Ahh, no time for anything, but I’m not complaining. At least I’ve got stuff to do. I just don’t have time for anything else really, but that’s not so much of a bother for me. I just took an, uhh… three hour nap, then woke up for about an hour, and went back to sleep for another 2 hours or so. Ahaha. It was good though, and I’m definitely not complaining although I have a quiz to study for tomorrow and I haven’t started yet. I guess I might as well post an image along with this new entry, since I haven’t done that in a while.

I’ve been gushing about this oneshot for a while because it’s cute.

This is a oneshot called Koi Suru Fuuko by someone whose other work I’ve already put up. Err, the mangaka’s name is Tsukioka Yasuko, and she does seem to be fond of playing a little with the stories. This oneshot is about two kids, Fuuko (of the title) and Teruki. Teruki saved Fuuko from some boys when they were a few years younger, and ever since then she’s liked Teruki. Or so I think. And so she started making candy (or sweets) to give to him, but she never gets the chance and she eats all of them. She becomes fat, but she’s so cute! This chubby little puff-pastry girl, she’s adorable! But yeah. That’s the gist of the story. Check out the two pages or so preview in the manga link to the right, under the mangaka’s name.

Oh, wooow. Ahaha. I just went to the very beginning of my email and looked at some of the stuff I had from 5 years ago when I first opened my email account on Gmail. Gmail was relatively new back then, and the only way that you could do that was if you had an invite from someone who already had an account.

Emails were a big way of distributing manga releases back then, when DDLs and all the access things that we have now wasn’t too common or it was too expensive to support. If my memory doesn’t fail me, the biggest database was… I want to say MangaDatabase, but I’m not sure. >_> It was a group created on Yahoo! Groups, and in there where lists of whole email accounts that had been created just to store manga releases. ^^; The accounts would be listed with its password, and people would be able to go into these emails and forward the releases that were stored in the email’s allowed quota of space to their own. It was quite ingenious, I must say, but obviously there were a lot of problems. There were lots of issues with people changing the passwords of the different accounts, and the admins would have to go through each of the emails to see if the pw had been changed. Then they would have to go through all of the processes of changing the passwords again. I don’t quite remember when it died exactly, but… maybe 2-3 years ago? Mm. Suffice it to say, with all of the online manga viewers and DDLs available, no one is using it anymore.

Anywho, Gmail came into the scene at the peak of (or at the end of that peak?) that giant manga database, because it was offering about 1 Gig of space of storage at the time. Heh. Everyone saw it as an opportunity to store even more manga in each email, and it was convenient. I managed to get an invite, and for a while I think I was even forwarding some releases to others, but eventually that got boring. But kuinni has stuck ever since, and I still have my Gmail account, which is my main email address. :)

But, yeah… Man, the guts I used to have, emailing authors and telling them what I loved about their books. Since when did I stop doing that? xD Maybe it was due to the fact that sometimes authors failed to reply back, but with their own lives and deadlines for their books due, no one can really fault them if they’re too busy to reply back to every mail that they get. :) But yeah, some of the replies I got. xD I was really happy about them! And even when I look back at them now, wow. Ahaha.

About half an hour ago, I think.

kuinni: oh yeah Dx
i swear
if i look at manga
i become stupider
>_>
shu: that’s probably right :D/
kuinni: \:D

:P I’ve missed you, shu! <3
And kure’s busy nowadays. T.T

Yeah, it’s shu’s birthday. I forgot all about it, until she put it up on her gchat status… :’D *pats shu* Erm, I have nothing for you shu. But Happy Bday anyways? <3 *hugs*

Here's a pretty cover to make up for it. :P Dragon Voice will be working on it, so watch out for it?

It’s Piece by Ashihara Hinako. I really like her stuff. The first thing that I read by her though, Forbidden Dance, was published by Tokyopop several years ago. It kind of fell short of my expectations, but the beginning had been promising. *sighs* And then I read her other stuff, and I must say, I love her stuff? :P Well, she’s pretty good, you know.

Why? No need to wear them. Actually, I’ve never had to since middle school ended. Which is very cool. I’m so aggravated right now. Probably depressed too. Life’s been horrible the past two weeks, and it was just one thing after another. I should go see a psychologist or something. Ugh. Here, more covers. >_>

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