#14 - Spoilers

"Code Geass" Turn 1/2/3/4 in Japanese, Haganai Vol. 4,  BTOOOM Vol. 3 will arrive in November with the scanner. Looking for rare published manga and light novels that are not fully available on the Internet.

Will also scan Irwin Shaw's "Nightwork", cause there is no normal ed. can be found online.

Note: All scans will be in JPEG and zipped. No PDF for manga, might be for books and light novels.

#13 - Heaven's Door

"Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door..."

As usual, have just finished watching another title. Now it's the live-action full screen movie "Heaven's Door" released in 2009 by Aniplex (JP) and Miramax (US).

Though it is a remake of 1997 German movie "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which is a criminal comedy), I can't say there is much of comedy in the Japanese one - it's much of a drama, not even criminal. But it's a good one.

And, you know, after watching this one I think: Jeez, it's rather much better to die from an accident than to die from an illness you can't even cure. Even if your life is a trash, you are a trash, you have nothing, you will still want to live. 
Say whatever you want, but if a human commits a suicide, then he's not a human, he's a piece of dumbness and stupidity that has never wanted to evolve and to know. People who do not have a goal in their life are the same: stupid socially-dependent pigs who hope that a magician will come and change their fucking life. That's it. 

You have only that one life - Remember it.

Nice music and screenshots are included, as always.

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#12 - Languages, again

I'm back to Moscow (<3 Turkish Airlines) and all the photos (Part 1, Part 2) and Videos are now uploaded and available.

But that's not all, of course - I will soon add reviews on "Kimi no Iru Machi", "Shingeki no Kyoujin", "InuHasa", "Blood Lad" and "WataMote" anime series (even though there still ongoing, lol).


And moreover I've decided to make myself a challenge:

• I've finally agreed to take Italian as the second language.
• I will learn four languages during the first year
• These languages are: Turkish (Practically vocabulary), Italian, Japanese and English (A bit of grammar, idioms and a lot of phrases and words). A harsh one, lmao. But, guess, after several years I will know five languages. Not great, of course, but I will at least be able to handle an easy conversation in Japanese and Italian.
• Rosetta Stone software will help me with it.

Also, I recommend to watch a "Dragon Zakura" J-Drama: It's about how can 5 students from the worst school of Japan prepare for the entrance exam of the Best University of Tokyo.

And a good song for you in the end.

#11 - Welcome to the N.H.K.

You have only that one life

One more Anime series is finished and another summer is coming to it's end. 

"Welcome to the N.H.K", Welcome to the unfairness of the life.

I really enjoyed this anime and seems like it will end my August anime to-watch list. The rest will be continued in September, I want to have a little break before my first lessons in the University :)

Summary

Aired in 2006, at the same time as the 1st season of "Code Geass", but doesn't have that high-level art as the "Geass" has. The light novel was published in 2004 and the manga series of the same name was published from 2004 to 2007.

Story

A 22-years old hikikomori, NEET and college dropout Tatsuhiro Takimoto has absolutely no life, but he believes that all of this happened to him because of the "N.H.K", "Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai" - "Japanese Hikikomori Assotiation" - A secret organisation which aims to turn certain people into hikikomori just to get rid of them. Of course, he is one of these "certain" people. His life's been the same for three years and it would have been the same if the girl, Misaki Nakahara, the ex-hikikomori, hadn't offered him her help in psychology. What will this lead to? The answer is in the anime.

P.S. The strangest thing is that I still think Tatsuhiro and Me are alike at least in out behavior. But, fortunately, I have never been socially isolated like he had been.

What's also included?

• Different story-lines and fates: an otaku and an unsuccessful businessman, a financial pyramid participant and a drug-dependent public servant, an orphan and a hikikomori.
• Eroges, aka "Gal-games" and a lot of anime otaku stuff.
• Like in OreImo, many hilarious scenes as well as many dramatic scenes.
• Bittersweet story.

In the end?

A dramatic death just isn't fitting for us

It really is a bittersweet story and the best feeling of it you can get in episodes 23 and 24. The story shows that even though every life is worthless, you shouldn't just throw it off a cliff, you shouldn't let circumstances break you. The story shows that everything is possible and Kami-sama just isn't the one who has the right to decide your own fate. 

Also I hate to admit it, but love can do great things. Sometimes.

P.S. Sorry for the language and some mistakes in the text - it just seems like I'm not in a mood today :(

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If you die, I'll die too.

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The penalty of breaking this agreement is sen man yen / 線万いぇん

#10 - Greedy eBay

I've been international shopping for not much time - about a half year, I think, but this time was enough for me to gain a lot of experience. And, of course, to get screwed up :)

Shortly it was in April when I received a defective Nokia Lumia 920 from eBay. Guess what? After opening the disput and waiting for 7 days I got a message that I lost it and that the seller was legit (With 2 feedbacks as a buyer, not a seller, lol). Anyway, It was mine fault, but even though eBay didn't do anything to help me.

And guess what? eBay wants tax of 10% every sale. I've sold my old laptop to a guy from Russia this year for (appx) 125 GBP. Well, I paid a 6$ tax for a PayPal transication and now they want additional ~21$. For the 300$ I lost in April, yup, for "eBay Buyer Protection", yup. 21$ is not a big deal, but I just do not want to give MY money for nothing. So fuck you eBay, I would better abandon this account with 20 feedbacks and sign up a new one.