Kakunouji's Journal

Sorry to those who have friended me, or I them, that I've been off. Ive been online in a sense, just not on here. I have been keeping busy on the sites I do visit regularly however, like my DeviantArt account.

I want to make more BKI fanart, seriously x-x. But I keep putting it off, and my people-drawing skills have gotten worse, and worse. I havent even seriously tried drawing any human character for a long time now, just some scrapped sketches.
My work life is pretty drama-tic, its like high school all over again with the ones my age, and with the others its better. I get accused of accusing so and so of hitting on the boy I like at work who's got a gf, and her herself is married, and I get called a stalker when I accidently miss the food aisle and decide to visit her to make it less awkward rather than passing by her but looking her way, you know? thats even less stalker-like what I did. Than she got along today, but uh...she didnt quite seem to actually smile when I said hi, like she was reluctant. I still pretended nothing was wrong, but in the events that she insults me personally how she also has or harrased me about other guys, I was ready to stand up from my quiet self and threaten to end our friendship on the spot, well really, Im not threatening anything, she is...I tried even in the doubts of things to be friendly, but she still tried to make me feel like Im the bad guy. Its a long story, really. Liking a co-worker isnt what I wanted, but it just happens you know o.o? I sorta thought he was cute before, but I also intended to get over him, which is easy when he's not around, than I talk to him when hes in a good mood again and I forget I wanted to forget him x_x.

anyways, lol...stuff like that. Ive had quite a change in things, I cant remember if I had moved from Vancouver last time I was on here...but Ive been away for almost a year. I miss it. a BF would be the only thing stopping me from moving me back when I got the money, or rather it would test me, what I want most:my original life with my best friends around physically, or a relationship. Well, relationships that are romantic end the easiest often, so really best friends is the best choice, but that "in the moment" feeling is what stops people.]

Well...I guess I can find what fanart I DO have to post, it wont be BKI, though.
By ready to leave, I mean leave this house, leave this province...Im going to leave this week for 2 weeks. Wonder what it will feel like when Im back? depressing.

I don't know how to make my scrapbook visible to others, so, here, I'll just add links into this post. Also, I made a scrapbook gallery of BKI screenshots if anyone cares to look/borrow some.

Fanart


BKI screens

Also, I have made a wallpaper for Hijikata, to see it or download it, go to my deviantArt gallery.

 (I'd also appreciate it if you left a comment, especially if you decide to use any of the screenshots or avatars Ive made in a previous entry *my fanart is not open for editing, the avatars...not really open to that either*...as far as I can tell, no one comes to this journal at all, so leaving a comment would probably-just maybe help me feel less...invisible)

This is not the best pic for fan art Im sure, and Kaku looks a bit...small, but it is still good I think. I'll upload some more later...my head is hurting, which is something I rarely get...

So, high school is finally over for me...I'm happy, excited, and relieved. But this obviously means its time to enter the "real" world, in which work and my chosen school takes place...yep. I wont truly feel happy, excited and relieved until I move,though, which will also mean refreshment, and its little version of some things...Im not used to having large dogs around me, and Im not used to having no cats around, either... I am going to miss my art teachers, I hope I can visit every say months or so, and give them my progress. I also have a friend who is going to move a fair amount away from me in order to school without board feess, which I understand...I hope we can see what each other has done afterwords, and than we can go to Japan after a few years later in investing and saving money (After loans are paid...of course).

On other things, I do not yet know how much time I will have to watch all my anime when Im into the school season again, and working...Im sure I can at least get one episode in every few days or so...it is sort of like "my time"...I enjoy just  watching it by myself. In that, I guess that means I will not be able to update my galleries, sites, journals...stuff like that, as often (I still get distracted from a lot of them already as it is).

If I'm lucky, and I hope I can, I plan to go to a convention later this year.

I saw some others posting up avatars, so I decided "why not? I might as well contribute what I can do, even if it is nothing special in the icon section of things"...so yeah, here are some Ive done.
 

Peacemaker Kurogane:
 


Iroha:


Utawarerumono:


Busou Renkin:




KIBA:

I felt like I'd write a little thing for this ep since I'm going to watch it...might as well. So far, the first thing I see as I paused it iiiis.....another version of Mcdonalds! I remember in Inuyasha, there was Wacdonalds...but this one is the best so far: it is basically Mcdonalds, but with the accent....and is spelt as Mcdoness Burger (okay, so they added a word). A previous episode had Pizzahut, which I will actually show with my image, cause I thought it was just that funny when I saw it. Can you see it? :p

Okay, now on to my little journal review of episode 10...



Well, basically, there is the evil insane creepy vampiric-like contractor working with Alice (who is also insane). Hei and Misaki manage to temporarily escape from Alice, and end up talking and laughing in... a bathroom stall?...haha, oh the fond memories it might have them....remembering when (I say when because I have the feeling she will find out) Misaki finds out about Hei's identity.
After Alice's many lines throughout the episode telling the world she will be free, well...yeah, I guess she asked for it: the vimpire guy used his explosive blood *literally, blood explodes! oh, such action...no, really...it does*, and made her "free" from her um...worldy issues and insanity? Ohwell, Alice was sort of annoying *moves on*. So, than Hei's cool lightning power attack's the vampire's face (yeah, he does have a name...I just find it hard to remember these long names in this episode...his name is Wei Zhi Jun).
So Wei has dissapeared somewhere after he gets attacked by Hei, and Hei has obtained a crystal thing that came beyond the wall. 

Misaki is rather pretty wearing the chinese dress, I think it looks good on her.



Is it just me, or has anyone noticed the noticable thing where Hei is either saving, being saved, or having a pretend affair with a new girl each different episode segiments? o.O I wonder if he will you know...choose one girl by the middle of the series.

I feel the need to keep a list of what I've seen, and completed...things like that. You can look at them too to help find something to talk about to me...:p if you do...want to talk to me here, that is.

Anime Completed (series):
(including those Ive watched on local air/dubbed)

-Chrno Crusade
-Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
-Gundam SEED
-Gundam SEED Destiny
-Soukyuu no Fafner
-Tales of Eternia
-Naruto
-Samurai 7
-Utawarerumono
-Fruits Basket
-Fullmetal Alchemist
-Ghost in the Shell:SAC
-Beyblade
-Beyblade V Force
-Beyblade G Generation
-.Hack//SIGN
-KIBA
-Busou Renkin
-Mai-HIME
-Scrapped Princess
-Card Captor Sakura
-I'm pretty sure I finished a few others...but this is what I can remember at the min.

Full-feature films:

-Nitaboh
-Final Fantasy: Advent Children
-Howl's Moving Castle
-Spirited Away
-Inuyasha Movie 1-4
-Naruto movie 1
-Fullmetal Alchemist: the Conquerer of Shamballa (raw, must re-watch either with subs or dub)

OVA's/OAV's/Specials and short series:

-Tales of Phantasia
-Naruto (track meet, waterfall, and clover specials)
-Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left
-GundamSEED special ed
-GundamSEED Destiny special ed
-Karas: The Prophecy
-Last Order:FFVII

Im no veteran anime watcher I'm sure, however, of all the series Ive completed, tried, and heard of.....Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto...is by far, the best series, or at least in my opinion. Basically, I might as well give my personal opinion aka a review on it. Actually, I have quite a bit of spoilers in a sense, as I mention events throughout the series....so read if you like spoilers, or have already seen the series and just want someone else's view and opinion. ( I added my own screenshots as well, but not too many. The profile image below I just used from a link since it's already common to find)


I love the characters. Kakunojou is a neat one, she seems rather shy around Akizuki later on in a sense, but she is totally up to being outgoing as an actor and attracting the crowds with her fellow troupe members, as well as having the resolve to finish something she started.  Other than that, I find her a favourite nonetheless.
Akizuki, of course, is my other favourite...I mean, hes really cool, is the protagonist, has cool clothes, and his personality rules, too...(and he is samurai and has really awsome skills...I could go on) . I like how despite seeming "cold", he is acutally quite a gentlemen and polite. I also like that he and Kaku got to together in the end (...okay, they were implied x_x...they had feelings, but they didnt exactly admit anything to one another, but we all know they totally will once he returns from the West)  *acts totally fangirlish* ...now, if only there were follow-up oav's/ova's, a movie, or another season....

Soutetsu is also really cool. I like how he is a great swordsman and a devious scriptwriter at the same time. He is just so interesting, my deviousness wants to level up to his great skill, but I know it never will :p.


Im so-so for the two little kids of troupe. They arent annoying, so I guess I like them, but not enough to let them accompany Akizuki and Kakunojou  on their own. Ebisu I liked, but I seemed forget about him from time to time.  I had no real interest in Kakashi, and Shiruinai was actually I guess my third favourite within the troupe. He was pretty funny and cool, and I liked how he risked himself for Tayu, showing how serious he can be.

As for Kanna...I don't know, I just don't really like him. If I have to choose a favourite villain, He's on my list, but otherwise..I dont know...I feel he gets in the way of so many things, and ends up being random with sides (and he reminds me of Kadaj with his "mommy"...haha, sorry, if your a Kanna fan, by all means, Im happy for you....but I personally think Akizuki is cooler. *flicks Kanna away from Aki and Kaku*. It is also the fact that, Kanna is used in a lot of um....yaoi...and I feel there would be less, much less, yaoi made by yaoi fans, if he did not have any association with Akizuki.

Okay, other than characters....I love many other things about this series..many.
I think the music is really, really good. No wait, I know the music is really really good...that is a way better thing to say. I was telling myself "buy the soundtracks....buuuuuy theeeemmm"....but than I realized how hard it is by my search results and the fact that, none of the stores I can think of locally will carry it even as an import item, or for all I know, not even as a special order through the store For that, I felt I could truly not wait long enough for such and I was so tempted to get it right away.  Sadly but surely, I was forced to download them   (why is that so bad?" you can ask...but I want to, I really do, want to support Sunrise for this one over anything else they've made).  Nonetheless....I got some tracks totally stuck in my head, and the Temari song was in there for two days straight...and I mean it o.O. School, everywhere...Iroha music...in head! o.o *dies of deprived-ness* I WILL buy the OST's when I see and find them, however, despite having the tracks already downloaded. I just hope I'll have money on hand.
The music is so dramatic, and it seems to make me feel oddly cold and chilly, depressed and in-the-moment on its own...but I love it. I also like how one of my favorite historic characters introduced to me through PMK, Hijikata, has his very own named theme track....in my opinion, Id name it that in memory of him....I admire him in both series, as Im sure I would if he was still alive.
Not only are the dark, depressing as well as on-edge scores really nice, I also like the sad ones, and the rest. The music is overall great, and I love it as much as I love the characters pretty much, and the series....but all together it makes me love it more. (but Im all fuzzy and whatnot over Akinojo pairing)

As for the art itself, and the style and color usage, I love it. The quality is nice, and the colors are attractive. The opening video is quite unique, as is the series, so naturally, it is so (okay, perhaps Im not as knowledged in the "this makes this like this, and thats how its like this", Im not totally logical). Aki's color clothing are my favourite colors right there, and when I see them put in one design I cant stop looking at it. As for Kaku's I like her purple robe the most, and she makes the more colorful colors much prettier than some characters from other series, or in real life, could ever. Aki's blue glowing eyes are way cool, as we all love it...its not seen as often, so that makes it even cooler, and since it appropiately fits in the series and story as to his nearbyness of the Head, it has purpose as well as looks awesome. His sword rules too...I love how he can slash water, and his expressions, too. What also interests me is the plays, and the idea there. It makes the anime so much more creative looking, and we get to see some of the things backstage, like instruments for effects, that you might not usually see, as far as Ive got to watch in my anime.

The story...I love it too! (I know, Im repeating myself....but its...I cannot help that o.O, okay?...lol)
I enjoy the mystery that takes a mind or the watching further, if not much further, to resolve or figure out, and the ideas of a group of like-minded characters getting together to throw a hidden play of revenge, as well as the telling of events of the past and future....Soutetsu is truly a great one in his fields. I wondered at first about Aki's title of the Eternal Assassin "how long has he been living?"....you do  find out that he grew up just like everyone else :p...was a baby 17 years ago, had a teacher, lived a...at first, somewhat normal life?...okay, I guess not. But anyways,yes. What upset me was everytime I truly more and more, noticed the meaning of the very ending of the OP. Akizuki vs Kakunojou? It didnt seem too possible at first, but than again, this series and it's scandal's and whatnot makes it very possible, but in the end, I was happy of the result.....however, the scene with the sung insert song at ep26 made me think Kaku truly was going to die.....and if not her than Aki, or both would die together after he sealed the head successfully.....I admit it ...I was gonna cry..okay, I think I did!...and was at very least, depressed and chilly around the last few episodes<_<..>_>.o.o dont look at me like that! *forces something cry-forcing into your mind!*

History, I like it too....
I had some problems following it actually at first...I havnt really learned my Japanese history yet so to speak, I'm still learning now of course, and want to learn as much as I can. I have my slower pace in learning over many others though, so I'm taking it in a bit slower through the anime as well, and need to look into the events and some of the figures more. However! I an thrilled to learn that Tetsunouke really was an historical figure himself (yeah, I bet you knew that already), as I wondered at first with PMK, but most info seemed to say he was fictional. But he isnt! *yaaay*.....I liked him in both series, he is quite a likeable character, but since he is older here in Iroha after the PMK events *I learned that one on my own*, I notice him being more mature, and possibly more attractive as a character to who he is now (or here....er, Iroha...you knooow).  Okita's appearance made my day as well, but I was sad to see that he died, and that he didn't truly get a chance to help before his death...if he had at least had the chance to kill the losers that were trying to kill him, maybe he would feel a bit more in peace. In that respect, I have to add I also admire Hijikata again, and some of the other historical figures I was introduced in Iroha and admire...like Katsu and Ryouma.
  (Ichimura Tetsunousuke)

As for symbolism, that black cat was what I assumed, to symbolize Okita's ending life, and that the more it starts to hang around, the sooner it was for him to leave the world....and Okita of course, refused to die, and was beginning to feel angry,fustrated and denying it...he had many things still ahead of him, and feeling totally shamed was not how he or any other samurai wants to die. My opinion on the temari song in Akizuki other than what I read in other LJ's to be related to his possible past and such, before so however, I felt that other  than him knowing it, he seemed  to relate it to Kaku herself, and that he was more calmed down when she sang it (other than the one time where it made him snap at her *cry*....but I guess he's not so good at expressing his reasons when he both cares and thinks she might get in the way at the same time).
I know there are other symbolism symbols (yes, that sounded so...uneducated), but I'd need to be watching the show at this very moment to remember what I know...I'm just like that. But the drawing of Akizuki's sword on Kakunojou at the OP obviously was a sort of symbolism, if not foreshadowing in itself *sort of spoiler-ish foreshadowing, yet, totally interesting, and not acutally revealing anything exactly other than they regrettfully have to fight one another)
 



So yeah....I feel, at the back of my mind, there is, much, much more, but I cannot seem to filter it all out, its just all randomly in there, I have much to think about and say for this anime. I'll probably add more once I re-watch each episode, Im re-watching ep 3 or 4 now I believe, but for the sake of this, I might re-watch it altogther . (I toke this screen as well... I like it.)