Monday, January 17, 2011

Cosplay Costume of the the Year (CCY 2010) FINALS ~

So guys, I need your help again in gathering more likes for my friends who entered this contest in facebook.
Its already finals so we need more likes now ~ for the best female category one of my bets made it, and there's a new friend Im supporting at the best male category.

Now lets proceed to the process ~ 1st, like this page CCY

then like the following pics.....

Here are their entries. (click the name to link you to the pic then click like on the pic.)


Best Female Category
as Erza Scarlet of Fairy Tail


Best Male Category

as Gilgamesh of Fate Stay Night




There you have it ~ Voting constitutes 50% of the scoring! So, please help them *bows* After liking the pics pls promote them to some of your friends too or you can just use this link to make it easier for them :D 

Btw, if Telly wins this ill have her featured here *wink*


Thanks in advance for those who will help and sorry for using the blog for plugging purposes :p

Another post from me.

Hello once again.

I just want to share something.



As a bassist, I always listen to this kind of music for me to get ideas on how to improvise.

I just rediscovered this video while cleaning up my video folder earlier and thought I'll show you this.

I know some of you might not be in this kind of music, but what the hell, this is pure talent and music showcase.

Hope you enjoy this groovy video.

PS: And oh, I'm so sad to say (or as might some you already know) that an OPM (Original Pinoy Music) band called Bamboo disbanded. :'( I'm so upset over their decision to go separate ways as me and my band played their songs alot on our gigs or jam sessions before.

If you don't know them, well all I can say is that they are definitely one of the best bands in Philippines or might even be in south east asia.

-mikan

Friday, January 14, 2011

K-on! instruments.

Happy new year once again!

Well, these past few days I was trying to play my old acoustic guitar. It seems that the neck is badly bent now. No matter how I adjust it, it just goes back to that awkward position.

Anyways, I decided maybe it's time for me to buy a new, not so expensive, go anywhere acoustic guitar just for me to practice and have some fun.

Visited some of my favourite music shops and tried some acoustics, but damn, they are so expensive.

While just chilling out on the couch trying to think what brand I should go for, I saw this cute ukelele sitting on top the coffee table. To be honest, I don't know much how to play it, but I remembered my dad telling me that it's just like a guitar without the two thickest strings. Then I had a play with it. Amazingly it was super fun.

And now I'm toying with the idea of buying a ukelele instead of an acoustic guitar. Hahaha. I know. Sounds kind of stupid. But still. :P

Anyways, I've found some nice ukelele renditions of some songs on youtube and I managed to find this K-on! Yui Ukelele or Yuikelele as I call it:


And of course Mio bass:


That's it for now. I'm still making up my mind on buying one. I'll update you soon. Hope you enjoy the video I shared. Yuikelele is just full of cuteness. kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~ <3

-mikan

Sunday, January 9, 2011

1st Ep Overview: Infinite Stratos and Freezing ~

This past few days, winter animes started kicking in their pilot eps. There's Kimi ni Todoke s2,
Yumekui Merry, Cardfight!! Vanguard, GoSick, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Rio: Rainbow Gate, and today there's Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu, Oniichan no Koto, and Beelzebub. I don't watch all of them but i can say at least 70% of the mentioned ones :)) Well, this entry is about the pilot episodes of the 2 animes that caught my attention the most ~ Infinite Stratos and Freezing.

Let's start with Infinite Stratos. Hmm... Hotties in mechanized armors. I looked forward in seeing this. The animation is decent and character designs are good. I don't wanna type the summary coz its a pain. Instead just read the summary here in MyAnimelist.

So, here's my overview of ep 1. Screen caps and some character intros. (click the images for larger view)

The episode kicked off with this.. IDK why but they're suddenly fighting someone out of the blue.


Then the opening theme kicked in and i find it great ~ The title is STRAIGHT JET by Minami Kuribayashi.
After that the characters are introduced. Lets start off with the side chars.
This big busted and clumsy looking teacher is Yamada Maya
While this strict yet cool teacher is Orimura Chifuyu
And this hot blonde is Cecilia Alcott
As for the main chars.......
This lucky guy here is Orimura Ichika. Yes, he's Chifuyu's brother.

This very hot cutie is named Shinono Houki ~ She's Ichika's childhood friend
I think thats all for them for the 1st ep. Overall I think this anime is really good. The humor and punchlines are simple but it'll make you laugh. Some fanservice tons of HOT CHICKS !!! <3 Im looking forward for the next ep on where Ichika will have a duel against Cecilia ~

Here are some more screenies I wanna share.

YES!! FANSERVICE I LOVE YOU !!!
GAHAHAHA! Kendo stick + Bra = WIN!

of course she does!! DUH?

See? I told yah ~
Ok, IS down.. Lets move on to Freezing.
Lets get over this fast. You can find the summary here at MyAnimelist.

At 1st, I thought this is one of your random fighting ecchi anime with a bonus of having the "top" parts uncensored. But I think I was wrong. After seeing episode 1, I kinda changed my view. BLOOD IS EVERYWHERE !!! You don't believe me? Then here are some of the screenies.

This is our "Untouchable Queen" Bridget L. Satellize. Yes! A blonde hottie!




PAWNED!!!
I won't go over the char intros like I did in IS since its too much of a pain. Besides, they're listed on the summary link. For now is Ill keep watching this. FOR BOOBS SAKE... I mean coz its pretty interesting :p though i stumbled upon some ppls comment around the net bitching about episode 1. They're pretty disappointed coz compared to the manga this episode completely sucked balls. Well, thats their opinion. I haven't read the manga so I won't complain about anything. All I can say is... this is business ppl. Its given that the anime isn't the same as the manga. Are you newbies? There are tons of anime released that didn't followed the manga version. So stop bitching around. If you don't like it, then don't watch it. Pretty simple ayt? As for me Ill keep on watching this coz Im interested in boobs.. I mean the story HAHAHAH! and moar blood pls! =D Bridget is so cool having that blood stained face while pawning the other students.

This is it for now ~ Winter Anime Line Up Rocks!! Thanks for reading =D Comments are welcomed =)
Bonus screenie from Freezing <3

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Final Review of SCANDAL's 2010

hey readers,

あけましておめでとうございます! (Happy New Year's Day it means)

ok, i sort of break my promise that i will upload the review every wednesday. but to be honest, i been thinking and found out i have nothing much to blog about others since other bloggers have mentioned about it already.

but nevertheless i will give my final review for SCANDAL's 2010. so hang a bit, it may be a boring since most are statistics kind.

let's start with TEMPTATION BOX shall we? a great album, i like every song, this album is truly quite a hit for Japan if i want to say and this marked their rise no doubt.

when it was released on the very 1st day, it hit the ORICON daily chart at 2nd place, which is thrilling news for SCANDAL fans like me. i mean in the space of 2 years, their albums entered top 5 successively.

moreover BEST SCANDAL is the time for a band since ZONE in 2001 to debut at 5th in weekly chart for their debut album.

of course TEMPTATION BOX ended in 3rd in weekly charts but you know what? this is the 1st time since Chatmochy's Kokuhaku in over a year for a girl band to reach top 3, which is great news!

ultimately, this album saw the entry of many people supporting them. to date, 60,301 albums have been sold. and this album also make BEST SCANDAL to be bought also. 7,961 albums have been bought in 2010 since TB release.

ok, that says much about their 2nd album. how about singles? two notable ones.

1st one is Taiyou to Kimi ga Egaku STORY. this single reached 1st spot on the RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) J-pop chart! superb news also. also related to them and RTHK is that they received a bronze newcomer award from RTHK, which is similar to Hong Kong's Grammy award. awesome news eh!

the next one of course is their awesome rocking song "SCANDAL Nanka Buttobase". i didnt mention much about this single but this single marks the return of them playing rocking songs again. if you all did see the PV, you can see that they applied nice choreography this time round, which is still nice also.

so what's the news about this single? the thing is that this single marks the most of sales throughout their career, with 35,772 sold up to date, which is 1k and 2k more than Shoujo S and Shunkan Sentimental (anime singles should much higher in truth at the start of career). this proves one thing: they are on the rise! this single also reached the highest position in the ORICON weekly charts in all of their singles had, which is 3rd! omedetou!

ok, having say all these, there are still a lot of things SCANDAL did which i did not mentioned.

let's start with this, in July-August, they visited Hong Kong for the 3rd time in 3 straight years for Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong. on 1st of August, they held their 1st big live internationally in Hong Kong! of course, one of our fellow writers here, YuuJin Ang, went to their concert. very awesome as at that time, EVERYBODY SAY YEAH was played for the 1st time before the release!

after the HK trip, in late August, they provided all the songs for the anime movie 'Loups=garous'. Songs included are KOSHI-TANTAN (insert song, from TaiKimi), Midnight Television (opening song from Namida no Regret) and Sayonara my Friend (ending song, from TEMPTATION BOX). providing songs of course is just simple stuffs, but SCANDAL went one step further. this is because they presented themselves as animated girls in the film for the movie.

what is more thrilling that they decided to have some seiyuu part in the movie, which i heard it while watching this movie. awesome! these girls just can do anything!

shifting to November where i mentioned about their performance in Singapore, i have pretty touch up lots of things. but do you all know? they also give interviews in S'pore. here they are:







well, those that really just started to know them, you all can understand why they choose SCANDAL already right. haha.

finally, on the final month of 2010, there's still no break for them. 1st, they have a QUATTRO MIRAGE mini-performance, where Rock N Roll Widow from R-Girl's Rock was performed.

towards the end, they have SCANDAL X 109 MENS performance, which is to promote the shopping company 109 MENS. this is their uniform derived from 109 MENS.



ok, shirt wise is ok, but the skirts are just too short! haha.

and finally, on X'mas Eve, SCANDAL had a special BEST X'mas 2 performance. what's special? 1st, they do a cover of SCAP no SHAKE, which is a cover of quite a popular band "SMAP". after that, during the encore part, the let the audience there had a preview of how "Pride" sounds like. which is awesome!



here's the uniform they worn.

and with that, i come to an end for their 2010 production. what is my expectations of them for 2011? well, not really much.

the only 2 things i wanted for them is to become even more popular (in music-sense, NOT LOOKS) and take care of their health also.

so hereby, 2010 is gone, let's look forward to more SCANDAL productions in 2011!

REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THEM BY BUYING THEIR NEXT SINGLE "PRIDE" OK???

THANKS :D


-credit to-

wiki jpop: http://wiki.jpopstop.com/wiki/SCANDAL_(band)
ameblo: http://ameblo.jp/su2009/imagelist-201012-1.html