ooh, I got over 10k pageviews on my DA account *wasn't really expecting this* <- *isn't popular so she kind of thought she was still somewhere around 6k-ish or something*

... I know that for more talented artists and for normally popular people 10k pageviews is nothing, especially since it's in what 4 years of works?

but this is a great goal for someone like me ^^ *is really happy*

this calls for some kind of celebration on my part. and a sketch. people do this, right?

on a quite more subdued note, I went to see the Jethro Tull in concert in italy. if anyone knows who they are, they get a cookie and my admiration, since apparently no one i know (apart my parents) has ever heard of them. and they should be famous? or are just my parents into strange music (ok, they are.)?

as a sidenote to the subdued note, i don't like that musical group. Mom loves them, but she got a bit saddened because they didn't play her fav songs. *shrugs* 2 hours of my life spent watching the sky darken. :/ kinda. some songs weren't that bad either.

on an even more unrelated note, I'm trying to read slowly. damn it, I'm almost finished with Hyperversum3 and i dun wanna! it's too good to finish! *is dragging it around because wants it to last, but when reading it, she kind of loses it and eats it through*

So wut, I'm obsessed.

Hetaliaaa.

*goes out to shoot herself*

yeah, yeah. but it's fun. makes the World go round.

... bad joke. wasn't even meant to be one.

uuuuh.

PEOPLE, START READING HETALIA. like, so totally right now. *poland hand-wave*

...

ok, ok. I don't have anything interesting to say. I'm not that good artist after all, and I don't have many following what I do. so anyway.

Tablet practice. I wanted to try out things with watercolour-like on photoshop, but I lack... skills and enough inventive to actually do it.

So i went back to sketching idiotices. o.o i did a nyuu's meme. (not gonna post it, it's too ugly).

has anyone read Hyperversum? is it by any means famous outside italy? because I so, like, totally didn't know it was an italian writer. *i should stop imitating poland*

oh, and as a fan-related news, Platinum is finally coming out in italy (the rom i downloaded isn't allowing me to save any game, so...) and AND AND best news of the year, THEY'RE GONNA DO REMAKES OF POKEMON GOLD AND SILVER.

i feel so freaking squealy and excited now you have no idea.

those were the best games ever.

with this, I'll go hang myself.

uav you all. ^^

I know people do not read Journals, but since i'm working here, I thought that maybe there was a small chance.

So.

there is going to be an ItaNaru fanfic award soon enough. this is just a preview news, because i'll let you people know more when I post the drawing i'm working on (itanaru, of course)

so please get into the gears and start preparing fanfics you want to tip to us or offer if they're yours, and I'll give you more details later on.

thanks for reading

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I've been lately hit with a NEED to read manga. Well, not that it never happened.
Actually, it happens daily.
But I've been in serious need of manga to replace the ones I'm reading now, because seriously, everything I read is being updated only once every week (I've been up to date with all interesting things, damn my fast reading).
So I took up on anything people suggested me.

I thought I could share some of them for the many out here who do not know such fandoms. I speak as both a writer and a reader, because there are not enough fanfictions out for all those. Nor pictures or doujinshi. But mostly, because some manga are just underestimated because you think you won't like the subject. I know, i thought like that too.

So, on with a pointless entry about manga I love. Let's share.

I read Eyeshield. If you are a fan of sports manga, this is your piece of cake. It's about amefuto, a sport I've never considered worth my attention, and yet I've enjoyed this manga a lot.
So even if you don't like the idea, read it anyway. I was surprised myself, from my reticence to complete love.
The story centers around Sena, and how he's roped into becoming a high school team's amefuto player.
It's seriously crack most of the time, but it has its many serious points, it's a smooth and interesting read. And there is Hiruma-sama. He's the reason anyone should read it.

Recomendation points given by someone who doesn't like sports manga that much -guilty as charged here.

quote: "ya-ha!"
(or eventually... "huh? huuuh?! huuuuuuh?!")

I read Katekyoushi Hitman Reborn. It's about italian mafia in Japan, dying will bullets and baby hitmen.
... yes, it's crack as well. but lately it's been nothing but drama seriousness, which is pretty cool in itself.
Tsuna's the protagonist here, a high schooler who ends up being forced to become a mafia boss (the tenth, to be exact).
I wasn't interested in mafia stories as much as I wasn't interested in amefuto and yet I read this manga too, and fell in love.
Tsuna's a bit less cooperative than Sena is, but he works well anyway. Do you want mad fights with dying will flames that make you strong by having to die with a regret? This is your manga, then.
Read it anyway, if only for fun. It's surprisingly awesome.
And just because there is a one-year old baby with a giant pacifier that is stronger than any other character. Hitman alright.

quote: "ore no na wa... katekyou hitman... REBORN!"
(or eventually "ga...ma...n...")

I read Soul Eater and at first it's kinda crackish. woah, so many light manga. Well, it's about shinigami, souls, weapons and strange things that happen in a different kind of world.
Students of the Shinigami school are either weapons or meisters (technicians) and they collect souls of evil people (the Weapons eat them).
It's seriously one of the best manga I recomend, because even if it's crack and sometimes it's just a bit conceding on the naked side, it's a very good read, and you'll end up loving the protagonists.

quote: "Maka chop!"
(or eventually... "99 human souls and a witch soul...")

I read... Kuroshitsuji. and I am biased because I saw it in Japan first. Before the first scanslation was posted, too. I fell in love with its style and bought the four volumes that were out (the fifth came out when I was back in Italy already, damn it).
Now there is an anime too, and that makes me giddy with happiness.
If you love Butlers with amazing skills at their work, who fight like demons *coughs* and serve the cutest kid ever made, together with side chara crack, and side angst, then this is yours to read. Not to mention, sovrannatural powers of d00m.
You'll definitely love Sebastian.

quote: "watakushi wa... akuma de shitsuji desukara".
(or eventually... "ho ho ho!")

So... Onemanga anyone?

MF

yeah. spoilers for last chapter.


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i must admit i have contrasting feelings on this. i knew jiraiya would die sooner or later, I knew this, but i was still in denial, like i've done with L's death in DeathNote and DeiDei's earlier in Naruto.

I couldn't accept it.

I hoped, but i knew it would be useless.

He was going to die, and truthfully, it has been too much already. he had to die earlier, because Kishi only tortured him and us readers, by keeping up an useless battle, only to spill off some stupid fact.

ok, Kushina was lovely. i love her. she was beautiful, motherly, a picture had it all in itself.

minato was as usual, the perfect hokage.

it was the perfect explaining of it all.

especially that I WAS RIGHT AND IT WAS NOT PEIN THE DESTINY CHILD BUT NARUTO. and there i thought i'd have to write a drabble about that. sigh.

anyway. after torturing jiraiya until now, kishi got him good, so his death was at least partially satisfying for my craving. i love jiraiya.

i really love him.

it hurts. and i mean it.

i've got only one thing to say and it is

if kishimoto makes naruto happy and dandy after jiraiya's death, or if he underestimated the relationship that existed between the two of them, i'm seriously out for his blood.

jiraiya wasn't just naruto's mentor. he was like a grandfather. a teacher. a person naruto could share something with. an older figure that went when sandaime died, someone he could rely on.

and now, he's gone. in a stupid, stupid useless way.

naruto will never know jiraiya was the one who named him, after the only real, serious book he ever wrote.

he'll never know it all.

jiraiya will be forgotten. because kishi ruined his manga and now it matters nothing anymore.

so it's just a lonely requiem in the air for another abused character that died out without a reason.

SOY/MF