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* AuraJaganshi will go write the final battle scene O_o
<LTGMars> XDD
<LTGMars> afterwards, suggest something on my latest LJ post
<LTGMars> well, second-to-latest ^^;;
<AuraJaganshi> Pixel something. :D
<LTGMars> ahhh
<LTGMars> !!!!
<LTGMars> hmm
<LTGMars> who should I pixel? XD
<AuraJaganshi> One of the YUA girls?
<LTGMars> ooooooooooooh
<LTGMars> you're so clever
<LTGMars> wahhhhh
<LTGMars> <3<3<3
<AuraJaganshi> :D
<LTGMars> (yeah valedictorian!!)

So yeah, here's Natsumi. It's only my second pixelization project ever, so it's not great, but it looks a lot better than it should because I pixelized it as a larger-sized image and then Photoshopped it down to size (and added the background and all - it says "TSUJIMOTO NATSUMI", even though you can't see it). Total time: 2:15 (plus the 10ish minutes I spent figuring out what to do with the background).

( pix progression )

And no, she's not naked in the source image. Freaks. She's just wearing a bikini, and I failed to realize until it was too late that it looks like she's not wearing anything. ._.

Oh, and if you're curious...

( my first pix project )

I love Nakajima Atsuko for how intricate her drawings are, but that's precisely why it's difficult to pixelize her stuff. Bridge is good at it, of course, but I'm a n00b at it, so yeah... :/

Seki Tomokazu owns my soul. Again.

Yay~, finally finished watching Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid. It plays a little differently than the novels do, but that's to be expected. At any rate, Sousuke and Kaname are as frustrating as ever.

Seki was a brilliant Sousuke, as always. I'm not quite as impressed by his angsty!Sousuke as I was by his angsty!Kyou (Furuba), but that's simply because Sousuke's voice is within his natural register while he had to pinch his voice to play Kyou. And there's also a difference in character to begin with that makes a really dramatic scene ring a certain way - Kyou is usually very loud and brash whereas Sousuke was always reserved to begin with, or at least very matter-of-factly in the way he does things. A drop into quiet angst/drama/"raw emotion" is much more striking for Kyou than it is for Sousuke, so Seki's performance as Kyou was relatively that much more amazing.

But there's this point at the end of the last episode where Sousuke goes "Eehhh?" and it's so cute. Gah. <3



My dad's hard drive died a little bit ago, and I lost with it a bunch of mp3s that I'd collected over the years. Big loss, yeah, I know (it may take some time, but I should be able to recover the ones that I really want to keep; most of them were from trusty ol' Nipponsei anyway... I really shouldn't be terribly upset about it, considering the number of people who lose actually valuable stuff through hard drive crashes). Anyway, my dad'd burned some DVDs of all the stuff I had stored on the server (he had to give it back to his friend), so I was looking through the DVDs to see what all I had to redownload and whatnot (I had files spread throughout my computer, his computer, and the server). Unfortunately, he happened to burn 8/10 of the backup DVDs on Linux. You know what that means...

FMP_O00M.MP3

What? WTF? What is that? I don't know what any of my files are anymore, simply because I was so used to using filenames like YUA-CharaSongs_09_SukiDaYoNanteIeruWakenaiJanai.mp3 (or more recently, POT - Best of Rival Players XIII - Ohtori Choutarou & Shishido Ryo - 01 - Brand New Days.mp3, spaces and all).

Now I can't really tell what files I'm missing. Dang it. ._.

shoot. dang it. SHOOT! DANG IT!

he's so pretty ._.