Just Watched the New Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae Trailer

As the title says, just finished watching the four-and-a-half minute trailer and once again I’m really excited about it. The first two minutes or so are essentially just recaps of Jigoku Shoujo and Futakomori with various shots from the series including spoilers of the ends. Midway through we get a fuzzy screen with the word shikashi (however) followed by text being typed (which I can’t completely read).
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出身の有名なものについて

私はフィリピンイロコス・ノルテ州バタックで生まれました。バタックは小さくて、五万人ごろの人が住んでいる町だけど、フィリピンで本当に特別で有名な所です。そこでフィリピン歴史の大事なヒーローがたくさん生まれましたから、フィリピン人はバタックに「傑士の出身」と呼びます。たとえばフィリピン・インディペンデント・チャーチのグレゴリオ・アグリパイ師やフィリピン軍隊の父のアーテミオ・リカート大将はバタックから来ました。
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First UVA Anime Club Showing This Semester

After canceling last week’s showing due to football, I have finally done the job I was elected to do; take several hours out of my weekend to show club members anime. This will be my second year doing this job even though this has only been my second year attending college. Actually I sort of created the position myself when I volunteered to administer showings myself since none of the real officers did it last year. It also gave me an excuse to not become a hikikomori. Anyways, enough rambling and on to the real news.
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Starting Intermediate Japanese

Japanese Homework Aug 29, 2008

For those who have been reading Lyrical Spark! for a while now, you know that it originally started as my blog for elementary Japanese. This year however I decided to keep my class blog separate but at the end of the year, Lyrical Spark will probably end up cannibalizing it so that I don’t have to maintain two blogs. For those with Japanese language knowledge, please visit my class blog to help me practice.
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Happy Birthday Miku!

Miku with chocolate heart

YAY! It’s been a whole year since our virtual singing idol made her debut and started one of the coolest otaku crazes in recent memory. I’ve tried playing with the Vocaloid 2 software but my lack of musical composition training means I can’t participate in the fun of making new songs for Miku. Still I really appreciate the love that everyone else puts into their Miku songs and videos and hope to see many more cute songs to come. Until then I have my Good Smile Miku on pre-order so barring some crazy Japanese homework I may get, I’ll make a post about that as soon as I get it.
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日本語を勉強している理由

子供の時日本に住んでいたので、昔から日本文化にきょうみがあって、日本語を学びたかったです。でもアメリカ人のアパートに住んでいましたから、日本語をぜんぜんならいませんでした。あまり分からなかったけど、あそこで子供のアニメを見たり、日本のおんがくを聞いたりしましたから、日本文化が大好きになりました。
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Touhou Subterranean Animism Fanart

After playing TH11, I’ve decided that it features some of the weirdest-looking characters in Touhou yet, so I had to draw my own versions.

Th11 fanart- Komeiji Koishi Honya ver. 0.25

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iDOLM@STER Fraulein Revoltechs

Time for my first real figure post ever! Today i will be presenting my three Snow Strawberry iDOLM@STER Frauleins.

iM@S Fraulein Haruka, Ami & Mami 1

Everyone seems to be familiar with Max Factory’s line of articulate Figmas yet I rarely hear about Kaiyodo’s posable alternatives. Since I own three Fraulein‘s and have had experience with Figmas, I’ll be making comparison’s between the two figure lines throughout this post. Anyway, on to the iDOLM@STERs.
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Lyrics: I Want to Shout Out “I Love Yuri” Yamai ver.


[Nico Nico Link][DDL]

Since I’m still on my yuri high after watching Marimite, I felt like romanizing the lyrics to the very relevant song Yuri ga Suki da to Sakebitai. Unfortunately my rusty Japanese sucks so I can’t provide a decent translation for the song at this time. Enjoy this wonderful song anyways:
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Maria-sama ga Miteru: 3 Series, 3 Days

Maria-sama ga Miteru Gokigenyou, Onee-sama
Gokigenyou~ After four and a half years I have finally jumped onto the Marimite bandwagon and watched the entire anime within the span of a few days. My conclusion: Pure Awesome. Marimite is quite possibly my favorite shoujo series ever; it is heavily character-based and lacks the sexual aspects that many seinen yuri series tend to have (I’m looking at you Strawberry Panic!). I really fell in love with the characters over the course of the three series and now I am greatly looking forward to the fourth one.

Since Marimite is not currently airing, the rest of my post will be a summary of what I think about the everyone in the Yamayurikai. Spoilers for those who haven’t watched/read.
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