I'm just passing by to tell you guys I'm going back to my parents', from July 12th until August 2nd. My plane is taking off in a few hours, we will see if my newly found plane phobia will disappear by then ^^;; I really went on a plane a 100 million times already, but the latest planes crashes that happened the last months seems to have influenced me, I shouldn't have watched the News so often T____T

I sincerely don't know how often I will able to go online, especially since my parents will have their eyes on me: if I spend my days online, I'm SURE to get something like "So! This is what you do all year long when you are alone??!! Going online, playing in forums and photoshoping? And your studies?? (studies being the key word)".
Furthermore, they will have it easy if they want to stop me from going online: their internet connections is a Mobile 3G modem (an USD modem access device), so they really only need to take away this super practical weightless device and put it in their pocket, right under my nose ¬___¬

As for the Clamp 20th anniversary project, I still couldn't find the time to do anything x_______x I will do my best the next days and see just how in the Hell I am going to find out how to have it scanned uurrgghh...I will thing of something ^^;;;

That's it!!

Bye~
 

omg.....

I know there are many surprising things in life, but I never expected to wake up this morning and discover in the news that...Michael Jackson died.
I have very mixed feelings, I still remember all my younger years in which I learned by hearts all his songs and looked at his MV with admirative and sparkling eyes; god, it's feels so weird, I can't seem to grab the truth, it feels...unreal?

The King of Pop is gone.

I believe this should be my first time exposing my thoughts about TRC in my own LJ ^^
Here we go:


FWR plans was to be able to revive Yuuko by destroying the Logic of the Universe, making the impossible possible....

What is happening now with "Syaoran" fathering himself, Yuuko being kept alive while she should be dead, Watanuki existence, all the timelines that are overlapping each others in a chaotic order or just snow bunnies with fur living in a tropical country (do you guys still remember this? :P) goes against "Logic".
Everything that happened until now had been made possible by the World being twisted by Clow Reed wish, a long time ago (the world started to get twisted starting from the very moment Yuuko did not die like she should have...).
And this twisting has been getting worst and worst, with FWR intervention, until being completely destroyed...

So now that everything is being rewound back, with the purpose of putting that Logic back in place, just how much of what we've seen until now will be conserved? How much will the Past/Present/Future of the people closely involved in this mess will be modified? We already witnessed once before what happened as a result of a rewinding, when "Syaoran" wished "Once again": all the people present at that moment had their lives drastically changed!
Because in a "Logical World", someone cannot be fathered by himself or be alive when they should be dead, or exist when they shouldn't...etc
Which is why Yuuko is so worried about Watanuki for example: now that the Logic is being repaired, his existence is endangered by it's "illogicality" ...Proof is, Yuuko is gone now that her Time started again: for her to keep on existing anymore would have been against Logic...
This is the important points that come to my mind right now.

I just received my Shimarisu no Hoobukuro (aka chipmunk cheeks) book.
My 2nd exam will be in 4 days, so you're in luck, I'm allowing myself to take time to do some scanning ^__^

( Read more after the cut... )

This is something I've been working for a little while now, doing a little bit every time I had some time or had a break.
Needless to say, as always, this was supposed to be SO MUCH simpler then the final result I got to ^^;
But yeah, the more I did, the more stuffs I changed and added up until creating something completely new that was miles away from the original idea~
The banner was completely vectored, the bath tube was vectored from an CCS original pic, I changed its perspective and the water turned into shiny stars~
As for Sakura, it was a black and white scan by Suzuco Sahara that I vectored too and colored from scratch; after my exams, I will release the HQ wallpaper version which will be a bit different from what you can see above ^^
I'm also the one who made the whole lace like border.
I will very likely won't change this for a while now...
The only "problem" I'm having now is that I can't manage my userpics for whatever reason (I already contacted LJ support about it) so yeah, this super cute layout with Sebastian dark face as a default icon just doesn't match no matter in what angle you look at it ^^;;;
I ended up resolving the problem myself, I just had to disable ABP in the usericon page and everything appeared back to normal ^^

uggghhh....
This is not the first time I'm witnessing a Patisserie CCS doujinshi being sold at an unholy price on yahoo.jp auctions, but I believe this is the very first time it went so far....
The CCS doujinshi number 14 was sold a few minutes ago for....39000 JPY = 411 USD @__@ (even more expensive then the 2nd Limited Edition BOX of CCS blu ray that will be relased next month ^^;;;)
This is one of the hardest Patisserie doujin to get but still, I didn't expect someone to got *that* far....though, I did see other Patisserie CCS doujins being sold at +20000 JPY more then once... And the minimum prices are around a 100 USD for the least demanded CCS ones...
And to think that such a popular and amazing CCS doujinshi author is now....a hardcore fan of Code Geass and SuzakuxLelouch TT_____TT

But seriously, seeing how crazy CCS japanese fans are, how come no one riot Clamp's studio yet with all they've done to SxS in TRC and how they've been playing us all those years? XD XD XD

My! Aren't you guys lucky?
I've got my package from Amazon first thing in the morning!!! ^__^

I will be sharing the Deluxe cover and the Normal one. I also got the Special edition with DVD but the outer box is absolutely identical to the previous one (with feathers on a black BG) so I don't see the necessity to scan the exact same thing again.
As for the Normal Edition that comes with the DVD, I think that sharing the textless cover (postcard) should make everyone happy ^_~ EDIT: I added up the Normal cover too.
I'm also including the one and only (glaring at Clamp) color page inside the Deluxe edition.

( Much more after the cut!! ^__^ )

Well, for all the people who might or must be expecting me to share the scans for TRC 27 Special Edition, I'm sorry but I'm afraid it's gonna take a while ^^;;
I pre-ordered it almost 5-6 months ago in Amazon.jp but it seems like even that is not enough!! ;____;
I just received a notice from Amazon notifying me there would be a delay...the shipping estimate was pushed from May 16th to....between May 27th and June 7th!! @___@
On the other side, with Amazon, I'm used for these dates to change aallll the time... They might just change the dates in the next 10min...or not ^^;;
Well, nothing, that's all of it~

EDIT (May 14th): the shipping date went back to May 16th, let's hope it stays like that (it will, seeing how they tried to get funds from my bank and came complaining by email because there wasn't enough -___-)
So I will be getting it next week, on wednesday at most and shall share the HQ scans the same day~

Here goes the Animage scans. It's mostly FullMetal Alchemist, but there are also 07Ghost, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Sengoku Basara and Eden of the East.

Please bear in my mind the scans I'm sharing are all 600dpi HQ pics, meaning they are HEAVY...

Those pictures are my property and it took me an eternity to scan/edit all this+upload, leaving aside the price of the magazine and shipping cost from Japan... They shall not be posted elsewhere (starting with art communities like AnimePaper or Minitokyo...) nor be claimed as your own. But feel free to use them however you want for any kind of digital art (banner, icon, vector, wall...) or to link back to my LJ entry.

( Scans after the cut~ )