Haven’t really updated the blog mainly because of my laziness and lack of anything interesting to post. The other factor (although not as important) as to why I haven’t been updating the blog is because it doesn’t look like too many people are visiting it and also, because college is starting once again very soon so I’ve been busy dealing with all the preparation for it (reading assignments, syllabus analyzing, book purchasing, etc, etc).

So yeah my main question is: Who actually reads this blog? Please leave your name in the comments.

-JaDe

No I’m not dead, I’m actually doing pretty good; I just haven’t had anything to post about for the past couple of weeks. The only note-worthy thing is that ZipTorrent is EVAL and that CODE GEASS was licensed (woo hoo! can’t wait to buy those DVDs!)

-JaDe

P.S: ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!!!!

My hope in new-era anime fans has been restored. I recently gave a friend of mine my copy of the new Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (featured on the top-left)  DVD and he said he liked the movie a lot. Of course this is to be expected since it’s a Hayao Miyazaki movie and he always makes movies that are enjoyable by almost everyone. But still, this really renewed my hopes with new anime fans, since most of them would look at the cover of a movie like this and would go “Eww, I’m not going to watch this! It looks old!”. So I’m really glad my friend took the right direction with this and watched the movie even though it looked dated. I congratulate him for taking one more awesome step in the road to being an anime fan. And for all you people out there who still haven’t seen Castle of Cagliostro…go out and watch it now!

-JaDe

New Gundam 00 30-second TV spot. Enjoy:

-JaDe

So just like I said, right after work, I went out and bought that Atlantic DVD Shelf at Best Buy. I have to say that I still really hate Best Buy. The people working there, for the most part, are retarded and don’t know their own store. To give you an example, the guy I got to help me find the shelf I wanted to buy had to go check the back of the store twice to see if he could find the shelf (this was after he took forever looking it up in the computer, mind you) and he still had no luck. After he went for a third time to the storage in the back of the store, I finally decided to look around the store’s anime section to see what was new. I found out that the “Le Chevalier D’Eon” Livre III is out already, so I need to buy that. But anyways, after looking through the store’s anime DVDs, I decided I was fed up with this guy failing at life and went out and tried to find the shelf myself. Turns out that by the time he came back from his third visit to the storage in the back I had already found the shelf and he felt pretty stupid. He then got the shelf box for me and took it to the front so I could pay for it, which was kinda cool.

After getting home and opening the box containing the pieces of the shelf-to-be, I have to say I had my doubts. The pieces were all made of that crappy “compressed wood” that most cheap things are made out of now a days. But after taking about an hour building the thing, I have to say it’s pretty sturdy. It holds way more stuff than I thought it did, that’s for sure. uLTraCarL sure as hell had me worrying with the comments he left in my last post where I talked about getting a shelf because he said “You can probably fill the entire thing with with everything you have in those three pictures as it stands.” and “You’ll be surprised how fast those shelves fill up :O” but it turns out he was probably just exaggerating. As you can tell from the picture up top, I had put all of my manga, some of my video games, my Nintendo GameCube, a bunch of CD-Rs, some video game and anime OSTs, my old phat DS, two of my GBA consoles, my Noir card deck, my RahXephon T-shirt, my Full Metal Panic! T-Shirt, my GBA SP box, my DS box, some of my DS/GBA games, my StarCraft battle chest, my Half-Life Platinum Collection Box and my Family Guy season boxed sets just to make it look like the shelf is full of anime DVDs.

So yeah…crazy stuff. Shelf looks pretty though, I like it. Thanks for the recommendation again CarL. ^_^ More high-rez pictures of the shelf after the jump.

-JaDe
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Hot off the presses! Newtype’s August issue announced that a second season of Haruhi is going to be made. The official announcement will be made this July 7th on Haruhi’s official website. July 7th, huh? Better look into that date. Isn’t something special happening the 7th? Some scans from Newtype’s august issue after the jump.

[New Announced Anime via AnimeSuki Forum]

-JaDe

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Okay I’m tired of having to keep all of my anime DVDs on the bottom half of my bedroom’s wall unit. I’m going straight to Best Buy after work on Friday to get myself a big ol’ DVD shelf. One of those ones that hold 400+ DVDs. My friend uLTraCarL recommended one made by Atlantic that was just under $80, so I might get one (maybe even two!) of those for my room. I’ll post a picture of the shelf once I buy it (here’s a pic), put it together and put all of my DVDs in it. For now, here’s a pic of my sad sad DVD collection. Look at all those DVDs! They’re all crammed and organized into two rows (ignore the third row all the way in the back, that’s just old VHS tapes and Pokémon guides) per rack…it’s so sad.

-JaDe

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Just came back from the Calle 13 concert over at Hard Rock LIVE! and I gotta say that shit was well-worth my $60. T.G.I. Friday’s was fun. Before going to the concert, we (me, my sister Frances and my friends Geraldo and Margarita) stopped there to get something to eat, and I was a little bit tipsy because I had already had 5 beers in under half an hour. So yeah…that was fun. But anyways, I’ll post something up for the blog on Monday, maybe. Depends on if I take the day off from work or not. I’m dead tired, this night was way too long. I’m going to sleep. Oh and if you’re wondering, the guy on the pic to the left is Residente Calle 13, the lead singer for Calle 13. Click on the picture to get a better look at him.

A fuego puñeta!
-JaDe

In case you were wondering why I haven’t been posting in the past couple of days…no, it’s not because I’ve been standing in line to get the iPhone or anything like that, I just haven’t had anything cool to post about. So there you go.

-JaDe

P.S: I had a good laugh when I passed by my local AT&T store this morning and there was a huge ass line of people waiting for the iPhone.

Apparently Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be using the Twilight Princes version of Princess Zelda for the game. All I can say is…that’s awesome! I thought “Twilight Princess” Princess Zelda was so much more awesome than any other Zelda, she kicked ass. And her sword is the shit. So yeah…this is BY FAR the coolest announcement made on the DOJO!! yet. Picture of Zelda-hime kicking Zero Suit Samus in the crutch after the jump.

-JaDe
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