Well, it wasn't what I was expecting actually.
I had in mind something bigger and also breakable, since the description said it was in ceramic....
But I snapped pretty quickly from my surprise and I think the final product is good ^^

It's actually made in figure like material (this thick plastic, you know?) and it actually have the size of my hand, so cute!
Furthermore, the cat and the mini calendar are not linked so you could use them separately if you want :)

My POV will be resumed to this: this is a calendar.end.
I really can't find anything else to say ^^;; Of course, it's all smooth and new and neat and pretty and printed on good quality paper etc.. but there is nothing especially impressing neither original nor noticeable about it in its constitution/design/layout etc..
So, sincerely, if I had wanted to I could have shared 3000px photos, or even spent the whole week scanning and editing in HQ, but I just didn't think it was worth it seeing how most, if not all, the pictures are already known by pretty much everyone who reads the manga.

My fav months are March, April and July, what about yours guys?

So here you go, a preview of FMA 2010 calendar ^^

All along, since the moment I pre-ordered it a while back, I've been wondering if that was a desktop calendar or a planner, the information online was really not enough to have quite a clear idea of how it was...
And the answer was.....it's BOTH XD

I gotta say I was nicely surprised by the DGM2010 calendar, they actually thought it through!

It can work as both a desktop or a planner depending on the use you want to have of it, it also includes a special card in 3D with each character on a different layer (there are around 7 layers?), which is pretty good seen in real but impossible to scan ^^;; + a cube like calendar that you can construct yourself + semi-transparent stickers to past on your calendar/planner to mark special dates ^____^

( Pictures and descriptions after the cut!!!! )

Aarrrggggg!!!

I had just written a super lengthy post about the calendars, my POV, regrets about some and hesitation about others and even an historic of the past calendars I got and it was a damn long *boring?* post!!....which was totally lost when I clicked on the cursed 'Homepage/Start' icon instead of 'Open new tab' icon

*banging head on wall*

( ranting about my choices of calendars, which ones I discarded and blablablablabla )

And finally, here goes the final verdict!
They are surprisingly not series I'm too involved with either, nor too passionate about, nor that I dislike of course, I enjoy them very much!!! (I'm been fervently following both the anime and manga of FMA for a long time :D) Anyway they are mysteriously the ones I was attracted to and chose, but if you ask me why, my answer would be "no idea, beat me!":

FULL METAL ALCHEMIST 2010 CALENDAR *manga version*

Wall calendar.
13 illustrations
B4 dimensions (250×353 mm)

KIKI DELIVERY SERVICE 2010 CALENDAR

Desktop calendar
Ceramic 3D Studio Ghibli display
This years theme features the cat Jiji taking a nap next to a photoframe that's used as a calendar. After the calendar is done, it can be used as a decorative picture frame as well!
Measures 120x87x102 mm

And NO, Kiki is NOT my favorite Ghibli anime.....my favs are Mononoke Hime and Howl's Moving Castle. Chihiro was pretty good too.

D. GRAY MAN 2010 CALENDAR  *manga version* 

uurrhhhh.....'ring calendar'? ^^;;; It looks like a notebook of some sort...
Dimensions: can't find the exact ones anymore, but I remember reading they were around 140x100 mm

So!!
Tell me what you think!!!! And I would love to hear what did you guys decide to buy as 2010 calendars this year too!! :D

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I also preordered TRC Album of Reproduction 2. Needless to say, I won't scan double pages, it's just plain impossible without destroying the book ^^;;
But in case I'm the first one to actually get/scan/share the book online in a way or another, I will very likely make HQ scans of the 2 new oneshots that were announced, together with the new illustrations (if I'm not mistaken, the covers are the only new arts?). I could make a beautiful scanlation of them too, but I'd need a jp-eng translation first...

OMG!!   @_____@

I just learned today there was only one chapter left of Nodame Cantabile!!!!!
I actually had absolutely no idea Nodame Cantabile was coming to an end AT ALL!!! Well, I guess it's normal since it was just announced but STILL!!
It totally made me go "NNNAAAAANNNIIIIII????!!!" *eyes pop out*
There seems to be still so many things to be told, shown and learned about Chiaki and Megumi!! Sincerely, and I mean really SERIOUSLY, I thought the end won't be coming for YEARS, considering the many INFINITE plots that could be made about the two!
I'm really, REALLY sad about this, this is one of the rare series I really didn't want to end, FOR REAL ;______;

That is pretty amazing...so Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle will end October 7th, and Nodame Cantabile October 10th....As for XXXHolic it's scheduled for the end of the year too. Did all the mangakas talk between themselves and made a pact or something to turn a new leaf on 2010 or something?? ^^;;;
But I'm fine with TRC and Holic ending, Clamp went too far with the 'turn over Logic' and messed up everything, though I still have some hope left for Holic...the only thing that would have bothered me about these 2 series ending is never ever seeing Syaoran again, but Clamp spoiled us already telling us we will get to see Syaoran Li soon enough in the future and be told why did he go back so suddenly to Hong Kong in CCS vol12.

Arrrrghhhh!!!!! *remembering Nodame again after my mind strayed away for a moment*
Chiakiiiiii!!!! Megummiiiiii!!! Don't do that to mmeeeeee!!!!! TT_______TT
And is that why there isn't a 2010 calendar!!!!! *looking tearfully at the 2009 calendar full of beautiful artworks hanged right in front of me, that was my first time buying a Nodame calendar, was it fate that I purchased the very last calendar released of this series? TT__________________________________TT*
Ok, before I start hyperventilating, I have to remember all that is left to be released:
-Nodame Cantabile chapter 136 [end-october 10th 2009]
-Nodame Cantabile anime season 3 [spring 2010]
-Nodame Cantabile Movies [2 movies] live action [2010]
Yeah, I think I could survive with that for a while, somehow, since I will have the 2 movies of Macross Frontier and the 2 others movies of Eden of the East distracting me meanwhile, add to it Kobato which, hopefully, will heal us from the disappointment of TRC upcoming ending (yes, at this point, Clamp messed up enough for me to say safely that pretty much no matter what they do, nothing will be good enough to erase all we went through this past year), and also a new chapter of DGrayMan in November.

Well, I've been working on my other LJ, sucre_rose , my scans/scanlation corner, and while it's still under construction (=I still have tons of scans to add...), it did start looking rather decent ^___^
You will realize with the passing of time that while I'm adding up *old* scans, I'm also making sometimes updates and posting new scans you won't found here, in my CuteSherry account.
As for the access...well, right now, everyone can have access to all the thread, but I can't tell how long it will stay that way ^^;; There will very likely be threads I will block and make friends only eventually.

Leaving that aside, I wanted to announce more then anything my first scanlation release under Sucre Rose's name (I made other scanlations in the past but for others groups...) : it's Card Captor Sakura CD COMIC & CD DRAMA .
It's a super HQ release : a oneshot manga of CCS, by Clamp.
Published in CCS Kodansha CD Comic book, it comes together with a CD Drama (sound in .mp3 format), to which the oneshot story is linked.
It was never licensed outside of Japan and very likely never will ^^;;
It's nothing new, but definitely something extremely rare that you, Clamp's fans, will definitely like!! Enjoy~

DOWNLOAD HERE

Please bear in my mind the scans I'm sharing are all HQ pics with high resolutions, meaning they are 'heavy'.

My criteria of scanning is really simple: when I get my magazines by mail, I check on Minitokyo and Animepaper what are the pictures that were already shared by others fans, and I simply scan and post what wasn't shared before.
The only cases I would re-scan something, would be either if 1-I actually didn't notice the scan was already posted, or 2-in the case I am confident that my scanning would be significantly better then another's.
( Scans after the cut~~ )