Ace and Six: Tokyo Ghoul.

Hiya!~
Ace-chan here!

So, first things first (I'm the realist), you may have noticed I didn't post a Fun Friday AGAIN. Well, the reason for that is because I'm SUPER busy. We have musical rehearsals 4 days a week which generally last 4-7 hours. That means it can get up to 28 hours a week rehearsing. It's exhausting.
Because of this, I have also been kinda stressed/depressed. Don't worry, I'm sure it's just from my lack of sleep. :)

So yeah, you can basically expect shorter and/or less posts this month.

In other news, I FINISHED READING THE TOKYO GHOUL MANGA!
Usually, I would save this for the Otaku Segment of Fun Friday, but, like I said, I won't have time for that, so here it is.

I basically sobbed myself to sleep the past 3 nights because of that manga.

And, in more otaku news:

So, I saw this awesome video

I really loved it, I would TOTALLY recommend it to SNK fans. I haven't actually played Pacific Rim, so I don't completely understand it, but that's fine.
Anyways, I got to thinking "it would be so cool to make one of these!" Of course, I odn't have the software to record voiceovers and the editing skills (Though I'm sure I could figure it out) to do this, but I can write! So, then I decided to write an SNK AU (Alternate Universe). Basically my thoughts were this:
Me: We should make an AU
Other Me: We should
Me: Let's do it
Other Me: Okay
Me: What should it be about?
Other Me: Idk
Me: ...
Other Me: ...
Me: ...
Other Me: Well, it should have something to do with the titan shifters
Me: Like, how they blend in with humanity and stuff?
Other Me: Yeah.
Me: ...
Other Me: ...
Me: ...
Both Mes: Tokyo Ghoul.

So yeah, that's how I decided to do an Attack on Titan AU in the world of Tokyo Ghoul.
Basically, Eren is a half-ghoul (his dad is a ghoul, not his mother. His mother literally had to eat humans to keep him alive in the womb.) He has two human friends, Armin and Mikasa. Mikasa is his adopted sister. He thinks they don't know he's a half-ghoul, but they do. Yeah. Actually, Eren knows Mikasa knows he's a half-ghoul, and his mother told Mikasa to keep Eren safe from the CCG. However, Eren also hates ghouls, because ghouls from Aogiri Tree killed his mother. In order to defeat Aogiri Tree, he joins the CCG, and of course Mikasa and Armin tag along. Eren's father, the ghoul, disappears. That's all I'm going to say for now, I hope you want to read it! I am going to start it literally right after I type this post (It's Sunday.)


OKAY
WELL
THIS IS AFTER I WROTE ALL THAT
AND
GREAT NEWS GUYS
I FINISHED NO. 6
YEAH
I'M AN EMOTIONAL WRECK NOW
BUT
IT'S WORTH IT.
TOTALLY.
HEH.

THANKS FOR READING.
~Ace loves Chu!~
AND SHION AND RAT AND DOGKEEPER AND NO, 6 AND KANEKI AND TOUKA AND HIDE AND TOKYO GHOUL



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Ace and Five: SACANIMEEEEEEE

HELLO.
I AM REALLY HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
HSJKFHSDJGFDHSJGFSDHGDS


School starts in 2 days. :(
Oh yeah, I also didn't really post Fun Friday this week because I was really busy.

Okay.
So, this weekend, as you may know, I went to SacAnime with Kess and Sushi and Kess's neighbor who is awesome. Yeah.

I went in a really horrible Winry (from FMA) cosplay that I bet no one recognized. Seriously, it was horrible.
Heh heh.

Kess went as Touka from Tokyo Ghoul (which I've almost finished the manga now). She had the wig and a hoodie kinda similar to Touka's and also Touka's pants and boots, so she was recognizable enough. She just barely was shipped her wig in time.
Sushi went in an awesome Hanji cosplay. She also had hair extensions that matched Hanji's hair, but she didn't wear them, so she looked like just someone from AOT. She had the whole outfit but after about an hour of frustration with the belts for the maneuver gear she just decided to go without them.

And then, and then, there was Kess's neighbor's cosplay. It was amazing.
She went as Maka from Soul Eater. She had a scythe made out of a metal tube thing and some wood. It was painted just like the real thing, and also was huge, though of course not life-sized. She had bought the wig and outfit online, but the boots would have cost $80 so she just re-used some similar black boots and put white duct tape on them. She couldn't make her outfit like she wanted to because of the such short notice.
Her outfit was so awesome, she got asked for pictures like 40 times.

Okay, so we got there about 3:30 Friday night, spent about an hour and a half in the hotel room getting ready, and spent the rest of the night at the convention. We weren't able to make any panels or event on Friday except the kpop/jpop dance competition. Kess enjoyed it, being the koreaboo she is.

On Saturday, we went to a Tokyo Ghoul panel with people dressed and acting as the characters. This was my favorite panel, and it was hilarious.
A couple hours after that, we went to an Attack on Titan voice actor Q&A. It was packed. It took up about 60% of the main room, and the room was big. The line for it went all the way down the street and round the corner. It took 20 minutes for everyone to get ready and seated. Other than the long wait, it was pretty cool.

Anyways, who goes to an anime convention and doesn't get merch? It was very hard for me not to buy everything. I got a Death Note shinigami figurine in a grab bag, which I split with Kess and Sushi, I got 2 mini posters of Crona (Soul Eater) and Edward (FMA) which are pretty funny. I got a Scouting Legion (AOT) face mask, and, of course, an Alpaca. My alpaca is medium-sized and a lavender-colored sailor. Yeah. He's fluffy.
Kess also got 2 face masks, the same Edward poster as me, and a Luigi (Mario games) plushie from the grab bag.
Sushi got a Hanji (AOT) keychain and a keychain from a random anime which I don't watch.

Everyone who pre-registered (which we did) also got a free SNK MLP crossover mini poster and a Naruto/Death Note/Other Random Anime mini poster.
So, time for my Merch Count!
-Attack on Titan, 6 (Wall Scroll, Mini Poster, Keychain, Wristband, T-shirt, Face mask)
-Death Note, 3 (Mini Poster, Figurine, T-shirt)
-Hetalia, 2 (Wristband, T-shirt)
-Vocaloid, 2 (Poster, T-shirt)
-Fullmetal Alchemist, 2 (Mini Poster, T-shirt)
-Sword Art Online, 1 (T-shirt)
-No Game No Life, 1 (Wall Scroll)
-Soul Eater, 1 (Mini Poster)
-Naruto, 1 (Mini Poster)
-My Little Pony (FIM), 1 (Mini Poster)
-Other, 2 (Alpaca Plush, Wristband)
Total: 20 Merch Items

Yay! Merch!
Also, awesome news, Tigress' friend gave us all of the Sims 3 expansion packs! Awesome! Except we can't really figure out how to make it work quite yet...


So, yeah, that was my day! Merry Monday!

~Ace Loves Chu!~





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Ace and Four: IT BURNS!

Hiya!~
Wow, I can't believe it's been a month since I started this blog!

Well, this has been great!~

I like these ~ things. They are cool.

Okay, so you might've seen I added Favicons to my posts. They are just that cool.

You may think "but they're so low quality! It burns! IT BURNS!

IT BURNS

*Insert screaming here*

Okay, anyways.

Well, I hope you had a jolly Christmas! I know I did!

Okay, well, before I tell you what I got, let me tell you I have a higher middle class family (which is right below lower upper class if you didn't know), so I get a lot for Christmas in comparison to, say, Kess, who got $100 and a drawing tablet. So, here's a list of what I got for Christmas!

-Hatsune Miku, SNK, and No Game No Life posters

-$50 Pier 1 gift card

-$40

-Mastering Manga 1 and 2 by Mark Crilley

-The Sims 4 (Well, I will be when it comes out for Mac)

-A Snowman Nutcracker (as is tradition)

-A Big Amethyst (My favorite gem!)(From Jaywalker)

-A black beanie that says "Bad Hair, Don't Care" (which is totally me)

-Clay (Which I love)

-And an Amazon $25 gift card

I ended up using the Amazon gift card for my Winry cosplay.

I know Sushi already has her cosplay ready (it's awesome) and Kess is proKESStinating. Heh heh. But, I found a PERFECT vest for her Touka cosplay.

I also went to my Oma and Opa's house. Oma and Opa is German for Grandmother and Grandfather. My dad's mom is 100% German. Anyways, I got a $40 mall gift card which I used to buy Squidmas presents for Sushi and Kess from Hot Topic. Of course, while I was there, I also got myself 2 t-shirts and 2 wristbands. Currently all of the merch I have:

-SNK: 1 t-shirt, 1 poster, 1 wristband, 1 keychain

-Hetalia: 1 t-shirt, 1 wristband

-Vocaloid: 1 t-shirt, 1 poster

-Death Note: 1 t-shirt

-Sword Art Online: 1 t-shirt

-No Game No Life: 1 poster

-Fullmetal Alchemist: 1 t-shirt

Oh yeah! I also started learning German! Kess is too apparently! So, Kess and I are both being study buddies in Japanese and German, and I hope she'll teach me some Mandarin. I started learning German because, like I mentioned before, I am 25% German (My Oma is 100% German). Kess and I also want to learn French, but we probably won't get to it. Actually, there's a German exchange student at Tigress's school, and he knows like 5 languages. He was born in Russia and moved to Germany, so he knows Russian, German, English, Spanish, and something else which I forget. And he's fluent in all of these languages.

Well, I hope you guys enjoyed me bragging about what I got for Christmas! Yes, remember to check out my friends blogs!

~Ace loves Chu!~

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The First Fun Friday!~

Hello~!
Welcome to the First Fun Friday, December 26, 2014~

In this first one, we have many awesome things for you, including:
-Weekly Video
-Weekly Song
-Otaku Update
-Cool Youtube Channel
-A Hilarious Blog!

Well, here's an awesome video my piano teacher showed me about a 5-year-old piano prodigy!

Okay, for this week's song, we have an awesome Rin and Len (my favorite Vocaloids) duet that is actually kind of sad.

Otaku Update! So, this is not for actual otaku news (most of the time), rather it's a personal update and opinions relating to anime, manga, light novels, or pretty much anything otaku related.

Well, as I kept hearing about how the Tokyo Ghoul manga is so much better than the anime, and as tumblr was exploding with multiple hair color Kaneki, I decided to go ahead and read the manga. I am currently at chapter 46 and still reading. The manga is way better, I can verify. If you liked/loved the anime (like me), you will LOVE the manga. Trust me.

I also saw, of course on tumblr, about a manga about human-shaped holes that suddenly appeared in a mountain side called The Enigma of Amigara. I read it out of curiosity.
It fished me up, man.
If you don't want to read it, I'll summarize it for you.
***Spoilers***
A earthquake recently happened, and a bunch of human-shaped holes that go on for seemingly infinity appear in a fault line. A guy, out of curiosity, hikes to the spot, like many other people. There he meets a woman and a man, who claim they saw "their holes", holes that took their exact body shape. They are tempted to go in. The man goes in first, and is never seen again. The woman wants but is scared to go into her hole. One night, she goes into her hole, and is never seen again. On the second night of camping, the guy has a dream about an ancient tribe who carved holes for criminals, who were forced to walk in them. Slowly, bit by bit, the holes twisted a pulled the body into unimaginable, distorted figures. He then wakes up, screaming. Later, the other side of the fault is found, with weird holes that could not resemble anything. Though, one guy shouts "look over here!". In the last page, we see a "body" in the hole, distorted into horrible figures.
***End of Spoilers***

The Otaku update is going to be pretty long this time.

In other otaku news, Kess and I are working on a manga based on an old creepypasta (horror story) we wrote together a while ago. You can read the original version here.

Okay, since I am working on a manga, why not have a manga/art based channel, owned by a professional Amerimanga creator, with 2 manga art tip books, 2 book series finished and a new one on the way? This guy is Mark Crilley, an awesome artist and awesome guy.

And, here is a hilarious blog. Just to say, the owner of this blog is the creator of the "Clean All the Things!" meme. Yeah. You can visit her blog here.

Well, that's it for this week's Fun Friday! Thanks for reading!

~Ace loves Chu!~



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Ace and Two: But She's a Mom

Hello~
I am writing this on Saturday, but I'll publish it on Monday, as scheduled.
And I felt like you totally needed to know that.
Totally.

So, today we had musical rehearsal. On Saturdays those usually go from 9 to 4. 
Which if you're wondering, that's 7 hours, as long as a regular school day.
But I'm not complaining, I love acting.
Anyways, to the story, I have gotten the stomach flu about 5 times in the last school year, so I actually know more about it than my actual mom.
And she's a mom.
But, as we all know, moms are invincible when it comes to common illnesses, so my mom doesn't actually know how it feels.
Unless she got it a lot when she wasn't a mom.

The blue thing is a sickness.

Anyways, I know how the stomach flu works. So, when my eyes started to not work properly, basically I emotionally prepared myself for Hell until my parents came to pick me up.

But of course I couldn't just say "My eyes won't focus. I'm deathly sick and I need to go home now and get an ibuprofen and nap for four hours."
No. I needed to wait until it actually hurt and it was too late for an ibuprofen to solve the world's problems. 

Who do we appreciate?

So, I ate lunch. In case you're wondering, Kess and Sushi were there. Kess is in orffestra (yes, orffestra, not orchestra), and Sushi is in choir/drama with me. Queen has been there but she had to leave for a dance recital just as my eyes started hating me.

I told Kess and Sushi about how I was probably going to die in the next four hours. (of course they replied "Ebola". We aren't actually that immature. We just poke fun of people who actually do that.) They were understanding and tried to cheer me up but at that time my head wasn't hurting yet, so it really may not have seemed like a big deal to them.

Oh, did I mention I was an hour late that morning because I didn't wake up till quarter to 10? So, in a rush, I forgot to bring a jacket. Luckily for me, Sushi let me borrow her jacket (which was two sizes too big, I'm the smallest in my group of friends and Sushi is the biggest). Despite the size difference, I was really thankful.

In the middle of lunch, my head started to hurt. After about 5 minutes it seemed almost like the apocalypse to me. Of course, all these sayings of death and Hell and apocalypse are just over exaggerations, but I just wanted to tell you how much a phase 4 headache in the stomach flu hurts. The first time I got the stomach flu last year, I actually broke down it hurt so much. I'm more used to it now, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. It just means I can hide the Hell in my forehead.

I decided that I didn't want to stay here any longer because I wouldn't be able to take ibuprofen(which, by now you can tell, solves the apocalypse of the stomach flu in addition to 4 hours of sleeping). 

The Holy Pill (Even though it's not actually pink)

So, I went to our conveniently-outside amphitheatre where rehearsals were taking place, and after finding the only one there was the orffestra teacher (who also teaches me piano as of a month ago). So I told him and he said he could tell I didn't look good (my skin was pale) which was no news. Every time I had a stomach flu and asked to leave school (which was 3/5 times last year) the teachers all told me that 'I didn't look good' so I knew he would reply the same way.

I used Sushi's phone to call my mom and dad, but they both didn't pick up. I learned later that they were at a church service, so they had their phones turned off. Then the orffestra teacher told me to lay down in his room (which is adjourning to the main stage, and the instruments had been taken out for rehearsals) so I grabbed a couple pillows from the instruments and lay down. Sushi and Kess were there, occasionally laying their heads next to mine and joking about how we could all be "Ebola buddies"(which Sushi later titled our G+ chat)  and then the rest of the time playing games on their phones (if they got caught they would just use the excuse that they were comforting me). Despite their uselessness, they actually did comfort me just to know they would stay by my side (that is, until lunch break was over and they had to rehearse more).

About an hour later, me not being able to nap with all the noise of rehearsal, the orffestra teacher let me call again. Luckily, this time my mom picked up, and even more luckily, they were only five minutes away.

After being picked up, I took a couple ibuprofen and napped. If you're a light sleeper like me, usually it will take a couple naps before you feel completely recovered.

So, I left at about 1 and woke up around 4:30.

Immediately after I got Skittles (my favorite candy) and started to write this.
Thank you guys for listening to me complain about how I'm a sickly child. Now, onto other news...

This week was surprisingly great other than today. I'm pretty sure I ACEd my two science tests and I know I ACEd my social studies test. As of now there are only 4 more days of school and 1 rehearsal until a 2-week winter break. On the second week of break Kess, Sushi, Kess's neighbor and I are going to our first anime convention, SacAnime (well, except Kess's neighbor, but she's a couple years older so she's been to I think 3 or 4 anime conventions). Even though I may have watched 21 anime as of now and read some manga and light novels, I actually only got into anime last July, so I didn't really go to any conventions yet.

In case you're wondering, I'm going to roleplay as Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist in her casual outfit. We actually only began to think about last month, so I didn't have much time to put together an outfit, and my parents had to pay 15,000 dollars for something about our other house up even more north California, so my siblings and I won't get as much stuff for Christmas this year. I have about the same hair color and length as Winry, and her casual outfit is pretty basic, so I thought why not go as her? I originally was going to go as Christa, but I wouldn't be able to get the SNK outfit in time. So that's how I ended up going to go as Winry to SacAnime.

Eye of Winry

Oh, let me tell you, I don't live in Sacramento, but it was the closest good anime convention near me (I live in northern California) so I used what I could. I also can't drive yet and my parents would never take me to an anime convention so I let Kess convince her parents to take me, and then after we got Sushi into anime she decided to come along too. Kess can be pretty persuasive, so I can imagine it wasn't hard to get her parents to take us, especially since her mom (who shall be referred to as Kmom from now on) watched anime in her high school and college years. Kess is 100% Taiwanese, and born and raised mostly in Taiwan, so her parents like to embrace Asian culture (even though they're not Japanese). Sometimes, after Kess or I discover a cool anime or kdrama, Kmom will stay up all night and binge-watch the whole show.

I'm not kidding.

Well, back to the subject of SacAnime, Kess is going as Touka-chan from Tokyo Ghoul. (which she adores as much as I do), and Sushi is going as Hanji from Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin (Sushi is like Kmom, a binge-watcher, so she finished the whole Attack on Titan season in about 3 days). Hanji is perfect for Sushi. They have similar hair colors, they both wear glasses, and they are both nearly insane, so I find that Sushi won't have a hard time going as Hanji.

Eye of Touka

Well, thank you guys so much for reading this. If anything happens between now and after school Monday, I'll update this. Once again, thanks!

~Ace loves chu!~


Oh, and new thing: Video for the Week!

Since I just re-watched the entire season of Tokyo Ghoul and started the manga, and since this song makes you cry even over the burning of an ancient library that people on tumblr say humanity could be really advanced if they hadn't burned it, here is the Tokyo Ghoul theme, "Unravel", music box version!

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