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Code Geass Knight Anthology 5

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My copy has finally arrived!!! JPQueen, you’re awesome, or maybe Japan post is just so awesome. I swear their airmail is much much faster than EMS :3

Let’s see what this anthology has:

• The first time Rolo started as a Lamperouge, he totally failed. In the classroom when asked to solve a math problem, he said ‘they haven’t learned that part yet’ and everybody whispered ‘what the heck, is he really Lelouch’s brother?’. When he totally excelled at physical education, people whispered again ‘what’s that? Is he really Lelouch’s brother’. Haha… He went home depressed, but was touched at Lelouch’s cooking his favourite food. He studied really hard after that, and awed people when he solves questions easily in the classroom
• Lelouch in a LIVE musical, wearing a totally ridiculous suit. Poor guy… He only agreed to it because Gino was also involved in the same embarrassing situation
• We all know Sayoko fangirls over Suzaku. As Lelouch’s kagemusha, she totally fanboys him and even invited him home. The one to see Suzaku? Of course, the actual Lelouch~ It turned out that what Sayoko blurted out was “I’D LIKE YOU TO CLEAN MY EARS” ~___~
• Rivalz totally got the wrong idea about Suzaku and Lelouch’s relationship, so when both of them seiged the throne, he went “I don’t know what’s truly happening, but I wish both of you happiness“. Haha..
• Moe C.C stitched Lelouch’s cape with rose pattens, and attached peacock feathers to his mask.Lelouch went mad, and yelled “IS THIS ON PURPOSE?!” and scared the heck out of Moe!C.C

Previews for scanned pinups:

This and much much MORE crack that got me LOLing all morning! I scanned the pinups for those who are interested. The Knight of Rounds pinup is so hot, though I totally reject GinoSuza, but this one has Anya, so… And did I also mention that the back cover is Charles? More?

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Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 04

Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 4
口は災いの元 ( Out of the Mouth Comes Evil )
Lit: The mouth is the source of disaster

Yawns… I’m feeling extremely sleepy for God knows why. I thought I already had enough rest these past few days, but apparently my body is trying to catch up to all the rest that I lost during the hectic months I was tortured by streams after streams of assignments and courseworks. That aside, time for episode 4! And Junjou Egoist :3

Bittersweet fluffy angst is how I’ve been describing JE, and this episode is no exception. Nowaki just doesn’t realise that by calling Hiroki ‘Hiro-san’, he’s on a whole different level compared to everyone else. It doesn’t matter if it sounds less romantic, but hey, you’re special~ And I bet Hiroki would be 100% more flustered if you were to call him just ‘Hiroki’. For me, it would bring your cuteness down a few notch (don’t ask me why).

Eh… Why the heck was I addressing Nowaki when I type O_o?

Anyways, Nowaki’s wild imagination is fully animated, and it KILLED me with serious bouts of laughter.

Junjou Egoist and the classic of classics ‘catch me if you can’ + ‘ahahahahaha~’ scene. (Now I can never listen to Abarai Renji’s voice the same way again *__*)

Er, ahem… I don’t blame Nowaki for feeling insecure every once in a while. He’s so quiet it probably hurt sometimes. It’s only a little bit funny that Junjou Egoist walks on the longest timeline but takes longer to untangle. Guh, egoists… The end scene below is supposed to be sweet/romantic, but I seriously LOLed into my pillow.

“But Hiro-san is always more beautiful“. alskdjfhg NOWAKI~~~ How much sweeter can you be

Go watch if you haven’t already :3 And for a weekly JR poll….

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[Doujinshi] + [Partial Scanlation] - Delightful Mission

Fandom: Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch R2
Title: Delightful Mission
Circle: Classic Milk + Peace and Alien (http://loveseat.ne.jp)
Doujinkas: Tonase Fuki and Asaoka Natsuki
Genre: Crack
Pairings: Suzaku x Lelouch and hints of other cracky pairings
Timeline: Around Turn 6 - Turn19
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Please leave a comment on THIS entry if you’re downloading, thank you ^__^

I scanlated a few pages that I find really amusing too (scroll down for the pages, or hit ‘read more’ if you’re on the index page).

Continuation of some sorts after Perfect Mission, as promised. Some more crack to brighten up the day~ This short but sweet doujinshi contains the following cracky situations:

• In a desperate attempt to get Tamaki to stop regarding himself and Zero as ‘True Friend’, Lelouch geasses him “We’re not true friends!’ Tamaki went “Ah, sorry…” and then to Lelouch’s misery he went “We’re cute friends, aren’t we?! Yay! Yay!” Seems like geass couldn’t get him to stop
• Sayoko didn’t only arrange Lelouch’s date with those many girls and Shirley, but also with Suzaku, using the perfect imitation of smitten!Lelouch. Rolo insisted it was too much and that Lelouch wasn’t like that, but Lelouch felt threatened because Sayoko knew him TOO WELL if she could imitate him in that way
• Rolo and Suzaku got all angsty after Lelouch and Shirley got the best couple on Cupid’s Day. Suzaku’s despair was even worse than Rolo, to his surprise.
• Lelouch dreamt that on Cupid’s Day, the best couple was himself and Suzaku.
• Moe!CC tried to act like a ‘proper female slave’ and invited Lelouch to take a bath with her. Lelouch simply said “You’re not a child anymore, get in by yourself.” CC was awed, having this kind of master for the first time. Lelouch was actually just not interested. Quote: “Women’s bodies have no meaning” XD
• Remember Turn 17 and the infamous shrine scene? When Lelouch thought Suzaku was betraying him yet again, he firmly told Suzaku that from that point onwards, they’d truly break up XD (”Zekkou da!”) And Suzaku went “No! Just not that!”. Apparently, he mentioned that it was fine before this with all the I hate you’s and ex-friends thingie, but he just won’t accept breaking up. Haha… Poor Kanon had to deal with the melodrama of the situation, calling a reinforcement of 50 Britannian foot soldiers to deal with the stupid couple (who were currently kissing, btw)

Keep on reading for the scanlated pages~

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Viewfinder - Naked Truth Chapter 18 (END) Rant

Thanks to serena_daragon @ this post
*takes deep breath and exhales*

EDIT: club_vogue released the scanlation :3

IT’S OVER!!! THE NAKED TRUTH ARC IS OVER!!

I don’t know if I should feel sad or happy right now. I’ve been waiting for this arc to be over for like… forever! Now that it’s over and done with, I really am going to miss all the ‘desperately waiting for the next chapter because 2 months is a long wait’ routine. But but but!!

HANDS UP WHO THINKS THE CONCLUSION IS WAAAAAAAAAAAY TOO SHORT!! D:< I know I do.

Yamane-sensei spared us the angst of Akihito really getting shot. Asami was relieved to see the bullet isn’t dislodged in Akihito’s body. and here I was hoping for some bitersweet angst. In his shocked state, Akihito didn’t notice Asami holding him at first. But when he noticed (T for Takaba, because Asami already has the A):

T: Asami… Why… Why…
T: WHY DIDN’T YOU COME SOONER!
T: I WAITED FOR YOU!! I WAITED FOR SIGNS OF YOU!!
A: MY BAD…
T: I… Nothing but you… I did nothing but wait for you…

Oh my God….

Akihito shielded Fei Long from Asami. He didn’t want both of them to go on having grudges on each other, and wanted all the rivalry between them to stop. They needed to come to an understanding. Fei Long, for my absolute relief, was sincere when he said he kind-of fell for Akihito :3

And Yoh… YOH! I think I can hope for a Yoh x Fei properly now?

How come Mikhail got such an unimportant closure, though? I thought for sure he’d at least be injured. He just looked totally bored at the end.

M: It’s the end already? How boring…

Mikhail, can I butcher you?

The long awaited Asami x Akihito smex is so sweet beyond words. Asami was thinking of Takaba, and how he definitely wouldn’t want to let go of him anymore. His thoughts are sweeeeeeeetttt (too much for a yakuza):

A: Takaba Akihito…
A: I wish (hope) you’d love only me.

And the end words?

T: The existence of this man standing before my eyes is too large
T: I can’t go back to my previous self anymore
T: But…
T: I’ll be fine with whatever happens after this
T: …Because I can’t think of anything else but ‘Asami’.

Okay. I’ll go calm down now. In the meantime:

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Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 03

Takahashi Misaki’s predicament in
Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 3
三度目の正直

I waited for this to be anime-fied XD I figured I should write about this before I go and prepare myself for today’s presentation (and one linguistic assignment ;_;). I’d forget otherwise. I really like the episode titles starting from the first episode. They’re so interconnected in a good way, or a bad way if you happen to be Misaki. What happens once will happen twice, followed by never twice without thrice and now the third time’s the charm.

Misaki tried to contact Haruhiko about the mountain of strawberry thingies, and couldn’t get through. Usagi being Usagi, simply refused to cooperate and tell him how to reach Haruhiko.

Senpai makes his appearance again, with a premonition of something definitely not so nice when he said, “You think that I actually like Usami-sensei?”

“The one I like is Misaki”

Quit it, Senpai. We all know what is actually going on in your head and we’re not amused.

Haruhiko practically kidnapped Misaki right after class just when Misaki was grumbling to himself… “And the problem is…”. Perfect timing indeed. The good thing about the whole kidnapping thing is that we get to hear about Usagi’s lonely childhood. How indeed did he grow up with that foul mouth O_o

Eh, actually what I was waiting for is the part where Misaki saw the maids and the butler of the Usami mansion, and went “Is this really Japan?!” when he tried to get out of Usagi’s old room.

And yay for possessive Usagi :3 Sibling rivalry over the same guy is just hillarious, both of you. I only wish there’d be some sort of brotherly interaction between them that can be interpreted as ’secretly hidden care’ or someting instead of just plain “I don’t like you” or “Get out of my business”. Maybe I just love siblings who are at each other’s neck while they actually care about each other DEEP down, though they may be in denial about it.

We now have everyone ALL over Misaki. It brings me to a rather cute question about Misaki’s manliness (or the lack of it).

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p.s/ New Viewfinder Naked Truth chapter today! *is giddy*

Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 2

Takahashi Misaki-kun’s Strawberry Life~ in
Junjou Romantica 2 - Episode 2
二度ある事は三度ある

What happens twice is likely to happen thrice, just like the saying “Never Twice WIthout Thrice”. Misaki’s bad luck just keep coming. And in the anime verse, we’re just about to see how far his Usamimone (Usami + Pheromone) would bring him. As much as I’d like to watch Egoist right now, I want more of Romantica’s story, not because they’re the main focus but because of the Usami-family conflict. No, I’m totally not biased towards Haruhiko’s seiyuu XD

This episode is where Usagi-san starts hinting at Misaki about how Misaki haven’t yet tell him he loves him (too many him confuses me).

“I haven’t gotten an ‘I like you’ from you yet”

I’m so waiting for Misaki’s nonchalant confession in the ferris wheel, and his possesive “Usagi-san is MINE” towards his senpai.

Asahina is at least 10 times more charming in the anime than he is in the manga!

Apologising on Isaka’s behalf, as per usual. I swear, Shungiku-sensei, I’m seeing a pattern here. Something like Asahina’s one-sided love for Isaka… Isaka’s long time one-sided love for Haruhiko… Geh. Give us a side story already. Hehe…

And we come back to the main point of the title: the premonition of Misaki’s bad luck with the Usamis. Haruhiko has now made his moves on Misaki. His way of showing affection is to shower his object of affection with materials (guh, rich bastard!), hence the mountains of strawberry-related items sent Misaki’s way at the end of the episode. All just because Misaki said he likes strawberry, though at that point Misaki only meant the strawberry cake, I’m sure.

Favourite scene, not counting the smex part:

“I think I’m going to steal you away from Akihiko
I like you”

Hard to believe that they’re half brothers, with that same look and same tone and manner of speaking. He even sounds cooly romantic. The wonderful power of seiyuus…

Aaand a poll time for this episode! Cast your vote, darlings~

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Code Geass R2 Turn 15 Rant & Review

Angry Suzaku Is One Hot Suzaku~

• Lulu hid behind Shinkirou (while thinking of a way to Geass Charles) to prevent direct eye contact with with Charles, afraid that he would be Geassed again. Haha…
• Lelouch’s way of trying to Geass Charles (”I, Lelouch vi Britannia order you to drop dead lol die!” (TRYING to is the keyword) is absolutely awesome! Reminds me of Kanda (DGM) when he faced Skin Boric
• CHARLES REALLY IS IMMORTAL!!!!! Goddammit, I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! His marking is on his palm instead of on the forehead. Geez… Not like it would ruin you already ruined image or something…
• VV was so cute when they were young, but I didn’t get to see little Charles. I blame Sunrise fully for obscuring little Charles from view. Or wait, was that Charles?
• Back to CC’s contract with Lulu and her wish… Her wish, is for her existence to end (?). I was annoyed to the extent where I got slack-jawed when CC said Lulu’s reason for living and whatnot were all twisted by her - that he had been fooled all this time. No shit. This is actually the same thing that the nun who gave young CC the power of Geass said to her when her Geass progressed to the point where the marking in the left eye spread to the other eye permanently. Young CC was annoyed that it’s been keeping her away from … her suitors… (I’d be annoyed by that eye too. Like of course!) and wanted to end the contract. And the nun… went all crazy and blurted out “You’ve been fooled!”. I was like O_o…
• C.C: “V.V… Did you like Marianne?” <<< Dun dun dun…. Can we shoot down the theory of VV hating Marianne now? He looked (and sounded) so sincere…
• Suzaku… didn’t get to drug Kallen. Phew… He was slapped (like many of us expected Kallen to do), which is REALLY good. Well, he pushed her down and tried to drug her, but then Kallen whined “Onii-chan”… Well, yay! Thank God the spoiler about him accidentally getting a refrain shot while struggling with Kallen didn’t come true. I’d be annoyed if he remembers Euphie at this point Suzaku just smashed the thing to the floor.
• Suzaku… is now conviced that Lulu IS Zero. He went to school looking all hot and bothered (squee!). No Rolo in sight, no Viletta, Geassed intelligent team telling him they didn’t know where Lelouch Lamperouge is… Of course he’d know right away something was wrong. I damn sure wuould too if I was in his shoes. Aha~ (Lloyd’s style)
• NUNNALLY IS THE ULTIMATE LIE-DETECTOR!!!! She can tell that people are lying if she holds their hands and hear them answer her questions. Har har har… She tried to do the same to Suzaku, but Suzaku retracted his hand REALLY fast before she could catch him lying. “
• Suzaku to Nunnally: “I won’t lie to you”… BIIIIIGG LIIEEE!!! Meh.
• Nunnally to Suzaku: “You’re the same as Onii-sama” <<< When he pulled his hand away.
• Nunnally to Romeyer: “The Governess (Governor-General)… is ME.” <<<< Another WIN factor of Turn 15~
• Nina’s Nuke has been tested… and proven effective. Schneizel and the rest of the team congratulated her. Well, I hate that the Nuke spoiler sounds like it’s becoming true.
• Schneizel to Nina: “You’re really a genius”. <<<< Dammit Schneizel, you just keep brainwashing the crazy girl!
• Viletta and Ougi met, had a talk, mainly Viletta asking him why would he save an officer (herself) of the Britannian army. Sayoko interrupted (well, Viletta was technically pointing the gun at Ougi), got into a duel with Viletta. Ougi tried to stop them, protected Viletta and fell down the cliff… Viletta went after him. (I so love OugiViletta!!!) To be continued, for this couple…
• Rolo freaked out. He finally noticed Lulu was nowhere to be found.
• Rolo fed the ‘This is Zero’s order’ and ‘This place is the Britannian secret base operation’ shit to the OoBK members, who are now having HUGE doubts about Zero.
• Jeremiah is one compassionate hottie man, and I’m a happy fangirl~
• NO CORNELIA!!!!!!! T____T
• Lulu to CC: “Your true wish… I know what it is.” <<<< Evil cliffhanger!
• CC REALLY LOST HER MEMORY!!! She became the girl she was before she became immortal.

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Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi ~Onodera Ritsu no Baai~

‘Takano-san loves Onodera-kun a lot~’

Upload’s done! CLAMP-SENSEI RECOMMENDS SEKAI ICHI HATSUKOI: There was a rumour going on before, that Clamp would be doing an illustration comment on the release of Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi tankoubon. So, there you go~ The rumoured illustration comment from Clamp-sensei stated in Romantica Club promo pamphlet. (Ha! I always knew Clamp is a strong supporter of BL, but I wish they’d hurry up with Gohou Drug.) Next time, I should check with Kadokawa Shoten first. This tankoubon… only includes the first two chapters of Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - the first chapter that was published in THE RUBY in November 2006 and the second chapter that was pubished in THE RUBY VOL.2 in July 2007. No chapter 3, so NO ISAKA T_T. Thank goodness Shungiku-sensei presented us with chapter 2.5, and a very pretty full-coloured illustration (gah! the Nowaki-Shinobu resemblance is still uncanny!) Seriously, Kadokawa had to be joking when they said ‘only one volume’. SIH can’t have only one volume!! With the publication of the 4th chapter, this call for another tankoubon! Grr…

I’ll put that issue aside first. By the way, we already have Suzuki-san, piyo (cute little chicks~), ahiru (rubber ducky) and pandas as the mascots for Junjou series. I think we have mascots too for SIH. This cute bunny (and a cat that only appeared in the Drama CD cover so far)~

I guess we all should have seen this coming, since SIH is still in Junjou universe. So now, before download links are posted, I’ll write some info on what SIH is all about for those who haven’t read it.

Characters: Saga/Takano Masamune, Onodera Ritsu, Yokozawa Takafumi, Hatori Yoshiyuki (reminds me of JR’s Asahina), Kisa Shouta, Mino Kanade

Background Info + Summary: Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi (SIH) is a love comedy between Onodera Ritsu and Takano Masamune, set in Nakamura Shungiku’s famous Junjou Romantica universe. The characters are employees working for Marukawa Shoten (yes, that also translates as Isaka’s employees). While Junjou gives us the novel-publishing part of the company, SIH allows us to see the manga-publishing part of Marukawa, where Takano is the editor-in-chief for a shoujo manga publication. His subordinates are constantly pressured into working extra hours, and Ritsu, who transferred to Marukawa from Onodera Shuppan (his father’s company), got himself into more than one trouble with his own decision.

That is… Takano Masamune happened to be Saga Masamune, his senpai whom he went out with 10 years ago when they were still at school. Takano and Ritsu didn’t part on good terms; Ritsu believed that he was toyed by Takano when his declaration of love was answered with a laugh. Takano, however, had no idea Ritsu thought that way, and couldn’t forget Ritsu even after 10 years. He couldn’t be with anybody else because of his memory of Ritsu, and Ritsu couldn’t be with anybody else because of Takano too. Now, as they meet each other again in a new environment, Takano firmly tells Ritsu “I’ll make you say you love me again. Prepare yourself!”. Ritsu is torn between the affection he still holds for Takano and his feelings of being hurt.

As if Ritsu is not troubled enough by having to see Takano every day at work, he later finds out that Takano is actually his next-door neighbour:

Takano: That’s fast.
Takano: Have you come to confess already?
Ritsu: Huh? What are you talking about? Speaking of which, this is…
Ritsu: … my house, but… (since about a year ago)

Takano’s is #1201 while his is #1202. This explains why he keeps feeling his heartbeat getting faster in Takano’s presence, not only because Takano is Saga-senpai, his first love and first heartbreak.

To make things worse while Takano and Ritsu play a game of hide-and-seek and hard-to-get (on Ritsu’s part, at least), Ritsu is cornered occasionally by the manager, Yokozawa Takafumi (dubbed as Marukawa Shoten’s famous violent bear), who is a close acquaintance of Takano. Can he just fall in love peacefully this time around?? Yokozawa obviously knows who Ritsu is, and of Ritsu and Takano’s past, based on this conversation:

Yokozawa: Did you come because you know Masamune is in Marukawa?
Ritsu: Huh? Excuse me, what are you talking about?
Yokozawa: Do you know that it’s your fault Masamune became all strange?
Ritsu: ‘Huh? My fault? What is? What is this person saying?’
Ritsu: Er… Excuse me. You meant to say that…
Yokozawa: … I don’t want to worry about it.

The resemblance between Yokozawa and Takano is uncanny. But well, Yokozawa also looks a LOT like Isaka. I thought they were brothers at first. I was like “Ah, too bad his name isn’t Isaka.” Or maybe he’s related to Takano, because he calls Takano by his first name (Ritsu is troubled by this). Download to read it yourselves~ All of my scans for SIH are either 300dpi or 150dpi in quality, hence the size. Also, note that in SIH, chapters are called ‘No.’ (as in number, #) as opposed to ‘Act’ in JR.

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Because of the Bird - Summary & Review

I’m really happy because my Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi and some other doujinshis are on their way. I’ll be getting them latest by this Friday, I think. And I’m in the process of scanning some doujinshis, but for the time being, I just want to rant about this Code Geass doujinshi which arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Why? Because it’s just so awesome!

The Japanese title for this doujinshi is written inside the book (Sono Tori no Sei De), and it’s 76 pages including cover. I was first drawn to this title because of the circle (Classic Milk+Peace and Alien) and the fact that Suzaku’s wearing his goddamn Knight of Rounds uniform. Pre-R2 stories are really interesting to read! Angst and dark romance, just the way I like it.

So, after being promoted to the 7th rank in the Knight of Rounds, (Lord) Suzaku became the talk of the palace because while he had Zero under his chains (literally and figuratively speaking), he had yet to kill him. People around him were talking, wondering why he didn’t kill Zero. Charles then summoned Suzaku and told him to do with Zero as he liked.

S: Do… what I like?
C: Kill him or let him live, it’s your choice.

Suzaku himself was shocked at the ‘order’ given to him, but returned to his room nonetheless. I find it intriguing that he kept Lelouch chained in his room at one of the corners. Eyes bound by bandages, hands and legs bound to metal chains hammered into the walls, Lelouch tried to eat the meal presented to him. Having just entered the room, Suzaku coldly told him where the tray was, “A bit more to the left.”

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Code Geass R2 Turn 13 Rant & Review

As soon as this episode finished airing, I was left with my chopstick slacken in my hand, and tears in my eyes and mixed feelings. At the beginning, my internet connection was being so stupid that I felt so frustrated because I’ve been looking forward to this episode.

It started off with Shirley’s dream. The mask we see in the preview of the previous episode was a part of Shirley’s mind. She was getting paranoid with the rush of her returned memories. Shirley was so confused that she didn’t trust anyone. But she did remember the fact that Lelouch was indeed Zero who caused the death of her late father.

And then we were presented with Jeremiah killing off the Intelligence team stationed at Ashford in his search for Lelouch. Viletta and Rolo were alerted of his presence. Jeremiah found Sayoko, who flat out refused to tell him where Lelouch was. She would protect her Lelouch-sama, and got into a duel with Jeremiah.

Rolo tried to stop them, activating his Geass on Jeremiah to allow Sayoko to finish him off. However, Jeremiah got the better of Sayoko and stabbed her. At this point, Miracchin and I was like “Noooo! Don’t die Sayoko!!” because we really don’t want her dead! With Sayoko fallen, Rolo was left alone to deal with Jeremiah. He tried to Geass Jeremiah again, but Jeremiah’s Geass Canceler cancelled his Geass.

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