Motto of the year, "Simple Life"

Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとう!  새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Bonne année! And 'happy new year' in another languages you know or can think of! ^_^ 

In the flavor of the new year, and all the resolutions that last about a month or so, I like to keep it easy but instead of a resolutions I am doing a Motto, "Easy Living". In Japan when a new emperor is 'crowned' they have a 'motto' for their reign or era. Heisei was the one chosen in 1989 and is the current era; Heisei is intended to mean "peace everywhere".  Now for me, Easy Living is gonging to mean take each day as it comes, (do that anyways) declutter my life and living and mind. So in lite of the decluttering I am going to take this time to go through my recipes and that I have been saving and make them, as for any who knows me I have a janky oven and I do not usually cook so this will be a struggle for me. Going to go through each room in my apartment and get rid of things I don't need or no longer use.



Now for some people this is very Stressful to do, and cooking and getting rid of recipes is time consuming and therefore becoming stressful for me. Letting go to certain things in my life is also hard to do but I have been caring it from place to place and move to move and keeping it is more stressful at this time then letting it go. So how to counter?

Well you can always find tips and tricks that will work best for you in your own life but me, I am a blend of stuff so I take bits of pieces from about anything. Knowing what works best for me is learning more about myself and can be looked as a self journey.

This nice picture I found on Google and has some nice tips and tricks on it that I find most useful to me and my style of life and cleaning!

In the end it is the memories they hold and even if there was a fire and I lost it all or if I give it away or have it stolen I can take photos of it so I remembered what it looked liked but the memory of what happened with the object will always be a memory photo or clutter. And that is something that is helping me move on with my life without it being in my life now.

So here is my 'Simple Living' life and how I plan to make my life more simple by getting rid of what is cluttering it up!

1. Each month I pick a new room (not forgetting basic stuff in the other rooms) and gut it! For my first room I picked my Bathroom. It is small making it easy to go through and give it the good scrub! (walls and all I can be OCD on the cleaning and it stresses me each year) Also, we all know how much stuff we get around the holydays (i.e. lotions, travel stuff, and meds)  make my 3 piles; keep/recycle, give/sell, and toss. (I make the trash can the toss pile) As much as I hate my self I do make a pile on TBD and carry it around with me to each room so it never leaves my mind and at the end I will see how much I wanted it, if I am tried of carrying it around it goes and still can't get rid of it, it stays.
2. To power through the saved recipes do one new recipe a week, that gives me 52 recipes. This takes the cooking stress down for me and if I miss a week then I can do 2 the next and so forth.
3. To get through more recipes, I am doing 1 desert like food a month. If I feel like doing more I can but I don't need to. Now since my stove does not like cakes and cookies from me I will not be doing anything like that till I work out this janky stove.
4. Upload liked recipes into my online recipe book so that I have it any where I go and take it off the self and box so I can see what other ones I have yet to do.
5. Wile I sit and enjoy my cats, movie/TV, and food take about 5-10 minuets a day to go through all the papers I have collected over the years and take care of my piles, file or recycle.

On  a separate note, I am going to take a whack at the PopSugar 2017 reading list this year and see what happens, It has been on my to do list like NaNoWriMo (and that didn't go so well with life advents that took place that month) But I will give this a crack just to spice up the simple life!

Happy Going on your better life challenges you made!

Anime Reveiw - 2015 Summer (Aired)

Hey all! It has been some time since I have been on, not by choice but by life. But I will not bore you with the details. Over the summer I was watching a lot of anime since my new life has me up till late so at times it is hard for me to sleep like a normal person so I stay up with the newest anime shown on Cruchyroll. (AMAZING place!!)

 

Since I was finding myself waiting for the next episode to air I stated other ones to help pass the time. Now as much has I love anime there are some I would say, "check it out" where as others would be, "you can check it out." With that in mind I thought I would bring this summer anime list from Crunchyroll to an end with my one of a kind review!

Okay, I know it is not that special but hey, after last summer it is all I can do from not falling over in execution! You can also keep up to date with the latest anime and such at www.animenewsnetwork.com. You can also read up on older anime too!

*If you are looking for more information on ANY and ALL of these animes you can always look on Wiki. One thing I would say is google it and look at other people searches, you will see what other people liked who watched theses anime series. Also, I will be most likely GIVING away SPOILERS, will try not to though. (this is you only warning)*

Actually, I am (Jitsu wa Watashi wa) 13ep

I think this is a fun anime to watch if you are into stuff like Ah My Goddess and Rosario + Vampire. 

Like all harem-like animated series you have the main guy who some how finds himself with ALL these girls who want to be with him and they are all friends with each-other. (like that happens)

What I like about it is that it takes a different look on the paranormal and that it not only has Vampires and Werewolves but also Demons, Demigods and Aliens. I personally liked the way the Werewolf is shown. I think this gives the outlook of a werewolf more reality to how they would be.

I liked trying to guess who was what before I realized that it had a mix of paranormal and Sci Fi.

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? No.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Depends on what they like and how much they like panty shots.

Aoharu x Machinegun (Aoharu x Kikanjuu)13ep
This one is one of my favorites this summer, and would say over all favorite. It feels like a more grown up version of Ouran High School Host Club.

In this one you have Haru (also O.H.S.H.C. main heroin) who dresses like a boy and gets mistaken for one ALL the time with her tomboy ways! (sounds familler?) Then ends up joining an all male team to play in survival games due to a debt and never had more fun in her life!
 

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? Sure.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Yeah.
• Would I recommend this to a Ouran fan or tomboy/military anime fan? Yes!
  

Charlotte 13ep

Another Favorite of the summer, this anime starts out like one would expect then gets dark/depressing real fast but picks back up (kinda predictable from the Opening)

This anime is almost x-man like with only certen humans having "gifts" that they can use for good or evil and having to balance that life.

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? Sure.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Yeah.

 

Classroom*Crisis 13ep

              

Classroom Crisis was another one that I ended up really liking wishing that they would give this one another season. This anime deals with a future world where big corporate are in-charge of the world in short.

I liked how young kids/teens not only went to school but also worked. Now I like that there are children labor laws and such to stop what once went on but I also believe that young people CAN and should work and work just as hard as adults- but that is another rant. I degrees, having them practice what they learn making them better at the work. Homeroom teachers also being their boss, nice touch.

If you are looking for a little space and racing with a who murder Mr Body and where is is kid. This has the mix.

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? Sure.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Yeah.

Gate - Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri 12ep

 I am supper happy to say that this anime from the summer was given a second season. I know up to here there has been many favorites but so is this one!

What I loved about it is that it has the "real world" and the fantasy in one. If you ever wanted to see a helicopter fly next to a dragon this would be your show!

You have a guy you is into the whole fantasy world and games who finds himself now becoming part of this world while the fantasy world learns to became part of his.

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? Sure.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Yeah.

 

Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers- (Rokka no Yūsha) 12ep

I see great things and a fallowing for this one. I Loved this one has well. I felt it was a little like the Twelve Kingdoms. A fantasy world with heroes to save it learning who and whom not to trust.

I am the person that tries to see who killed Mr Body and such and this one kinda through me. I thought one thing then rethought it thinking that 'no, that would have happened.'

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? Sure.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Yeah.

Everyday Life with Monster Girls {(Monster Musume no Iru Nichijō) 12ep

 With ALL the ones I haved liked though the summer I find myself moving to ones that where just eh.

This anime is a fan service anime. One guy with 6 women -mostly busty, all wanting to have sex with the one guy. If you are into that this is for you. The main idea of the world discovering other worlds with monsters in them that can be friendly is fun and making it so that they are like exchange students with homes to live in and such is also a cool way to think about it.

I did REALY love one moment in the Opening credit and Closing credits. I feel that this opening and closing was done very nicely and when one person puts down her mug it made me want to pause it and screen shot it!

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? No.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Depends on the person.

Million Doll 12ep

Another eh anime for me over the summer but I did mind it. Also it was never long. More like a mini ep each time.

This anime is about teen idols and how powerful blogs can be. There are 2 sets of singer/groups trying to be the next me thing. A blogger promotes one and a journalist spreads the word about another. They all are somehow connected to this one idol but is never really explained how.

When each group goes to sing they are changed into a 3D form that to me seems a bit off. I feel their heads get bigger then the 2D that they are drawn with.

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? No.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Depends on the person.

Makura no dansahi (lit "Pillow Boys") 12ep

This one.... I was not sure what to think really. This is more of a short like Million Doll. Normaly you have fan survices to guys but this was fully ment for girls.

Pillow Boys is the best I can think of for calling this series.  If you played a simulation like game where you say certain things to get the guy/gal you wanted in a game and that was the whole game. This is more or less what that is. Every episode is a different guy that "hears" you say things and reacts to what they "heard you" say all ending with lets go to bed.

If you want to see an anime guy flirt with you before bed to help you sleep this is the only anime I can think of for you!

• Would I recommend this to a non-anime lover? No.
• Would I recommend this to another who likes anime? Depends on the person.

Star Trek - Quick & Easy Cosplay!

Okay, so in my town they are going to have STAR TREK: MIND-SIFTER showing at one of the theaters and the guy who wrote it will be there and if for every person who shows up 'Trek-y' or in OTHER sci fi cosplay he will donate a set amount UP TO $500 to help out for reading where I am currently living.

Am I this much of a Trek-y to do this? Not really, I LOVED the original one with Spock and James Kirk. Have seen a few of the other ones here and there but not a full out Trek-y like I would say I am to.... Anime? Naw, okay so I am not a the why to anything I can think of at this time!

But I do love Science Fiction and the original one so yes I will see it, I will move things around so I can see it but am I going to dress up to see this for a cause? Sure, not because of  being a Trek-y or for the honrable cause but becasue I am a nerd who is a theatre person and LOVES to dress up when the situation comes by!

So this got me thinking... How can I do a REALLY fast STAR TREK costume? Sure it was any other kind a sci fi thing but I would do something from STAR TREK. I mean really, I am GOING to see it! So as I am thinking about it I think of the crazy aliens that I have seen in Deep Space, Voyager, and Next Generation and my friend who told this to me was talking about it and asking me for ideas for something fast. Then all at once it hit me! Go back to the roots! They are SUPER easy to do this time of year when there is no costume shop to be found and the hardest part will be that badge on there close! So here it is my QUICK & EASY guide to a STAR TREK costume in the middle of January!

First off you need to know a few basic before you pick out the color shirt/ short dress you are going to wear what I had NEVER noticed till looking up how to make my own badge is that there are different ones for different positions! Now if you didn't know that the color of shirt tells people where you sanctioned you might of just randomly picked out a color and did the COMMAND one being that is was Kirk has
The colors are...

• Mustard-Yellow (Comand - these are the people who are flying the craft.... yeah kinda vague in ST)
• Baby Blue (Science / Medical - Spock is science and Bones is the medic. Same color, same signage in original series)
• Red -strait up! (Engineer / Security - Scotty is an engineer and NEVER dies where as EVERY OTHER Red Shirt is security and DIES! Ura, I think she is the only security that lives. Mainly cause she BARELY leaves the craft but hey what ever works!)

These are the symbol with there colors to help out and so you know what field you are doing I also have a picture of the field jobs.

 

Now that you have chosen your field and have gotten your shirt or dress we move on to decorating it! The women outfits tend to very a bit more then the men's via neck line or around it but for the most part there is a black neck line that you could take a turtleneck, a T-mock, or Dickie to were under or black ribbon to sow / fabric glue it on there!

So with that done move on to the cuffs and badge... I would start with the cuffs just because! So I found these images online to help in rounding up the options then staring at various pictures!

There are a few ways I would go about doing the cuffs, one is to get that gold like spool of non-ribion but sold like it (can't think of it's name) and sow that on in dashes and lines or to use GOLD GLUE (used on fabrics) and glue it!

Way, Way to easy right? Okay cocky, now the badge! Again, you can use some type of fabric or felt and cut it out and BLACK FABRIC GLUE to make it stay OR take your gold glue and glue it out for those afraid of sowing. Now I think to glue it one might be harder just for the fact that you ARE gluing a picture on a shirt! I might get wax paper put a paper drawing under and glue out the gold then take it and glue it on the shirt with black... Might just easier then fighting the shirt!

There you have it! Quick & easy STAR TREK: the Original series cosplay outfit!

Uhm? Pants and shoes!? You can find those in your local Dresser or Closet!

Females: Black Tights and Black Boots (don't have to be Go Go not everyone can wear one do to big caffs!) You could get away with black heels if you wish, but boots is what was in the show!

Men: Black Pants and Black Boots. Could use black shoes and not boots for the same reason a woman might use heels.

Good luck my fellow nerds, Live Long and Prosper!

Reveiw - Rosario + Vampire

Happy New Year! It is a brand new year and did not get as much in learning Korean/Hangul as much as I wanted. I can read it with help now though! And lost more Japanese/Nihongo. Oh well, this is a new year and I will try again to get farther.... in between jobs.

Well, I don't know about you all, but to bring in my new year I watch a show called Rosario + Vampire. For those of you who know what the show is like, you might ask why on EARTH did you watch that? Well, I am a gluten for punishment and I will watch just about anything anime or with Vampires.... (Do to this I saw Twilight and thought about blinding myself for that crap! -sorry fans)

Another reason is it is one of my friends favorite anime, she calls it her guilty pleasure show. She really wasn't far off on that idea. I have heard from other people the same thing. So, if you like LOTS of undergarments shots and boob shots this is your show! But if you are of the faint of heart -or innocent minded, I would not recommend this for you!

So what is this show about? -Besides the underwear and boob shots? Well, it is about a human boy who ends up (by mistake) going to a high school meant for monsters! On his way to school he runs into a pink haired girl and they become fast friends even though she is a Vampire. In next few episode you meet a new monster girls who falls for the poor dumb human and quickly becomes a harem like show... like Tenchi or Ah, My Goddess.

Rubi Tojo

Over all the show is not all bad but there are MANY spots I could not understand what they were thinking?

For example, there is this girl, Rubi Tojo, they show in the opening of the first season but it is not til you are near the end that you meet her and from there on out she is still a VERY small part in the story yet the show her all the time! And then in the Second Season she is not AT ALL the same person! She is always going on about how her helping Jon Doe out is a "Long Story." Now, I did like her in the first season but drove me nuts in the second!

Kurumu

In the second episode of the first season Kurumu here says she is the on the endangered spices list... and is NEVER addressed again! Matter of fact you later see her mother. You never really see more then one of the same monster but wolves and vamps. So how many are "endangered"? And can monsters become endangered? I feel like there could be more of story with her and her kind yet they leave it hanging.... This bugged me but not really needed in the grand scheme of things.


I think the character I had the most trouble with is Tsukune AND both Mokas. In this one scene near the end of season one Tsukune is killed and the "vampire" Moka gives him her blood and at some point she flicks his nose and then later on yet the "nice" Moka does the same and he asked himself if he was falling for the "Vampire" Moka.... This isn't really flushed out till season 2. Later in season 2 the "nice" one notes that her "other half" is in love with him too.

 
The white haired Moka is the "real" Moka and the pink haired was made to "protect her." Protect her from whom by masking her power? NOT REALLY stated.... But yet in season 2 the pink Moka is her own person made by her rosary.

Here are others rants about RV and other fun titbits about the Word "ECCHI" and why the different kinds of underwear shots!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/RosarioToVampire
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=2j0mdgd45imnjdntv3z24oft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecchi

New year, New you?

Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとう!  새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Bonne année! And 'happy new year' in another languages you know or can think of! ^_^ 

Here year are again, as every year. If either one of us wasn't, well that would be sad for the ones around us. But as you are reading this all is good and as right as one can get in the world.

Have you made plans? Made your new year goals? What are they? My are always the same, live another day, take another breath and one day I will see the gold in the world but for now it is black and write with a TON of gray in it.

But I can say one thing on the matter of goals, this year I made a 2015 bucket list... 

1. Go to at least ONE craft show to sell at LEAST 1 thing and have fun with friends who join me and do more crafts as I am there.
2. Make (around) 4 Blogs on Learning Japanese/ Nihongo.
3. Become more of an person who has little and wants for little... Gosh I wish I could think of that word that describes this...
4. Get a better job so I am not running around with 2 and pinching pockets... I like to stand on my own thank you but standing is VERY different then crawling on one's own!
5. Make a better effort for Korean/Hangul and work that into lessons for plans on my new blog. ~_^
6. Work on my French again, gosh it has been to long!
7. And lastly, find that bloody cupid and take away his arrows so I don't have to deal with all this mushy love around me. ;P

So, I think I can do all but one quite easily!  Cupid and I haven't talked much or seen much of each other. I guess I shouldn't have returned fire that last time we met! hehe

So let's all do our best this year and get as many things checked off our list as we can! がんばって!

Sailor Moon, Moon Crystal Review! ^_^v

 

Hello Again! For all those Sailor Moon fans you know these 2 logos, and like myself have been waiting for the long awaited reboot to Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon Crystals) has stared! Has a Sailor Moon fan girl, I for one was not sure how I would feel about this remake. But hey Full Metal Alchemist did that with Brotherhood and people LOVED it! So I have hope!

So let me start with tell you all how I became a fan of Sailor Moon. I first received a gift with the head of Sailor Moon on it wishing I could see the show that this came off of the when I was around 11/12 we got Dish and I saw for the first time the US version of Sailor Moon! I have never been the same again!!! ^_^ Some my say this was the down fall for my love of anime some may not call it such but was the gate way to a new world!

Now as any fan now knows is that the names were changed and that there were MANY episodes that never made the cross over. The names we had were Serena Tsukino (Usagi Tsukino) Amy Mizuno (Ami Mizuno), Raye Hino (Rei Hino), Lita Kino (Makoto Kino), Mina Aino (Minako Aino) and Darien Shields (Mamoru Chiba), Trista Meioh (Setsuna Meioh), Amara Tenoh (Haruka Tenoh), Michelle Kaioh (Michiru Kaioh), Hotaru Tomoe! From here you can tell that Darien/Mamiru had the BIGEST change then Lita/Makoto, Trisa/Setsuna, Amara/Haruka, and Serena/Usagi. The rest staid pritty close to spelling and/or pronounced. The ONLY one who got to keep her name UNCHANGED was Hotaru (Sailor Satern). And that was only because the it was dubbed later and by then the names weren't changing to some weird American one. lol

We lost many episodes for the US was not ready to show some things and thought they should be masked over and or not even shown. In the first season ALONE we lost 5 and then the last 2 in the org. Japanese were cut/pasted to make it ONE last one for the US! And NEVER showed the Sailor Moon Stars season... there was no way around that one to change it for "family viewing." You fans know what I mean.

Since my mother HATED anime/manga I did not get a chance to read them and at the time looking for the online to read would only get me yelled at since it would tie up the phone line and it was in the main room were everyone was always at. So I would look for things like what Wiki is now!

Since I was/am a huge fan, I decided to watch the first episode to see what I think and how much is it like the old version. And to my surprise, I remembered it all and heard the American names and not the Japanese ones. And then decided I wanted t do something that would be fun since it has been so long since I have seen Sailor Moon. I will watch the new one then watch the old ones and read the manga to compare them!

So far I REALLY HATE the new transformation (and so do a lot/most of the other fans I have seen online) for adding a random cell shading 3D is one of the dumbest looking things I have seen! I am not a HUGE fan of the new animation if you look at one photo online look at Sailor Moon, she has her leg bent is such an UNREAL way it creeps me out and in her transformation her wrist bends weird too! She is also pandering to the "stick" crowds, I loved the old animation for she looks more real with more meat on her bones. But love that they kept the org names and REALLY missed the old US names.

So far I can tell you, that the old one was closer to animation style but the new one is closer to the costumes they had and that it is also closer to the story line in the manga. Were as episode 2 in Crystal and act 2/chapter 2 in the manga are the same were has episode 2(JP)/2(US) are not it is not until episode 8(JP)/5(US) for when they get to see Ami/Amy.

If you want to do the same thing Hulu has the Japanese version out there for free and if you look hard enough you can find the old English one out there on Youtube!

Til next time!

Movie Review - Prisoners

Over All Rating: 4.5/5
Make-up: 5/5 (This is of note to me!)

So the other night I went to go see this movie, let me just note that I HAD NO CLUE  that this movie was even made till a friend said, "we are going to see Prisoners!"

And I am a person who says, "okay" a ask very little about it. All I knew was that it was about kids who get kidnapped.... So imagine my surprise when I saw one of my favorite actors, Hugh Jackman. And I remembered why I do not ask much about movies and take what people give me, I LOVE to find people I have seen in other films!

The other person that hit was Alex Jones played by Paul Dano. I know he is not well known but he has a face that one can NOT forget! He was Ford's son in Cowboys and Aliens and was the brainy-ac kid in Knight & Day. For being B type actor he does a REALY good job in his roles. Now, I was surprised of how good his make-up was when he was being beaten, the face swelling and bruises where amazing!

Another person that caught my memory was Jake Gyllenhaal, Detective Loki. Now, sadly, I didn't pick him up as fast as the other two, but I will blame it on that he is beautiful and in this movie his eyes would twitch! I was tying to think of another movie where the hero's eyes would twitch not so much were he was from, but when I sat down to find out who he is I saw he was in Prince of Persia and I knew who he was in it and felt like a blond for not noticing that sooner! I felt the same for Terrence Howard, aka Iron Man/Red Tails. The only thing I could think of was planes when I saw him, it buged me that I could not think of the movie he was in.

Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) did a great job on acting like a cop. (I think) His hair was cut in a way that would be approved to be warn, nothing around the ears. Nothing bugs me more then seeing a shaggy haired cop in a modern movie! That was a huge plus to the make-up/costume crew

What surprised me was that the two wives didn't ring any bells till I looked up the movie, Viola Davis (also from Knight & Day who I knew Dano from) and the other wife, Maria Bello. When I saw she was Evelyn in the 3rd Mummy movie I knew why I forget her. I did not like her has Evelyn and really wanted the real Evelyn to come back, as many Mummy fans did.

Side people that caught my attention was the son, Dylan Minnette (seen in Awaken TV series) and Bob Taylor played by David Dastmalchian (Batman: Dark Knight). Why do they have a face I can't forget that makes me try to think where have I seen them? I don't know.

So far this is all one BIG rant on people I enjoyed seeing in here and some I should of known and very little of the movie! So as for the movie, GREAT! They did real well in getting the little things right on and how people react to something to devastating as having your kids taken from you!