音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Too much to include in this post (it's all due to that I was watching too much anime recently, I know), but still, let me try to do it in a well-organised way.

Since anime disrupted my try-to-post-as-much-as-I-can 2014 blogging plan (this is probably an irresponsible lie), it's obviously today's first topic.

Anime No. 1: Detective Conan
I do remember I said in last year that my impulse drove me downloading an up-to-date Detective Conan collection, and till 2 days ago, I finally finished all of this stock! I also feel much better now with Kogoro's new voice by Koyama. Starting from this year, that's over 400 episodes I've watched (should be only about half of the amount since I skipped all TV original stories). But still that's quite a lot, the result is I'm on fire again at this probably the longest anime with a firm plot outside of daily scenes (which is boring).

Anime No. 2: Monogatari 2nd Season
I myself don't understand what made me finishing this anime. The plot is interesting but somehow doesn't perfectly fit my taste (or is it the director's fault?). Plus, since the original novel isn't ended, I'm now regreting for what I've done after all 26 ep's. That's all about the guy, starring in Koi-Monogatari, whose name I can't recall -- people who make subtitles should keep people's name in Japanese since I'm weak at alphabet-only names @w@. Anyway, I like him quite much, merely based on my standard affection for middle-aged men (= oyaji), and I thought he's dead at the very last scene of the last episode. So I went to wikipedia and got severely netabare-d: He's not dead! °A° Good news for me, although I believe when he appears again, I'll lose the state being surprised.

Anime No. 3: Kyokai no Kanata
Only 12 episodes. Perfect to eat in one or two times. I decided to watch it because that was Ito Masumi who composed. I assumed this was a RDG-like work, but it is much better than the former one, at least this time I don't hate the heroine. The story is well divided to fit into 12 ep's, beautiful colouring and drawing quality, plus Masumi's fantastic music, I have no complaints!

Anime No. 4: Steins;Gate
I will not have lots of comments since my current progress is at ep 6. But I appriciate the forgotten reason that triggered me to watch it. I got addicted to this anime only after watching 2 ep's. SciFi is definitely much better than cheap love comedy. Another reason I love this anime is Mihane resembles Makise so much!! >w<

Audio bonus
From Detective Conan. Conan's Kansai-ben in ep 570 is awesome!
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I've set this as my morning call. But since it's long weekend, my first try will be tomorrow~

Besides anime, another thing that I'm overdoing is my "Don Giovanni Fest". Before I was looking for various performances of the same classical work, and thus I found an awfully great file with 27 recordings of that opera. While I finished the file, my mind was all blank other than play all of them in one go. A great work is always great so that you can keep looping it. 27 versions, and near 3 hours per version, together with my anime fest, seems my top artist will be only Mozart for a few weeks.

At the same time when I decided to play the entire collection, the hidden message was not to switch my playlist or I lose. Under this self-suggestion, my recent art work was affected as well.

✿恋せよ乙女✿ -another version-
(another version will only appear in my blog and G+, while the original version is behind the link)

The theme was "Taishou Roman", which I always wanted to integrate since early in last year, mainly activated by Annabel's "Phantasmagoria" and partially spurred by Noriko's "Yoimachi Romantica". The phrase "Koiseyo Otome (恋せよ乙女)" was assigned as the title immediately after the draft was done. I didn't think too much about the title because this phrase is so well-known and is one of the Taishou Roman representatives in my mind.
--So, taking everything together, this drawing has nothing to do with the just passed Valentine Day!

However, like I mentioned above, it's affected by my Don Giovanni Fest. I was unable to switch track (or I lose!), so my sense of Taishou got fairly dulled by Mozart's elegent and classical taste. My original idea of using a coal black front image covered by Japanese-styled Tsubaki patterns turned to be a checkered reddish tablecloth decorated by camellia. You might already know that Tsubaki = camellia and camellia is a good candidate to make up a Japanese ambience, but my point is, my colouring of the deco-flowers was too strong, Japanese hues are supposed to have more degree of grey, and in case of my final deco-arrangement, rose could be a better choice.
--I could have done something if only I had a chance to play Annabel and Noriko's Taishou love songs.. ^^;

P.S. continue with the title "恋せよ乙女", I bet the kanji "乙女" are 100% good to cause Gestaltzerfall--another term just learned from Detective Conan (I'm aware of that phenomenon but never knew what it's called)!

I first though Jan 27 was last Sunday, but I was wrong, and sadly, the 27th is Monday because I've to fight with Monday Syndrome.
Although it's now scientifically Jan 28, it's still personally Jan 27 to me. So I'll try to make this day somehow special.

~since it's Mozart's 258th birthday~

I love all of Mozart's works unconditionally. So it made him my favorite classical composer. No matter in major or minor, allegro or adagio, his music is so elegant and sweet and adorable and... so that I can loop forever. But for sure, of my unconditional love, there are still pieces that are more addictive.

My Favorite Mozart Pieces (as I can remember immediately)
K. 219: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A.
-- 3rd movement. The "conversation".
K. 239: Serenade in D, "Serenata Notturna".
-- Timpani!!! <3
K. 264: 9 Variations in C.
-- The leading melody captured my heart.
K. 265: 12 Variations in C.
-- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"~
K. 298: Flute Quartet in A.
-- 1st movement. The "perfect flow".
K. 331: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A.
-- 3rd movement. "Turkish March" that anyone who listens to classical music should know.
K. 455: 10 variationen in G.
-- A variation again. The same piece of melody can indeed do magic!
K. 492: Le Nozze di Figaro.
-- Super good for relax, of both story and the all-but-2-in-major composition. My special love: Overture, Bartolo's "La vendetta", sextet: "Riconosci in questo amplesso una madre", and the end of Act III.
K. 525: Serenade in G, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik".
-- A piece that people who don't even listen to classical music should know.
K. 527: Don Giovanni.
-- Good for relax, although the flow of story is a little weaker compare to Figaro, I can loop this opera time by time. My special love: Donna Elvira's first aria, and the scene in front of the statue (Leporello is so funny).
K. 545: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C.
-- 1st movement. Just adorable.
K. 550: Symphony No. 40 in g.
-- Minor is especially beautiful, introversively. Solely look at the number is astonishing enough. If my memory is correct, for quite long, there was no composer had more than 9 symphonies... (off-topic!)
K. 620: Die Zauberflöte.
-- To be honest, the story itself irritates me. Tamino x Pamina made most annoying couple ever of my head (don't ask me why). But the music... both arias of Queen of the Night are the shining gems that keep me thinking "it's opera seria!!".
K. 626: Requiem.
-- Who else could make a requiem as sweet as this one? Due to an "accident", Lacrimosa stands out to be my my No. 1 piece of this work.

Another reason made me writing this post so late was:
Since last November, I finally made it!

I myself tend to use HTML more than MS WORD, so it's always a headache when the final write-up is to be well formatted and printed. It's rather a disaster if you have references. So a few days ago, when I eventually couldn't endure any more of such formatting mess, I started to look for modules that can convert html/xml to word.
There are such things, but unfortunately, none of what I found fits what I need exactly. Then again I felt so good about learning that. As what the author wrote "when there is nothing suits your need, you can just write by yourself."

That's so true! -- Well, that's time consuming as well. Last night I spent around 5 hours to parse and convert <table> tag properly with processing colspan and rowspan... and tonight, I finally finished up all basic tags (the ones I use most often). Version 0.1.0 is here and to be debugged! So lemme call it a day! ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

That thing completely ruined my last week--obviously I'm not saying what exactly it is either, since I'm trying to get it rid of from my mind without even a tiny trace.
So in today's post, I'm gonna write down some quick notes about my recently accumulated thoughts.

KOKIA's voice is like lemon+vanilla, always fresh, smooth and sweet. Yet, even being a tera KOKIA fan, I can't say I can enjoy her music at any time (I can actually loop Akiko's Umineko forever though... ^^;). I need to get my mood fits in, although the "mood" thing is too abstract to describe.
--And my mood for KOKIA was gone for an entire month! °A°
But, thank goddness (no, such an entity doesn't exist! ~_~), with the bye-bye to that incident, I feel like to have another lemon x vanilla KOKIA fest~

By the way, taking this chance, I'd like to make some notes. I naturally feel in such way, it's not something like I'm pretenting to be Tooko Amano!
Only my top 5 for now...

Guess it's not that surprising. But I just want to say it. Here. Clearly.
I don't know what's going on in a movie but I can stick to animes for hours.
It was during the past holiday. I eventually decided to watch "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which my friend recommended to me (years ago) saying how funny it is.
Fine, I was considering to watch something different (than anime) so I started to watch.
Now, I can leave my comments: I stopped watching about 10 minutes after and permanently deleted the 1080-quality file.
To me, I simply don't get it, what's so interesting to watching a couple who went to hotel after first meet (even I know I may be wrong)... (゜_゜>)
Watching Kogoro v.s. Eri's couple's tiff is much more fun!
>>> A straightforward conclusion: I'm an otaku, not a movie fan.

I've been watching too many horror games--Just finished "SIREN" and "SIREN New Translation" and now I'm following "SIREN 2". Plus, I'm also following "学校であった怖い話 (School's Scary Stories)". But just like what I've been repeated for many times, sometimes it's solely because the player is funny so that I can keep quiet and watching instead of playing on my own. Well, in case of SIREN, I guess I'll only watch. Not like Silent Hill, I guess I'll never touch SIREN series on my own <<< I just can't survive in SIREN's world. :3
However, one of my favorite moments was when I saw a friend's comments on my G+ post where I linked a youtube video about Silent Hill. "You play this? I'm astonished!" <<< I indeed enjoyed what he wrote! (￣ー￣)

On the other hand, due to my overdosed horror time, I now tend to tell people: before you go camping or go out for a long while, make sure you have the follow items or alternatives: penlight, pocket radio, first aid kit & health drinks and ample if possible, weapons such as iron pipe, handgun, shotgun, or rifle...
In my case, I carry my penlight with me every day, and whenever I see a building's map, Silent Hill is the very first thing appearing in my mind. @w@

Infants, and any other primate make me uncomfortable, psychologically. So that I don't understand the feelings of people who like infants.
I'm also pretty aware of that you might think I'm the weird one. I think I'm weird too since I have no problem with human embryos.
Anyway, because of this, now I'm having trouble with the course "Human Genetics" I'm assisting with. Possibly I'll remove all pictures containing infants beforehand to ensure I don't feel too bad (also to re-arrange the slides so my students don't know there were actually pictures). u_u

Just an one-line announcement of my next "Taishou Romance" series. It's eventually coming out!! :P