April 29th, Ranka Lee’s Birthday! <3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAI RABURI CUTE RANKA ❤ ❤ ❤

I can’t give her more than a half-assed drawing (I can’t find my Cintiq pen for the life of me D:) but I know mai garufrendo Ranka-tan will forgive me with her gentle HAATO

NOW BOW TO THE BEAUTY AND MOE THAT IS RANKA, BOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

March/April first loot!!! <3 <3 <3

Holy crap this box is HUEG LIKE XBOX!!!

March Loot! (minus BL doujins, to your luck >:3)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a “loot” post! I’m quite excited mostly because of one item in particular, which is my first of its kind for me to have gotten ever 😀 So without further ado, here’s my March loot (minus yaoi doujins!)

waifu is happy too!

Heartcatch Precure brings out the perverted, male, middle aged lolicon inside me

I have an on and off relationship with the Precure franchise. While meant to be aimed at little girls, it’s obvious the main viewer is a lolicon otaku with no tomodachis, waifus or husbandos (non 2D). While other studios/corporations foolishly stretch series, adding fillers and thus tiring the viewer, the Precure franchise renovates itself every season with new girls, new transformations and new toys. This is one of the most evil and smart capitalist-pig strategies I’ve ever seen pulled in anime, and I’m not sure I’m enraged for being caught in this scheme. Indeed the Precure series is the pinnacle of a profitable, good looking (mostly), nefarious magical girl show. It’s enough to give one goosebumps!

I like almost every other show, for some reason. I didn’t like the first two (wasn’t interested is more accurate), like Yes Precure 5 (it has some of the best transformations) but was a bit too late back then to get into it, don’t like Fresh Precure (old hags with lame transformations and attacks, except Cure Passion), REALLY like Heartcatch Precure <3, don’t like Suite Precure (I kinda like the main character’s design) and now I’m fapping to Smile Precure (Ooooh Cure March~<3). The Precure merchandise usually consists of cheaper dolls, the wands and transformation items to get the parents’ wallets loose and ready to receive a huge raping.

From all series, and to my limited knowledge, Heartcatch Precure is the only series to have received a proper PVC figure line so far.Recently HLJ had a nice sale with a 20% off each figure (although currently they went back to the usual 10% off) so it was impossible for me to resist! So here is each Precure of the aforementioned series:

BEWARE SERIES’ SPOILERS

Happy Colorful Godmother Cinderella Ranka!!! キラッ☆

Oh yeah got my Happy Colorful Godmother Cinderella Ranka waifu on the mail today!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

 

Mai waifu…

Gimme your bytes!

A short while ago it was my birthday. I got toiletries as a present, which is great because it was all stuff I needed (ok maybe except one, but it’s no skin off my nose :D) and a nice dinner; all in all a very humble yet nice birthday from which I wasn’t expecting nothing big (I never do, I like my parties small unless I have the right crowd) UNTIL THIS CAME IN THE MAIL:

Scanlations and their artists

Today I happened to stumble across this new diary post in one of my favourite doujin circles:

“Please do not reproduce without prior permission.
Moreover, please do not translation or distribution of my Doujinshi.
If found, access from your country will be disabled.”

Which made me think about the thousands, countless, never-ending surplus of doujinshi scanlated into (most of the time) English and how the doujin artists might feel about this, especially because I was at one point considering scanlating their work (which are absolutely THE best doujins in that certain fandom and pairing). These people are usually just fans like us (much talented though) sharing their interest and drawing, most of the time for love than for profit (not that it’s not there). As a wannabe artist I can understand why they don’t like to see their works distributed this way, but as a fan… I’m gonna be honest, I LOVE scanlations. Some of the stories the doujin artists come up with are fantastic (even I daresay, better than the canon), and I think my experience as a fujoshi would be much bleaker if I didn’t have those scanlations. So thereby lies my question: Is there a way to make a compromise? Because we have to admit, the only ways a doujin circle gets some profits is by directly buying from them in an event (the most known Comiket) or going through a courier and buying from Japanese online stores linked by the circle themselves (which might not work most of the time since they sell a limited print and once it runs out that’s pretty much it). Short of learning Japanese and getting physical copies (for which the circle as I said won’t see any money from, at least in the usual ways people get them through) it doesn’t occur to me any other way of supporting doujin circles, at least not at the moment.

Like it or not, many of the circles in Japan go big in other parts of the world because they were scanlated and propagated by the fandom. A good example of this is the BL circle “Acute Girls”, who did a ridiculous amount of Sasuke x Naruto doujins. They became known and popular within the Naruto fandom (at least the English speaking part) and when they started doing original manga, their work was picked up a.s.a.p. by an English publisher (I’ve seen the first volume several times in different stores). Whether that was because they were already known in the community or not I cannot confirm, but having your work known worldwide without any advertising company as a medium speaks volumes of how the fandom loves your work.

The problem of copyright outside of Japan shots down the idea of letting the doujin artist benefit directly from a translated version of their job, depending on the show/series and some companies are more strict (aka they will hunt your behind to the ends of hell). Making a small profit the equivalent of pocket money doesn’t stir companies, but anything significantly bigger will wake the copyright hounds and they’ll go after you. Some doujin circles just don’t want that stuff bothering them, and for good reason. In Japan their doujins are overlooked by publishing companies since they are a huge part of the fandom, but outside Japan they risk much more.

I am torn between wanting to share with the world the wonderful doujins I find and consequently the great doujin artists out there, and wanting to respect their wishes.

A Goddess is born

Today October 3rd marks the birth of The Holy One, Madoka! Everyone prostrate and present your offerings to our Goddess!

 

Great friends and FanimeCon!

FANIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!