How can one forget their future?

I finally got the pictures scanned and posted on my photobucket account. I’ll post some pictures for spotlight later. If you want you can see them for yourself

Here’s 4-chan!!

There were some things that I found from 4chan that I found was good.

Akane-chan Overdrive.

The short series is a story of a guy who accidentally dies is a stupid accident and finds his soul in a girls body.

Too bad the series was done like that, but it was a fun read for the time being.

Super Dreadnought Girl 4946

The protagonist is a high school student who believes that a man should not makes girls cry. He finds himself in a situation that he is in between a fight of an alien and of a 40m tall (~130ft) Japanese shoujo (funny). It has only started this year and is pretty funny.

Nanoha Force and Vivid

This is that series that might make or break any future series for this franchise. I like both of them for the characters and the story of magical girls in a inter-dimensional space fighting bad people with large magical attacks. Sounds cliche but it works.

Nanoha Magical War Chronicles Force, still only one chapter has been released and it still is sketchy on what the story is about. But to me it looks like more adult Nanoha goodness. With the main cast there. More lost logia stuff too.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid, is the story of a magical girl who’s growing up. Not on earth, but on Mid-Childia, her Mom’s are Nanoha Takamichi and Fate T. Harlaown. The story has just came out on its second chapter and has started to progress well. It is surprising to see Fate’s face when Vivio did “Set up” and showed that there is still life to this series for a while longer.

For the un-initiated, just buy the anime and figure it out. It’s that big!

Heck when you thought I was done with it, I got the pictures back from the lab and they are not on CD’s. Just five stacks of little slides that need scanning. If you readers have any ideas on how I can get them scanned with quality and a good price give me a ring!

Just to keep things fresh, I have the pictures of the swag I got from the Con. I spent a good amount but not that much.

Two original volumes of Codename: Sailor V One and Two, The Laughing Target, A Urusei Yatsura collection, Fire Tripper, some NGE pencil boards, Haibane Renmei Boxset, Martian Successor Nadeshiko Boxset, Chobits Volume 7.

Some artwork from various artists and two figmas, Yuki and Mikuru.

“so herd u like mudkips in the lix six chix?”

Some shirts.

I am re watching Nanoha, putting off some of this season’s shows, but I like Nanoha! Reading the whole Fullmoon wo Sagashite series because it is cool after being impressed by Time Stranger Kyoko and I like Arina Tanemura’s stories, I want to read more.

Not much else this week besides being busy and lazy at the same time. I am not “Lazy” but actually “Crazy.” (That’s great, you have to know it by now!)

Sore Ja!

Today is the story of a group of Otaku who came from Central New Mexico to have an adventure…..

The day is May 21,2009, 03:00 AM, I was just minutes away from the house of Justin, Anime Club pres. I had loaded my car with goodies, like some DVD’s, a self prepared roadside emergency kit, my clothes and Computer. Shortly after I came to his house rang the bell and came inside to talk to my buddies. I had Yamigata002, Justin, Devon, John, and others here in the room barely waking up. I was pumped full of caffeine and food ready to leave to go to the A lot at UNM to meet up with the rest of the group. From Justin’s house we went to A lot a bit late while waiting for a rider of mine. We got there, I picked up tow more people, making my car a five man band. I had Yoshi, John, Jacob, Yamigata002 (Better yet, Joshua, Jon, Jacob, Tom) and me on a trip west, we left A lot last at around 04:45 AM. We finally left Albuquerque around 05:30 AM to head to Gallup to get some gas.

After we went into Arizona, we needed to stop for breakfast/lunch, The car went to the BK and Jacob was on the phone with one of the other cars and said where they were at and then we said where were we at and found that the two cars were on opposite sides of the road and decided to eat at BK. Strange that someone did not leave my car for a while to sleep. After that was a long drive to Flagstaff, where I got a coffee boost and a break for a passenger (who remains nameless due to incontinence during the whole trip.) A short time passed when my boss called asking me on what times I wanted to work for the summer, but I was driving in a place of little to no reception and very hilly. Finally I crossed Arizona just on one tank of gas with 160 miles left.

We arrived at Needles in the afternoon and it was really hot, 103 degrees in the sun and just walking out of the A/C cooled car was a shock to everybody. This was the last stop for gas before Barstow, that was over 300 miles away, so I had to get very expensive gas, around $3.50 a gallon. Needles is sure making a lot of money, fountain drinks are cheap. I wont tell about the bananas, I swear!

Good God! after a long haul through the Mojave Desert and a straight boring road, and nearly overheating the car. We made it to Barstow! We went to the Carl’s Jr. there and got me some gas too. It was nice to eat after a long drive without any stops. we got ourselves some good burgers and some shakes. Preparing for the long night of driving north from here. I did not know how long that drive would be, it was just getting towards Bakersfield, driving past the borax mines.

After taking a wrong turn onto a highway, we added some time to the trip but ended up on the right road. We headed towards Sacramento on Interstate 5 and stopped to get some more gas and coffee from Starbucks headed towards a specific highway that leads to San Jose. After some driving from a interesting city we were less than 50 miles from the highway to San Jose listening to Blue Collar Radio, saw what looked like a airport and continued on the drive.

We make a turn onto the highway, drove through a town and after about 25 minutes of driving south, we figured out that we were in the wrong direction and turned around and saw some shopping malls and some other things. At that time in the trip just about everybody dozed off during certain times but me, since I was driving.

Then we went to the right road and had a good long drive near a dam and a whole bunch of scary turns, hills, cars and trucks all going over 60 mph. I thought I was going to crash and it was just crazy on how fast and narrow those roads were. Just at the last hill we saw the lights of San Jose. We finally went to a highway that went through some onion and garlic fields. Saw some fruit stands and we were making our way to San Jose. This I thought was one heck of a rural place for being right next to a major city. We headed towards downtown, we turned down the wrong road (a third time too!) and ended up in the outskirts. I was pretty tired and so was my wingman, I blasted through a stop light (Burned Rubber) went on the highway to Hell and drove out of that place.

Final approach, we are in the downtown area and we ended up doing orbits around the Fairmount Hotel. I was looking for a good parking garage and parked into one. We were wandering the streets for a while and we got our bearings. One of us called Justin, told him where we were at, met Micheal and headed towards the motel and he told us to get out of that garage and go to a closer one. So I went to the garage and park there at around 01:30 AM, I was beat, awake for almost 24 hours, drove 21 of those and the guys from my car helped me move my stuff from my car to the room. I am so grateful for you guys, even after the crazy drive!

In the room I saw the guys, Justin on the other bed (Alone, there is NO Love for the President!), Hector next to me and I fell a sleep for a good rest.

This is to you, Hector, the Man I Slept With…
(I just had to put it there!)

(PS just to Yoshua, don’t drink that much soda anymore.)

This is my final goodbye to a vehicle that has carried many of memories over the past 3.75 years. I finally had the pictures of my accident last week. Just to say I had walked away was amazing but I was is pain for the next couple of weeks. I was under a lot of stress, a feeling of loss and many other emotions due to a recent prior event.

Here’s is what my truck looked like when it was only three months old.

Here is was on that day.

The crash made me look into myself and said this is what I needed and I took action since I was looking for that car in the first place in the summer of 2008. I needed a new means to live and I found it. I was finally lifted from that truck to be transformed into a better life and being.

I’ll finish the “Way There” part of the Fanime Con trip sometime from now.

Before I post the pictures over the coming days weeks to keep my blog from being to cluttered.(Since I don’t have a “Convenient” Camera.) I will post some five to six sets of pictures that I think are great, but you can always go to my Photobucket account to see the rest. I will talk about my last two days and on the next post is my personal driving experience and hotel stories and also go a little into the near riot on day two.

The end of Day Three, I survived the amazing Transformer Cosplay and went to my room with the Prez after the hotel reservations were made.

Day Four, the End of FanimeCon 2009. I woke up and took my time thinking on what i had to do that day and what I wanted to do. Had all of the guys put up all of their goods in the rooms and took pictures. I went to the Con after going to the Pita Pit to see the ending ceremony. I sat at Stage Zero to a place to sit and to take pictures of what was left. I found some club members in the back as I went to the closing ceremony. the ceremony played some of the AMVs that were called the best voted and also some pictures of the People at the Con and ended with a Charity Auction of several Items. They ranged from Wii’s that were signed by the previous Con Guests to a signed card from the staff of a show.

The overall thing from the Con is That I will come back for it, just to meet some of these people again and to see some more sights from the group. Just waiting for more cons.

See you next time!

This is towards the end of the second day of the convention. I have been all over the area of the area and feel pretty good.
After a long drive the started at 02:00 AM on Thursday and got to the room at 01:30 AM the next day. I almost drove a solid day, and I felt beat like heck. Later that morning, I got up and went and got my badge and went inside. I brought my X-570, with film and shot a lot of pictures until the end of the night. I waited around for the dealer room to open and I walked out with my wallet a bit lighter and got me some prime stuff. Two figmas, Yuki and Mikuru, a manga and two box sets of anime. Later, I went to hang out with Justin and Hector for the day. Went to the artist section and bought a Vocaloid tag from some artists that were Rin and Miku. Later that night, I went to the swap meet, Oh God, there was a lot of stuff. I walked around for almost an hour, got some NGE drawing pads and I found the treasure of the day. The first two volumes of “Codename: Sailor V.” I was so pumped that I got them.

Yesterday I woke up, had fun with the figmas and went out. I went back to the dealer area to see what else can I get. I found some cool Rumiko Takahashi stuff and went off to lunch. I saw the cosplay skits and In took a lot of photos.

Earlier today i took some time to watch some Nanoha with a room mate. Yes good times. I went to the EPIC Vocaloid panel hosted by Chun at Plain Rice Delicious is To bad none of the other Anime Club members saw this. I must enjoy being the only one of this packed panel from the club. There was a long line and some 300 people came and participated.

Later today, I would going back to process film, make money and enjoy my goods.
That is it for tonight, I need to go. See you later.

Just to keep you guys updated. I will be Leaving Albuquerque around 04:30 AM on this Thursday to drive 1800 or so miles in one day of driving. I hope I would not drive myself crazy, or the four other guys during the trip or even the three other cars. I am bringing a lot of stuff to play on the way to keep them content and up to speed on what is happening. (To my knowledge ) I will bring the mess of supplies that are essential for this trip.

This means that I have keep myself up for a while longer to get enough sleep before the early morning drive.

This is a great time for me to update the status of the season at the halfway point.
Tears to Tiara
Fan Subbers are a bit slow, so have to make up real quick. So not much new here.
K-On!
Still funny as ever even after the teacher shows up. A cosplay otaku girl, very dangerous. ;-P
Saki
Found some episodes from another site. Need to catch up.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Still, good even pacing, now off to lab five.
Eden of the East
Now the plot has showed up and what the goals are. Like to see where this is going.
Valkyria Chronicles
Funny, and cool. The main leads are strong and conflicted.
That how it is going so far, all are still very watchable. Stay tuned.

Below is a few things from the tubes again. To make things well.

I can’t believe it already has been a year since I started my blog and got my own domain. In celebration, I will try to post daily updates on my trip to the ends of sanity at Fanime. From the day before the trip on Tueday to the final drive back home. I will try to keep you guys updated on almost anything that happened to the motels, to the wierd smell in the mornings.

Here’s some funny K-on! stuff from the tubes to keep everyone happy.

See you guys later!

While helping Rin and Emi

Yesterday while I was at DC.com looking at user posts, I found this little beauty in the post.

It is a Doujinshi Visual Novel beta, that just has I think just a part of the first arc. I just went through the first path I chose and found it has a good story and characters. A definite game to play many more times to see more of the story.

The story revolves around Hisao, a third year high school student who nearly dies from heart arrhythmia episode and  finds himself in a new school that is made for taking care disabled students. He thinks to himself about how he himself looks normal enough, but when he gets stressed too much he just looks like he’s out of breath, but he has the heart problem.

The girls of the game have each a different disability, making them more unique and willed. Spanning from deafness to having large physical problems, with social  disorders too. Hisao realizises that he just looks in awe on how each of these girls go on living as if these were not handicaps at all.  They have found means, or in the process of finding means to live. He thinks back on his lack of tactfulness, and his own guilt of his old thinking.

I have found this game quite a thoughtful piece into the world of disabilities, while most stories go on about princess’ or any other well to do females, but this one is one that the complete opposite. I think of my past with people of disabilities, the people with permanent ones especially and the types that can’t be seen. I can think of quite a few people who live on, and think of the ones who survive, and others who just came to terms with themselves. This game has a little of myself in there and you might find a little of yourself too. This I think is a good game for those who can find a way of finding happiness in the disabilities that they have and for the others too.

Here’s a think to their website.

http://katawa-shoujo.com/