I've finally opened the Oofuri community for posting! Sorry for the delay -_-!
I'll start putting up raw scans of the manga etc. soon!


http://community.livejournal.com/oofuri/

P.S.: The first episode of the Oofuri anime is going to be aired this week! Don't forget to watch
it if you get the chance!!

*crying*

Uhhhhhhhh....why, oh why am I not in Japan at the moment ;_;?! Finally someone put the Oofuri doujin I've been desperately looking for up for auction and I can't bid on it.....(because I'm outside of Japan ;_;!)

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b75249053

It's the continuation of Shinagawa Kaoruko's famous "Ano koro shinkou no you na koi wo shiteita" Oofuri (AbeHaruAbe) doujin and if you had read that one you would know just why I need that continuation so badly o_O. Uhuhuhu....;_;.....I'm sorry ;_;! I reeeeeeaaaaly want this one, but it's soooo hard to find!! And it's a "copy hon", too(which makes it 10 times harder to find).....(Ｔ_Ｔ)

I guess nobody who is reading this actually happens to have a copy of it ;_;? I would gladly pay an exorbitant price for it Ｔ_Ｔ...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *goes back to sobbing*
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btw, I have founded an Oofuri community on LJ that will open shortly(probably by the end of this week). There will be scans, summaries and lots of info about Ookiku furikabutte, one of my favourite manga ever! If you're interested, come pay the community a visit in a few days ^-^.
=>http://community.livejournal.com/oofuri/profile


( Holic spoilers(ch.130) )

You may have heard that we've had that monster hurricane over here in Europe. Now, we don't usually get those over here, so everything was pretty much chaotic.

All trains were halted here in Germany on Thursday afternoon and there were no trains running till Friday morning. We've had power outages, trees blocking tracks and streets, trucks getting blown over on the highways...
It was pretty 'calm' around where I live but I could hear even more sirens at night than usual (the university hospital is pretty close). We were lucky though, because most university students got sent home by 2 or 3 p.m. on Thursday when trains were still running.

I wanted to go to my parents' place to pick up some books on Thursday but I'm glad I didn't o_O.
(Probably would've had to walk back home from the station because even buses and trams were not moving!) Anyway, I thought by Friday evening everything would've have gone back to normal, but it turned out I was wrong! First of all I had problems getting to the stations because only a few trams were running and when I finally got to the main station hundreds of people were lining up at the information counters or just waiting for information on 'any train' that was going into the direction they were headed. Unlike many others I got lucky because they announced a train going into the 'general direction' of my parents' place after just half an hour's wait. But within those 30 minutes I had three groups of people around me who were looking for 'cab partners' to form spontaneous 'cab pools'. Imagine those poor people who were stuck there since Thursday...there's a lot of big trade fairs in this area and some people just couldn't go back to wherever they came from because flights were canceled and public transport was not working.
What an odd experience.

This certainly is the weirdest "winter" ever. I was told last year was the coldest winter(since they started taking records) and this year's winter was the warmest. I mean, it's mid-January and we're having about 15°Celsius....this feels like winter in Okinawa minus the humidity...o_O
I haven't seen snow for about 2 years now (because of Okinawa...and I went to mainland in late February/March so there was no snow either...)...once it's gone you really start missing the cold weather, I guess.

Sorry for the weird post...

Does anyone know where to find scans from the following magazines?

Animage 2/07, Newtype 2/07 and Animedia 2/07.

According to http://www.oofuri.com/ they all have news on the Oofuri anime <3!

Merry Christmas everyone (or "happy holidays" in case you're celebrating anything else)! It's been a looong time since I posted here! Ever since I returned from Japan I've had so much stuff do, I barely have time to use my computer for anything besides writing reports or preparing presentations anymore...!

Anyway, the reason I'm posting this is very obvious if you've looked at the subject line :D.
Just as expected, "Ookiku furikabutte" ,the manga I've been raving about on this lj some times, is being made into an anime!
(  Oofuri fangirls rejoice <3! )

皆見てる？デスノアニメ第1話。アレ、なんかすごくない？ 超すごくない？まぁ、とにかくすごいよ、デスノアニメ。まだの人はすぐみて！絶対オススメ！

Everyone go and watch the Death Note anime. It's overwhelming *_*. Be sure to watch it and go "whoah*_*!!!" now if you haven't seen it yet!

Well, the word is out. There's no Doumeki in this week's Holic chapter and I'm sure quite a number of 104 shippers out there are rather diappointed about that and/or the "WataHima(?) overload(??)" in recent chapters. But do worry no more! If you look closely, this chapter is actually a feast for 104 shippers<3! You just have to drift off into daydreams 'read between the lines'....fufu.
Warning: serious delusional fangirl rambling ahead. (But am half-asleep so...)
( Holic ch. 120 translation )


P.S.: Sorry that I haven't replied to all of the comments in the last post yet, but I'm really busy at the moment *_*!
University's starting soon and I'm moving back into student dorm in a few days and since I've only just come back
from Japan and that 3-week holiday I haven't even started packing my stuff....oh boy.....

( What a wonderful day <3! )
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( Important: Tsubasa mistranslation in chapter 129 )
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I'm back home *_*! And SO sleep deprived....but I got my Yanmaga at the airport and am so excited about it o_O!!!!
Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!! Will update with translation(maybe a few pics?) later *_*!!!!!

And finally, after almost one year I got to eat cheese!!! You really don't know how good some foods taste until you haven't eaten them for a loooong time!!! And fruit doesn't cost a fortune anymore *_*!!!!! And.....*falls asleep over the keyboard*
.....later!!

This week's Holic chapter. ( slightly spoilery )

And "Umi no hi" is a national holiday in Japan = no school <3! (Strangely enough, the library is open o_O. Not that I'm complaining...I just read the Himawari "spoiler" on chibiyuuto's blog. Hm...that does indeed make a lot of sense! Now we just have to wait for the next chapter in 2[??] weeks?)

I went to the beach yesterday with a few friends (because it's too crowded on "umi no hi") and it was so much fun <3. My arms are much more tanned than my legs and I'm desperately trying to get both of them to have the same colour as long as I can "enjoy" the sun here. Yes, Okinawa is good for one thing: a vacation on the beach. While most foreigners are putting efforts into getting themselves a decent tan, it's always fun to watch all the Japanese girls trying to dodge the sun with their parasols and long-sleeved shirts at the beach. And no day at the beach is complete without hearing someone scream "Oh no! I'll get all black(kuroi/black=tanned)!". You don't wanna get a tan? Then what the heck are you doing at the beach?! I don't get it.

>>concerning my last post
No, I don't hate Clamp...I've just been reading so much really good manga and novels recently that I automatically start expecting to see the same depth/ character development etc. in Clamp manga. It's not like I'm looking for it, cause I know it's just not there. My relationship to Clamp is probably like that woman with her computer in volume 1 of Holic...giving up being a fangirl is not the easiest thing to do...close to impossible...?

It's been raining like crazy for the most part of this week and the wind is super strong because there was another typhoon somewhere close to Okinawa (Miyako island?) earlier this week. Though I do appreciate typhoons for making the temperature go down A LOT, the rain and the wind are so strong you can't go outside.

So I've been trying to distract myself by finally reading Asano Atsuko's
( Battery (novel) series )


( Death Note movie etc. *_*(no plot spoilers)! )

Typhoons(!), work and other stuff have kept me from going to the internet lately, but tomorrow I'll (finally) post the translations to Holic chapters 110,112 and 113(which turned out just as I thought...). The translations for 110 and 112 have been lying on my desk forever, but I just didn't find the time to type them and put them up...

Anyway....I'm going to see the Death Note movie now with some friends XD!!
I've been waiting to see it for so long!! Btw, does anyone know when the Hachikuro movie opens in Japanese cinemas? I hope I'm still here when it starts *_*! (I have less than 40 days left!!!)

I was really busy and didn't get access to a computer for a week or so so I apologize for not commenting on the older posts. I have to go to my job in half an hour so I'll just post the translation to the latest Holic chapter here. Unfortunately I forgot my translation to chapter 110 at home...I'll post it later this week!

Ali: saw your email today! The CD arrived last week. I'll write to you tomorrow :D!



( Go here! )

I had to go to the bank yesterday and since there was a book store nearby, I decided to have a look at the latest issue of Newtype (according to x_reggg it had some interesting stuff this issue ^^.). OMG o_O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *baffled* Clamp-sensei o_O!!!!

It had a short interview(just 3 questions) with Clamp-sensei about Holic and one of the questions was "So what's going to happen in Holic from now on?".

And Clamp-sensei answered it.

DON'T CLICK if you don't wanna feel spoiled for how Holic's gonna end!!

( WHY AM I FEELING SO SPOILED ;_;?! )

I only read the Holic parts from that Newtype issue and EVERYTHING was extremely spoilery for everything that has been happening in Holic(manga) recently. If you hadn't read the manga/ recent Yanmaga chapters before reading this article you would be spoiling yourself to death (if that's possible).

And this week's Tsubasa @_@!! Clamp-sensei are starting to suprise me. I don't know if it's in a good way, though o_O.

I've been pretty busy these last few days and I can't exactly tell when the Holic translation will be up (maybe tomorrow, but tomorrow's a holiday on Okinawa so I don't know if the library will be open) but you can expect it to be up by this weekend.

I can't believe it!!! Since I have a cell phone I subscribed to the Clamp mobile site a few months ago and yesterday I went to check the site for the new password(they're giving you a new password every month to see the clamp-pla.net website). Perhaps you already know that, but Clamp mobile members can take part in contests on that site from time to time and win stuff. And since they've started a new contest they also announced the winners for the old contest and.....

I won something @_@!!!!

Now, they didn't tell me WHAT I won, but I guess it's the Shaoran/Watanuki cell phone strap thingie or the double Mokona cell phone bag. Maybe. I have no idea, but I'm feeling super lucky XD!!! I'll put up a pic of my price when it arrives ^^!

Oh, and I checked Clamp's 'album' too! They had a hilarious pic up!
"Things that are never going to happen in Holic": "Doumeki reading manga and laughing at it(with Watanuki screaming in horror in the background of the picture!!)". Hilarious XD! I'd show you, but the library computer won't open the site, so I can't save the picture. Another time, hopefully!

I've been really tired (and busy!)because of my job(s)/ school and field trips this week,
so no comments on the chapter, as of now. Having two jobs is tiring (even if you're "just" teaching.) I can't help but love my students, though. I got cherries(!!!!!) from one of them on Wednesday. If you don't live in Japan, you probably don't know what that means to me. Cherries cost like 400 to(I'm too scared to write that down) Yen for 100 or 200 grams, so I felt like they were giving me gold, or something!! I hadn't eaten cherries for...*thinks* 9...10(?) months so you can't imagine how good they were *_*. Damn, you Japan for your high grocery prices, but much love to my students for giving me food *_*!!!!

Anyway. I have to go grocery shopping(;_;) now, so ( go ahead and read )

I'm back from Tokyo. Or "wonderland", I should say. *cries* I wanna go back already!!!
I bought way to much stuff (but I bought it cheap so it's okay....plus I bought it with the money from my two jobs so I have no regrets *lie!*) and never wanted to part with the National diet library (GARAKAMEGARAKAMEGARKAME o_O!!!)*sigh*. Anyway, I have to go to work soon so this is gonna be a very short post.

Holic translation tomorrow (because I'm busy with work and field trips etc.) if nobody else has their translation out by then.


( short summary of this week's Holic chapter )

( Holic anime info (information on episodes written by Ookawa-sensei) )

Four words: this week's Tsubasa chapter XD.
I hoped, I wished, I prayed, but I didn't have faith.

OMG, OMG, OMG XD.

I think this chapter has restored my faith in Clamp o_O. I mean who else could make me fangirl over a "long-lost" coupling (honestly: it's been　years...) because of three little pages...? Love them, hate them.....love them, after all?

Oh, and by the way: ( I'm in Tokyo XD! )