animemiz’s scribblings..

Everyone knows that the movies made by Hayao Miyazaki is phenomenal, and the studio that he formed is just as phenomenal. I heard of the release of this double cd from my reader weeks ago, and to say that I wanted to get it was without any questions. Oh there is a minor feeling of annoyance, because after all there’s this cd that was release back in 1997 – but what can I say if there is the need to make money – hence there’s the release of Ghibli no Uta, with an additional ten songs from that original 16 tracks.

I purchased this the same time as I did with the Ah My Goddess artbook, and I am by no means not disappointed at all. I would definitely recommend fans alike of Studio Ghibli to get this cd, since there are the themes from My Neighbor the Yamadas, The Cat Returns, Ponyo on the Cliff, Legend of Earth Sea, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle.

Inside the booklet are the lyrics with all of the song, pictures of the movie posters for each song, and original pictures from the calender releases that I see annually. The cd’s roughly around $35 and the Catalog number is TKCA-73381.

Yesterday on my weekly book stop hopping, let’s say I just broke a portion of my piggy bank with the things I got from Bookoff, Kinokuniya, and Asahiya. Have to say that I thought of the things as pretty worth it though. One thing I got from Asahiya, other than Ghibli no Uta was the 藤島康介画集―「ああっ女神さまっ」1988-2008 and this is Kōsuke Fujishima’s 20th anniversary release of an Ah My Goddess Artbook and let me say the pictures are stunning.

The book has seven chapters of goodies. Many old pictures and some pictures I have never seen before:

Chapter 1- In Goddess We Trust
Chapter 2- Goddesses in Spectrum
Chapter 3-Cover Arts for “Afternoon”
Chapter 4-Various Memories
Chapter 5 -Artworks From the Trade Paperback Edition
Chapter 6-Editor’s Choice of favorite scenes from the Manga
Chapter 7-Kosuke Fujishima Long Interview

Toward the beginning of the art book book, there are several pages of special drawings of Belldandy, Urd and Skuld.

I have a fondness for collecting artbooks, and let’s just say that this book does not disappoint me one bit at all. There is also one page of stickers that denote the 20th anniversary year of Ah My Goddess. I doubt this will ever see a domestic release in terms of the U.S. public, but what the heck… the book is going for 3,200 yen and the ISBN is here 9784063647518.

I took several pictures of my favorite images from the book itself and placed it as a slideshow.

Okay, I wonder if this will be a tangent entry. I have been reading articles from Lorelle on Fan Blogs, and this is what I always think on how to improve my blog. There are also some qualities I noticed in myself that I will infer in this post.

As an anime blogger with too much things in my real life and frequent burnt out periods.. I often question my maturity as an anime fan. Sure some will see me as always happy and excited, but other times, I wonder if people find me annoying. I am actually quite nervous/excited to meet anime bloggers or fans. I just don’t connect well to them, unless I watch certain anime series.

I was talking with one of my real life friends and he mentions of my selectiveness in various anime or tendencies… I truly don’t want to blog about something that I don’t find myself motivated by.

Originally began this blog as an extra credit for a graduate school course. But even if that is over, I still want to make this blog last. Hence my mission statement is to provide various news content of self-interest in terms of anime, or Japanese culture – ie: Dramas, celebrities, seiyuu, music. I highly doubt many anime fans will be interested in what I write about, but with the new releases, I find myself a bit too bored by the plots of them. So even if I do keep watching new anime, I wonder if I will have that same passion for blogging about it? Particularly if I drop them after five episodes.

I also write as a con reporter/reviewer for J LHLS, so many of my waking moments is either split between my job as a librarian, reader, or as a reviewer

Another point I have to make is my personal preference collecting for many adult anime series in games of mangas, but I find myself feeling slightly irked if I see that my stats only register a lot of people finding my sites via the keywords, “One Piece hentai” or “Nami hentai.”

I don’t have that type of content here, and because of self-editing have moved various entries to either my professional blog or my bl-hobby related blog that I am working on with my friend.

An original goal of mine is to provide summary goals of various One Piece anime episodes, but very much like the pattern I see with Random Curiosity or with other similar blogs… they get hit with so many traffic, is that what I want? Sure I like to see my stats up, but is it what I want?

I know from the many professional conference or panels I went, as a blogger – one must be consistent, but it is such a challenge. Also am very not artistically talented, since I am quite a logical verbal thinking. So many times if I even want to match with other anime bloggers, I either take screencaps or find art from devientART.

As an anime fan I identify myself as these characteristics: long time anime fan, fujoshi, video game appreciator, art appreciator, One Piece fan, and librarian.

If you got through my rambling thought and is not irked, then here are some of my goals… this year for animemiz’s scribblings:

• Be more consistent in other anime blogger’s blogs
• Update once or twice a week here, with some anime or Japanese news of interest