I cant believe I havent made a post for this yet, but to say in short, my Chinese friend got me into finally reading/watching Gintama last year. Ever since, Ive been reading it online, and watching it on AnimeCrazy.net. I even have an account there too! Search up Dokuganryuu if you too are registered, and befriend me!
Anyways, Gintama is a really good anime/manga. Its always comedical, but sometimes its serious. I always usually laugh during each episode. The description of the series (currently about 246 episodes long, each episode being 24min long):
In the early 17th century, Japan adopted strict isolation policies and severed almost all ties with foreign countries. In 1853, the US fleet commanded by Admiral Perry forced the doors open, leading to a modernization of the nation's sociopolitical systems and the eventual fall of the Shogunate. The samurai regime ended its life with the imperial restoration in 1868. That's what history tells, but in Gintama, that's not what happens. Instead of the US fleet, the country is stormed by spaceships coming from four corners of the universe and soon we see it occupied by extraterrestrials. The Shogunate has become a puppet of alien occupation armies. All samurais have been disarmed and reduced to temp workers with no skills who just try to make ends meet. Gintama is a story of a handyman named Gintoki, a samurai with no respect for rules set by the invaders, who's ready to take any job to survive. He and his gang, however, are also among the very few who have not forgotten the morale of a swordsman. Wherever they go, all they do is to create troubles. Troubles that they of course try to solve, but in reality...
And there it is! Gin is always doing odd jobs for the Yorozuya, whether it be saving a princess (or a stubborn alien prince who love to keep monsters as pets, usually causing trouble), getting the last issue of ShonenJUMP from another fan, fighting against the Shinsengumi, or even just eating a kurege udon (jellyfish parts in noodles [sounds delish, no?]) meal, which would not be made by Otae, thats for sure. But to commemorate to all the goodness, I'll post my two favorite songs from Gintama (since YouTube doesnt allow episodes on it, copyright stuff and whatnot. So sit back, relax and enjoy! And remember, go to AnimeCrazy.net if your interested in the series to watch the full episodes!
I was browing the YouTube one day, quite a long time ago, and came across an interesting video. The Japanese Alphabet song! Its actually very addictive, I already know the Japanese Alphabet, but its still fun to sing. And for those of you who do not, let me enlighten you...
Im so excited that I finally figured out how to add and edit layers in GIMP!
Ive been wanting to know how to ever since I see people creating cards/wallpapers that look really nice using different texture layers, but didnt have GIMP at the time. Also, yesterday, I made my Gakupo card for the challenge, Honor of the Samurai, and wanted to add texture to it, but didnt know how, though I did have GIMP.
So I moseyed myself on over to the GrooseTube [yes yes, I really mean YouTube, but Groose renamed it, he said it needed a new name, see what Im sayin?] and searched for 'how to add layers in GIMP'. Yesterday when I tried finding a video for it, I couldnt find one that was helpful. Today however, I just clicked on the first one I saw and BAM! First 2minutes helped me already! It was an 11min long tutorial too, but I just watched like the first 2. The lovely little video that helped me was this:
I really should add layers to that Gakupo card I had submitted, Im not pleased with the way it is now. I'll do that when I have time then, and you can expect I'll be making better/more cards/wallpapers from here on out! BELIEVE IT! AND PUT YA GUNS ON!
So some of you may know how much of a Zelda fan I am, more specifically, obsessed with Skyward Sword at the moment. As you may also know, the game Skyward Sword comes with a bonus orchestrated CD. I put only a few of the songs from that CD onto my iPod (mainly only a few cause my iPod only holds about 170 songs). I was pretty happy about having Zelda music on my iPod, but then I wanted more!
Now, the place where I normally download my music is Frostwire. I used to use the old one, version 4.21, even though I had the version 5, the newer one, downloaded onto my computer, because I thought it was better. Well today proved me wrong. I was searching for Groose's Theme on Frostwire, using both versions. On ver. 4 there were many results from the search, and I tried downloading about 3 onto my computer, but none of them worked, they all said the same stupid ad. Then I looked to ver. 5 and saw that there was only 1 result for the search, it said Skyward Sword OST, and I clicked on it to begin downloading it. It took a while to download, but once I launched it, it immediately transferred to my iTunes.
And what do you know, I found out that the Skyward Sword OST was all of the music from the game! About 122 files of it, every single piece of music from the game! Still because my iPod cant hold very much music, I only put a few of the songs I liked best on it, but its still a great feeling to know that I have all the SS music on my iTunes library!