick [omnibus #1= vol.1-3]

Kingdom Hearts [vol.1-4][c]

Kingdom Hearts II [vol.1&2]

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories [vol.1]

Kitchen Princess [vol.1-8]

Konkon Ko Kon [vol.1]

Kurogane Communication [vol.1]

Magic Knight Rayearth II [vol.1]

Megaman [vol.1]

Meru Puri: Marchen Prince [vol.1&2]

Negima! [vol.9]

Nora [vol.1&2]

Ourian High School Host Club [vol.1-3]

Paradise Kiss [vol.1]

Pheonix Wright: Ace Attoruney [vol.1&2]
Pita-ten [vo.1-8][c]

Planet Ladder [vol.1-3]

Princess AI [vol.1-3][c]

Princess AI: The Prisim of Midnight Dawn [vol.1]

Pixie Pop [vol.1-3][c]

Rave Master [vol.1&2]

RE:Play [vol.1&2]

Rozen Maiden [vol.1&2]

S.A. [vol.1&2]

Sgt. Frog [omnibus #1= vol.1-3]

Shaolin Sisters [vol.1]

Shiki Tsukai [vol.1]

Solanin [viz signature ed][c]

Stellvia [vol.1&2][c]

Tokyo Mew Mew [vol.1-7][c]

Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode [vol.1&2][c]

Trigun [vol.1]

Tsubasa: Resevior Chronicle [omnibus #1= vol.1-3; 7]

Tsubasa: Those with Wings [vol.1]

Wallflower [vol.1]

Wild Ones [vol.1]

Wolf's Rain [vol.1&2][c]

xxxHolic [omnibus #1= vol.1-3; 6]

:Totals:

Omnibuses'= 5

Volumes= 201

Complete Collections= 11

:Type Totals/ Cost (w/o tax):

-Tokyopop-

$9.99x85= $849.15

$10.99x2= $21.98

$14.99x1= $14.99

$12.99x1= $12.99

$5.99x4= $29.95

Overall Total= $929.06

-Viz (Shounen Jump, Shoujo Beat, ect.)-

$7.95= $318

$8.99= $188.79

$9.99x4= $39.96

$17.99x2= $35.98

Overall Total= $582.73

-Del Rey-

$10.95x13= $142.35

$12.95x2= $25.9

$14.99x2= $29.98

Overall Total= $198.23

-Other-

Udon

$11.95x4= $47.8

DrMaster

$9.95x2= $19.9

Bandai Entertainment

$9.99x2= $19.98

SevenSeas

$11.99x1= $11.99

Dark Horse

$14.95x1= $14.95

CMX

$9.99x1= $9.99

Broccoli

$9.99x1= $9.99

Go! Comi

$10.99x1= $10.99

Overall Total= $145.59

Final MANGA Total: $1855.61

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This is the total for manga I've bought (and been given) since I diligently started buying manga in the 8th grade. In 7th grade, I only owned Tokyo Mew Mew v2, Rave Master v1 and Cardcaptor Sakura v1. I started buying manga when my allowance was bumped up from $7 a month to $10. My first purchase was Fruits Basket v1. For about a year, Fruits Basket was all I bought with my allowance- I'd ask for other manga such as Bleach and Tokyo Mew Mew for my birthday and Christmas.

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My Bleach collection started with my friend at the time using some of her b-day money to buy volume 1 for me. My D.N.Angel collection started when I asked my sister to buy me volume 1- she ended up getting me volumes 1&2 because of a box set Tokyopop has released at the time.

[Anime] Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai

I was already in love with the Munto OVAs.
When I heard that Munto was getting a TV adaptation, I practically lost my voice from squealing with joy. Here's the deal, Akia does not often squeal with joy even for anime. In fact, I rarely squeal for anything even if it is awsome; but anything Munto deserves some squeals. Sadly, my squeals became less frequent as I watched Munto TV (that's the short title; the full title is Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai) only to realise the bulk of this anime was just the OVAs with better quality images- rerenders with some extra footage. As a Munto fan before the TV series premiered, I was hoping for some more NEW footage; not some remastered ones with a few extra scenes. I had to watch about 6 episodes to even get to the point where the continued story kicked in only to be slapped in the face with the last episode being number 9 (which was an extremly rushed episode). I was really enjoying the continued story! Good thing there is a movie coming out as the conclusion. I'm assuming that since it is a movie that the Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai Movie will be longer than the hour long OVAs that started the series.

I posted this here instead of writting a review first because I just finished watching Munto TV about 30 mins ago. I was extremly dissapointed with the ending....

[read my review of Munto TV here]
(my review will be posted on that blog when I finish it)
{you can enjoy reviews of other series' while you wait}
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[weeaboobies] Just had to...(3/27/2009vers)

So, I've been listening to this Japan-fan podcast called weeaboobies (the Yotsuba&! button is a link to the site)... and I saw some list on their site about having to be 4 of this list to be a weeaboob:

if you have more than four japanese/anime posters on your wall [check]
if you have an internet alias that ends with chan, kun, san, sama, senpai or sensei [check]
if you say “tadaima” when you arrive home [check- i do. just not all the time because my parents and sister (one of the two) gives me a look]
if you answer your phone by saying “moshi moshi” [check- isnt it spelled "mushi mushi"?] if you wear a kimono at any time. even as a joke.
if you have a shirt that says otaku. or anime fan.
if you own this button
or if your clothing has anime characters at all on them, or anime references [check- I even made a Kon/ chibi Uryu and chibi Renji shirt]
if you refer to your siblings as “nee-san/chan” or “nii-san/chan”
or your mom & dad as “oka-san” or “otou-san”
or your cat as “kawaii neko-chan”
or your friend as “kawaii neko-chan”
if you own a pair of cat ears of any kind [check]
if you use any japanese word in conversation (i.e. kawaii, baka, chinchin, hai, etc.) [check]
if you freak out at the sight of pocky [check]
if you suddenly craved a pocky stick since you saw it typed out [check]
if you actually HAVE a box of pocky at your side
if the only word you can read in japanese is “ai” because of gaara’s dumb symbol
if 90% of your music is japanese (even more weeaboo if it’s just anime music)
if you host an anime podcast [I will... VERY SOON. *cough*istudios link*cough]
if any of the following pictures make your panties wet (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
if you just saved any of those pictures
extra points - if you already have any of those pictures
if you say “believe it” more than once a week
if you eat your food with chopsticks ever (even ramen especially ramen)
if you’ve tried to learn japanese [check... plan to go back to it]
if you’ve spoken japanese frequently
if you’ve corrected someone’s pronunciation of a japanese word [check >.<]
if you’re getting mad that i haven’t capitalized “japan” or “japanese” at all
if you’ve been to an anime convention
if you own any naruto merchandise whatsoever [check- shirts]
or inuyasha, or bleach, or death note [check- bleach]
if you’ve made an AMV [check- more than one]
if you own a katana or a shinjuku (that’s japanese for shuriken, lolol) [check-maybe: does a homemade one count?]
if you type with any of the following faces: ^^ ^_^ *w* :3 T-T @o@ n_n UwU =^w^= [check]
if you’ve danced the caramelldansen in public before
if you haven’t yet, but are waiting for the perfect moment to dance it in public [check- at AWA15]
if you own a gaia account [check- 3]
if you think you’re lolita
if you cosplay at all. poorly or well. [check]
if 90% of your clothing was bought from hot topic
if you’ve taken 5+ pictures with you making a peace sign
if your myspace has even ONE japanese word on it [check- i think]
if you’ve ever fangirled over an anime character [check- gara and uryu]
if the only thing you read is manga and fanfiction
if you can think of something else to add to this list [check- you have no idea]

As you can see.... I over qualify in my opinion. Pretty soon (come september 2009) I can check off much more of these including the con one.

[Life Post] An Akia Update [#19]

For complete up to date-ness on what I'm doing, follow me on Twitter (I joined Twitter before it because a cult along the lines of Myspace and Facebook, so I'm awsome. Another reason for you to follow me. lol): twitter.com/akiachan

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"UWAA! What has Akia been up to since spring break (even though her spring break ended last friday)!?"

Me: =.= Did you just say 'uwaa' becuase that is a very anime-ish way to begin a question. I approve *two thumbs up* I'll definantly tell you what I've been up to just becuase you asked in that awsome way! ...and because I'm surprized at how much went on this last week.

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The most recent manga art I posted on my DA is this one! This is Akia, the character who I've developed the most in anything I've written or drawn. I'm not even remotly kidding because she's a character I originally developed half way through 8th grade which was 4 years ago 0_0

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So, as you can probably tell by the begining of my blog, this past week was my first week back from my week long spring break (all you Soccoro dist. school peps who have 2 weeks and a day *evil glare*) which, if you read the previous Akia Update, was a very productive/ busy week for me... which never happen on a past spring break of mine. Well, to my surprize, it was 9wks testing week. Let me explaine what this "9wks testing" is to high school students who have no such system. My school, Eastwood, has every class give their students a major test at the end of a 9wk period- in the school year there are 4 of these periods. These tests, from freshmen year through jr, are on top of a major standardized test called TAKS that is required by Texas law to be given. Also in the jr year, my school pays for it's students to take the SAT. I happened to be lucky because this year they also payed for the seniors- meaning I got to take it twice for free. I've seen most of my 9wks testing grades; just not my Dual Credit Texas Polotics and Dual Credit English IV (I know which answers I got right and wrong, but have not seen a number grade). Overall, I like most of my 9wks test grades because I have been getting 75+ on most of my quizzes and tests (other than Art) so to see the 80s I've recieved was a sigh of relief. A huge sigh.

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:I-studios:
[link]
Ah, I-studios is like... my reason for living or at least a major part. =D
Currently, I've been given the task of editing and putting together the E-zine "JA NE" (japanese art, news and entertainment). My first issue, March 2009, is up on the site. Click on the above link to go to the I-studios homepage. There, you will see links to the various projects going on. I used to semi-run the Twitter account and update the blog, but Driger has told me he would take care of that along with Shadow in order for me to focus on improving JA NE. Also, I'll be part of the first podcast episode of an anime review show called "Here's Ogenki Desu-ka?". We (as in, Domo, Driger and I) will be recording on Monday March 30 2009 an episode where we give an in depth disscussion/review of the anime ToraDora and a small review of the first five episodes of Minami-ka Okaeri. Be sure to keep tabs on the site and follow the Twitter to know when this will be released. Also, I-studios is looking for new members! Send an email to itadakimasu21@gmail.com if you are interested in joining.

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There are tons of other things that happened this week, like my quitting the Jenny Craig program and making the final descision to attend UTEP for a degree in Business while taking writting and art classes on the side, but I don't feel like going into detail so you'll just have to read this entire paragraph... if it can even be considerd a paragraph. Heheh. First, I did quit the Jenny program for two reasons: 1) I'm not losing weight and 2) in 2 months, my parents will not be paying for it anymore and I can't afford it while going to college. My dad finally finished filling out the FAFSA for me, and that's when I made my descision to attend UTEP for a business degree. In Art, I was painting a sun for an art auction that is to raise money for charity while working on an image for printmaking. The method my class is using is carving linoliumn tiles (bsaically, unfinished floor tiles). I'll most likely post a scan of the print on my DeviantArt page once I have one printed. Um... listed to the 15 ep of "Imprint" today (it's a Twilight podcast) and really enjoyed it. Hrm.... read like 5 pages of Ballad of a Shinigami #2, took The Host to one two days but didn't read any of it, and today I took City of Bones only to read two pages further than what I read about 5 months ago. I'm now going to end this blog and go read some more City of Bones.

[Life Post] An Akia Update [#18]

This is a picture taken on DailyBooth on tuesday. [link] All of the photos in this entry are from my DailyBooth account =D
And so my spring break comes to an eventful close even though the week was some what non-eventfull. Here's a breakdown of what I did this past week (besides procrastinating on homework and procrastinating on cleaning my pig-stye of a room):
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:Monday (3/16/2009):

Babysat a kid who's like a brother to me. I think I did something else also, but I can't really remember what I did other than that and an I-studios meeting. The meeting was ok; not one of my favorites. There weren't our usual amounts of laughs (or should I say my usual amounts of laughter because I'm usualy the one laughing).
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:Tuesday (3/17/2009):

This day was much more of a productive one. I went to see Twilight in a 2$ theatre with some friends (It was my final chance to see Twilight in a theatre... even though 2$ theaters are crappy). Ended buying a large coke/ popcorn combo meal which limited what I could buy with the 20$ I had that day from babysitting the day before. Later on that day I went to Barnes and Nobles in hopes of purchasing Fruits Basket vol.22 or D.N.Angel vol. 12 (this one was not even on a shelf)... then I saw Tsubasa: Those With Wings vol.1 staring I me! I'm serious- STARING! As you can tell, I ended up walking away with volume 1 of Tsubasa: Those With Wings. If I had not bought the pocorn and coke, I could have bought Fruits Basket vol.22. I also continued to procrastinate on homework to the point where I did none.
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:Wed. (3/18/2009): Ate lunch at Applebees with my sister (the younger one) and mom. My mom then gave my sister and I 40$ to go spent at Putt Putt. We ended up riding go-carts twice and played some arcade games for tickets. My sister ended up earning 200 tickets from this one game only to buy 91 mint candies :D! I bought those fans kids always break (I was one of those kids) only to end up crying. All 4 of them are still alive =D Also at thodays I-studios meeting I meet Nappy, our newest member- cosplay person. Nappy's awsome-tastic =D _____________________________________

:Thursday (3/19/2009):Turned in job applications for Pizza Hut and a movie theatre. Also read Tsubasa: Those With Wings vol.1 =)

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:Friday (3/20/2009):
Recived Punk Goes Pop vol.2 in the mail because I entered a YouTube contest. [link] I also went to Barnes and Nobles because my mom gave me 40$ the day before. I wanted to save that 40$ for my AWA trip, but she wouldn't let me :( because it was deemed as "you must spend this spring break" type of money!! I bought Fruits Basket vol.22 and saved the rest for what I bought on saturday =)

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:Saturday (3/21/2009):

The first thing I did with my day was sleep 'till 11am despite my plans to wake up on 9am. I then ate some lunch before taking a bath then headed off to buy the Twilight dvd I reserved (though there was no need to even reserve it because B and N had a tone of copies). I then sat down to watch most of the 7 part documentary that is on the special features disk. Then I decided to do some homework. English- Frankenstein questions of evil. EBIL I TELLS YOU. I was pretty down with my day. Watching Twilight extras was ok (a lot was stuff I had already seen on the internet or on TV specials).

When I went to get the mail, my dad was already looking brighter because my first subscription issue of Yen+ finally came in the mail (it's the April issue). I did what I usually do, flip through to read any special features. When I came to the fan art section, there was a very familiar picture that I swore I had seen before (of course, it was a panel from a chapter of Night School that I used to draw some fan art). I looked under the picture only to see my name. MY NAME! It was my fanart in the April issue of Yen+! My first published piece of art. 0_0 my eyes poped out. I told my mom, she said to buy more copies xD haha [details can be found here about my lovely art that got published in Yen+]

Now, it's still saturday, I'm going to go watch Knowing.

[AMV] The Poet and the Pendulumn [Epic AMV #2][PV]

[Life Post] An Akia Update [#17]

Hmmm... I think this is the 5th or so time I've attempted to type up this Akia Update. I don't know what's up with me lately! I'll start typing something in one of my many blogs (I am the owner of 5, runner of 1 and co-runner of another) and end up stopping. Then there are random days I'll type up a blog and publish. Really random blogging lately =p

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New reviews I've made/ Typed:

-youtube-

Desire Climax [manga]

-blogs-

Blindness [movie]

Yakuzya Girl [manga]

H2O: Footprints in the Sand [manga]

Henry Poole is Here [movie]

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans [movie]

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Video log #17